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A bit sugar-coated IMHO. This cooler is, for a lack of better words, an experiment.

A 99$ cooler that can be beaten in pretty much every category by 20-30$ ones is not worthy of existing outside of media.

This is'nt your avg AIO cooler, but for those looking for some special design for Mini-ITX or something.

It's the real small cases that need a properiate cooling, having a high-end CPU inside it with not much space for effective cooling. 99$ will drop eventually, but you get the "Apple" out of CPU cooling.
 
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Temps on CPU do not change based on orientation, performs the same both ways. Chipset was a few degrees cooler with fans blowing down but nothing that makes a huge difference.



The two nuts that hold the cooler in place. Basically they tighten down and it feels like they bottom out aka that they are fully in place. However it seems the threads on the nuts were not 100% or had something in them eitherway via by hand or with screw driver didnt have enough elbow grease to tighten them all the way as it felt like they bottomed out. I mounted and remounted a couple times same thing. It wasn't until i got down and really looked I could see that the mounting arms on the CPU block were not fully touching the top of the screws aka there were threads visible. Using a pair of pliers after a quarter turn they broke free and i could then hand tighten them the rest of the way. Once fully tightened performance improved drastically. Most likely this is just a one off bad luck and due to time crunch trying to get everything ready to go i didn't notice. its also not the location either it was the nuts themselves. That location there just makes it more difficult as the tubing is pretty much right in the way making it more difficult to notice.

Ok so since the screws go thru the board and screw into the backing plate, something in the backing plate screw socket wouldnt let the screws screw in the screw sockets :D:D :slap::D:D
 

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Ok so since the screws go thru the board and screw into the backing plate, something in the backing plate screw socket wouldnt let the screws screw in the screw sockets :D:D :slap::D:D
The screws basically extend through the backplate / motherboard and up through the mounting arms. The thumb screws just hold it tight. The screws meanwhile have a small lip where the mounting arms would sit flush once fully tightened down. I noticed looking closely that they were not sitting flush. Granted it was the two nuts at fault. They work fine they just stop once almost fully tightened.

Think old bolt/ nut where you just spin the nut around and eventually it sticks halfway down. same idea here. once you force it past the trouble spot all is well. Issue is a one off simply bad luck.
 
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interesting idea, but too expensive for its own good. especially when compared to its in-house competitor the 212.
 
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interesting idea, but too expensive for its own good. especially when compared to its in-house competitor the 212.

Exactly, costs almost 3 times and deliveries same performance.

5 extra bucks and you can but a 80i GT.
 
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Temps on CPU do not change based on orientation, performs the same both ways. Chipset was a few degrees cooler with fans blowing down but nothing that makes a huge difference.

Ok thanks bro
 
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The cooler was tried in the two positions it was designed for, I'm wondering if angled at 45° would it cool the VRM section more effectively, lowering temps even more?
 
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Now that's a different story after rebench. 77°C at 4.6GHz Prime is a very good result if you're silence focused. I let mine go up to 80°C for my 4.5 GHz 5820K because I focus on silence so much. Same is here. If they'd spin the fan as high as some other products, it would perform even better. But it would be also a lot noisier. But currently, it beats most coolers in noise department while not being bad at temperatures at all.
I dont really think thats the same story:shadedshu: 4.5G 5820k would blow up if it was cooled by this little cooler.. WELL, having a 5820K 4.5G at 80 is really something serious, mine would throttled at 4.3 at 1.28v with a 12 cm raditor


I like the idea of it, but the performance is really disappointing...
 

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I dont really think thats the same story:shadedshu: 4.5G 5820k would blow up if it was cooled by this little cooler.. WELL, having a 5820K 4.5G at 80 is really something serious, mine would throttled at 4.3 at 1.28v with a 12 cm raditor


I like the idea of it, but the performance is really disappointing...
To be blunt that might not be the case. I have seen many tiny coolers manage to cool x79 / x99 chips while failing on 3770k and 4770k systems. This is due to the fact Intel uses TIM between the IHS and CPU die. as such the CM cooler could very well handle an overclocked 5820k. 6950K? probably not but entry X99 / x79 probably not a huge issue.
 
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To be blunt that might not be the case. I have seen many tiny coolers manage to cool x79 / x99 chips while failing on 3770k and 4770k systems. This is due to the fact Intel uses TIM between the IHS and CPU die. as such the CM cooler could very well handle an overclocked 5820k. 6950K? probably not but entry X99 / x79 probably not a huge issue.
still doubt that cuz 5820K at 4.5 is WAY HOTTER than the 3770K at 4.5 because I have both of them:toast:
 

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Try looking through older reviews, This beats the older Hyper 212 EVO, while 212 EVO managed to cool a 3960x ES at 4.1 GHz my chip was high leakage using nearly 300-350w at 4.1 GHz now considering a 5820k at 4Ghz uses about 150w under load yeah i am pretty sure the Maker 92 wont have any issue will it be a GOOD cooler for that kinda of setup? Of course not.

Considering I have tested with a 3960x 4960x 2500k 3770k 4770k and now 6700k I have no doubts a Maker 92 could handle a mild overclock with probably 4.3/4.4 being the upper limit. 4.2 would probably be a comfortable OC. I will agree 4.5+ this cooler would likely struggle unless in a low ambient environment.
 
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so the whole point of watercooling is to increase your available surface area to cool... this product performs about as well as a 92mm rad in a custom loop, which is also why no one uses a 92mm rad in a custom loop.

its kind of the worst of all worlds... high price, air performance, a pain in the ass to put on just like a normal tower cooler (vs, say a waterblock which is a breeze to mount to the cpu), and extra parts that can fail.
 
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.....was actually excited about this product.......hoping the one you got was just a dud....hate to see so much potential wasted. Otherwise....what Phanbuey just said.....
 

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The review was updated and now contains the proper results as indicated early what you see in the review now is what you can properly expect.
 
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