Pros: Small footprint, Back-plate security and precision, decent cooling, relatively quiet for most of its life at low load.
Cons: Fins get very dusty very quickly, reducing cooling seemingly overnight. The fan can degrade over time until it howls and it DOES get a bit loud when under high or sust...
Pros: Quiet, Really guys. I don't know what some people are talking about when they say it is loud. Maybe it is their power supply fan being loud because this fan is so quie...
Cons: Was a tad trick screwing the mounting screws in but it was secure in the end.
Pros: I resurrected an old machine to run as a server and accidentally broke the annoying plastic pins off my old heat sink. I specifically got this heatsing because it uses...
Pros: the fan works as its supposed to, keeping machine cool as hoped.
Cons: thermal paste wasn't shipped in bottle as picture provides. thermal paste is placed on the heatsink; normally would have been a great idea. the bracket/heatsink didn't...
Pros: Huge upgrade from the cheap fan i use to have. The previous one had plastic clips to hold it to the mobo, this one has metal screws that go into a supporting backplate...
Pros: Reduced the temp of the CPU significantly. Much better than the stock Intel cooler.
Cons: Dying a slow death. The bearing is clearly bad and the cooler makes horrible noise at startup. The sound dies off a little when running, but the problem is worsening.