Reviewers Liked
- Affordable
- 8mm heatpipe thickness
- Easy installation
- Multiplatform compatibility
- Excellent performance
- Direct touch heatpipe design
- Extremely quiet
- Very wide socket compatibility
- Easy installation
Forged in the mountains by a one-eye'd master heatsink maker who learned the trade before the dawn of the first X86 integrated circuit, the Xigmatek SD1283 Gaia heatsink is... is... ...yet another tower heatsink built around the direct touch...
With its wide range of coolers, the Xigmatek product line can be somewhat overwhelming. This Gaia SD1283 air cooler is a performance 120mm cooler. If you're looking for the next step up in cooling, it provides all the high-performance options you...
The Gaia is a very well made and presented package, typical of the Xigmatek products we’ve seen previously. Assembly is very easy and it will fit all current CPU sockets. The anti vibration fan mounts perform very well, complimenting the...
We're today having a look at yet another CPU cooler from Xigmatek. This time we take the Xigmatek Gaia SD1283 for a testdrive.Purpose and targets of becoming one of the worlds leaders in thermal PC Industry were set for Xigmatek Co. Ltd in 2005, the...
The Gaia is an excellent performing heatsink overall, almost keeping up with the Coolermaster Hyper 412S. Give the Gaia some higher quality thermal paste and it should easily be on par or beat the 412S. The build quality is good, everything is well...
Over the last couple of weeks I've had a great introduction to Xigmatek with the opportunity to check out a few of their CPU coolers. So far you've seen reviews for the high end Aegir, the entry level Loki, and today the mainstream Gaia. The...
The Xigmatek Gaia seems to be a bigger version of the Xigmatek Loki (sharing its problematic mounting mechanism). However, in our tests, it actually performed worse than the Xigmatek Loki. Maybe the problem is the fan, which is not strong (though it...
The Xigmatek GAIA as well is a full-featured mainstream cooler like their AEGIR, and we are pleased to see it raising the mid to high-end of the mainstream cooler bar. The GAIA, despite it’s narrow design, performed well throughout all of our...
Xigmatek's Gaia SD 1283 CPU cooler has it all covered. It's got outstanding cooling performance, a diminutive acoustic footprint, a distinctive look, an innovative direct touch design and a robust yet easily installed mounting solution. Xigmatek...
The Xigmatek Gaia SD1283 offers an exceptional low-cost performance cooling solution that would make a great replacement for someone looking to upgrade from the stock cooler. The noise level difference alone would be more than enough to welcome the...
Lo Xigmatek Gaia, prodotto ideato per la fascia entry level, si è dimostrato un cooler abbastanza valido per quanto riguarda le performance, molto curato sotto il profilo costruttivo e del bundle. Nei nostri test abbiamo rilevato che riesce a...
O Xigmatek Gaia parece ser uma versão maior do Xigmatek Loki (compartilhando seu sistema de instalação problemático). Porém, em nossos testes, ele na verdade saiu-se pior do que o Loki. Talvez o problema seja sua ventoinha, que...
Importante: Las opiniones del autor son meramente personales, por lo cual el punto de vista individual es basado en experiencias adquiridas a través de otras revisiones, en un lapso de tiempo distinto. Esta revisión se hizo en base a...
Xigmatek Gaia (7) [Quelle: siehe Bildergalerie] Mit den Abmessungen 120 x 77 x 158 Millimeter gehört der Xigmatek zu den kompakteren Turmkühlern. Die drei Heatpipes mit 8 Millimeter Durchmesser sitzen direkt auf dem Heatspreader des Prozessors...
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