Rosewill ROCC-16002 High Performance Long Life Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler with Silent 92mm PWM Fan and 2 Direct Contact Heatpipes, Supports Intel & AMD CPU

Pros: Time tested design. I have built 30+ desktop towers and this design is lightweight, compact and effective. Fits in Mini-ATX tower cases. Suitable for cooling dual/quad core CPUs unless you are really pushing it for extended periods of time. The fan is quiet on max speed.

Cons: If you want to attach a second fan, you basically need to buy it from them. The rubber mounting/ring means you cannot use standard screws to attach a fan to the heatsink.

Overall Review: worth it for the use case (small desktop)

Pros: 4 pin, and pretty/fairly quiet. install (if a lil cumbersome and see below once I could access). effective on stock AM3 up to 95w. dropped the temps ave 4-6 degrees over stock on a Athlon II x4 640 on idle and 8 degrees under load from what stock cooler did.

Cons: the bracket to mount is a little wonky. meaning it does not allow for easy install in a small case where little room to get your hands in and around the case. U have to nearly tip the heatsink more than 45 degrees to secure one side before pivoting the heat sink to vertical and attack the other side of the retention clip. not an issue in a ATX or chassis with room, but in a tight mATX, i had to remove the MoBo to install. added more work to it.

Overall Review: Works fine for stock heatsink fan replacement. This purchase replaced a stock 95w AMD Socket AM3+ that the fan died on. cools better than the stock, and 92mm is noticeably quieter. for the money, its a descent buy. I just took off an egg because I was forced to remove the motherboard to mount this heat sink, and then re install the MoBo, making the slight drop in temps a wash. if youre not OCing / just running at stock, and have a tight case, keep in mind you may have to remove the MoBo to mount this one.

Pros: Straightforward installation. Also, using some automatic overclocking on my CPU (an i5 4590) I can't stress it enough to get above roughly 140 F now that this fan is installed.

Cons: The stark blue fan color would certainly be a challenge for aesthetics, though my case is all closed up and I don't see anything. The spring holding the unit to the bracket had to be put under a fair amount of pressure in order to click into place.

Overall Review: This fan probably works to cool up to about 110 or 120 TDP, though it would be nice to have some designation of that in the product description. I had to find a similar sized fan from another brand to figure out how much it could cool.

Pros: -Very quiet, I can really only hear it when it gets up around 80% or higher. -Built for AM socket installation without needing any additional tools -Cools better than the cooler than came with my 3600. -That price!

Cons: -Fits very snug, with each attachment going on one at a time. Made me worried that I was applying too much sideways pressure to the CPU during installation (I didn't, worked fine. Just made me worried)

Overall Review: While the temperatures I'm getting are solid and more consistent than stock, you wouldn't want this if you're doing any sort of overclocking. Its just a good solid quiet option vs the stock included cooler that really couldn't be beat at the price point.

Pros: So, Pros 1. Easy Install 2.Works 3. Multiple positions is cool

Cons: Not a total con but, was only concerned for a second about the plastic hold down clips but all went well.. Great item for the price.

Overall Review: Really cannot say its a bad cooler for this price range, what else can I say....???? Recommend it for sure. 1156 application, i7 6700 Installed in the blink of an eye!

Pros: cools down my CPU temp very effectively, and pretty quiet. Oh, it is dirt cheap. it took me about 15 minutes to install, most of time is on reading the manual. Fairly easy and straight forward to put them together. Trust me, i do not consider myself as handy guy or DIYer.

Cons: i prefer black fan instead of the light blue

Overall Review: none

Pros: - Cools your CPU significantly better than stock coolers - Upright fan is much quieter than down-blasting stock coolers. - Even this small cooler is overkill for 85% of all CPUs now.

Cons: - You have to pretty much push these modern 30-50W CPUs to the peak of air-cooled overclocking to justify needing one. - The mounting hardware is probably 2-3X bulkier and uglier than the tiny cooler your CPU shipped with.

Overall Review: I almost didn't bother getting one of these for my new Ryzen system, since I had barely managed to get above 55C benchmarking while overclocked. It's really amazing if you've been building systems for years, watching things you used to do become obsolete as manufacturing processes get smaller and more efficient. I used to think of things like liquid cooling and high efficiency fans as necessary for overclocking, but now it's more about getting rid of noise. In practice, with even a cheap vertical cooler like this one, you can run an R5-R7 with a decent (15-20%+) overclock and still maintain temperatures in the 45-60C range under load. I was actually running high-usage programs like CEMU and RCPS3 emulators and sitting at about 38 degrees. That is really freaking cold compared to the Haswell i7 I was rocking for the past 4 years. I was testing on a 1600X, but internally the R5s and R7s are identical with cores disabled, just like old AMD chips. Heat output is very similar, so you should get almost identical results with an overclocked 1700X (or Intel 8 series or really any modern CPU). Short version is you should really only upgrade cooling on modern CPUs if the noise of the stock cooler is bothering you. Modern CPUs are so much cooler that it's no longer a must buy for an average gaming PC. Most of the time your CPU fan will barely kick up, while the GPU fans will dominate your noise output. It's still a much quieter and more efficient design, but I would no longer say worth even the tiny cost if you are pinching pennies.

Pros: Price Performance Noise level Smaller size

Cons: mildly difficult bracket

Overall Review: The stock fan for the AMD FX6300 was showing its age and sometimes ramping up speed and humming loudly. I was very tempted by the 212 EVO, but my case would not allow it. At full power the Rosewill kept the CPU around 60C just idling; now at Power Mode = better performance (middle of the road) it seems to be keeping it at 36C. I have yet to see if I will notice a big performance hit when I'm really doing something taxing like processing video. I do like how much cooler and quieter the PC is now. The bracket was mildly difficult to install. I have a couple of knuckle scars to show for it.