A lot has been made of the high TDP's of Intel's i7 range of processors, only surpassed by the 140W TDP of AMD's Phenom II X4 965 BE, requiring more cooling especially when at overclocked settings. In terms of air cooling, many of the smaller designs just can't cope with the heat demands of the i7's and so the larger heatsinks with more fins, surface area and heat pipes have been left to fight it out to see which cooler performs
best.

ThermoLAB, a Korean company, have created the BARAM - a huge aluminium heatsink with a very particular fin structure. But how will it contend with many of the other top air CPU coolers? Let's take a look.