Scythe Mugen 6 Overview
As we take a first look at the Mugen 6 it is as I mentioned a single-tower, single-fan cooler. The official dimensions of the cooler are 132mm x 106mm x 154mm (WxDxH) and it weighs in at 1013g. This is for sure not the largest air cooler that we’ve seen, but it is definitely larger than many other single-tower coolers out there.
At the front of the cooler we have our fan, which is Scythe’s own 120mm Wonder Tornado fan. This fan will spin between 350 and 2000 RPM, with an airflow between 7.68 and 60.29 CFM, and a max noise level of 26.88 dBA. Each of the corners of the fan have removable anti-vibration pads, reducing vibrations transmitted to the computer case during operation and minimizing any noise.
Looking at the cooler from the side we can see that the fan is held into place with fan clips. The actual heatsink itself is quite thick at 80mm by itself. Looking at the back of the heatsink we can see that the fins are designed to allow air the flow smoothly through them. The back heatsink is actually cut off at the bottom. This insures you don’t run into any clearance issues with larger VRM heatsinks or rear I/O covers. You do have the ability to add a second fan to the back of the cooler if you want to and Scythe does provide an extra set of fan clips.
The top of the cooler is pretty plain with a top cover heatsink fin that has the Scythe logo on it.
Coming up from the base of the cooler are six 6mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes. These heatpipes go up into the heatsink tower in a “U” fashion, which is pretty standard for tower coolers. The heatpipes are also at an offset design which minimizes assembly inference.
The base of the cooler is also nickel-plated copper and has a pretty nice finish to it.
