Asus axe square cpu cooler

baker2 · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:29

Anyone had one of these whats your opinion?

i have one running on my ROG board with q6600 cpu.
not tried o/c it yet..

opinions please

Geeman1979 · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:36

A mate of mine is using one with his 2500k and says it's not that bad for a budget cooler.

baker2 · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:40

got to admit its a bit on the BIG side but ive not had chance to test it out really

its definatly quiet enough.

Geeman1979 · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:44

baker2 said:
got to admit its a bit on the BIG side but ive not had chance to test it out really

its definatly quiet enough.

Thats what he did say, it was very quiet. Once you start overclocking and ramp up the volts a bit, I guess you'll soon find out if it's any good or not.

cmndr_andi · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:51

There are a couple of reviews (here and here) which say this cooler performs really quite poorly (but looks nice).

Instead, I would go with a trusted unit like this that is known to cool well and do it quietly (though it doesn't look as flash).

beejjacobs · 27 Feb 2012 at 23:24

My opinion? it looks ugly! lol.

As cmndr_andi says, its not great. But as you already have it, no harm done. I wouldn't expect the best temps/OC with it!

baker2 · 27 Feb 2012 at 23:37

im not overclocking too much jus a tad for now just for tests as ive got no need for the oc at the moment as all im doing is a bit of gaming.

we will see how it goes

beejjacobs · 27 Feb 2012 at 23:42

Yeah will be interesting to see!

schumi84 · 28 Feb 2012 at 19:24

I recently purchased one of these and seemed to handle my Phenom 1090T reasonably ok, clocked at 3.6GHz. Unfortunately it didn't like it any higher than that so opted for one of these:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-047-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

It has a push/pull system in place (popped a random fan I had lying around on it) and with the CPU at 3.89GHz and 1.45v, with IBT running the temp doesnt go above 50 degrees so was well happy