Product Review: Scythe 5th Anniversary Edition Ninja Copper

The Ninja Copper CPU Heat Sink Fan assembly is Scythe's 5th Anniversary product and what a stylish way to celebrate.

Ease of Use, Performance: 24/25, Look & Feel: 25/25,
Features 23/25, How much I enjoy 25/25

Total: 97/100

The Scythe 5th Anniversary Edition Ninja Copper is a great performing heat sink fan assembly for a variety of processor motherboard sets. The all copper heat pipe and fin design makes for a striking good looking heat sink assembly inside the case but outside it's a work of art.

It seems a shame to hide the Ninja Copper inside a case but with side windows it shows off your own touch of class nicely with its bright copper finish for all the stuff you can see. The heat pipes are made of pure copper with copper fins and a nickel plated copper base heat sink.

The Ninja Copper fits Socket 745, 939, 940, AM2, AM2+ for the AMD side of processors and Socket 478 and LGA 775 Intel processor motherboards. The heat sink assembly is 120 MM wide and 150 MM tall for a very good sized heat dispersion area. The Ninja Copper is rated at many of the higher processor types and even the Quad core of both Intel and AMD types.

This CPU heat sink assembly comes with all the mounting hardware for the types of motherboard and processors it attaches to as well as some thermal paste and a 120 MM 800 RPM silent Scythe cooling fan with attaching clips. The fan clips on easily but may protrude a bit in certain case situations so using it will be a case by case basis.

It is also not really necessary for lower temperature situations like stock speeds of many processors, you may not need the extra cooling the fan provides depending on your case and situation. I used this and compared it to the Andy Samurai Master I reviewed a while ago, but using current temperature readings.

In my case I have an AMD Athlon 5000+ Black Edition overclocked at 3 GHz on a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard. I was getting temperatures of 36 degrees Celsius at idle and 42 degrees Celsius using Prime95 to stress the computer with the Scythe Andy Samurai Master heat sink assembly.