Packaging and Contents

When you open the box, the first thing you see is that massive fan.

Once you dig under the heatsink, you'll find everything you need to install your new heatsink.

A Closer Look

The Dominator uses three heatpipes to draw the heat from the CPU up to the 58 finned aluminum radiator where it is quickly and quietly cooled by the 140mm fan.

The large fan dwarves the small heatsink that attaches to the CPU.

The base of the small heatsink is copper.  This will help absorb the heat from the CPU and the aluminum heatpipes will quickly take the heat away.

Installation

Installing the Dominator is no easy task.  The first thing you have to do is completely disassemble your computer.  The motherboard has to come out so you can install the mounting posts.  Believe it or not, but that is the easy part.  Trying to install the heatsink while the mothreboard is installed is extremely difficult.  Getting access to the mounting posts to install the springs, washers and thumbscrews requires so much dexterity in your hands that Houdini would have had a hard time.

With my ninja-like ability, I was able to finally get the Dominator installed, after removing the video card and disconnecting the main power connector.  From the looks of it though, I'm going to have to completely tear my computer apart just to change the RAM.