Thermalright has been a major player in the CPU cooling business for a number of years. I believe it was sometime in the fall of 2001 when I had first heard of Thermalright. The heatsink that exploded them into the market was the all-copper SK-6, a tough little screamer of a sink with a 60mm Delta on top that knocked quite a few larger heatsinks out of the top performance spots.
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