EVERCOOL HPFA-10025 100mm Ever Lubricate CPU Cooler (Buffalo for AMD)

Pros: I bought this cooler as a temporary solution until my main cooler returns from an RMA (Zalman CNPS12X). Reading the reviews on here, it seemed like it'd be able to work well enough for the few weeks I'd need it to. And for under $20, I figured it was at least worth a shot.

While it is cheap enough to be used in a pinch, I wouldn't recommend it for long term use at all.

Cons: This cooler is very poorly designed. While the fan assembly itself is actually of decent quallity, the same can't be said of the mounting bracket or the heatsink itself. Like others have said, the heatsink sits loose on top of the CPU, meaning you can actually move the heatsink even after it's been mounted. This wouldn't be that big of a deal if it actually covered the entire surface area of the CPU's heat shield; it doesn't. As I write this, Core Temp reports my Phenom II X4 980 at stock clock rate and voltage as idling at 58C. 58C! That's ridiculous! I've reapplied the thermal paste and even used Zalman thermal paste instead, but neither of those bring the temps down.

In addition, the way the fan mounts to the heatsink is quite shoddy. It uses these thin metal rods to clamp the fan down where the screw holes are, and then it has rubber grommets at the end of each side to mount it to the heatsink. Only problem being, the heatsink fins are really thin and easy to bend, and the rubber grommets are easy to puncture, too. The end result? A fan that ended up breaking its own enclosure, causing the fan to hang and hit the heatsink as it spins. Lovely. Thankfully, if you mount the heatsink so that the fan is pointing upwards (so the BUFFALO on the top is read upside down), it negates this issue. Still, I'm afraid that even the slightest movement of my desk will send the fan flying in pieces.

Other Thoughts: It's really difficult to recommend this cooler because of its aforementioned shoddiness. Had Evercool designed a fan mount that was less likely to come apart AFTER YOU INSTALL IT, I probably wouldn't have the issue I'm having now.

Even if the fan wasn't a ticking timebomb, it's just not that good of a cooler to begin with. It can barely keep a stock quad core Phenom II at an operating idle temperature, even with the fan blowing straight out the top of the case! For a few extra bucks, you can get a SilenX or Cooler Master Hyper 212 that will almost certainly work better for your needs.

For the sake of completeness, here's a quick list of pros and cons.

Pros:
- Fan is of decent quality
- Easy to mount, uses stock AMD mount plate
- Can be oriented so the fan blows up or down (up is highly recommended, for airflow reasons as well as keeping the fan mount together)
- Is cheap enough that if it breaks, you won't have too much invested in it and can get a better cooler
- Quiet enough to not be disturbing (when the fan isn't destroying itself, that is)

Cons:
- Bad heatsink mount design
- Terrible fan mount design
- Mediocre cooler at best, could probably benefit from more heatpipes and perhaps another fan
- Thin fins that are very easy to bend, which causes issues with the fan mount

Pros: Inexpensive and works great. I have bought 3 of these for my AMD AM2, AM3, and AM3+. Chips over 2 years ago. All are quite and cool very well. I have a Turbun 6 core 1055 overclocked to 3.6 Ghz and running bonic, with 6 threads, it hits at most, maybe 146 degree F. It mounts easy and I used silver paste. You can adjust clamp tension by bending the chip clamp and shift it side to side to spread the paste. It can be faced up or down in case.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: If you want to test your AMD with a good stress test and help the world, join Bonic scientific community open source computing. It will run the max computing threads, my 6 thread 6 core, and use navida, ati or amd video cards also . I do Einstein gravity wave computations occasionally.

Pros: Big and cool looking, cools the chip more than it really needs, has pretty fan with red blades and different enclosure than normal fans, Buffalo logo with jumping bulls

Cons: Logo says Buffalo but the picture shows two bulls jumping at each other. Buff =/= bull.

Other Thoughts: I've had this for about two years and it's been doing fine. It's lived on two different motherboards at this point. While the fan is pretty cool looking, it's a 100mm. Mine hasn't failed, but it's pretty difficult to find a 100mm fan.

Pros: Inexpensive, cooled very well at first!

Cons: Unstable mount. Fan blade fell off after about three months of use causing total unbalance!

Other Thoughts: Would not buy this again!

Pros: this fan has kept my cpu cool and runs super quite :)

Cons: none that i have found and i have been using it for over a year

Pros: took an egg off for a UPS error, not for the quality of the cooler or newegg issue, this was a UPS error.
product worked great.. had limited options for a replacement
for this industrial PLU.. removing mainboard to install a new backplate was not an option but needed a replacement high efficient CPU cooler, this was the answer.
easy installation, super quiet and keeps the CPU cool even in a harsh manufacturing environment.

Cons: UPS lost my package. it was not on the drivers truck.. when I explained to him that this was a very very bad thing he got on the phone with a supervisor and to make a long story short, his supervisor was at my doorstep at 8:00 AM to redeliver this..

Other Thoughts: I'm self employed and 99% of my client base are either industrial or commercial accounts. I've relied on newegg almost exclusively because they do provide a huge selection, great prices and decent after sales support. This helps my bottom line.. making money. so even a small shipping glitch could really effect me.

Pros: Keeps my 3.1ghz quad core at 29c idle.

Cons: Is huge. almost touches the side of my case. also the way they design it to fit and latch onto the cpu is not the greatest.

Other Thoughts: other than being big and poor design of fitting on the cpu, it keeps it really cool.

Pros: Looks great and is pretty quiet. Has clips on the fan so that you can swap the direction of airflow. Last a long time!

Cons: Can't exhaust air towards the rear of case. It's either blowing air up or down. I have exhaust fans on top of case(thermaltake commander snow) so it works out great.

The clamp seemed a bit out of place and would not hold the fan tight to the mounts. It was a simple fix. The clamp bar just needed to be bent slightly so that it would hold the fan snug. For this reason I take ONE egg off.

Only 2 copper pipes. Works great but I wouldn't want to go higher than 3.6ghz on my CPU.

Other Thoughts: I've owned this cooler for well over a year and it's still doing a wonderful job keeping everything cool. I've never used Evercool before this cooler and I'm very happy I did.

I will be buying another for my next upcoming build!

Pros: The heat sink itself and fan look like it would do the job to keep a AMD 8120 FX at cooler temperatures then the stock CPU. The goal for me was not to overclock, but just to get the temperature down.

Cons: The biggest con is the mounting bracket, while it is easy to install it was very poorly thought out. The mounting bracket does not securely place the heatsink on to the cpu. You can wiggle it around rather easy allowing parts of the cpu to be shown. Now if I was using a four core the play its not enough to be an issue. I am really not sure how far out the 8 cores sit and was not going to risk it. Just all together goes together very poorly.

Other Thoughts: Be care full with the flux paste it comes with its very thin a little goes along way with it.

Pros: Does its job very well my cpu is amd athlon x2 260 regor oc'ed 3.8ghz stable doesn't go past 36c under load I would recommend this cpu cooler to anyone get it if your on a budget

Cons: Mounting bracket is cheap but works not taking an egg off for that