Yep, you've read the name right, Sapphire has plunged into the murky world of third party processor chilling with its Vapor-X CPU cooler. It's been making some of the best-cooled graphics cards for years, so it seems logical to point its engineers at a CPU and tell them to cool that. It's all heat displacement, right? The Vapor-X is a pretty stunning first effort. It's not perfect, but it does have some nice design features such as the way the fans are mounted. Yes fans, plural. The Vapor-X comes fitted with a pair of 120mm fans. And if you like your CPU coolers to come with a bit of bling, you're in luck - not only are the fans lit by blue LEDs, but so is the Vapor-X branding on top of the cooler and the detailing pin stripes. Vapour-ware The name tells you all you need to know about how the cooler works - Sapphire's vapour chamber technology is at the heart of the most efficiently chilled graphics cards out there. The Vapor-X uses a vapour chamber contact plate directly on top of the CPU, with the heat being passed through four 7mm copper heat pipes. These pass through a second block sitting on top of the chamber, before passing through the large aluminium cooling matrix. That's the part cooled by the pair of 120mm fans placed on the front and back of the matrix in a push/ pull arrangement. Also built into the top of block are the screw mounts for fixing the cooler to the mounting adaptor on the motherboard. The PWM 120mm fans themselves are branded Vapor-X, and spin betwee
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