cooler master seidon 120v
i don't want to bore you to death going on about it, so this is for anyone thinking of entering the h2o cooling world on a bargain basement budget, like i did.
it replaced a cm hyper 412s which i ran on my phenom ii x6 @ 4.1ghz, it did a good job of that but found its self hung out to burn on my recently acquired fx-8350.
i didn't want to spend much on a replacement cooler because i'm tight fisted.
i must say i do trust cooler master, aside from the aforementioned hyper 412s which i'm impressed with as a cheap air cooler; i have had a haf 912+ case for many years and i see nothing under £100 that i would replace it with.
it is absolutely solid, you could prop a car up with it... the air flow design i think is among the best of the best, good cable management, the excess hdd cage can be turned or come out completely for unobstructed air flow, and so on...
so that is the bases i was working off, much better products than their price.
first visual impressions, the rad is solid, its heavy for its size, it doesn't flex... nothing at all alarming about it, the fan, its a cooler master fan like you would buy from them or here for whatever... the pipes are stiff and thick... again so far so good.
now the pump, that does look and feel a bit cheap, its not heavy, its cheap plastic, it looks and feels like some cheap chinese knock off glued together.
as are the clamps, screws.. ecte.. cheap material.
assembly; not good, the studs and clamps are all at a set measurement, you can't tighten it down anymore than that allows. and its not enough, not even close, once tighten down fully to to point that the designe will allow it is so lose that with out effort you can move the pump around, its hardly making any contact with the cpu hs at all.
i tested it like that and it performed significantly worse than the 412s air cooler it replaced.
knowing what the problem with it i added 2mm worth of washers to the top side thumb screw end of the clamp to extend the threads and tighten it down properly.
when i retested it; i kid not it shaved 20c off the load temps, its performing ~15c better than the old one.
it actually performs quite well, 65c under full load @ 4.6ghz, with the 412s i was getting over 75c at only 4.5ghz.
to close i would say its a good cooler for £40, but i would warn that you would probably need to do some diy to get it to work at its most effective, and i'm unsure about the quality of the pump.
i don't want to bore you to death going on about it, so this is for anyone thinking of entering the h2o cooling world on a bargain basement budget, like i did.
it replaced a cm hyper 412s which i ran on my phenom ii x6 @ 4.1ghz, it did a good job of that but found its self hung out to burn on my recently acquired fx-8350.
i didn't want to spend much on a replacement cooler because i'm tight fisted.
i must say i do trust cooler master, aside from the aforementioned hyper 412s which i'm impressed with as a cheap air cooler; i have had a haf 912+ case for many years and i see nothing under £100 that i would replace it with.
it is absolutely solid, you could prop a car up with it... the air flow design i think is among the best of the best, good cable management, the excess hdd cage can be turned or come out completely for unobstructed air flow, and so on...
so that is the bases i was working off, much better products than their price.
first visual impressions, the rad is solid, its heavy for its size, it doesn't flex... nothing at all alarming about it, the fan, its a cooler master fan like you would buy from them or here for whatever... the pipes are stiff and thick... again so far so good.
now the pump, that does look and feel a bit cheap, its not heavy, its cheap plastic, it looks and feels like some cheap chinese knock off glued together.
as are the clamps, screws.. ecte.. cheap material.
assembly; not good, the studs and clamps are all at a set measurement, you can't tighten it down anymore than that allows. and its not enough, not even close, once tighten down fully to to point that the designe will allow it is so lose that with out effort you can move the pump around, its hardly making any contact with the cpu hs at all.
i tested it like that and it performed significantly worse than the 412s air cooler it replaced.
knowing what the problem with it i added 2mm worth of washers to the top side thumb screw end of the clamp to extend the threads and tighten it down properly.
when i retested it; i kid not it shaved 20c off the load temps, its performing ~15c better than the old one.
it actually performs quite well, 65c under full load @ 4.6ghz, with the 412s i was getting over 75c at only 4.5ghz.
to close i would say its a good cooler for £40, but i would warn that you would probably need to do some diy to get it to work at its most effective, and i'm unsure about the quality of the pump.
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