Cryorig M9I Single Tower Heatsink for Intel

I love this cooler. At 125mm high it fit in my matx case with room to spare where others wouldn't allow me to put the side panel on. I can't attest to Cryorig's claimed 120 watt TDP but I know that it more than adequately cools my overclocked skylake i3-6300 extremely well. I'm running the processor at 4.52 ghz with a voltage of 1.3 and it idles at 27-29c. At full load I haven't seen the processor go over 63c. It also brings the temp down into the low 30's in a few seconds. These temps are with a second 92mm fan added with the included hardware. I haven't tried it on any other processor.Installation was very easy. Installing the brackets required a second hand under the motherboard to hold things together briefly. RAM clearance was not an issue on my Asrok z170m extreme4 - the heat sink is built so it sits off center and away from the ram slots. If you need to, the hardware allows the fan to be positioned a little higher.I didn't use the thermal paste as I didn't like its consistency. I instead went for arctic silver 5 that I already had.It's very quiet until you really put a load on your processor. The included fan is high quality, but even if you swap it out, the heat sink and hardware are worth more than what they charge.

When I bought this cooler, it was something of a split second decision. I was building a mini ITX system in a small Thermaltake cube case, and I found out that the cooler I had originally picked, the Cooler Master GeminII would have caused RAM clearance issues. So I picked this one. It was cheaper, and it was small enough to fit in my case. I couldnt be more pleased with it. My CPU is a Xeon e3 1231 v3, so quad core with hyper threading, and it can kick out a lot of heat when turbo boosting. This little tower of power takes it all in stride. Idle temps on the hottest core run in the upper 30s Celsius, and peak at about 55C under full load using Furmark CPU stress test. That's pretty impressive, considering it's sitting next to an r9 390x which runs REEEEALLY hot (80C consistently) in a tiny case. To sum up, it's compact, efficient, reasonably quiet ( the fan gets noisy around 1500rpm on mine) and looks sleek to boot! Definitely would recommend.

Let me start off by saying that I'm no professional PC builder, but I am confident in my abilities. Over the years I have done motherboard swaps, GPU installations, cpu installs, thermal paste application, a bit of everything. I'm not into cpu overclocking, as most games are gpu intensive these days, so this was my first after market cooler install. I recently did a mobo swap, took an i5 650 out of a cheap HP Elite system that was proprietary everything, and converted to a mATX build with a 500w PSU with 6 pin connectors, so I'd have more gpu upgrade possibilities. The stock intel cooler that came with the new mobo was doing a poor job at cooling my cpu. I was averaging around 35-48C idle, and around 81C full load. My cpu is rated for 76C max, so something needed to be done (old cooler being proprietary, wouldn't fit new board).So after some intense research, I purchased this cooler. Looks great, affordable, and had many great reviews. After installation, I'm seeing an average of 30-35C idle, and 64C max load. Not a MAJOR increase in cooling, but it is first day results, and these temps are safe. Let me tell you that this thing is a NIGHTMARE to install. The screws are the exact length needed to get the job done, there is absolutely no lee-way to make things easier for the installer. Have the bracket screws too loose, they wiggle out of place. Have them too tight, the screws that mount the cooler to the brackets won't reach. Screws need to be at the EXACT correct placement for everything to catch, and because of this, the job can be extremely frustrating and time consuming. Just make the screws a tiny bit longer than needed, so people can avoid a lot of hassle and resetting screws to get this thing installed. 4 out of 5 stars from me, great product all around, 1 star lost because of picky installation.

For $20 bucks this is a steal.I had to replace my corsair h100 water cooler after the pump failed (it lasted 5 years) and caused my CPU to reach temps of 104c.I have it oriented so that the fan is blowing across the heat sink and out the back. My stock idle temps are sitting at 42c with gaming loads of about 60c and it's actually quieter than my water cooler was. It was easy to install but it would help to have an extra person hold the back plate against the motherboard. The back plate will feel wobbly at first but that is normal, it will be nice and secure once the heat sink is fully screwed down.I don't know how well it cools on overclocks but for my stock i5 3570k it works great. I'm done with the gimmicky water coolers and will use this from now on.PC Specs:Antec P280 case with 2 fans blowing towards the backi5 3570k @ stock speedsNvidia 1080