The lion in pre-modern China is believed to have powerful mythical protective powers. This has traditionally encouraged its use in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, temples, emperors' tombs, government offices and homes of the wealthy. Asus have used the lion legend on a heatsink design that sports four 8mm heat-pipes ready to be installed on any of today’s CPU’s and grace the inside of any case. Lets start of with the specifications of the Lion Square.

CPU support
Intel® Core™2 Extreme (LGA 775)
Intel® Core™2 Quad / Core™2 Duo
Intel® Pentium® processor family
AMD Athlon™ 64/FX/X2
AMD Phenom™ FX/X2/X4
CPU Socket    Intel LGA 775
AMD 754/939/940/1207/AM2/AM2+
AMD 1207+AM2

Cooler Dimensions (mm): 126(L) x 126(W) x 144(H) mm
Net Weight: 730 g
Connector: 4 pin

Heat sink material:
Dual-side aluminum fins + copper base
4 x Φ8 copper heat pipes

Fan Dimension (mm):    92 x 92 x 25
Speed: 2,300 rpm ± 10% (PWM)
Bear Type: Vapo

Accessory: Fasten kit x 1, Grease Injection x 1

Packaging

The red & black box has a small cut-away porthole window in the front with the legendary lion logo from the heatsink showing through. Inside the box we found; a tube of thermal paste, a manual, an AMD socket bracket and an Intel 775 socket bracket.