Yes, that’s right. This is more than just your typical huge air cooler. The giant radial fan and heatsink combination you’re looking at covers up an underlying pump and self-contained coolant mechanism. It’s a hybrid cooler, one that can apparently suck four times the heat off a CPU using Waytronx’s fancy, proprietary carbon technology. You’ll also note the giant hole in the center of the device–it’s surrounded by a radial fan, akin to what you would find on a stock cooler for an 8800 video card. As you’ll note in the picture above, this CPU cooler is taking on the additional task of cooling two 8800 cards. Don’t be surprised to see this, as nothing outside of a peltier seems to be able to provide adequate cooling for a typical Quad-Core + SLI 8800s setup.But the WayCool designs are just big. Clough swears they’ll fit within Intel’s specification of a 550g (~1.2 pound) maximum heatsink weight, but I just can’t believe that to be accurate in the slightest. Especially given what’s underneath the hood.

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I was expecting a dramatic “woosh” when Clough powered his test machine up for the first time, but the cooler is fairly quiet, given it’s unassuming size. I’m not suggesting it’s silent by any means, but it’s at least not going to blow an eardrum. Of course, this is all just abject speculation–for all I know, the cooler could have been set at its lowest speed setting.