erik8thw :
madmatt30 :
erik8thw :
madmatt30 :
7 minutes into intel burntest 100% load
sub 50c temps , & checl the fan speed - that is the lowest I can set it to on my asrock board.
Im not going to take an audio recording because the mini cube case its in has 80mm fans & youll hear those not the gammaxx cooler.
What is your mounting solution? Do I need to buy a thermal paste for it? Why is there a pre-applied thermal paste on it?
comes with a single bracket for amd mounting & a pair of push pin clips for intel (you just use the 4 screws to fix these to the underside of the cooler.
it then fixes to the board the same as the stock intel one.
It comes with pre applied paste simply becasue its a budget sub $20 cooler - theyre not going to throw in a $5 tube of paste with the price it goes for.
The paste thats on there is decent enough stuff though
So there is no need to buy thermal paste for it and just use the pre-applied one?
no ,the results I posted are just with the preapplied paste & it took about 2 minutes from opening the box to fitting.
All you need to do is clean the existing paste from your cpu.
Dont get me wrong the gammaxx is not the be all end all of cooling solutions,I have $60-70 140mm coolers on my two amd systems because theyre heavily overclocked,what the deepcool is though is a great & cheap replacement for a locked intel cpu.The results I posted dont lie ,50c max temps at 1000rpm fan speeds is not to be sniffed at.
It should be significantly cheaper than the cryorig & the noctua aswell??
I paid like £15 uk pounds for these & wouldnt hesitate to use one again in all honesty.
What country are you ?? What are the prices on these coolers youre looking at??