CORSAIR CMXAF1 Fans

Pros: Out of the box to installed in the system: 3 minutes, tops. Quiet, especially when combined with a fan speed controller (or controlled through BIOS fan controls). Clearance for almost any memory, DOES NOT have to be used with Corsair Dominator series only, can be used with any memory stick that complies with "standard" height and size.

Cons: I guess if you had a couple of gorillas moving your PC around for you (being rough with it) the cooler could work its way off. The cool "mounts" to the memory retention clips of your motherboard via compression/friction only. If you wanted to make this more secure I suppose you could apply some nonskid rubber strips to the cooler finger clips. Personally, my setup works just fine as is.

The cooler does stand a bit tall, if you are using a low profile format custom case this probably won't fit, measure first, buy next.

Overall Review: Does sit close to my Zalman 9500 but doesn't touch (on an ASUS P5N32 SLI Plus). On the same board an eVGA 8800GTS installed in the first PCI-E 16x slot comes very close, but does not touch, the memory cooler.

Pros: None

Cons: They suck really bad. Noise after three days on top fan. If you hit it every 5 minutes its OK. Just get an open case so you can keep hitting the fan....

Overall Review: New Egg to the rescue. A few days out of rma and they still refunded me as i purchased the CORSAIR CMXAF2 Fan & Heat sinks which is much better then this junk.