cryorig cr-a8 a Cooler for PC

Currently using this cooler on an Intel 6950x.Before I got the A80 I was using a Deep Cool Captain 240 aio liquid cooler, which was previously also mounted on a 6700k which cooled that cpu just fine.Motherboard is an Asrock X99 Tiachi with 6950x.Using the Deep Cool aio the best I could get was 4.3ghz at 1.280 volts. 1 hour of OCCT stress test peak temps were in the low 80's to mid 90's Celsius. Average core temps where high 60's to high 80's Celsius. Package temps would peak at 100c and average low 90's Celsius.So I read some good things about the A80 and figure I would give it a try.With the A80 now cooling this 6950X, is now running 4.5ghz at 1.370 volts. 1 hour OCCT peak core temps were in the high 70's Celsius. Average core temps are now in the high 50's to low 60's Celsius. Peak package temps are 84c with average package temps of 72c.So by changing coolers I'm running lower temps at a higher voltage. This is good stuff. I was happy.The small fan mounted on the pump move's a lot of air and cools the power section on the motherboard very well.I feel good about the cooling power of the A80 and I would recommend giving it a try over cheaper coolers. Warranty is good for 5 years as long as you register product on there website.

Like that it fits well in my Cyrorig R5 Case once you get it in. Note.. Do Not Put Pump In first. You will have more issues with mounting the pump in place.

The cooler itself works great. The reason why I chose this particular CLC is because it had the little fan on the waterblock that cooled the voltage regulator components. As my motherboard does not have heatsinks on the VRM's, this worked wonders. The CPU part of the cooler is also awesome, I don't even need to have the fans on to keep my 6700K at a steady 50 degrees C at full load.Cryorig advertises this cooler for a 5 minutes installation time, but it took me a tad shy of TWO HOURS. The reason is the fans: the holes for the fans don't quite line up with the screw holes on the radiator, and as a result screwing the fans into the radiator took a lot of muscle and frustration. Cryorig, really? For a $120 product I expect everything to be perfect, and having fan holes that don't line up is shockingly bad. I included an image of what I'm talking about - you can clearly see the amount of flex I had to induce on the screw in order to make it go into the threads on the radiator.Because of this, I'm going to be docking one star. I would take two away, but at least the cooler performs exceptionally well when (finally) installed.

Originally didn't think I'd be a fan, but temps remain at least ambient and doesn't generate too much noise. 280mm radiator is more than sufficient for all but those whom need CPU+RAM+GPU in a single loop.Extremely tight screwpoints though... very difficult to attach fans to radiator proper.