ZALMAN CNPS8000A 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink

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Solid building, good seeking, low profile. Came with a thermal paste, but I also bought Arctic Silver five thermal compound, so I didn't require it. Keeps my CPU extremely cool, about ambient temp idle ྐྵ-27C) and right after five minutes of Prime 95, 35C (stock clock). So far so very good. Also, I feel it is fairly quiet. In fact, I can hardly inform the difference involving low and high, that is over the din of the other program fans. I don't see any so far, some are complaining about tough installation. Two words: patience patience! It's a small annoying when you in fact get to the mounting aspect, since the copper heat tubing wraps about a side, and sticks out, more than exactly where you are mounting (if you are working with AM3) and makes it challenging to reach. But, I managed to jimmy my screwdriver by way of without damaging any elements. Also, getting the whole issue on straight is a little difficult, it will tend to stick up larger on the opposite side you are trying to fasten. But again, patience is the greatest policy here. My 1st review. Got this HSF with a new mobo (msi 880) and 8 gigs of g.talent ddr3. I nevertheless have my old athlon II x3 435 rana, but with such a highly effective, successful and quiet HSF, I can envision this permitting me a lot more headroom to OC down the line.

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Value Major fan and heat sink. Guidelines were confusing and had to disassemble plate on bottom of mobo. Also covered up ram slot.

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purchased this immediately after i discovered out my present heatsink that was shiped with my CPU was not going to function it was way to little and i was told by a buddy to buy a diffrent a single this is a excellent heatsink/fan it runs silent and it moves a good bit of air aswell it comes with a fan mate two which you can use to controle how quick your fan runs the fan matye two can get in the way i would recommend putting it on the inside of your case if possable i have mine on the outdoors and i have knocked it off twice and i finaly moved it to the inside of my case in an out of the way location

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It's a fan... or tries to be. It's so badly develop, you will will need to bend it to get it to align appropriately. The nuts they give you don't fit in the holes, you you have to apply WAY as well significantly force for something inside a Computer and threat significant harm to your hardware. It didn't fit in the hole, I had to bend a single of the onboard chipset heatsinks to make it fit. Don't touch this with a 100 feet pole. Why can't I give it eggs? I didn't get this from newegg, but hoping to conserve whoever thinks of acquiring it hours of headaches. Manufacturer Response:Dear value buyer,Please try get in touch with our tech support @ 714-530-0700 ext. 227 for further assistance. Thank you.Sincerely,Team Zalman USA

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It keeps my processor good and awesome like it need to. Mine is pretty loud. Its by far the loudest fan in my case.

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This is a quite fantastic cooler for a prime flow fan and I can't feel of quite a few motherboards it won't fit. Excellent choice for the price. Installation instructions are easy to realize. No detrimental cons. The purchaser should be familiar with taking their motherboard out of the case and off of the situation backpanel to install the fan assembly, reinstall motherboard, and rehook the motherboard cables. Upgraded from Athlon X2 4800 to Phenom X4 9600 on Asus M3A motherboard. I only use exceptional high quality thermal paste. Moderate load CPU temp is 50 Degrees Celcius on this 95 watt TDP processor.

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Low profile would not perform working with Gigabyte mini itx motherboard (GA-H55N-USB3) and two sticks of Gskill ripjaw memory (F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL) The memory was too tall in the 1st memory slot blocking installation of the heat sync I received the heat sync in a bubble envelope and observed some bent fins. This sort of packaging and shipment is entirely unacceptable to me.

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Size. Most of the other air coolers I was looking at were enormous. I wanted anything smaller that nonetheless got the job done.Quiet. Can't hear it.Efficiency. The CPU (Core i5-760) is idling at 24C, and beneath complete load on all cores only hit high-40s. None. Install was painless as properly.

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I dont comprehend why a handful of people have mentioned it doesnt fit 1366 correctly because it does. Read the directions and you will be fine.Fits great, wonderful price. Great cooling for a tiny/low profile fan. Set up is annoying if you do not read the instructions.

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Quiet. Hard to install by oneself. Not adequate hands. Lastly got the darn point in. I was practicing patience and could have succeeded. It is effectively installed. I think there has to be an less difficult way.

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Super Quiet on Lowest SettingUse it for HTPC A bit of fascinating installation as the path are weird.See the following instruction for aid:http://www.zalman.co.kr/Eng/product/Product_Setup.asp?Idx I like it

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Quiet, Low Profile, Cools CPU Wonderful once mounted adequately. Took awhile to setup properly. I purchased it at a laptop or computer shop, and a Tech there stated that the mounting plates on my motherboard did not have to be removed, that I just use the clip-on thing I had currently on the motherboard. That was twice that the Techs were incorrect. I had to eliminate the plastic mount around the CPU, and I tried mounting this heatsink with the mobo backplate, and it did not operate. So, you HAVE to use this heatsinks backplate that attaches onto the back of your motherboard. Also, the heatsink goes right more than my first slot of RAM. So don't have ram that's tall on the initial slot. SpecsASUS AM3 M4A88TD-V EVO Motherboard (BIOS Reads Temps Wrong, I use HWMonitor)AMD Phenom X6 1090T Processor

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quiet, cool, its a Zalman, and fits my mini itx board with a video card, but barely it fits! a small tricky with the install but nothing that any person with a small patience cant figure out. i just purchased this cooler right after swapping from another that was too large for the video slot on the mother board. This fits great on my Gigabyte h55n-usb3 mother board but the EVGA gts 450 barely fits out of the way of this cooler. Swapping ram could be difficult in this set up but with these builds you have to believe ahead

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Big, solid, quiet, low-profile. Poor mounting approach. This is a seemingly well-engineered component with lots of copper and aluminum that does cool effectively. But, I was surprised when it didn't fit according to the directions. I ultimately had to remove the spacer pad and tape from the backside bracket so the front side screws would reach. Then, I was disappointed that I had to guess how considerably to screw it down. I would rather have had some type of attachment strategy that would stop too considerably pressure and give even pressure on all 4 corners (without guesswork). I employed a full ATX size MB (Biostar A770E3 with AMD Phenom II) and didn't have any issues with crowding the memory. Nevertheless, like another post, mine arrived with a couple of bent fins.

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Installed this today for my 2500K. The thermal grease provided is very bad and I ended up having to use some of my Arctic Silver 3 as well which I've had for ages (probably 7 years). I think the time has come to switch to premade water cooling (such as Corsair's line) as air just isn't cutting it anymore. I am getting 45 C on idle and 55 C on full load. I expected a lot better, but you get what you pay for.The company is very reliable, but this product just doesn't cut it. I'm happy with the noise level and the fact that it does a better job than stock cooling.But next time, it's off to water cooling.

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it fit in my somewhat-less-than-spacious thermaltake case and keeps temperatures nice and low. Q8300 mildly OC'ed to 2.85GHz and ran prime95 for over an hour at >40*C. brilliant.

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this heat sink works great as a low profile cooler. depending on your case it can work wonders by blowing cool air onto the cpu as well as other components. the knob for adjusting the fan is a little bulky but other than that it's a great heatsink