SilenX EFZ-80HA2 Fluid Dynamic CPU Cooler

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See below - I forgot to mention in my original critique, but my fan came with a push configuration. For greater outcomes you want to transform to a pull configuration if you're sticking to the 1 fan. I'm basing this on my years of modifying vehicle motors including turbochargers and intercoolers. A push configuration on a radiator is only about 60% as powerful when pulling.

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Utilized on an overclocked Celeron E3400. 37C at idle . . . 37C at complete load soon after 2 hours. I'm impressed. Installed into an HTPC case . . . had to break out the tin snips to make it fit--but it did! Possibly the finest performing aftermarket cooler I've owned, but I'm not massive on spending practically as significantly on a cooler as the cpu it's on when the stock units normally function well adequate.

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Straightforward set up, with all the hardware that you could possibly require. My core temps dropped about to the very workable 35-40C variety, exactly where I was at 45-55C with a stock AMD cooler. That makes me a delighted boy, and my hardware ain't complaining, either. At 17 bucks? The only way a particular person could complain is if the temp went up... My all round system temp also went down. My guess would be that I had to shed the CPU cooler tube from the case to match the new hardware. Superior overall airflow?

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I purchased this simply because my Intel Pentium D's stock cooler sounded like a jet plane. I did not test the temps before, as I was positive that any following-market place cooler would do as nicely if not superior than the stock cooler. (And I was proper!)This cooler is nicely constructed and sturdy. Working with screws rather than push pins certainly aids with stability. It came in a good package with AMD and Intel parts getting their own baggies. The thermal grease (a Arctic silver knock-off) had a little application kit integrated. The directions had been (mostly) straight forward and easy to comprehend. The fan is quiet compared to the old 1, even at higher RPMs. It was smaller sized in width to the stock cooler and only slightly taller, so it was a excellent match for my case. Getting a controller for the fan speed is also nifty! The yellow paper washers! The directions mention them, but in a generic sort of way. I spent ten min trying to figure out which washers the directions had been referring to. For the record, I place the yellow washers on prime and the metal ones underneath the motherboard.I do like getting a separate controller for fan speed, *but* there's no way to have the controller outdoors the case. I could take a PCI plate-thingy off, but that opens my case up to all sorts of dust and stuff that I don't want. So correct now it's sitting in an empty harddrive bay, inaccessible. :( If you're replacing a stock cooler from a shop bought personal computer you may possibly uncover a pre-installed back plate. This back plate may possibly be glue/taped on. To get it off, use a heat gun or hair dryer for a couple of seconds on the back plate. Gently pry it off with your fingers or one thing flat.

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good cooler that is incredibly adaptable. bracket is quite sturdy and holds fantastic. fits properly even in a short case and was in a position to maintain my phenom x4 cooled down to 90f with only the case fans. liquid filled pipes pull heat away really efficiently. fan runs dead silent even at complete speed. none whatsoever. Incredible cooler for the price tag, a lot of cooling even for OC phenom x4 or standard hexacore. fits a quite wide range of sockets incredibly well with the solid metal mounting brackets.

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The set up was general painless, had it performed in 30 minutes (removed mobo), its smaller, I in all probability could have gone with a larger cooler in my Antec Sonata. Idles at 32C and hit 39C on load (Phenom AM3 2.4ghz Quad core). Have it pointed at my 120mm noctua rear exhaust which aids a lot. I didn't take AMD stock temp readings but im confident they are lower now. The fan adjuster "works" but the fan may possibly just quit! If you jiggle it, it will operate for a whilst then cease again! Only some settings operate for longer than a few seconds. If you use this or are thinking about utilizing this, DO NOT USE IT WITH THE FAN REGULATOR, the fan may well cease when under load and kill your CPU, its dangerous to use the regulator, so I have it plugged straight into the mobo operating on higher 2200 (real) rmp. Which is just as loud as stock cooler. Its not worth returning it just for the regulator, for seventeen dollars you can just obtain a distinct regulator or a quieter fan with comparable cfm/dba. I might get a noctua or perhaps the silenx 80mm case fan. 3 eggs since the regulator is broken but this cooler was an general very good deal, you can usually locate a fantastic 80mm case fan and regulate it!

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Does what it is suppose as well, and does it effectively.Comes with manual Fan manage.Got it spinning at 1200 RPM and CPU is at 36c idle.Pretty low speed setting. Not worth an egg.The instructions are decent when you realize them.Comes with two seperate little bags that are labeled intel and one particular amd... but you will need the washers from the intel bag as well... as well as some other parts.Dont count on to throw it together in 10 mins. In this price range, i think this is a very good one particular.My buddy bought the Rosewill one for AMD, I installed it :IT BROKE, but after it was set up.... dont acquire it for amd. The stock a single is far better than that a single.

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Very quiet fan. Uses copper heat pipes to transfer heat from the cpu to the fins. 80mm fan moves a good bit of air thru the heat fins. Comes with heat paste and a assortment of mounting hardware to accommodate most modern intel and amd sockets. The mounting hardware that comes with it is all metal. There is no price-cutting flimsy plastic mounting pieces that comes with it. When the fan is mounted, it's rock solid. There is only a three pin connector instead of a four. I didn't mark an egg off for this only due to the fact the fourth pin is only utilized to regulate the fan speed according to the cpu load. (Fan speeds up when cpu gets hot, slows down when it's cool...) It did not influence the functionality of the cooling fan (see beneath) I didn't like the paper-like washers that came with it. They were applied for he metal mounting nuts on the back so no metal would come in contact with the motherboard itself. I didn't mark off for it simply because they DO perform for the goal that they were developed for. I just personally choose silicone washers. When I mounted the fan the 1st time on a Biostar motherboard (was DOA, btw... i wrote a evaluation on that board as nicely as all the elements I employed to make this create) I utilized the washers; but when I mounted the fan on a Gigabyte board, I liked the back plate on that board better, so I only utilised the back plate that came with that motherboard instead. You'll see what I imply. Since this fan does only come with a 3 pin connector, you will have to disable the AMD cool n' quiet feature. I located this out when I was testing the new build I had created and identified that the cpu was finding up to 72c beneath load. Once I went into the bios and disabled this function and set the fan to optimum rpms (which was surprisingly quiet), the cpu now idles at 38c and haven't noticed it get hotter than 52c with all 4 cores at 85% load. (using an AMD Phenom II 920. I haven't seen the cpu at one hundred% load however, but at 52c at 85%, I'm not worried.) When I did my study on cooling fans, most all critiques point to the truth that silenx fans are some of the quietest fans out there and moves as much air as it's much more noisy competitors.

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Quiet and fits in a "Dynapower USA C05.N63.M158 ATX Mini Tower". Cools a Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma 2.8GHz to ൟ C" ~ ൰ C". From start off to finish this is a great and cheap item. AM2+ Socket install is hard to mount, had to remove the CPU bracket of the motherboard to mount this coolers bracket. Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 Model KHX8500D2ǗG - x2Foxconn M61PMV AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma two.8GHzSilenX EFZ-80HA2 Fluid Dynamic CPU CoolerDynapower USA C05.N63.M158

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My cpu temperature drop 15 to 20 degree following i install this one particular.It worked excellent. little confuse to figure out for AMD 3 socket.

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- SilenX truly delivers a high quality product at a great cost here. Almost everything has a substantial feel to it, from the solder joints on the heatsink fins to the lapped copper heat pipes, even appropriate down to the great weight of the fan speed controller.- The included backplate and mounting hardware in distinct are quite good to have. At this value point, a lot of producers will just copy the Intel 4-screw push-pin style--the similar design that everybody hates. Here, you get a solid backplate with 4 genuine bolts that connect to four real threaded screws, and it tends to make for a more secure and hassle-no cost attachment scheme. Several ุ-50 coolers don't even come with this sort of hardware. Settle for absolutely nothing less.- With the fan set on low, it is utterly silent while still keeping quad core temps 16C degrees cooler at idle over stock temps, and 10C degrees cooler below load. The cooling would be even far better with the fan set faster, but I'm incredibly pleased with its overall performance at the quiet setting. - Does not automatically throttle the fan speed based on CPU temperatures. Depending on your wants, this is either a positive or a unfavorable. I see this as a big positive for my specific application, as four-pin automatic energy management generally utilizes conservative programming that overvalues cooler temperatures as an alternative of lower noise. I really didn't want a fan that would spin up to jet engine decibels in the middle of watching a movie just due to the fact the CPU was under load for a handful of minutes and--OH NO!!--the temperature may possibly rise a handful of measly degrees with no the added fan speed. The added noise and distraction just isn't very good to have, specially in an HTPC exactly where a premium is put on quiet operation.The 3-pin fan will nevertheless plug into a 4-pin fan header on your motherboard, of course, but this way, you have far a lot more manage. You can manually set the fan speed to the low, silent setting, with out possessing to be concerned about becoming second-guessed by silly BIOS fan speed throttling. If you're developing an HTPC or media center, probabilities are you're sandwiching components into a little case and have to perform around some tight clearances and low noise tolerances.If that's the scenario, then you may well have already looked at some of your other choices on the industry. For example, I took a long appear at the very regarded Scythe Shuriken series prior to discovering that 1.) The Scythe model would block a ram slot on my motherboard, a relatively common issue, and 2.) According to numerous comparative reviews, the Shuriken supplied no significant benefits in cooling or noise reduction more than this SilenX model, and three.) The Scythe Shuriken expenses over twice as much.The selection was effortless.

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cools amd phenom II x3 overclocked to 3.8 at 35`degrees kinds low-cost searchingthe metal plates can separate effortlessly so be cautiousnot quite several heat pipes

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Cools my CPU like a charm. Will advise to every person. None

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quite pleased!! bought this for an old athlon socket 754 program that went down exact same day I recieved the cooler so I threw together a core two duo system with the core two duo e4400 and overclocked to two.55GHz and low and behold the temps remain nicely into the high 40 under complete load in intel burn test. very surprised. none- easy to install, good deal for the price tag. didnt obtain for super cooling but it gets the job completed if your searching for a inexpensive good deal. really quiet as nicely.

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It didn't take considerably to install this thing when you figure out how to put on the extension plates for an AM3 socket. Stays super cool!!! Do not try to use the thermal grease that comes with it. It is some nasty stuff that doesn't spread nicely like Artic Silver does. It tends to dry up fast and get clumpy. Overall wonderful item for its cost!

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Cost was very good, the instructions had been good, more than all a good Affordable cooler Fan mounts appear flimsy but seem to function ok A great cheap cooler that works on may cpu's

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Heat sync is of excellent top quality, its smaller, I could have gotten a larger one to fit in my Antec Sonata case. Its really reasonably priced. Painless install, took me 30 minutes but I had to remove my mobo. Came with silver paste, came with regulator (see cons). You can get 80mm fans anyplace to replace this loud one, or use a dual fan setup. Keeps my Phenom two.four quad core idle at 32C and 39C under load. Smaller than I expected, but it does the job. My problem is that the fan regulator will brief out, causing the FAN TO Stop Totally! The fan was as loud as the stock AMD fan without the regulator so i wanted rmp lowered. If I jiggle the wires in the regulator it will kick on for a second then kick off, the regulator only functions when all the way on, or incredibly low. I have attempted flicking the fan to get it began, that doesn't do something, the regulator just doesn't work occasionally. I do not want to opportunity my CPU and use the regulator. Im seeking into a quieter fan or regulating it in another fashion. Its not worth RMA because the product was so affordable. The setup is quite nice for the funds. I like being able to direct heat towards my 120mm exhaust fan in the rear. The fan is not quiet at all considering that the regulator isn't dependable. I would seriously advise if you have this item or are thinking about obtaining it to NOT USE THE REGULATOR it may cause harm if it fails like mine. If you get this you might want to look at one more fan or a regulator.

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Good top quality cooler that keeps AMD X3 435 running cool from 27c࿰f) idle to 46c鲳f) prime95 load ! Has adjustable fan speed controller included, although I just leave it at 100%, I did mount it on the backside of the case for straightforward access. Not definitely loud at all at 100%. None I can feel of other than I had to take away the motherboard to install heatsink bracket. My case had a cutout but it liked about 1ǚ inch fitting, fit fine soon after removal of motherboard.Directions not that clear for AMD am3 but used some frequent sense and kinda ignored the instructions it worked good. The create good quality and included extras had been truly top notch and I would advocate this cooler to anyone that requires to keep their dual, triple or quad core cooler than the stock cooler at a lower noise level without having breaking the bank.

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Have noticed a drop in ambient temp from around 50C to 31-33C. Does a a lot much better job than the stock cooler I had on prior. None. Popped on an extra fan I had sitting around to give it a little more cooling, not confident how significantly of a distinction that makes but it can't hurt. You do want to take the MoBo out of the case to install the back plate but wasn't a major deal, my box required a very good cleaning anyway.

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Comes with a tube of thermal paste and fan controller combined 15 dollar value. I was surprised how considerably hardware you get for this cost. Directions were simple adequate. The heat pipes are actually in get in touch with with the cpu! very Quiet. complicated to install with the mobo mounted, not a big deal just mount the cooler prior to you install the mobo. because I have only owned it for a week I cant comment on the longevity of the product however most componets i buy last at least a few years, barring lightning or something.