Logisys Computer CC2 North Bridge Cooler 2

Pros: A good replacement\upgrade for an old North bridge fan that failed. I bought 2 of these and have been quite impressed. They have been keeping my NB\SB at temperatures i'm comfortable with.

Cons: It is pretty tall, in one of my cases it makes it difficult to remove my HDD's.

Pros: *Nice packaging *blue color fan matches my system(not red one as pictured) *two different hookups for power (4 pin molex, and 3 pin for mobo connections) *Fan spins silent and smooth *Dropped my north bridge temps. 15c. compared to stock fanless hunk of aluminum.

Cons: *Paint all over the bottom of the heatsink(not effective for heat transfer) *Not copper it, is aluminum which the listing doesn't state, this is important information as per my experience with heatsinks copper seems to transfer heat much better, where as aluminum is kind of random as to how and where it transfers heat. (ie: cpu heat sinks most of which are copper based). *Newegg shipped it in a cardboard envelope, really? Newegg? I know the "EGGSAVER" shipping is cheap but come on throw it in a box with some protection.

Overall Review: Over all the fan does its job, I had used my oscillating tool and a 2000 grit sanding pad to sand all the paint off the bottom of the heatsink, evenly as to make it as flush as possible. This helped with the heat transfer issue a lot of you have been having. I also think that the thermo paste they include is junk, but I tried it and its not too shabby. On my ASROCK 990fx board with a 8120 FX 8 core @4.5 and my visiontek 7970 3 gig I noticed a drop of 15c over the thick stock fanless cooler, with the foam pads on it (I did reuse one of the foam pads that was boardering the main chip to help cool the voltage regulators, I used a razor blade to peel it off). The only problem I encountered was with installing it, rather than pulling my motherboard, I used pliers and pulled the factory push pins out yes they broke but I didnt have to pull the mobo out, and I didn't reuse them anyway. Mounting it was a breeze the mounting slides made it so easy and the push pins went right in without issu

Pros: Bought this to replace the stock heatsink on my Dell Perc 5/i RAID controller, which get blisteringly hot to the touch in my case. Fits perfectly using the stock spring clip. Well made and very quiet.

Cons: Takes up a lot of slot space in this configuration, but doesn't affect me as I'm not using any other slots.

Pros: The heatsink is solid

Cons: -The mounting system is terrible. This thing is going to move around -The fan died after 2 weeks

Pros: Solid heat sink, and fan mounted good.

Cons: The universal mounting brackets are horrible to use and the heatsink will always move around. I would recommend a different heatsink.

Pros: This is an update to my other review. I did replace the cooling fan with a Fractal Design 40mm Silent Series R2 case fan. This fan is just the ticket. It is whisper quiet and works great. Buy this cooler for the heatsink, upgrade the fan. Included this so that someone might know to order them both at the same time.

Cons: You have to buy the other fan too, but worth it.

Overall Review: Buy it for the heatsink, upgrade the fan.

Pros: I had an ASRock mobo OC'ed quite high and this actually did a much better job of keeping the NB cool than I expected. I had a problem with regular thermal shut-downs due to the NB overheating but this solved the problem. I do use a high quality thermal paste with my heatsinks as well. 5 stars for exceeding expectations.

Cons: None

Pros: Small, has a fan.

Cons: a little taller than what I needed with the mounting option provided.

Overall Review: I picked this up to replace the heat sink and fan on an old MSI K8Neo2 platinum mother board's chip that burnt out. Mounting was a little tricky since it is so tall and the video card was catching it. I ended up mounting this with a 45* rotation so it looks like a diamond instead of a sqare with the edges of the mother board. This gave me just enough clearance for the video card to not touch the cooler. Once I got it mounted in this way, it works great.