This air cooler is actually terrible for modern CPUs

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[kenhoughton]

I would like to see the top 5 aircoolers by price compare and performance. This would be very educational to all new builders.

[besticanbe]

I would love to see and amazon cooler shootout as you said. I think it would be nice to see some of the crap that people over pay for for looks vs what actually works.

[egoranonymous]

I genuinely appreciate Jay's concept of money. $75. isn't a lot of money until it has to last a while. Other creators might say it's only $75. so buy it it's cheap. We all could use reminders about value vs cost in these days of $2, 000. GPUs.

[Arashmickey]

Instead of long fan/rgb cables, the cables should have terminated at the base of the cooler, and from from that point on you would use their included cable extensions to attach it to your mobo/hub. That way you can have any color cable you like. Some brands such as noiseblocker do this, and it's definitely preferable than the producer choosing the cable length and color for you. Custom cooler and casefan producers, please let us customize! edit: In Win polaris/saturn fans also have removable cables, and I'm guessing Lian Li Unifans do as well.

[phoenix]

A 360 aio is a solid test for sure, but I feel a Dark rock pro 4 or the Noctua variant would have been nice to see. One thing I liked about the this new cooler was how the sides of the fins were a little more closed off to force air over the fins/pipes more than my old dark pro 4.

Edit, another thing would have been Ram clearance.. but thats difference for every board. My Drp4 had to be "rigged" on one side to accommodate for RAM clearance. I needed just 1-3 blasted mm

[tthbeige]

Am4 and am5 have the same mounting holes(54mm x 90mm), am5 has a backplate that is ”not user removable”.

Am3 and some earlier I think has 48mm x 96mm mounting holes. Asus has elongated holes on their lga 1700 series motherboard so both the new mounting holes 78mm and the older lga 115x/1200 (75mm) series motherboards.
Just a correction and some other random info…

[charlesandresen-reed]

I like little case displays and cooler displays, but I'd love if companies put a bit more effort into handling the excess of wires. I didn't think I'd ever pay something like $90 for three fans, but once I saw the Llian Li daisy chain ability, I forked over the cash without a second thought. It makes things so much nicer, neater, and simple if every component you add doesn't have four or five wires to run to make it work. For CPU/case display systems, I'd love if they just use bluetooth or wifi for the connection. I know you'd be adding a transceiver, but c'mon, there's $10 gimmicky crap all over the place with bluetooth and wi-fi compatibility. Hell, given we're talking something that's going to be sitting right in the middle of your build, they could easily get away with using Bluetooth LE.

[williamauyeung]

Honestly this cooler performs a lot better many others with similar price point. As Dark Rock Pro 4 and NH-D15 are rated for 250W and still gonna hit mid-high 80s in temp, with a lot higher price tags, this cooler is a pretty good deal.

[onesloppydrop]

I bought one of these a while ago for an i5 7th gen, and it cooled that fine ~50-55 C under load with basic Arctic thermal paste. Anyway, corsair vengence LPX, the low profile ram, does fit under the cooler if anyone was wondering.

[acheapshot]

I like the idea of an Amazon air cooler shootout video. Appreciate all that you do for the community :)

[tylerbuhite]

id cooling and deep cool have been my favorite affordable quality options and i believe they deserve more recognition.

[anonemus]

I think it's great for them to include that screwdriver, because a normal length screwdriver would never work with that cooler. I use the ID Cooling SE-226xt air cooler with my 12700k and never get temps over 85c. It's only $49 but you will need an extra-long screwdriver because it's not provided or wasn't when I bought it. An amazon air cooler show down on the newest Intel and AMD platforms would be great.

[bevis]

Note to self lol. Re-seat your CPU when replacing a cooler or thermal compound especially on a PGA (Pin Grid Array) cpu. I put a new cooler on and my PC started to randomly crash shortly after doing so. I took the cooler back off and re-seated the CPU and it has been fine since then.

[daydezeero]

As someone who actually considered getting this cooler I was really interested to see how it stacked up. I'd love to see a shootout video to help with my purchase decisions!

[marcelbrummer]

I've been using the gammaxx 300 cooler in my old i7 7700 which is now in my 8 year old daughter's all pink pc build and also in my i3 12100f..it's absolutely perfect. It's whisper quiet..And when I mean quiet, I don't think i have ever heard it. And it just works, keeps my cpu's away from that 90 degree celsius heat and my daughter's room is very hot and the pc has never restarted, whereby it used to restart when I had it in my old cosmos s case and a stock cooler..now it just looks beautiful and works.I love those gamaxx 300 coolers.They are absolutely silent and just do the job perfectly.

[Mandroidv]

Yes.
Normally I would go strait into AIO or custom water cooling but personal cost constraints are pushing me into a mid-CPU and Air cooler for my future build. I would appreciate an tower cooler comparison and guidance. I have not looked into this as closely in the past and am finding myself asking more questions than if I were just shopping for an AIO.

[korruptcontent]

This is what I had! For a few months before I went water cooled! It was decent for a Ryzen 7 5800x

[infinitywulf]

I saw these when I was looking at coolers but didn't think it would be beefy enough to handle an AM5 7700x, good to see a review on it though! I'd definitely love to see a comparison, though I think I settled on a good one with the Deepcool AG620, keeping my cpu nice and cool.

[Trippo]

i actually have this exact one, just black, and my build is: Biostar B450MH, Ryzen 5 5500, Radeon RX6600, 16 GB ddr4 and paid around 1200€ and i think for the cooler was around 45€.

i had my pc built for me in a shop as i know nothing about components and i'm learning watching videos by you, Linus, GN and few other italian one as well.

in the future i'll swap some components to improve it, but i need to finish to pay for it first.

[Ryan.Lohman]

As a Cinema 4D user - this cooler scared me! I'm using the Ice Giant cooler - I moved away from using the Arctic Freezer 2 about a year ago - and it has been great. I like the idea of a dedicated screen on a heatsink - I wish more air coolers or vape-chamber system had that- Having a cooler via raspberry pi or a screen setup in windows for cool monitoring either builds up more heat or gets in the way of other applications.