If there was a cooling company that deserved an award for the most crazy, wacky, and unique products it would surely have to be Thermaltake. Over the years they have developed some real head turners, and their latest product is going to break necks. When we first saw this product, which we know now as the SpinQ, we never thought it would see the light of day, as it seemed more like a prototype than a real product.

Nevertheless, it would seem that the SpinQ design is crazy enough for Thermaltake to mass produce. Soon it will be possible to purchase one of these radical coolers, which are designed to cool the latest Intel LGA775 or AMD AM2+ processors. In fact, we are almost certain that there will be an Intel LGA1366 version of this cooler soon, designed to take on the new Core i7 processors.

Thermaltake says that the perfect combination of fins along with the fan makes the SpinQ a high performance air cooler, and this is really what we are most interested in finding out. Furthermore, Thermaltake also claims that the SpinQ has taken the Tt designers an entire year to research and develop. The ascetics of the SpinQ certainly are impressive there is no questioning that, and this is likely the most unique looking heatsink that we have reviewed in years.

However, in the past Thermaltake’s most outrageous looking products have rarely been their best, and we wonder if this will be the case with the SpinQ. The design is amazing, and the perfect combination of fins, as Thermaltake puts it, looks like a time consuming task. Therefore we were not all that surprised when we found out that consumers would be paying a decent price premium for this uniquely styled heatsink. Priced at around $70 US the SpinQ is up there rubbing shoulders with all the high-end players, the question is does it belong there?