The Zaward is designed to work with Intel LGA775, S478 - AMD S754/940 and 939 CPU up to 3.8ghz/motherboard combos.

The package comes with 1 x 120mm fan which can operate from 800-2400rpm give or take a few rpm - this is attached to a speed control plate that you fit into one your expansion slots at the back of your PC.

You also get mounting plates to fit either the Intel CPU or AMD CPU, heatsink compound and insulation material + all the screws needed to do the job.

We have to say this baby is pretty heavy, 640g if we are to be precise and also quite large so you are going to need a fairly large case to - the heatsink pipes cab be positioned in a horizontal or vertical way to accommodate your preference. The weight does have an impact when fitting the unit as we found that our main motherboard actually bends due to the weight, so its best not to screw it down that tight.

The heatsink is made up of a Copper Base & Aluminium Fins with 3 Copper 8mm diameter pipes to take the heat away.

The actual fitting was not too difficult if you are experienced, but for new comers it will take a while to fathom out the instructions and be careful not to throw away the plastic insulation that comes with the product - if you first look at it you would think it was used to protect the Zaward during transport but the plastic insulation is used to protect the mainboard mounting plates from your case (without this you will find your PC won't even boot due to the heatsink screws touching the base of the case).

Screwing the heatsink onto the mainboard from the topside (i.e with you looking down on the case) also proves a challenge, depending on your case we had a struggle getting to some of the screws (one of the images in the gallery gives you a close up of how the heatsink is screwed into the board.

Adding the 120mm fan was the easiest part, however if you are going to add another 120mm fan we would suggest doing this before you install the unit - incidentally the box comes with spare screws to mount another fan.

Noise wise the fan operates from 17.6-39.0 dB depending if you have the fan on low or high. At high it does start to get a bit noisy, but on medium setting to low it sounds fine.

We ran our PC on the lowest fan setting and our CPU (not overclocked) temperature fluttered from 31 to 37oc during a working sesh (low load). During a gaming sesh the temperature rose to about 45oc CPU and 47oc System - which is okish for non overclocked system.

On High Fan speed the CPU temperature was stable during a heavy gaming session at 35c for both the CPU and system temp which is pretty good considering we only have two 80mm fans to add extra cooling. It did drop below this when the fan stayed on for longer periods.

Of course adding more case fans will help bring the temp down but you can see that there is some potential for overclocking with the Zaward. Plus you can also get another 120mm fan to help you out - but make sure the 120mm fan you buy runs at the same speed.