Corsair go air cooling

Relentless81 · 6 Jan 2020 at 19:30

With the A500 CPU 120mm twin fan cooler

Looks interesting and I was surprised to see it's announcement i never expected Corsair to do CPU air cooling, I can't find any reviews but looking forward to seeing how it performs but with just 4 heats pipes and priced at £90 I'm not sure how it's going to stack up with the big boys offerings like Noctua and BeQuiet

What do you think?

Relentless81 · 6 Jan 2020 at 19:41

That's the one, I'm on my phone and was too lazy to link, thanks

Relentless81 · 6 Jan 2020 at 19:51

Yeah I'm pretty lazy at times!

Agreed it's going to have to spin those fans to work those heat pipes, interesting stuff looking forward to see how it does, hopefully it's decent and Corsair bring out more CPU air coolers maybe this is just to test the water

Relentless81 · 6 Jan 2020 at 20:25

b00merang69 said:
I always thought Noctua would go Liquid Cooling (everyone else is on board) but better quality and some innovations added to the mix.

Nah if that was in development we would know, Noctua love to build up hype

Relentless81 · 8 Jan 2020 at 07:45

Geerseekers have this beating a U12A with both at 100% fan speed

4 heat pipes Vs 7 but the A500 interferes with ram slots where as the U12A doesn't

Relentless81 · 14 Jan 2020 at 18:55

Arcane said:
Looking at the previews doing the rounds, it has a sliding fan mount system that allows you to move the fans up and down on rails, giving the option to move the fans up to clear tall ram without having to mess around with clips etc, actually looks very nice.

It seems to perform well and not be too noisy, my main concern is the weight, it's heavier than a Noctua.

I worded my post badly what I meant was you won't be able to see the ram if you have fancy pants ram sticks

Relentless81 · 20 Feb 2020 at 14:20

orbitalwalsh said:
Thought looks like traditional Heatsink designs will go obsolete soon enough...

What makes you say that, the siphon thing?