ID-COOLINGSE-207-XT Slim 135mm Height All-Black CPU Cooler 7 Heat Pipes Dual-Tower CPU Air Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan TDP 220W, CPU Fan for Intel 1700/1200/115X, AMD AM5/AM4

Worth every penny, I don't normally write reviews but installing this cooler dropped my temps by 20 degrees from my old one which was also beefy but nowhere near this big, it fits perfectly in my case and besides me not knowing how to use fan clips installation was easy. I wish they'd explain the clips in the instruction book but it's clear and easy to read. It's quiet, great air flow, dropped my temps by 20 and really well made. Out preforms the old cooler by a long shot.

This cooler fits perfectly in my dell desktop. I had to buy M3 0.5 x 16mm screws and 3mm washers to use this cooler due to the way the case is. The stock cooler screwed directly into the case and there's no way to install the backplate but I was still able to install it without any issues. Keeps my i7 8700k nice and cool. Far better than the stock cooler and fairly quiet too.

Bought this so i could do some much-needed maintenance on my external liquid cooling loop. I tried to use an automotive reservoir, thinking that because it was powder-coated aluminum, it wouldn't react with the copper parts and soon learned that i was wrong. Luckily, i use an a/c powered Eheim to be able to move all the volume and it's simple to just fill with cleaning solution and set up out on my patio, flushing and filtering all the material out for a day or two. Should be fine.This cooler was easy to install, but for one caveat. The included mounting method makes it scary easy to overtighten the hardware without realizing it. just a turn or two will cause your Socket to be warped by the mounting pressure. I had to remount the cooler because my motherboard would not power up in that state. Be very careful. there are only two fasteners, instead of four and it's easy to canoe your hardware. This can potentially damage your CPU permanently. Don't sleep on that.The performance is quite good, in my opinion. Ryzen 5 3600 clocked at 3950Mhz base between 44C-71C during gaming and other normal use. During Stress Testing it got up to 78C and quite noisy. Using Liquid, this same processor ran at roughly 34C idle in the summer, 65C under load. This is the first air cooler that i've used in more than twenty years, so if i should expect better performance than this, i wasn't aware.

Got this to replace an EVO 212 when i upgraded to a radeon 5900x. And stock settings on the new CPU this thing just keeps it around 50C. But i also have six case fans keeping that airflow going through the whole box.I knocked a star because some of the fins were bent at the base of the tower and i had to hand bend them back. Dont know if shipping or what did that, but it was not nice to see.

Just built a new system with a ryzen 5600x and was hoping the stock cooler would be enough...it was not. It worked just enough to not be super dangerous but not without throttling with high cpu loads. It would "idle" somewhere in the neighborhood of 38 to 45 c and would jump straight to 95c in cenebench, which I guess is fair at 100 percent load but the cpu wasn't even able to maintain boost clock for more than half a pass. I did have a corsair h80i I was hoping would fit in the new case but the long and the short it didn't. I was going to try a hyper 212 but happened to see this guy that had more heat pipes, a more polished heat plate and a quieter fan for basically the same price. anyway this is a super long winded way of saying that this cooler kicks ass for how cheap it was. i can have the fan at 20 percent, which is essentially silent till about 50 percent, and maintain mid 30 degree temps during light loads then bump up to maybe 50 percent while gaming and never see more than 60 degrees.Couple notes for future buyers, there's a couple reviews saying the thermal paste is subpar, I squeezed a bit out and it was a tad thick but mostly who knows who actually makes it so I used some artic mx-4 just so I didn't have to do it twice. the mounting method is pretty simple for amd but if you have a smaller case you may want to plug the fan in before mounting the cooler, the fan cable is super long so plan for a little cable managing. felt dumb after I mounted it, I should have routed it behind the mobo and back out near the connector rather than doing a full wrap around the fan but you win some you loose some.

I had a 5 year old 240mm CM AIO that was beginning to suffer from noticeable performance issues so I decided to use that as an opportunity to experiment with a budget air cooler to see if it could adequately cool my Ryzen 5800X (which is an insanely hot processor out of the box). I was very surprised that this cooler is on par with the 240mm AIO it replaced and it's easy on the eyes. For this review I have enabled a +150MHz value in the PBO setting on my BIOS and I have left power management on "Auto" which will feed the CPU up to 142W and dynamically scale performance based on thermal headroom. This was done on purpose to create the hottest scenario possible, you can obviously tweak your PPT/TDC/EDC to make this particular CPU run a lot cooler but that wouldn't be any fun for this test! I was pleasantly surprised to see that my CPU was still able to achieve the 5Ghz max boost without reaching the thermal throttle point of 91'C under a 3 hour blend of normal usage in a room with 23'C ambient temps (WoW, Total War, Chrome, Videos, etc...). I have the fan running at 75% speed which I found to be the sweet spot for noise but I may experiment with running at full speed and adding another fan to see how it impacts temperatures. This is clearly meant to resemble a Noctua NH-D15S and I have to say, it performs very well for a fraction of the price. I used a tube of Arctic MX5 for this install but ID Cooling does include a full tube of thermal compound along with all the other brackets, screws, fan clips, and fan splitters so there's not much to complain about at this price point. Solid recommendation from me.