Tom's hardware changed management with in the past few years. Since then they have gone downhill. For instance, look at the gap between monitor round-ups on their site. Seems the only thing you get regularly are GPU charts these days. I've pretty much quit visiting the site.

Toms tests are so incomplete its not funny,when they test the video cards, the always use whatever system is lying around, so you get inconsitant results. when they did the great video card test of 2007, many different systems were used, and would easily skew the results by +- 20% easily

in this particular test they neglect to test the stock fan, which would of just made all the test not worth it anyway, the stock cooler is just as good as all of those tested besides the water cooling, so I think they would of been under pressure to not test it by the manufacturers otherwise ppl would see they are wasting thier money

Because Tom dont run or own that site anymore, hasnt for a while now. Its really slid downhill since he left, and took his integrity with him. The site is biased and in my opinion sold to the highest bidder or advertiser now. I quit reading that site about 6-12 months ago, dont even bother following links there either.

Minor point, but they state: "CPU cooler failure could lead to instant destruction of Athlon processors". Not true. This only occurs if the heatsink isn't making proper contact with the cpu core, i.e not installed properly. If the fan fails, then the cpu will eventually over-heat & crash. What happens next depends on whether someone is around to turn the power off.

People still read that site? I guess 10 years ago it was cool.

Wow, and somebody needs to fix up the THG page at the wikipedia; it seems very polished compared to what should be there. Visiting the archive.org wayback machine should tell you all you need to know about THG intentions ;)

The regulars at the Forum have basically ripped this review of coolers to shreds and similarly the author.

Somehow, THG.co.uk has had the cooler charts series since the end of January, how come the US site has only just published it?

Reading the reviews for a couple of the coolers makes me wonder about the objectivity of the site and indeed their MO. I have 2 of the so called failed coolers and never encountered any of the problems these coolers allegedly had. Go figure.