Scythe SCKTN-3000 92mm Sleeve "KATANA3" 3Heat Pipes CPU Cooler

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A worthwhile cooler especially on at sale price if you are not looking at insane overclocking. a previous unit I owned was able to run a X4 955 with healthy overclock. Looking to use this with X4 960 unlocked, decent performance and quiet. faces rear of case to work with exhaust fans. Thus purchase for second unit

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Good little cooler. I purchased it for a basic build I am doing for my parents. Their requirements aren't that stringent, so heat isn't a big problem. Basically, I was going for something quiet and cool, both of which it does well. Heat levels are very low and I can't even hear the thing when I stick my head right next to it!! It does a great job!Only thing I can say is against the thermal grease... it comes in a package similar to what your ketchup comes in from a fast food restaurant... :S I decided to stick with some Arctic Cooling MX-2.

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Great for regular usage. I don't overclock so I wouldn't know if it is useful for overclocking or not. It works well for AM3 because it can point to the back of the case where the back exhaust fan will remove the heat.

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Bought this to replace the noisy stock cooler on a "bits & pieces" box that I'm using as a media center. It went from an obnoxious white noise generator to being so quiet I have to check that it's actually turned on... Realized a 10C improvement in cooling over the old heatsink to boot.

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it's a nice little heatsink. You can install a 80mm fan on the other side for push pull which works quite well IMO.

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Overclocked Athlon II 630 d 3.7ghz idles at 25 deg C. Haven't pushed it hard yet but after running 3Dmark6 max temp was 40 deg. Used mystery mud that came with it - no problem. Nice that cooler is processor specific, not 'one fits all' with a box full of parts to adapt to your type of processor, so make sure you buy the right version.

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This fan is absolutely the best budget option I have come across. I have a stable 3.8Ghz Phenom II X4 955BE with idle temps in the 30's and mid 50's under load.

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Nice little cooler for the price, used it on a I5 750 build. keeps temps low at idle 30 degrees and gaming > 55 degrees. I can cut the fan speed down to whisper quite with asus Motherboard software and it still keeps cpu temps to under 60 degrees. I would definitely buy this product again. lots of brackets include for other cpu's. at full speed you can hear the fan, but it is not loud to me

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Installed this on an old high end system with S478 3.2GHz HT to replace an already modified stock cooler and saw a major improvement (4 degree drop  overall) . I would recommend this to anyone. **opted to use MX-2 thermal grease over the mystery mud in the package**

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This is a wonderful CPU cooler. I have it on my x3 720 a 3.4ghz. Stays at 28 degrees. I'm positive I can raise it up MUCH higher if I raise the voltage, but I'm fine with 3.4ghz. It also looks really nice.

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I was looking for a cheap and easy way to upgrade my stock cooling fore my core i7 c 3.2 Ghz. It was running at 84 degrees under full load folding (4 Vmare clients) and idling at around 27 degrees. After putting in this cooler, my temps are now 23 for idle and 51 degree for folding! 30 degree drop  from a 25 dollar cooler, couldn't have been more happy! just look around for the best price and price match it.

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I was looking for a cheap heatsink to replace the noisy stock one on an old Intel P4 2.60GHz (S478 socket). This works great and is very easy to install. It has a large contact area (nickel, not copper) so you can just slap some paste on the CPU and set this down, knowing that it will fit. The fan is quite loud on max, as expected for a 92mm at a whopping 2800rpm, but silent at lower speeds. The Katana 3 is light by the standards of most of today's behemoths (about 480g), but comes at the price of rather flimsy material. The fins are easily bent by a bit of pressure and even the aluminum heatsink at the base can be deformed. This is really a non-issue though - once it is installed it is an excellent cooler.

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Overall an excellent inexpensive stock Intel fan replacement. I am running my 920 at 3.5GHz at 1.2V and with that it is loading to 68c on the cores and 57-59c on the CPU die itself. All of this is with a rather quiet setup while being a LIGHT heatsink as I am not a fan of the giant break your socket out types of fans.Not the best performing heatsink by any means but is is holding its own quite well.Machine:ASUS P6T SEIntel Core i7 920 (on a Scythe cooler)G.Skill PC-1600 6 x 2GB (Great for cheap!)XFX 4970 1GB2 x 150GB Raptors RAID02 x 640GB WD RAID1