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I bought this because nobody could sleep in the room with the AMD supplied cooler/fan running. This cooler is low cost, relatively easy to install, keeps the CPU 5 degrees C cooler than the AMD cooler, and is barely audible. I did have to adjust the fan speed vs. temperature curve to get it that quiet, but the CPU runs cool with the fan set at 20% of full voltage. The primary fan mounts with 4 custom rubber/silicone vibration/noise isolation mounts. Rainintek should have included enough to mount a second fan. There are metal wire brackets to mount a second 120mm fan in a push-pull configuration, but the instructions do not mention then and it is non-obvious how to use the brackets. It fortunately turned out that I did not need a second fan (with a 95W CPU). Another minor shortcoming of the package is that the cooler only mounts in one orientation, at least on AMD motherboards. For me, the cooler covered the top of the nearest memory stick making it impossible to remove that stick without first removing the heatsink. I contacted Raijintek and they sent me (free!) brackets to allow mounting the heat sink rotated 90 degrees.Read full review
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