CORSAIR CAFA70 120mm Dual-Fan CPU Cooler

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I am very happy with this cooler. It was easy to install, and I got it on sale which was great.

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Sweet deal when on sale. A word of caution make sure you have a big case.

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I am very pleased with this cooler! It keeps my 4Ghz 955 at a cool 45C during benchmarking/stability tests!I recommend this to anyone looking to overclock lightly! With better 38mm fans it can go much further!

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This is a great cooler if you dont mind the noise. Thermal compound is actually pretty good. bought this for an i7 and only have one complaint. its huge!!

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this is a very good heatsink, under load my temp doesn't go higher then 43 C. I can't tell anything about the sound, since it's not something that would bother me. The only thing I didn't like was that I didn't have an option for the direction of the heatsink since I have an am3 board. Also the thermal paste was very hard to apply.If you grab it on special, this heatsink is great, I would recommend it to anyone.

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Great price after rebate and it performs great for overclocking with its push/pull system.

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Very good product, but not really worth $65 imo. Grab it when its on sale.

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excellent price if the rebate comesfan is loud even with resistor cable connected, only 3-pin, not compatible with PWM motherboardinstallation required careful planning, better consult online blogs at Corsair.

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Great cooler especially for the $24 on sale!Installed this in an AM3 system - was a bit disappointed to find it can only be mounted top to bottom ... now fan facing out.Temps are great ... keeps my Linux server Athlon X3 3.2Ghz idling at 22c and max temp around 34cDefinitely great performance for value! This review was modfied by poster @ 03-26-11 04:52 PM

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Got this on sale for only 24.99, it is huge, it fits in the Antec 900 case no problem. It is not possible to install the 2nd Fan as it interferes with the AM3 Socket clip that holds the Cooler. But regardless it is a great cooler. My AMD X6 1055T overclocked to 3.8GHZ on stock voltage. Temps never exceed 42 Degrees. Highly recommended.

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-This unit is very good when on sale, I tried the stock fans initially on my I5 760 at 4ghz 1.275v I was unable to keep the CPU under 70C without keeping fans at RPM above my comfort level. Swapping the fans out for my favourite CPU fan, the Scythe S-flex e, turned down to ~950rpm. And wonderful, it's very quiet and CPU keeps under 67C.oh mobo is EVGA P55-SLi, video cards are 4890 crossfire, and case is Antec P180.I would definitely buy again, this is great for a quiet cooling solution, but definitely swap out the fans for something better.

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I bought this to replace my Arctic Cooling 64 cooler that I migrated from my Opteron to my x4 640 upgrade.Running prime 95 on the AC64 at stock CPU speeds would net +50c. With the A70 I am getting 27c at idle, 42c with Intel Burntest and 38c with OCCT running large MFT's.I underestimated how big this cooler is. The heatpipes at the top of the cooler sit mere millimeters away from the side panel. (I was surprised I could even get the sidepanel on). Since my board is configured in such a way that this cooler exhausts out the top of the case rather than the back of the case, the "Pull" fan sits only millimeters away from the top exhaust case fan. Now I probably could have left the top exhaust fan out of the case but now I have a Push/Pull/Pull configuration and it seems to be working.Well worth the $25 on sale.

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Got this cooler for a good price. I decided to give this a try to replace my vendetta2 cooler. The size of this cooler is pretty big. It has 2 fan to do push pull. The temp on this this is about the same as my old vendetta2 which is not really an upgrade. Thermal compound it came with is a bit hard to spread around. Also installing this in antec 300 took some time due to its size.

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Hey I bought this cooler for me Asus M3N-HT and AMD Phenom II X6 cpu. To bring the temp down worked great running at stock it brought it down from 40C to 25C. The only thing is that I was able to get one fan installed with easy. The 2nd one not so much. The clip to lock the cooler in place is in the was of one of the fans. I got it on but it was a fight to get it on and the bracket had to go between the fins to install it. Corsair should have thought about this before they put this out.

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Overall its not too bad a fan for the price but to be honest I kinda do regret buying this rather then the h50 seeing i was going to over clock. There's also probably better fans out there like the noctua se2 seeing how it's smaller too and does about the same if not better by a few degrees

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Keeps the cpu cool with 25% 24/7 overclock. Not loud at all for me.It does get in the way of my ram heatsinks. I can only use 3 slots out of 4.

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Using this with the 2600K and it keeps it at 31 Celsius at idle. Only downside is its huge! I can't install any RAM in the first slot as the fan covers it. You may still be able to install one but the heat-spreader cant be too tall. Good deal though.

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This thing is great. Got it to replace my stock AMD cooler, and what a difference. The fans are a little louder than I'd like them to be, but it may be an installation issue. Overall a great buy, and ON SALE too!

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Ordered: Early Monday morning 12/13/10Delivered: 12/15/10 afternoonWOW THAT WAS FAST!(neweeg.ca)Temps:CoolnQuiet is enabled!Stockb3.5Ghz (200x17.5 1.4v)Idle:35 Load(AMD Overdrive Stability Test):45cAmbient:maybe around 20-25c(guessing) TBH i didn't apply the thermal paste very well, maybe with better application i could lower temps 1-2cMy PC Specs:AMD Phenom II 970 BE (3.5GHz)Asus Crosshair IV Formula Asus EAH5870 V2 (850/1200)Corsair A70Corsair Dominator GT 1866 4GB Corsair F60 60GB SSD Western Digital 500GB Caviar Black & 1TB Caviar Green Windows 7 64bit ULTRA X3 1000W Corsair 800D Sony Bravia 32" KDL32S3000It is possible to have both fans installed just as long as you have enough room in your case. Make sure to install mounting clips for the fans first(only on the side that has the retension lever on it) then the fan.

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Purchased this for my new system build including:-AMD Phenom X2-Asus Crosshair IV Formula-Corsair Dominator memoryI wasn't unable to use this cooler. I'll have to use it for another build (next year perhaps:() because of the horribly designed AMD retention lever. Since the amd socket has clips only on two sides, i was unable to re-orient the cooler to make it fit[perhaps someone with more patience + skill would be willing to dremel out a piece of plastic on one of the fans -- but why would you want to?]Seems to work great for Intel motherboards. AMD Design has a massive issue which will only allow you to use one fan. Also covers up two memory slots on this particular motherboard design. Be wary before purchasing :)

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THe first thing that impressed me was the size of the cooler. I soon asked myself how I could fit it into my Thermaltake V4 case. I had been obligated to remove my bottom fan and the PSU. I also needed to remove the second fan (the one pulling ou the case) to be able to connect my 8-pin connector but it's not a big issue since the case back fan is 2 inches away.Instructions of installation are quite bad. At first I didn't keep the plastic insulator at did not used the walsher.Performance are quite good, my i7 950 is running at 30C idle and 60C at load with only 1 fan and limited to 1600rpm. I would only liked to have a 4 pin connector to control the fan speed. I would not have bother of the fan running at 2000rpm when playing game as I wasn't hearing it when playing at first when it was at 2000rpm. However when watching movies, it was annoying at 2000rpm. But for now, while I will not decide to overcloak my CPU it's doing a good job.

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First of all, this is a very good performance cooler. My i7 950 load is around ~57 degree at stock settings (vs ~76 degree with stock cooler)Then came the bad part. One of the mounting screw's thread is bad. The first time it slipped a little, but went it. When I had to resit the heatsink a couple of weeks later, the thread on the screw gave way and I couldn't use it at all. I went back to NCIX and they exchanged the screw. The mounting system is also leave a lot to be desired. You have to tape the mounting plate so you can mount the heatsink without the backplate falling off. Not a big deal, but the instruction could be better (it did not mention anything about the plastic insulator or the washer).

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Clip that holds the heatsink to the motherboard on AM2/AM3 was easy to install but hits the Fan. Can't install one of the two fans without having the fan off center. Also covers 2 of the RAM slots to the point they are unusable on my Gigabyte board. If I didn't have heat sinks on the RAM "might" get one more slot back...this thing is huge. Get the H70 if you have 120mm exhaust available. I couldn't argue the price performace of this though.. Under $40 with a rebate and works REALLY well if you have the room in your case. I'm using it with AM2+ 940 BE, dropped temps from mid to high 60 using stock cooler to low 40's under heavy loads using the "slow" setting with the fans. At idle dropped temps about 10 C. Aside from hating the AMD clips' horrible set-up, the cooler itself works great. IF you have the room for it. Cooling 10/10, AMD install 4/5

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Just finished setting up my gaming rig and overclocked my i7-950 to 4.02ghz and so far in under full load the cores are only hitting around 76-78*C.. Not bad temperature under full load during stress tests. So far only using 1 fan on the heatsink because the 2nd fan couldn't fit with RAM in the way.Performance will probably be better with the 2nd fan installed and I will probably install it with some minor offset to the fan to accommodate the RAM being in the way.All in all, a very good heatsink and does a great job keeping the CPU cool even with 1 fan installed.

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I just got this heatsink today. There were no reviews of it. So it was either a hit or miss with. My other was the Noctua NH-U12P SE2. What drove me away from that one is the color. Regardless of the performance of it, the color wasn't for me. Thats when I decided to get the Corsair A70. For this heatsink, i'm impressed. Stays around 32 on all cores running at 3.8GHz. Then on load it's around 65 degrees at 3.8GHz. Overall on idel from the Intel Cooler, it dropped roughly 13 degrees. Then on load, I had to stop cause my temps were almost at 100 with the stock cooler. So, atleast 35 degrees it dropped. It is cooling a i5 750. Overall, i'm very happy with it.