KINGWIN Revolution RVT-12025D 120mm H.D.T. CPU Cooler

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I use this Cooler with my Q9450 w/ P5Q Pro. The installation was OK. Although, once installed, my idles temps were low enough but once I Prime my Computer, it does spikes over 25 Celcius degrees above. I changes the Thermal paste 3 times with different brands, swithed the heatsink orientation and finally found an article on the Internet about how to properly apply thermal paste on a direct-touch heatsink. I finally had this: Q9450 - 3.2 GHz - 1.30 Vcore30c IDLE and Spiking at 63c at FULL LOADAll this with a 23c Ambiant Temperature.

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This was purchased to replace the stock fan on my Q6600(G0). My motherboard is an Asus P5K Deluxe wifi and my case is an Antec 900. My initial considerations when looking for a replacement fan was airflow over not only the CPU, but the surrounding chipset heatsinks and ram. The P5K Deluxe has 3 large heatsinks on 3 sides of the CPU socket. On the 4th side is the ram slots about an inch away. Installing the RVT-12025D with the heatpipes toward the ram slots afforded plenty of clearance for the heatsinks. My ram is Mushkin HP series, so I didn't need to worry about vertical clearance there. The installation was hampered by the location of the CPU socket on the motherboard. In the Antec 900, this cooler afforded little room to apply pressure to the pins in order to secure it to the board. In hind sight, I would remove the board before installing this. That being said, the installtion is pretty straight forward despite the unusual design. The included paste was of decent quality and quantity and I did not feel compelled to replace it with Artic Silver or anything else in my toolbox. It is also worth noting that I utilize the side fan on the Antec 900 and this fan does not interfere with that either. This is largely thanks the the CPU socket location. So thats positive.As mentioned above, the Packaging was not superb. It comes in a typical cardboard box with plastic viewing window. However there is very little inside the case to prevent it from rattling around. there is no moulded plastic as you see in other packages to keep the unit safe from damage during handling. Fortunately, mine showed up undamaged. You will also want to be careful not to exert pressure onto the unit's heatsink as it is litterally held up by the heatpipes alone. They are copper and thus fairly soft. Performance wise I am suitably impressed. I did quite a bit of research before landing on this particular cooler and am not disappointed. Despite its awkwardness and packaging it performs well for a fraction of what you pay for other coolers. Its not perfect, and as always if you are going to seriously overclock its probably not for you. But given how well it cools the surrounding chipsets and ram, its good enough for a mild overclock. All in all its brought my temps down to 35-40 degrees idle and 50-55 degrees under load. Well within safe range for this cpu and that with a mild Overclock to 3.0Ghz. Overall it brought them down by 10-12 degrees. Not bad at all.One last thing; My e-mails back and forth with Kingwin were interesting. Most of my questions did not get answered fully, but they were all answered quickly. Chalk it up to lost in translation. I didn't get the impression the people I was dealing with had English as their first language. Or second. But they made every effort to point me in the right direction and did so in good time and that is commendable.-Chris