Akasa Cool Blue Chipset Cooler, thoughts?

Tundraswan · Post by **Tundraswan** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:43 pm

http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/sp ... ak_210.htm

Thinking about using this on my A8N-SLI.

Any opinions?

Krazy Kommando · Post by **Krazy Kommando** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:27 pm

20db seems too good to be true for a 5000rpm fan...

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:43 am

5000 rpm can't be especially quiet. The Coolmax uses heatpipes-which is pretty techy for a chipset cooler. It's nice if it fits-and you pull it's 40mm fan and find a good way to give it some airflow. There are a lot of 80mm,120mm fans easily made quiet. Anyone can rig up a simple bracket or mount-whether of wood or a modded metal L bracket or shelf bracket. Unless your case is a real tight fit,using whatever passive heatsink and a SLOW but bigger fan seems to be the quiet+cost effective option. I think some can do well with the coolermster Blue Ice-fan removed-full passive.
That would be marginal if you're a gamer/overclocker and often loading to the max.