--- Thermal Performance, Conclusion and Certification
Thermal Performance
A little higher up, we described the Infinity as being "one of Scythe's high-performance coolers" - and that's true. We also explained that the Miné, "isn't in any way aimed at users who are into over-clocking" - and that's also no lie.
Well, throw the rule-book away. The Miné makes nonsense of those statements!
So much so that it posted a CPU reading of only 41 degrees at idle and grabbed joint first place! We scratched our heads as to how this could have happened and, while thinking, moved onto the load readings.
Here, the world didn't suddenly turn the right way up. Oh, no. The Miné beat the Infinity by one position, coming in at a very respectable fifth place. Not only that but it achieved level or slightly better than the Infinity in all but a couple of load categories – case (internal) and GPU.
Conclusion
It's only natural to look at a more expensive model or one with that little bit more bling and think it must be better. Or you look at the size and reason that bigger must mean better. Well, some of those things will be true in some circumstances but not, as it happens, here - the Miné just punches so far above its weight.
For such a compact cooler, the Mine performed exceptionally well. Better still, it's quiet, too. Overall, with the Infinity and the Miné, Scythe proved it knows a thing or three about coolers but the performance of the Mine is very special.
