With Home Theater PC’s (HTPC) becoming more and more popular everyday and with more and more companies offering specialty low profile chassis designed to fit into today’s modern living rooms, it’s extremely hard to find a performance low profile heat sink to handle the heat output of today’s dual and quad core processors. Thermalright has come up with a special solution to this problem by designing a low profile heat sink that not only fits in today’s HTPC chassis, but offers the option of using either a 120 or 140mm fan to get the most performance out of your system while still maintaining a acceptable noise level so that you can still enjoy watching your favorite movie.

To see just how well the AXP-140 performs, we’re going to run it on a high heat generating gaming/HTPC that I have upstairs in my living room. If all holds true to the reputation that Thermalright has earned over the years, we’re looking forward to some pretty good results.