Silverstone Tek Low-Profile Heatsink CPU Cooler with 92mm PWM Fan, Four 6mm Heat Pipes, Intel LGA1155/1156/1150 and AMD AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2 AR06

the quality is great as I expected. it really delivered. i replaced an old stock Intel thermal solution with this and don't regret it. this thing isn't going to cool an i7 or an i9 under load, but my i5 stayed mostly cool under load with it. a few heat spikes but overall it's a great cooler and it is probably more suited for a business application instead of what i use it for.recommended

This proved to be an excellent CPU cooling option for my PC. Using an older mid-tower chassis with an Intel I7-377k (not overclocked), running a single exhaust fan in the back (92x92mm), 16GB RAM and a video card. The ambient temperature is about 32 °C, being in the tropics. With the stock Intel heat sink and fan, the temperature of the CPU was about 14 °C above ambient, in the range of 44 to 46 °C without any load. Using Skype or any VOIP applications will push the temperatures closer to 60 °C.After replacing the stock Intel cooler with the AR02 in May2014, the CPU temperature when idle is about 8 °C above ambient at 34 to 36 °C. At similar loads as above, the temperature rarely goes about 42 -44 °C, even with a single 92x92mm exhaust.Subsequently, added two intake fans (two Cougar Vortex 120mm) and replaced the rear fan with a Noctua 92mm to improve the air flow. Added a few Silverstone Tek 120mm Ultra fine fan filters to reduce the dust intake as well. I bought one from here, but the rest from ebay. But are even cheaper from the external store website of the ebay seller. Discovered it only after buying from ebay.Installation itself was easy, having upgraded the motherboard and processor about an year ago, the previous experience helped with the task. Had to remove the existing CPU air intake duct from the chassis. As mentioned in the other reviews here and elsewhere, the instructions need a magnifier to read. The video on the manufacturer's website helps a bit. The holes on the rear bracket not always match. Just match one or two holes and go with whatever hole that coordinates well while looking from the front of the motherboard. Keeping the chassis flat on its side is a must for installing this as with any CPU heat sinks. Positioned the heat sink so that the fan is blowing from front to the back and the air flow is vented by the rear fan. Both fans are almost in a straight line to facilitate this. The full assembly took about 30 minutes with all components ready and also using a magnifier to study the little diagrams on the instruction sheet.As mentioned in questions and answers, the heat sink projects 138mm from the motherboard surface. Still leaves about an inch inside my chassis. Did not have any issues with overhang over the RAM as I have two 8 GB modules with the other two slots empty.Did some research on positioning of the heat sink itself, especially of the heat pipes. My installation has the heat pipes in a sideways U configuration with the U lying on its left side. With sintered heat pipes (most of this type of heat sinks have sintered heat pipes), the positioning of the heat pipes, except for upside down, with the ends pointing down, does not matter.Hope this helps.Update on 13-April-2015:The PC is still going strong. Upgraded to a home grown wooden PC case, to improve the air flow, with better cable management and 3 120mm fans for intake and one 120mm fan for exhaust. The CPU temperature is 1 to 2 °C above ambient (tropical climate) without load. With load, spikes to 7 to 8 °C above ambient and comes down to aforementioned temperatures quickly.

So I'm putting together a HTPC with some old parts, and some new. I've got a AMD A10-5700 as the foundation, and a Gigabyte GT 1030 Silent Low Profile card running the graphics. That's a passive card with no fan, only a big heat sink. This is all going into a InWin CE-685 case, roughly the size of an Xbox. Needless to say, it gets hot in there, and my CPU was having some thermal issues.I was initially using an old-model AMD Stealth CPU cooler, and it wasn't remotely doing the job. Idle temps with HWINFO (CPU Package TSI - the temps inside the CPU cores) were around 60 degrees C, and under load it was getting as high as 82 degrees C. That's obviously too hot. There's only so much I can do about the airflow in that case, so replacing the CPU cooler was my best option.It's a very small mATX case, 3.8" wide. CPU cooler clearance is an issue. I wasn't sure if this Silverstone cooler would fit, but it turned out to be almost exactly the same height as the other cooler, so clearance wasn't a problem. RAM clearance wasn't an issue either, it's not a large unit. Installation on the FM2 socket board wasn't difficult at all - I've done much worse. It has brackets that will fit Intel and AMD boards of a variety of sockets. Included thermal paste is decent Thermaltake stuff, nothing special though.So I put it all back together and powered it on, ran a video and did some stress tests... Idle CPU temps around 45-50 C range, under load it's 60-65 range. Not bad at all. That AMD chip runs a little hot normally, so those temps are acceptable to me. It's a 15-20 C improvement over the previous cooler, and it's dead silent to boot.I'm very happy with this one, and would definitely recommend it for SFF builds. I'l definitely use this one again on future builds.

Este producto es excelente dado la presentación que tiene: una caja pequeña pero robusta, gran cantidad de accesorios útiles. El desempeño es muy bueno, sobre todo si tienes un gabinete muy compacto. Cabe aclarar que le queda a un Node 202

Used this to cool a 84w TDP Core i5-4590 in my Antec Minuet 350 case. It's inaudible compared to the annoying growl of the stock Intel cooler that was driving me crazy and led me to purchase this.Howeverinstallation requires removal of the motherboard unless your case has a cutout hole (mine does not) and is a little tricky to secure to the board.One screw was missing; there were supposed to be 4 screws to attach the mounting arms to the base of the cooler but there were 3 screws that fit, and then one odd one that wasn't even the same thread or shape of screw. I've no idea what that one was for.Luckily, the screws use the same thread as one you'd use to secure a hard drive in a laptop, and I had plenty of those lying around to use in its place.-1 star for being a little fidgety to install, and the missing screw. Once installed though, it's perfect.

This is one of the best affordable low profile cooler for htpc or small builds. The mounting mechanism is slightly complex which involves retainers nuts and screws, which could have been avoided for a more simpler approach such as a noctua l9i or cryorig C7. The cooler features a 120mm fan at 1200-1600rpm which stays very quiet at loads and the design of the heatsink, which is taller than most low profile coolers out there, and 4 direct copper heat pipes keeps the cpu cool at loads and even during synthetic benchmarking making it one of the best coolers. It beats the old wraith, intel stock and noctua l9i which is much dearer than this. Lastly for its performance the price at the end of the day is still quite high for regular users to opt for it.

Perfect Fan for our small case. Fan is silent and works very well.

a bit noisy