The CNPS9500 has been getting rave reviews around the community, but what do we think? Read on and find out.

Air cooling is something many enthusiasts are moving away from, especially with the latest Prescott CPUs from Intel. While you can still get decent cooling as well as overclocking results using air on AMD processors, the Prescott CPUs are simply too difficult to manage if you have any aspirations of overclocking them.

Water-cooling is another choice, but for some people, the budget and difficulty in setting up a liquid cooled system may not be worth their while. As for phase change, that may not even be an option as these kits are even harder to setup and as much as three times more expensive than water.

Heat pipes are the latest rage in air cooling the past two years, and we’ve seen such coolers perform with various degrees of success. The Zalman CNPS9500 LED Heatsink (provided by our buds at Crazy PC) we’ll be looking at today features such technology, with a few extras that will appeal to both those who like "bling" as well as those who are noise conscious.