We haven't come across a Reveen cooler before, but that's hardly surprising as it's a pretty new company on the scene. The current flagship of its tower designs is this Kelveros RC-1202. It's a direct contact design, using two sizes of heat pipes and supporting all the usual socket types, even the ancient LGA 775 last seen on an episode of Time Team. The Kelveros RC-1202 stands out from the crowd with its 60-finned cooling array. It almost looks like you could shine a searchlight through it to enlist the help of a certain caped crusader. Cooling this array down is one of Reeven's own 120mm Coldwing12 PWM fans and attached to the cooler is a simple two-way fan controller built into a PCI bracket. That allows for either low speed (650-1,300rpm) and quiet performance, or high speed (650-1,900rpm) and increased cooling, although during our overclocked testing the fan had no impact on the temperature of the CPU. There's a 37mm gap under the cooling fan, and with the cooling matrix/fan projecting over the first DIMM slot, this gives you just enough room for a standard height memory module. If you're using RAM with tall heatsinks, such as the Kingston Beast, then you'll have to leave this slot empty if you use the RC-1202. Acronommy Reeven uses something it calls HDCS (Heat pipe Direct Contact Solution) technology for the Kelveros. This is just a fancy name for a direct contact based cooler - one where the heat pipes pass under the cooler and are ground flat to allow direct contact
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