This air cooler is actually terrible for modern CPUs 

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

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.

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

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.

If it’s copper, it’s gold

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.

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…

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!

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.

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.

I'm pretty happy with my Arctic Freezer 34 Duo. The other case fans I ordered are still delayed but I already wanted to try out my first PC build for Warhammer40k Darktide. It managed to keep the I7-13900k installed at around ~80° with only one exhaust fan in the back of the case.

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

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

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.

omg yes do the amazon cooler shootout, I LOVE these random product videos. And to potentially discover some sleeper air coolers.

I would love to see a shoot out for amazon coolers. Would also like to see some kind of 'best cooler for hot CPU in a small case' shoot out. like 5800x in an SFF case or something like that

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.

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.

Yes please do an Amazon cooler shootout, that would be a very cool comparison Jay!

Cooler shoot out is a neat idea. Arguably one of the most important parts of a system build to get right ,But often looked at as an area to shave a few dollars off the build I know i have done it myself and ended up spending more as a consequence

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.

Probably not the best option for a budget build at that price, however it is very aesthetic and would look great in an all white build if that is what someone was after. The screen though maybe a bit of a gimmick is a handy feature already built into the cooler. I really like the way it looks and on a more efficient CPU, t would keep it cool enough. Thank you for reviewing such an odd piece. I do enjoy these types of videos.

I bought the black version of that for my build last summer and it's been doing ok. I like the temp screen just for monitoring. Its running on a x570 tomahawk wifi w/ ryzen 5800x, 8g x 4 corsair vengeance pro, & rtx 3060 12g. Cool to see you do a review on it, i watch your videos all the time.

Good video Jay- its a good looking cooler shame its performance wasn't quite there, A air cooler shootout would be very useful especially on a 12th or 13th gen processer.

i literally have the black one and was looking for a vid like this when i bought it 2 months ago for my 5600x

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

I would really enjoy to see a cooler show off, I have a termalright cooler that seems to work for my 5800x, but I would like to see how it compares to others.

Full send... I want to see the shootout I like finding and seeing cheap things perform high.

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.

I’m getting this for my next build

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.

I wish there was videos like this on all computer components well the make ones. I am going to start a new build and would love to know what the best for what I will be doing with my PC. Thanks for the great video.

I think that it would be more interesting if they just made a decent looking little CPU tempature display that could just be mounted to the top of most air coolers for like $20. Make it come with different color trims and/or a ring of rgb around it. They would probably have to use double sided tape, but I guess that would be OK if it came with good tape.

As long as the AM4 mount uses the standard AMD backplate it will be directly compatible with the AM5 backplate that is screwed into the socket. The coolers that are not compatible are the ones that use their own backplates. For examples grab any Asetek AIO cooler and the AM4 mount you snap onto the pump fits perfectly fine. Screw on the standoff's and bolt it on.

Yes do a Amazon air cooler comparison, I also saw another air cooler with temp gauge but it was the horizontal style fan on Amazon as well. I thought that would be cool to check out and it was much cheaper though way less cooling I’m sure

Yes do the Amazon Cooler Shoot out video! I would like to see that!

even though it's really inaccurate, the LCD looks great and the RGB are very nice. But from what I heard, it's not the quietest and the build quality and the heat dissipation ain't the best. Then again, it's not very expensive so people mostly buy it for aesthetic purposes. Seems to be worth using if you're using locked chips and don't mind a bit of noise. Or if you really want an LCD, you can wait for Deepcool upcoming LCD aircooler that was set to release around late Q1 - early Q2, but expect for the price to be pretty high.

Even my noctua nh-d15 struggled to cool my 7600x running R23 it was around 90-93c, it was boosting to 5.4ghz, even with two 360mm rads and a custom loop cooling the cpu/gpu, it's still was hitting around 77-80c, in eco mode it's down to 67c. running games around 51c, these new processors run really hot compared to my old intel i7 7700k.

would love to see an amazon shootout video! I personally use an AIO, but recommend air coolers to all my friends who are new builders. It would be great to see a comparison of newer budget options to recommend to them

I love the idea of a showdown between the Amazon coolers, I'm pretty sure that there are some gems out there

0:45 you just couldn't help throwing shade at Linus, huh? I lol'd

I want to let you know that Amazons AMT99X made it this year. Any better way to start a global change? Don't get me wrong I know they are not like altruists or something but they keep doing the right thing to improve the situation, power the ecomonmy and so much more. We need players like them and we can always jump in the train at good spots such as this one

20:52 that dancing sticker would drive me mad in the long term though, gah.

This is the reason I tune into your channel... I miss this kind of content!

Just leaving this here.. My heart goes to the entire community for Amazons AMT99X building up something which is worth it for everyone. This is so smart by them to launch and shatter the doubts and fears of the common folk, which was misplaced by all the drama we had last years. Everyone knows the state of inflation and recession now and the way out is already in progress. Now it's just about catching the big fish, ya feelin?

Interesting talk about Amazons AMT99X I suggest anyone to listen to the guy talking about it in the video. Personally I didn't think they would really do that but seems like the launch just happened and there are enough slots available, could be worth huh

A showdown would be great. I plan on upgrading my pc sometime in the next 3 months

Cool you chose this particular cooler/model - I had an eye on it debating between a AIO and air options but this narrows thing down a bit. Thanks! Besides the given cons here also discovered its a bit too much in height for my case anyway. I am leaning more to the AIO option for a more consistent cooling on a higher output CPU - corsair for one. NZXT has a temp display option AIO but a little pricey in comparison for that additional feature. I can go up to a 240 as for mount space. Being that my build case already has dual 120 fans in the top - I can of course (a) mount a 120 or 240 above those to the frame - "assuming" that cooler/fan config would add some additional cooling efficiency to the cpu overall...? or (b) should remove existing fans altogether and mount AIO underneath the inner frame at top? Not positive if the (a) "more is better" idea will be a big difference. Anyway just getting a further bearing on it as I complete this one.

amazon shootout or a "buy this, not that" comparison video would be super cool!

amazon cooler shootout would be awesome! as always ty for your hard work and dedication!!!

yes Mr. Jayz please do the amazon cooler video shootout please.

amazon cooler shoot out would be fun. It would be nice to see if there is some fun options in the market. Toss in some classic coolers as well so we can get comparison.

I like the look of the cooler, and the temp display, just wish it was build around a better core. However I don't see myself switching away from my NH-D15 anytime soon.

Do it, do a shootout of these air coolers. I'm a fan of custom loops for ITX builds. But having the CPU on air and the GPU on a custom loop would be a direction I would go if there is an air-cooler out there that can handle 13700K.

i personally haven't really dabbled much in high tdp air coolers myself being as my most powerful cpu i've used is an R5 3600, but when i did look them up i saw one called an Arctic Freezer 34 ESports Duo, and it was actually supposedly able to cool a threadripper i'd love to know how it compares with this one.

I'd love to see a Amazon cooler shoot out I'm in the process of doing my research on PC parts as in the next year or so I want to build a new computer

I have a 4 pipe, 120mm fan, Deep Cool air cooler that was $15. Replaced my Wraith cooler that came with my 5600x and saw an immediate 20 degree difference. Cinebench throttled before with the Wraith, now it stays under 80c. My max boost will hit 4.8Ghz also. ;)

Would love to see the V5 against the U6, Peerless assassin, AK620, AG620, AG500, AK500, AK400 Zero Dark, and all those neat coolers between $20 and $60 price range!

I would love to see the Amazon shoot-out - I'm currently buying a lot of stuff for PC off Amazon, so it could be helpful for me

Amazon cooler shoutout video sounds great, especially if you do budget/real world vs. top of the line stuff, e.g. go off steam survey data.

When my 240mm AIO died I ran my 10900K on the Hyper 212 Black Edition cooler while I waited for the RMA. The CPU thermal throttled constantly at stock settings. It ran well enough until the replacement AIO arrived but I couldn't run it under full load for long. With the 240mm AIO I use (Be Quiet! Pure Loop 2 FX) my 10900K, in a Be Quiet! 500FX case, runs a 5.1 ghz all core overclock with Asus multicore enhancement turned on and doesn't get above 85 C at full tilt. Thanks for your review of the 500FX by the way. It is what made me take a look at the case and ultimately choose it as my case upgrade.

Jay.. We NEED that cooler shootout video.

They have a good idea. I've been wanting an air cooler with a temp readout cap on the fin stack for a while. No reason air coolers can't have nice things too. I've got a system monitor set up but it's a real pain.

YES - An "Amazon Air Coller" Shoot Off video would be FANTASTIC !!

Too expensive. If you're buying a CPU cooler, you either get the cheapest one because you don't care, or you _do care_ and thus you get like a U12A for $100. Paying $30 or $40 for a cheap cooler that works well enough? Cool. Once I'm paying $70 though, _I figure I may as well just spend a little more and get the Noctua._

I haven’t air cooled a PC in 10 years, but would watch a air cooler showdown video in a heartbeat.

Looking at it.. i think it did pretty good considering the size of the actual cooler.. it looks like if you were to take the fans off and it really isnt THAT big compared to some of the big tower coolers on the market

I was worried when I switched from an AIO to an air cooler for my CPU, but I went with Noctua cooler and it works great. But I don't OC or doing anything fancy so it's more than enough.

I wouldn't mind a Cooler shootout video personally. as i'm a noob when it comes to coolers, and went with for my Intel 10700 from local shop purchased a Be Quiet Pure Rock 2 that i forgot to take along and see if they'd install it, my ride wasn't gonna go back home to get that cooler, so i picked whatever air cooler they had in stock. Arctic Freezer 7x, seems to cool pretty well i guess, but i learned one thing i'm a terrible cooler installer for sure

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.

I was just looking at this cooler yesterday on Amazon. It would be great if you can do a air cooler showdown. I think Bestbuy Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black edition will compete.

I use Alseye W12 fans in my case. They move a crap ton of air and I absolutely love them

Amazon cooler shootout? YES! I love these kinds of videos just to see what is out there. I took a chance on the Veetroo U6 and struck gold. I am sure others would find it fun as well!

Hey Jay, AM5 holespacing is exactly the same as AM4. The Z-Axis hight remains the same too. So that is not the Problem as to why AM4 coolers may not fit on AM5. It's that the backplate is integrated in the AM5 Socket. I don't want to seem like the overly correct commenter, but you made a mistake there Regarding AM5 in the beginning. Hope you don't mind me correcting.

i would love if a proper cooling and aestics company did this like corsair beacuse it would have power of a air cooler you can get and yet still looks slick as hell

Yeah I'd like to see that review of budget coolers. I'm looking for parts for a a mate who lives in the US right now and I'm not sure whether to get a Deepcool, be quiet, Vetroo V5 or or old reliable Thermaltake. I've gone with the latter for the moment to cool his i5-12600KF that you recommended recently Jay.

The amazon cooler shootout video would be cool, do it!

I remember watching your videos when you first made the best bang for buck computer build series. So glad you are still making content, I remember how you made a computer for your daughter I think...

Please do the air cooler shootout. Would be interesting to see the results for lower price range air coolers.

Nowadays, if I build a PC, I go with a e2e4 cooler - not sure if the bran even exists outside of Russia. Either way, they make really good coolers for cheap. For example, I bought a six-heat-pipe tower cooler with a 120mm fan for about 15 dollars. The fan may not be the best - plus it has RGB vomit you can't turn off - but it performs well enough. It cools Phenom II x4 960T in overclock (about 105W TDP) very well, the temps don't exceed 55C in a poorly-ventilated case. I have a four-heat-pipe version of it in my main PC that has Ryzen 5 2600x in stock, and it handles that just fine too. I believe, if fans are replaced, both of those coolers would perform even better, but I am fine with them as they are.

Yes,I would love to see an Amazon cooler shootout. Great video !

What I think it is is the metal used for the fins. I have been noticing the metal on heatsinks like noctua is a much higher quality metal. Where as some of the off brands just use some random aluminum they are scrapping.

I have seen instances in the past where the act of reading sensors in some inefficient way under load (in my case this was prime95 back in the day) would actually cause the hang/crash

I wish this test were run with equipment in factory fresh out of the box conditions because when you start messing with voltages and all these other setting that most people (don’t understand or) aren’t going to change these results end up being like 1 in 1000 Just give us a 13900 or a AM5 test with factory settings. No overclocks no undervolts and fan rpm settings that are comparable to the test cooler rpms

Yes please for an air cooler comparison, heck even water coolers. I have been considering a 420mm arctic liquid freezer II.

Thanks for your review. I can find it at Taobao. The TDP is 255W.

The fact that I had a linus ad then the linus reference, made me laugh lol

I would love to see the shootout video. There are a lot of coolers made by smaller companies n I’m on Amazon that look really good.

I would to see you do a cooler shoot out from Amazon coolers. The best way to seeing it in my opinion would be a Live stream?

Amazon Shootout!!!!! That would be really informative and help me a lot.

thank you so much jay for understanding that its taxing as hell on the controller to overclock ram, while populating all 4 slots

I would love to see these tests done on a stacking process. I am willing to send a file folder of images for it, as long as you don't mind a 300 gb file.

Air coolers $100 or less on the 13th gen would be a great help. I was given a "Coolerguys 4U Active" to review and was concerned it's not enough even though it claims to handle 300 watts. Set up is 13700K on Asus Strix z790-E in a Fractal Design 7. At idle it keeps it 35-38 C but once I start up Cinebench it hits 90 C easily and begins to throttle back with a max of 5.2 GHz. I also mounted it with one of those Contact Frames. I did leave the preinstalled thermal paste for the review but I will try to replace it with another brand to see if that makes any difference.

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.

yeah that be cool to see a showdown with all the different air cooled heatsinks

Definitely want to see a Amazon cooler shootout!

Amazon cooler shootout sounds great. We need more reviews and/or showcase of products that are not all the well known or established brands.

Yes amazon shootout video please! Thanks Jay!

The Amazon cooler shootout would be interesting

Yes please. I would like to see an Amazon Cooler shoot out video.