Scythe SCKBT-1000 120mm Sleeve Kabuto 6 Heat Pipes CPU Cooler

Pros: my temps are now 10 lower than with the stock cooler, cools really great!

Cons: BE CAREFUL. if you have ramsticks that come with heatsinks, it may or may not touch this cooler, mine barely did.

Other Thoughts: It really is a great cooler for matx size cases. I would buy it again.

Pros: 120 mm PWM fan, cool, and quiet, temps are easily 5 degrees lower. Tall enough that it hangover my ram but doesn't block the slots.

Cons: A bit large, installation a bit difficult, heavy.

Other Thoughts: The secret to easily installing it is that you can adjust the height of the clips to latch on easier by pulling them off the mount then pushing them back in on the notch that works for you. Since one side is taller than the other, the clips will be at different heights. Hope this helps.

Pros: quiet

Cons: At idle, my STOCK i7 930 is at ~35C, which is fine, but under maximal load (which is what CPUs should be able to run at 24/7, except under unusual environmental temperatures and/or poor cases/poor ventilation) it will reach 90C+ in less than 10 minutes (this is using OCCT or Linpack). This is obviously unacceptable. Your first assumption is that the ventilation is poor inside my case, but this is incorrect-- I have 1 120mm front fan, 1 120 mm top fan, 1 120mm rear fan, and 1 240mm side fan on my stock Rosewill Cruiser case. I have all fans running at MAX/100% all the time.

My bro's OC'd to 3.77GHz e6500 under the same tests, and in a case with MUCH worse airflow, will max out at ~65C with the stock intel cooler that came with the e2100.

Pros: So far so good. Keeps CPU cool like its supposed to.

Cons: Not really a con, but i fought and fought to get this cooler to hook on the motherboard. After about 10 attempts i finally got it hooked on where i felt it was secure enough and not going to fall off.

Other Thoughts: My Build
AMD Phenom IIx4 965 3.4 125w
Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-ud5
XFX Radeon HD 5870
G.SKILL Rip Jaws DDR3-1600 2GBx2
Western Digital 640GB
Cooler Master HAF 932
XFX 850w modular Power supply
Samsung 2333hd Monitor
Ultra MD3 Media Dashboard
Lite On DVD/CD Writer with lightscribe

Pros: Moves a ton of air and keeps cpus really cool.

Cons: next to imposible to install. Took me 30 minutes at least to put this on my mobo. Its kind of giant, but its not really a con. Just make sure you have enough room. It hangs over my ram. they still fit though

Other Thoughts: Its worth it.

Pros: Great heat sink, works like it should, I would get temps at max with regular i7 cooler close to 100C, now max is only around 70C in a warm room. Does what it is suppose too, plus its very quiet didn't even hear it.

Cons: None really, but if you were going to be picky, would have loved to have a fluid dynamic bearing fan vs the sleeve bearing it came with.

Other Thoughts: When I first booted up the system the motherboard fan alarm went off, dont be scared, you can set the fan a little higher. The fans RPM minimum is around 180rpm, so the sensor goes off, its cooling like it should just turn off the sensor for alarm or set the fan to run at higher rpm.

Pros: Huge cooler but not in the way of anything that I have.I was able to face it any way that I wanted.
Cools ex. 25 C or 78 F while on the internet. Good quality, sturdy. Very happy with this cooler.
I like this cooler alot!!!

Cons: hangs over ram a little, but plenty of room for my G.Skill ripjaws series ram.

Other Thoughts: I would change my ram selection to be able to use this cooler, it's that good.
System: gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P MOBD
G.Skill ripjaws DDR3 1600 ram 2x3=6 gb running at 1333.
AMD AM3 965 140 watt. CPU

Pros: Very good cooling
Quality Scythe Construction(I did not use the pushpins I bought the back plate)
Fan is silent at 7V(never tested at 12V).

Temps are around 57C with the fan at 7V running prime95 with a q9650 at stock.

Cons: Size...depending on the case. I had issues with this and a silverstone TJ08. Had to remove the fan to install the motherboard tray then reinstall the fan.

Other Thoughts: Funny story...I'm using stock settings for my q9650(motherboard sucks at overclocking...) and I decided to test the heatsink with prime95. I load it up and I'm viewing the temps in hardware monitor. The temps hit 77C and stabalize...I'm like...Ok... so I open my case to see if the heatsink is hot (for contact purposed and then I see that the fan isn't running...It came unplugged when I was putting the system together. So, I imagine you could use this heatsink passively for a quad at stock settings (maybe even i7?)

Pros: Awesome cooler. Fan blows downward, helps to keep the rest of the goodies on your motherboard cool. Keeps my 965BE at about 44C under full load @4Ghz. It's big & quiet. Shouldn't block anything on most motherboards, the actual heatsink part has good clearance due to the heat pipes. The bottom of the heatsink is well finished with a mirror shine.

Cons: The AMD cpu clips are impossibly hard to get on! I don't know why they made it so hard, other scythe clips have been really easy but not these. If you have a skinny case, this is going to probably end up being really close to your side panel which may hurt it's airflow.

Other Thoughts: Wish it came with something other than a sleeve bearing fan on it, I've never had good luck with sleeve bearing fans. The specs on this fan aren't bad but I will probably change the fan in the near future (as long as i can do it without taking it off the socket). Even with the difficulty on getting this installed, I'd still recommend it. This cooler is miles ahead of any stock HSF, it was about a 10C drop in the cpu temps at stock speeds under load.

Pros: + 5.5 inches in height (w/fan)
+ Very quiet - even at maximum stock fan speed
+ i7-950 at 32 C (idle), 63 C (max w/ prime95) room temperture at 20 C
+ Quality product with no obvious flaws
+ OK price

Cons: - Intel stlye plastic push pins are stubborn and non-adjustable
- No fancy colors, finish, or LED lights

Other Thoughts: Intel i7-950 processor - 3.06GHz
ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard
6GB G.Skill ram at 1600 = F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ
Thermaltake 850W powersupply W0178RU
Thermaltake case - ATX full tower - VA8003BWS
WD 500GB Caviar Black - 32MB cache
Windows 7 Pro - 64bit