We paid $3 for shipping as it was a combo deal when we bought it (combo with other items). It is a variable shipping cost based on deals on AliExpress and other items you're buying in the same order / from the same seller, which spreads cost. There are often multiple sellers for this cooler. Find our cooler reviews playlist here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iRe8zVCjCNw.html Now for the obvious note: Shipping is a consideration given that it'd be coming from AliExpress, but we can't accurately review shipping cost for all the different regions and it can often get bundled in with other items for 'free' shipping. Either way, if shipping is enough to push it towards the $15 mark, there are a ton of competitive options and shipping heavily influences value there. Learn about our CPU cooler testing methodology here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fmTOJP4KOyk.html
Both of my builds are Jonsbo cases! Top spec inside when I built them, they make some amazing cases. One is ATX the other ITX. Both amazing quality and definitely not "boring" tower cases (TR03 is a chonky boy but so unusual! 🤩) *Edit for spelling
Which means gamers are some of the biggest suckers when it comes to extracting surplus value from them. People will religiously defend brands, prices, jumping to conslusions about R&D costs, expensive materials, you name it... Just look at Digital F*undry and their privileged early access to products and features. It used to be called 'access journalism' and everyone knew you can throw independence out of the window when it comes to that. You can't be really honest and expect a company to keep inviting you to take a look before anyone else. So do gamers call them out for that? Hell no, "channel make shiny videos on shiny features, me like! gotta buy myself 🤤"
@@RR-gx4ec Gamers are the absolute lowest of the low in the entire entertainment industry. A heroin addict has higher standards for his cheap back alley heroin than the average gamer does of a triple-A $70 game. GPUs, naturally part of the gaming industry, also get ridiculous price hikes because it's been proven that the braindead morons that pre order trash bottom of the barrel games are also happy to pay $800 for a GPU that should cost no more than $299.
@@RR-gx4ec Nah, not just gamers, basically every industry has people like this. Car companies, clothing industry, even furniture manufacturers prey on people buying stuff that doesn't cost even half of what they claim it does.
For 3 bucks, I'd be content with it even making it to my doorstep in the first place. Seems like this could be a steal for a low-power budget build of some kind.
@@FAT9L Yeah. My old nhd-15 and dark rock pro 4 air coolers were over $100 ( AUD) each so this thing being like $5 AUD or less is a steal. My liquid cooler.. Well let's not mention the price of it 😂.
Not sure if someone has commented this yet, but the Jonsbo CR1200 is usually bundled "for free" with "tray" CPUs in my local market (Indonesia). Same goes for its brother the 4 heat pipe Jonsbo CR1400. They basically serve the same segment as stock coolers but with a bit more flair.
@@ahmadrizkihidayat5139 Guess this is an inside joke for you and yours alone eh :( Feels a bit rude, commenting in another language on a video produced in English for an English-speaking audience.
tbh it's a pretty good way to do budget gaming. This price diff could bump someone up from something like an 10th gen i3 to a 13th gen i3 -massive real world difference in performance compared to if they went with a regular priced cooler
Why would spending $3 to test a fan that turned out to be adequate, be more fun than spending $7000 to test a prebuilt that turned out to be less than adequate? Oh no wait, I think I get it.
@@GamersNexus At 14:20 Beautiful helper.... Who is the cute thing that was helping demonstrate your silicone mod mat?? She is cute!! (Guessing she, since it appears to be a pastel calico....calicos are always female, unless messed-up genetics are involved.)
I have used this cooler several times for older platforms and it just gets the job done while looking decent. Can't complain. For higher powered budget builds I usually use the Raijintek Themis II since it usually goes for lower than 20 euros in my country and seems to be the best value in that price bracket. I'd love to see a review of that cooler!
The 30-35 USD (in my country) HX6240 and HX6250 claims its support to a TDP* of 250W, which I doubt. Would like to see if the claims are true, although IIRC each CPU manufacturer calculates TDP in their own diff ways.
I love these videos giving a chance to unknown/ less popular brands. Also, its really cool to see case mods and different solutions to common problems in computer land. I did a case mod and it ended up awesome in the looks department and really efficient (improving airflow in an "aquarium" case).
Gotta remember the cost of shipping. A lot of products will be listed for $2~4, but have $10~15 shipping, because it makes it more appealing at a glance in the search than a $17 item with free shipping, especially when you need to click the product to see the cost of shipping.
Exactly and if you select free shipping the base price go to 18 or 20$. They might got a discounted shipping when ordering multiple items from same seller but still cant call it a 3$ cooler its just clickbait title.
Jonsbo has some decent products, especially their cases; I was recently looking at their VR3 case (which is a Meshroom S derivative) and it looks fairly promising
Keep these great cooler videos coming Steve besides being highly informative to people trying to save a buck or two one their build the videos are very enjoyable. Thank you Steve.
11:09 I do love the relative simplicity of the AMD mounting system - not having to worry about having proper tension or keeping to a specific tightening pattern, but at the same time, that clip mechanism is a PITA to work with a lot of them time.
True, those clip mechanisms are annoyingly fiddly, but at the same time they can be toolless and I guess all those other methods are a large part of why soo many used AM4 mainboards lack the brackets or even the backplates.
Those circular adapter brackets seem to be extremely common. I've seen them bundled with cheap chinese coolers and salvage motherboards. The actual cooler itself seems to be designed to mount to the stock AMD mounts and that ring's purpose is to adapt that clamp to intel sockets.
As this HSF would work fine on AM5, AM4, AM3, AM2, S939, S754, FM1, FM2, it would seem the path of least resistance and cost. A stock design that literally did not change for over a decade and still works today (well enough anyway) with sunk costs paid some time ago it seems prudent to use it one more time. The intel ring adapter is also a cheap proven and good enough solution that this HSF would be good enough for IDK the entire S115x range, going back to the 1st 'i' series intel chips.
Oh that silicon mat! That's honestly EXACTLY what I've been looking for to use for making my models/doing clay work! It's big, can be used for organising, and silicon, which is so much easier to clean! When I've got the money for it, I'll definitively look into getting it!
As a matter of fact im still running a system that is constantly up(with semiannual maintenance to remove the dust) for 14 years on socket 1156 (i7 870), and been constantly upgrading that computer over the last decade, neither MB nor CPU specs mention it's capable of having 32GB of RAM because at the time the 8GB DDR3 sticks weren't mainstream yet. I enjoy building out older systems, and truly impressed mine didn't fail yet. Many of the systems i have are just headless linux servers doing their small things because they're still capable of running stuff, with the right setup and care.
I would like to see the ID Cooling SE 214 XT tested, it seems to perform pretty well for the price and is a very noticeable noise level improvement over AMD stock coolers.
I use one of their HX6250 coolers on a 5900x and its a beast, better performance than coolers that cost twice as much. Would definitely buy their stuff again in future.
I replaced my old 212 Black RGB Edition with a Jonsbo A5 and was blown away by the results it practically slashed the temps by 10 degrees Celsius in idle and peak compared to the 212.
The Cooler Master Hyper/ Blizzard T2 has an interesting heat-pipe trick. It has two heat-pipes but they are installed upside down, so the contact area is four heatpipes wide.
With them clip style coolers for the modern AMD sockets I found it easiest to first loosen the screws and take out the retention bracket mount the cooler to the retention bracket by clipping it then lower the whole thing back on to the CPU and back plate then tighten it back down. Makes it a lot easier and less risk and stress on the socket and/or CPU.
And don't forget: new old motherboard (like h61, h55, h81) still for sale Usually chinesium mobo rebranded to local brand. Brazil, Indonesia, India, are some of biggest market for chinesium motherboard. Chipset said from e waste pull
I'd love to see more budget coolers. More specifically, the ID-cooling SE-214-XT which is nearly identical in price and has many design similarities. Their dual tower cooler is worth a look as well.
i second ID-cooling. i was making an HTPC based athlon 3000G server for HomeAssistant(python based smart home server). bought a cheap SFF case together with picoPSU and IS-30 from ID-cooling as it was the lowest profile that I had found (30mm of height!). for something like 22eur. it is very silent and powerful comparing it's size.
Thank you for looking at budget (and cheaper) items. It is great that your content can span the wide number of price points, so all DIY enthusiasts can make choices that are good for their budget.
The Jonsbo CR-1200 is also available for as little as 6$ (with free shipping) domestically. It also has a 92mm (edit: confusing naming led to some misinformation) variant called CR-1400 which is sold at more or less the same price.
@@bladeoflucatiel Idk perhaps they primarily sell to prebuilt vendors and then excess warehouse stock is just shipped out for a dime to maintain a steady cashflow and goods? Maybe just for brand recognition marketing? It can be very tough to pinpoint why exactly a product exist at its given price range, especially in the extremes of ultra inexpensive/expensive. In my experience some of the worse offenders are the ultra expensive ones, like I saw a 3080 10gb sitting at a shelf for literally 2.5k usd (converted). That thing would not sell in a thousand years, yet it just sits collecting dust and taking up precious space. Why? Nobody knows, I bet not even the people selling it are aware of its existence lol.
@@bladeoflucatiel snowman the cooler of choice for low cost build has been selling at this price for ages, jonsbo just have better sales network, so they can replicate that price universally
Are you sure about that? The product page says it's a 92mm cooler for the CR-1400. Even the official Jonsbo product page says 92mm. I don't understand why this is getting upvoted so much when it is just factually wrong. But on pricing/domestic availability, that's helpful to know - thanks for pointing that out!
Was going to get this for my dream PC build, but then it went up to $2.96 due to inflation, which would shatter my budget. I am once again denied by limitless corporate greed.
I bought a Jonsbo G3 home theater PC case (because of its desktop shape and relatively small size) a good few years ago and used for while as my rig. Then moved into another case, bigger one, but just few months ago I pulled it out of storage and re-installed it as home theater PC.
It would be interesting to see how lapping the surface improved performance, if at all. 🤔 It could be part of a "small changes to budget things" series?
Right now they have on sale the Aigo ICE 200 PRO, it is basically the same design but without the top cover and static RGB. The cooler is around 5 USD but to be able to pay that price you have to buy another two items, which you can get for 2USD each. You'll end up paying 9 USD but free shipping is guaranteed by geting 3 items so i think is totally worth it. Got mine to replace the Wrath Spire of my R5 1600 (that one still has the copper vapor chamber) and my temps dropped 10 degrees.
got intrigued and searched online and they have very good coolers especially the HX series.. they have a 280W double tower cooler with 7 heat pipes called HX7280 and it looked really cool..
I built a pc for a client, he wanted white, RGB and good enough to cool a overclocked 9900k but needed it under $50. Under $50 fine but white and RGB was extremely hard to find for $50 then I found jonsbo had their CR2000gt for $36.99 in white and RGB. That thing was a beast.
I'm curious how the fan is separate from the cooler. At $2.77 you could buy enough to fully populate your case and probably break even by selling the copper for scrap.
after seeing the pressure test results, I started wondering: would lapping the cooler to improve its flatness make a noticeable difference in performance? Iv heard of cpu lapping, but not cooler lapping. Curious to see if it would improve anything, on a cooler this cheap the extra work might be worth it haha
I seem to see the heat pipes sticking out from the cold plate and if this is so, it would not help to lap the cold plate without thinning the heat pipe walls to a questionable degree.
@@richardgarrett2792 Lapping can take off an incredibly small amount of material. It can be done and have benefits. That said, the poor pressure map was not due to flatness as much as the mounting mechanism. At least, that's my understanding.
@@richardgarrett2792 Would be interesting to see how flat someone COULD get it before the heat pipe rips open or close the gap with some aluminum foil.
Some overclockers used to (probably still do) lap both cpu and cooler. Though generally people usually just use a well known, good cooler and only have lapped the cpu when necessary. I personally do neither.
This cooler came on the prebuilt I bought for my daughter, it keeps her 10400 nice and cool through everything she does ( Minecraft, Genshin Impact, Sims 4, etc).
Everything aside, i hope that your viewers, mainly the US ones, finally understand that all companies out there have HUGE (!) profit margins calculated into the products price. There are way too many people out there who always think that product X cant be 5 bucks cheaper otherwise the company goes insolvent....
Would love to see you review ID-Cooling SE-226-XT.....the product said its TDP is 250W....it works well for my i3 12th gen....but kinda want to see how the cooler perform for the higher end cpu....
I am using the exact cooler right now as we speak cooling my I7 4790. Under full load I reach max 71 degree. I got it for 5.4USD. I was so impressed with it to the point where I bought the CR2200 with 6 HP for my Ryzen 3600 for 19 USD (max 53 degree under full load)
Just got a Jonsbo C6 case. I needed something very small to fit inside another Industrial machine cabinet. I was going to use a Nuc or some other mini PC but the manufacturer really wanted a full PC not a mini AIO. So this case is really interesting. It has only one bad point. The good is that it's the size of many ITX cases and manages to fit a MATX board which is great. The quick release mesh sides are a very good thing for something this small because you can get at everything easily if needed. It uses a full size power supply or a small one. It has a front USB C. The one downside is that there's no room for any kind of tower cooler so you either use the stock cooling or a slimline Noctua maybe. But other than that... it's incredibly simple and tiny for a MATX case.
I've been using Jonsbo CR1400 and CR1000 (not the CR1200) for many mid-range builds. I wanted you guys to check them out They work well with 4 heat pipes, great price, and surprisingly good looking ARGB
@@brunorodriguez327 it's rated for that wattage and would probably work but they've gone up in price lately so you're better off spending a few extra dollars and getting a deep cool or be quiet cooler imo
Nice review! Love budget options being covered in reviews. I have an interesting choice: how about the stock dell/hp coolers that they have in prebuilds? They're cheap and seem like they could fit in some sockets? I have a prebuild hp pavilion with it in there and I swapped the fan with the fan from the AMD Wraith spire while keeping the stock heatsink in and noticed a 3-4°C decrease under full load for a Ryzen 7 2700.
jonsbo's stuff are pretty popular for budget PC builds in my country actually, legit everytime I see a 200$ prebuilt deal it will always have the cr1200 installed
You guys have sometimes talked about lapping CPUs to improve contact surface with the cooler. Would it sometimes be viable to lap a cooler to improve contact area?
Yep. It used to be a common practice when lots of coolers were less than ideal out of the box. There are instructional vids on RU-vid. Just don't get carried away and put a hole in the heat pipe.
I hate living in Turkey. Just checked aliexpress and this piece of junk is sold for $25 to my country while it's $7 for US. Plus $15 or so shipping, it costs $40 total for me...
@@USSMariner nah I'm better off buying a local made cooler which is what I did for a ryzen 3600 recently. $20 after tax 4x6mm pipes and 120w tdp. dark x123.
That's 17 euros here in Finland, so quite a lot more than your 7 us dollars 🤔 I actually bought one couple of months ago for a friends old 2600k system, since the original Intel cooler was missing one of the 4 pins to attach it to the mobo. Worked fine 🤷🏻♂️
I have the Jonsbo D31 Mesh SC. It is a quality product and I would suggest it so much that my next build will be in the Jonsbo D41 Mesh SC. This maybe a cheap cooler, but as a company, the products seem to be exactly what you pay for. Keep up the good work Jonsbo. Thanks Gamers Nexus for keeping us informed about little known manufacturers.
There's definitely lack of ID-Cooling products reviews, I would love if you'd take a look at their SE-224-XT base model or its modifications. Thank you for not forgetting about budget segment, it's a lot of fun sometimes.
For the money, especially on sale that's actually really impressive. On a low wattage CPU, maybe a 45w even and it's really going to be more than enough.
They may have gotten the coolers added on to orders of items that are very profitable like cases (heck, they may have stuffed cases with boxes of coolers in shipping cause the space would be wasted anyway.
We paid $3 for shipping because it was bundled with some other item we bought. That's why the description and top comment say that shipping is variable.
"For your real needs" I appreciate that slogan on the box. Like there's zero bs or big headedness about it. Not something like, "Passion beats eternal" or something ridiculous.
Thanks for the always great and entertaining reviews! ☺️ I'd love to see a test on the Arctic Freezer i35 or A35. Here in Denmark it's dirt cheap (about 25$, and 30$ for an ARGB version - which trust me, is really cheap for anything resembling a computer component here). I've recently had to use one in a budget build, which I had to get ready to give away, and this was the only budget friendly cooler in stock nearby to be picked up. Ran some simple tests with it and I was actually really impressed!
I paired this cooler with e3 1240v3 since the stock cooler ran pretty hot (90+C) on cpu-z stress test. with this it can hold 75C all day. been 3 years, worked fine!
For next coolers to test: Personally, I wanna see the 140mm fan stuff! Everyone always skips reviewing these in favor of small 120mm single-tower and massive 140mm+ dual-tower. But generally 140mm is under-reviewed, IMO. - Thermalright Frost Commander 140 (FC140) and Frost Spirit 140 (FS140) (These are dual-fan dual-tower coolers, with 1x 120mm, 1x140mm fans... What the??? Why two size fans???) - DeepCool AS500 (single tower w/ 140mm fan) - Be Quiet Shadow Rock Slim 2 (kinda old now, but a single 135mm fan, single tower cooler) - Noctua NH-U14S (single tower, single 140mm fan cooler from Noctua -- is it any good? Quiet? Compact/flawless RAM compatibility?) - Scythe Mugen MAX (huge, thick, single-tower, 140mm single fan cooler. Pretty darn old. Brackets for AM4 and newer Intel motherboards are sold separately. Did I mention this thing is huge for a single tower cooler?) Something about all these being lesser reviewed just gets my curiosity going. Hard to stop wondering, "what if these are secretly really good?" Or just wanting to know even if they suck. Other weird coolers: - ID Cooling SE-207-XT (really short dual-tower single-fan cooler) - ThermalRight Silver Soul 135 (another really short dual-tower single fan cooler, has a more compact 110 variant, these might be interesting for ITX builds?) - Thermalright Frost Tower 120 and Phantom Spirit 120 (why do these things look so similar to the peerless assassin 120, same price, which one is better? Looks like the fans/heatpipes are different?) - DeepCool AK500 (thicc single tower single fan 120mm cooler, why so thicc?) - be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 (another thicc single tower single fan 120mm cooler... What's the deal?)
Id cooling have tower coolers (like the ID-Cooling SE-226-XT) that are pretty well priced, prehaps if you have the time reviewing some would surely be interesting.
Jonsbo used to be sold in the polish equivalet of microcenter, as far as i know it had good reviews. They seems to try to build reputation up to become a "standard" company, no problems with quality control and good rma.
Tbh this is awesome... In many countries you can buy cpus without a cooler, that would normally have one, to cut on price. So a cooler like this is perfect.
I changed my old Intel stock cooler on my i5 3470 just over a year ago for a Be Quiet Pure Rock slim that cost me £15. The Intel cooler was 8 years old and still going strong (kept hold of it as a backup) and the Be Quiet has been doing a great job ever since. I do also have 7 case fans installed which helps, and the noise level is very low.
that's the cpu cooler that i used for my first pc build! i was running an i5 4460 and r9 380 (both was from my brother's previous pc) I didn't like the intel stock cooler so I bought a cheap and decent cpu cooler which is this and it performs good for its price range
Jonsbo does some nice ITX cases. Almost bought one for my now current build, but my requirements ballooned in a way, at the last moment, that I couldn't pick any of them anymore.
$2.77 is actually not real price. As you could see, shipping is about $15. It is trick for the case if you will need to open a dispute due to faulty sample and if the dispute will be fulfilled, shipping "cost" will not be refunded anyway. And part of the "shipping cost" is actually seller's margin. So I would call this is sort of speculation in video.
Would be interesting to see more 92mm fan coolers for restricted height cases. I bought a Thermalright Assassin X 90 SE recently for a Ryzen 3600 in an ITX case. Runs cool and quiet.
That tiny-little cooler is really popular at my country lol, no matter on a really cheap RGB gaming PC that you bought it from a store nearby you or just to replace Intel stock cooler for some RGB. Great work GamersNexus. ❤
".. socket types that most people watching this has never built on before.." I still have a perfectly working Core 2 Quad Q9400 LGA775 machine as my media center. Though this is from 2008-2010, and I have replaced the Quadro FX 580 with a more recent (not by much) GTX 1050TI single slot Inno3D GPU. Surprisingly it handles 1080p60 Steam gamestreaming from my main PC pretty well, albeit it took some tinkering to get it to work properly. Thanks Moonlight. That said, my first ever build was a Pentium 3 500 mHz CPU (yes, 500 mHz) running Windows XP, primarily just to play 3D pinball. I have seen a generation or two of CPU's through the years.
