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Cooler Master Vortex Plus
8.8 out of 10

Cooler Master Vortex Plus

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Overall 8
8.0

Good buy

M. Larson, Amazon
2 weeks ago
Overall 8
8.0

Good choice for small form factor cases

sloant09, Amazon
24 March 2013
Overall 8
8.0

Is a decent cooler for FM2 chips

Newegg
25 February 2013
  • Summary: The included fan is kind of loud when running at max RPM, which it does when my temps get up to 60c.
  • Pros: The fan is quiet under most conditions, and it keeps my APU cool. Idle temps are near ambient room temp up to about 33c during normal operation. Fits nicely on my mITX...
  • Cons: Under heavy load, my APU gets up to about 60c. I use a a10-5800k chip at stock speeds. The chip is rated at 100w TDP and this cooler is rated up to 150w TDP. Personall...
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Overall 8
8.0

Was Hoping For More

EndPainEndSuffering, Newegg
15 January 2013
  • Summary: I tried bending it (as another user suggested) but it snapped right away because of a fault in the metal (the metal is bendable if you're fortunate enough to not have
  • Pros: Cools better than my stock Athlon 64 cooler and is pretty quiet.
  • Cons: The K8/AM3/AM2 retention plate doesn't apply nearly enough pressure so you'll have to get a bit inventive if you want to use it.
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Overall 8
8.0

Excellent Ccooling

Newegg
3 January 2013
  • Summary: Instructions are not clear enough for non technical people.
  • Pros: Review based on the AMD mounting option:
  • Cons: Mine came with an untrue fan that caused vibrations at full speed. Had to return it. The replacement is ok.
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Overall 8
8.0

cool!

fatafour, Newegg
16 November 2012
  • Summary: feels like you are going to break the mobo
  • Pros: intel pentium D430 was getting hot on my stock cooler
  • Cons: very hard to get on intel sockets
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Overall 8
8.0

Quiet and cool

Saiben, Newegg
31 October 2012
  • Pros: Large improvement over stock cooler, fairly quiet for a CPU fan, keeps my temps low even in my OC'd system
  • Cons: I took 1 egg off for the mounting system of the fan to the actual heatsink, its a good idea and it works fine but on systems where the socket and ram slots are close t...
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Overall 8
8.0

Good stock replacement

JO, Newegg
21 October 2012
  • Pros: Purchased this a couple of years back as a stock replacement for my main rig. It's still on my main rig and has seen 3 AMD processors. It does the job, quiet, and allo...
  • Cons: I'm a pro now and can latch it on in a minute, but my first installation almost resulted in broken furniture out of anger. At $30 it's a little pricey... See other tho...
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Overall 8
8.0

Quite difficult to install, but not bad cooler

Daniel Lee, Amazon
27 September 2012
Overall 8
8.0

Cool little heatsink

GPG "GPG", Amazon
1 June 2012
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