Today we are going to benchmark the Corsair A70, a CPU air cooler with a tower heatsink, four 8-mm heatpipes, and two 120 mm fans. Let's check it out!

The A70 box is big, in cardpaper, as you can see in Figure 1. The box resembles the one used by its little brother, the Corsair A50.

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Figure 1: Box

In Figure 2, you can see the A70 and the accessories that come with it: fans, manuals, installation hardware, power adapters, and a tube of thermal compound.

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Figure 2: Accessories

In Figure 3, you can see the heatsink of the A70.

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Figure 3: The Corsair A70 heatsink

In the next pages, you will see this cooler in detail.