EVERCOOL HPL-815EP Ever Lubricate CPU Cooler

Pros: Looks great and is a great price.

Cons: Did not fit Mini-ITX FM1 motherboard. Heat pipes either hit motherboard components or block ram slots.

Other Thoughts: I'm kind of confused as to why a company would make a low profile cooler that doesn't fit SFF builds.

Pros: *Well made heatsink with four heatpipes.
*Fan pushes ton of air.

Cons: *LOUD! This single fan if louder than three fans combined from my other system.
*Uses custom mounting bracket, not much support for back side of motherboard.
*Large area of overhang, on most boards will rob you of usable memory slots, or crush CPU power capacitors if you are not careful.

Other Thoughts: I intended to use this cooler on a matx case build because of the low profile, but it will not work for the borad that I purchased it for (Biostar A75MH) unless I ran with one fewer sticks of RAM in single channel mode, which is not acceptable. So I stuck with the stock AMD cooler and used this instead on a second AMD AM3 system I have. On that board (ASRock M3A770DE), orienting the cooler in the direction that would allow access to all four RAM slots would crush a capacitor on the board under a heat pipe, so I have it rotated so that the heat pipes again, disable a bank worth of RAM. Also, the mounting seems very precarious, the four provided screws seem to have very little meat to grab from the back side of the board.

Overall, a well made cooler, I just wish the heat pipes weren't so obtrusive, and that it used a standard mounting bracket.

Pros: I purchased this as a low profile cooler my HTPC build:
-Zotac 890 itx board
-Corsair XMS 8GB Ram (DDR3 1333)

The heat pipes interfere in any orientation on the motherboard no matter what type of ram. I went with the Gemini IIS. Fit's great and much better cooling efficiency.

Cons: The heat pipes are too wide to fix most ITX size motherboards. The low profile is great, but the CFM is low and the width makes it undesirable for an ITX size HTPC. I gave it 4 stars because it would work nicely with a Micro ATX or similar size board.

Pros: Cheap, easy to install, fits cramped areas, and comes with the thermal paste.

Cons: Can get somewhat loud when your playing high end games, but other than that it is silent.

Other Thoughts: Would buy another one.

Pros: >Low profile CPU Heatsink/Fan design. Perfect for slim HTPC cases (such as Silverstone ML03) which require 70mm or less coolers.
>Still uses copper heat pipes even though it's a low-pro cooler.

Cons: >Fan isn't very quiet.
>They sold out of this cooler the day I went to purchase it. I guess the reviewer below me was the one that got it. I ended up having to buy from fleabay & ended up paying more =(

Other Thoughts: I'm very pleased with this cooler in my HTPC case which i built to run PFsense. It's on a dual core AMD & keeps it more than cool. However I might buy a new fan to go on it, the one that comes stock is very loud for some reason. However this is probably the best low-pro CPU cooler out there. Check frosty tech review on it.

Pros: It's a nice low profile cooler. Installed it in maybe 15 minutes. It comes with brackets for all current mainstream processors. The parts kit even includes little rubber washers to install on the screws to eliminate vibration and allow for a snugger fit. It's not as powerful as a higher end air cooler, but for a slim HTPC it is absolutely ideal.

Cons: The fan is noisier than I anticipated, so I will be replacing it with a quieter one. The screws that attach the brackets to the cooler are just a hair too long, and they end up screwing into the heatsink for just the last little bit. Neither of these really affects the cooler's performance, though.

Other Thoughts: Needed a low profile cooler capable of handling a 95W CPU. Overall, I'm actually very impressed with this thing, and I would buy another one should the need arise. The pictures also make it look bigger than it really is. It's actually smaller than your average intel stock cooler. It fit perfectly on my Asus P5G41T-M MATX board.