The Spire TME III is a CPU cooler with a tower heatsink, five 8 mm copper heatpipes and two 120 mm fans. Let’s see if it is a good cooler.

The TME III is a new version of the Spire TherMax Eclipse II, which was an improved version of the original TherMax Eclipse, which performed poorly in our tests. We have no idea why Spire didn’t name this cooler “TherMax Eclipse III,” preferring the abbreviation instead.

The box of the TME III is shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1: Package

Figure 2 shows the contents of the box: the cooler itself with one fan installed, a second fan, a syringe of thermal compound, manual, and installation hardware.

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Figure 2: Accessories

Figure 3 displays the Spire TME III.

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Figure 3: The Spire TME III

This cooler is discussed in detail in the following pages.