Evercool HPK-10025EA Heat-pipe Direct Touch - 4 Heat-pipe CPU Cooler with 100mm Fan

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* Quiet fan. * Attachment by means of screws from back of motherboard, Must have board out for initial installation AND subsequent removal.* Short/Wide style - In 2 directions, the heat pipes rested on the voltage regulators of the Asus P5G41T-M motherboards I was working with prior to they turned upwards toward the fins, fully preventing the cooler from resting flat on the CPU heat spreader (approx 5mm gap at 1 end). In the other two directions, the fins of the sink prevented installation due to hitting the northbridge heat sink or memory modules. The voltage regulator interference situation really should have been a recognized dilemma prior to shipping the product. Stock intel coolers have reliefs cut into them around the base for a reason.By some miracle, no hardware was harmed in the creating of this review.

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This heatsink's fan is quieter than my case fans moving air via my full size tower. Installation was less than five minutes. I am running an Intel 2.80 Ghz overclocked at three.four Ghz with no difficulty and the heat handling was fantastic it only reached 42C on over clocking. Ideal heatsink but I have purchsed. I do alot of gaming on this technique and even then it only observed it max out at 48C. Non that I was in a position to come across. I would suggest this to my good friends.

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Moves a lot of air. Pretty darned quiet. Big. Partially blocks the slot for my sound card on my Asus Z8PE-D12 motherboard.Included screws don't truly reach all the way through the motherboard into the heatsink. When sc*ewed (The dumb newegg content material filter won't let me use that word) in tightly, they actually came flush with the other side of the motherboard and wouldn't screw into the heatsink. Spent a n hour digging via my enormous 'screw jug' and found some hex screws from an old Western Digital HD that did really fit. My plan is to purchase a second CPU for this motherboard. When I do, I'll move this heatsink over to the second CPU exactly where there is more area (it won't block other components) and purchase a different heatsink for the first CPU.

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Cools nicely, excellent price Louder than I expected. Narrow range of RPMs. Immediately after reading the evaluations, I purchased this for my new develop - i7 950 3.06, Asus Sabretooth mobo in an Antec Nine Hundred Two case. It works properly (and fits), nevertheless, the fan is the loudest in the box, and that contains the 4 built-in fans in the case. It's also not adjustable (as far as I can tell), it essentially has two or 3 speeds, and even the "idle" speed is quite loud. I wouldn't mind so significantly if all I did was gaming - with my headphones on, it's fine. But if I'm editing video or recording music, then the noise is not only distracting, but really a problem.Going to replace it with a single that is especially created to be quiet, and enables far more control over the speed of the fan.

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A lot much easier to install than the pushpin coolers. Gives far better cooling than stock cooler. At first boot of an i7 920 @ 2.66, RealTemp was showing around ㅖ degrees. Immediately after about 8 hours on performing an OS install of 7, installing programs, and some video encoding with ffmpeg/vdub, it stabilized in the lower-mid 40s for all four cores. Even though I was employing IC Diamond for my paste, and this was on a testbench outside of a case with no fans, so your outcomes may well be diverse a bit, but I can tell you that this cooler gave me better temps than the stock Intel a single (which was so challenging for me to get on any longer due to two possibly defective pushpin legs -- hence the cause for this purchase). They throw in a small bottle of their own stuff and I'm certain it performs adequately if the cooler itself is any indication. This is one of the least expensive i7 coolers you can get. ALL you require to install it is just a tiny screw driver and some patience. Took me maybe 20 minutes and I'm overly careful. ş: Instructions a tiny poorly worded. They suggest you initially put the cooler onto the cpu and then flip the MB on its back to screw it down, but it's most likely I would slide the cooler along the way carrying out that. I discovered it a lot more plausible to lay the cooler upside down 1st, and then lay the MB down against it so that the holes line up and then I can immediatley screw them down. Š: You have to use these black adhesive washers -- it wouldn't be so bad except that you have to stick them onto the bottom of the MB. In my case I have a limited edition 759 Classified, so I wasn't actually happy about placing adhesive washers on to my board. Hopefully it won't leave any residue when I take it off soon after I'm accomplished in a couple weeks. Nevertheless, it's on the bottom of the board, so it's not going to be a Large deal or something for most persons and I'm certain I'll get more than it...eventually. Fan noise is a bit louder than a Scythe S FLEX 1600 RPM which I had on a Accurate (this in fact performs quite comparable to that setup at stock 2.66). The low profile compared to the Accurate is appreciated. I only purchased this for temporary use whilst I wait for my case to arrive and appear into finding into liquid cooling. I'm not sure how much of an OC you can achieve with this but I'm giving this 4 stars since it is exactly what I was looking for: no annoying pushpin install style, solid performance.