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looks cool - good reviews - anyone have one in use ??
Excellent cooler. Benn using one for 6+ months.
#2, how you know Ben uses it for 6+ months?
lol.. typo.... should be "Been"
Hear a lot of positive feedback about this unit- however the price never drop much..
Excellent reviews and $55 is a great price assuming the rebate isn't too much of a hassle. I'm using a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ which does an excellent job, but may switch to this to quiet things down a bit.
There is no reason to believe this is quieter, any good 'sink can have a fan on it running at no higher RPM - and fans in the middle of the case have a lesser % of noise escaping compared to fans on the exterior walls of the case.
The one really good reason to get this is if your particular motherboard or case can't accept a large heatsink sticking up on the CPU due to clearance issues.
I disagree:
The CWCH50
1) Keeps my CPU cooler than my arctic 7 pro
2) Is quieter than my arctic 7 pro
3) My GPU runs cooler/more stable with lower case temp
I was able to double up the fan and sandwich the radiator with a set of longer screws from your local hardware store.
The setup exhausts out of the case
There you have it.
The CWCH50
1) Keeps my CPU cooler than my arctic 7 pro
2) Is quieter than my arctic 7 pro
3) My GPU runs cooler/more stable with lower case temp
I was able to double up the fan and sandwich the radiator with a set of longer screws from your local hardware store.
The setup exhausts out of the case
There you have it.
1) Cooler CPU is not a contest where you win any prizes, it only has to stay stable.
2) I can't hear my heatsink fan at all, how can it be quieter than that?
3) There is no such thing as cooler/more stable, there is either 100% stable or not, nothing inbetween is acceptable. There is no need for watercooling the CPU to keep GPU stable and the majority of systems prove this.
Will it let you overclock more than a cheaper air cooler? Yes. Will it let you overclock more than an equally expensive air cooler? Not necessarily. Will it let you overclock more than some more expensive water coolers? No.
The point is it makes only a small difference relative to cost increase and does not solve any problems that would exist outside of those caused by a different system design flaw.