Positives

From a stock cooler to this is great.

Went from 60-70c while playing PUBG on a traditionally HOT cpu- The AMD FX-8350, Older AMD known for their crazy high temperatures. This thing helps it a LOT.

My idle temps went down by about 10C, but you can salt that 5-15C because of thermal pastes.

The Cool Master came with a crazy amount of extra Arctic Silver 5 Thermal compound, and that I can give props to. For the Pea-size Thermal paste you need, it gives you a grapes worth- in case you need to reapply several times.

EXTREMELY quiet- I went from my stock cooler making my room an echo at almost 45db!! It sounded like a car engine from 10ft away!

I can barely hear it now! It sounds like a mechanical kitten purr~! A GREAT thing for headphone users. Playing PUBG, I could barely tell the difference between a footstep and my CPU fan going to 90%! It was THAT loud!

Negatives

Installation was a pain in the ass for my motherboard + Case!

I'm using the Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P and when in the case the motherboard fan power connectors were just too close to this monster size cooler.

The dip-ins for where you can place your screwdriver for smaller cases were not helpful at all. The screw dip-ins were about half the size they need to be to get an accurate screw-in. By that I mean you have to come in at an angle. And being that it sits OVER my first 2 ports of ram, it was harder than usual to get my big hands in there.

It's really really big... And when working to screw everything in right, that can be a problem for even SMALLER motherboards + cases. I recommend NOT using anything smaller than a mid tower for this- and possibly not using anything smaller than a FULL tower.

Overall

Programs opened at all times
Discord, Teamspeak, Atleast 1 session of Google Chrome, Steam, Process Lasso, F.lux, Greenshot, Voice Meeter Banana

League of Legends(In-Game)
Before: 45-52C
After: 29-35C

Watching a 1080p60 Stream
Before: 45-52C
After: 32-35C

PUBG Idle Temps (Home Screen)
Before: 60-62C
After: 37-42C!!!






This post was edited by d2jspNA on Jun 2 2017 06:20am

Just what we needed! There are like no reviews on the internet about this pretty much unknown cooler.

Yeah it was the gold standard budget cooler for like 2 years. There are better options now, but it's still not bad.

Yeah but this review is from d2jsp

Did you actually write that

Incrediballs

this thing was mediocre 2 years ago now it doesnt even compete
it was pretty much the cx430 of coolers, everyone picked it up because of the name and price.

I got one for my old Phenom II x4 965 build because the stock fan was getting incredibly loud and started whistling intermittently which just about drove me mad. Yes I tried adding various oils and lubricants to the bearing including sewing machine oil. Dear god the installation was hell on the AM3 socket, I had to dismantle the motherboard to make way and thought I was going to break the bracket the whole time. Heard installation was massively easier for intel. I also had to run with an open case because of how massive it was, it wouldn't close. Would have sanded down those huge copper tips poking out of the top of the heatsink if it didnt destroy the water vapor cooling aspect.

Temps were good tho. Overclocked that 140w chip to 4ghz and never saw the temps go above 58c even under P95.



Actually it's known for its crazy high TDP, not temperature. The heat is spread across an extraordinarily large amount of silicon so it can run cooler than Intel despite being less efficient and sipping more power.

This post was edited by DCSS on Jun 2 2017 04:26pm

Holy review mind blown jesus fuck this is immensely interesting and new, I will certainly read it.

What's the new go to cooler or what would I want to upgrade to if I currently Have a 212 evo

Cryorig h7

Or

Corsair h100i