Thermaltake Frio Overclocking-Ready Intel Core i7 (6-core ready) & i5 Compatible Five 8mm Heatpipes Dual 120mm Fans Intel & AMD Universal CPU Cooler CLP0564

Pros: I purchased this cooler last year to cool my Phenom II 1090T so I could overclock it without worry. I have been running this 1090T at 4.1GHz on all six cores for several months and it never see's temps outside of the high 40's C under any gaming or other load. Running both fans at 2000RPM, push pull, the cooler is very quiet. Its simply blends in with the soft noise of all the other fans in my case at this speed.

Cons: None from me. Know what you are buying before you buy it. Make sure it will fit inside your case. Like most all high-end air cooling solutions, its it large. Will easily fit in most quality full tower ATX or larger cases, such as my Cooler Master HAF 932 Black Steel. On some motherboards, running dual fans in push pull, one fan may extend out over a RAM slot on the motherboard. If you have RAM with a high profile heatsink that extends above the DIMM, you might have problems. If the heatsink is flush with the DIMM, you will not have any problems. I ran into this installing the cooler on a few ASUS "M4A" motherboard models. Make sure you mount and seat it properly, and correctly apply the proper amount of quality thermal compound. If you are getting bad temperature results with this cooler, it most likely user installation error. I get consistent results install after install.

Overall Review: I have subsequently installed this same cooler in multiple other systems. From i5 2500K and 2600K systems OC @ 4.1 to 4.5GHz. Phenom II quad and hexa cores OC to 3.8 to 4.1GHz. In every case it has performed fantastic, on par, and even better that much more expensive coolers. My personal basic system specs are as follows. AMD Phenom II X6 1090T OC @ 4.1GHz THIS Thermaltake Frio Cooler ASUS Crosshair IV Formula MB 16GB A-Data XPG Gaming Series DDR3 1600 XFX Double D Black Edition Radeon HD 7950 Corsair Professional HX850W PSU

Pros: Its super cool in many ways. It keeps things cool even at low speeds. It is a behemoth and wonder to behold. The colors fit well in my computer. It looks very good in general. Its pretty quiet when on lower settings. I keep it adjusted so I don't hear it over my HAF case, which is pretty quiet and my power supply fan is probably the loudest and it claims to be a quiet model. Install/uninstall/reinstall went smoothly for it for being so huge.

Cons: I had to bend one or two heat sinks on my mobo to get it to fit (pretty stupid, I know). The wires going to the fans controllers right where it splits are thin and flimsy and to go the opposite way you gotta bend it a way thin flimsy wires don't like bending. This combined with the switch being about 1 inch from the power plug and right by the fan(s)lead me to some issues. Being as big as it is made me realize I should just get water cooling if I wanted to spend the original retail price of this on cooling. It got in the way of around 1/8th of the stuff on my mobo. Any wire in that area is now a pain to plug in or unplug and the case even though its really big it feels cram packed with this in there. I find myself getting in my computers a lot over their lifespans and this product often feels like it gets in the way of taking apart my computer. Im actually dreading having to mess with it here in a sec (to repast the heatsink it bent out the way).

Overall Review: If I didn't have to bend a heatsink on my Motherboard out of the way in order to install it, the product would probably get a 5. Maybe this is my fault and I should start measuring everything before I buy? I did not read this in any reviews I read though.

Pros: As far as air cooling goes, the Frio is a great choice for managing CPU temps. Installation is easy, and it comes is a very wide variety of mounting hardware, making it a available to a wide spectrum of buyers. Before installation I was getting CPU temps around 35 IDLE, and after installing the Frio, it IDLE is at around 28-30.

Cons: None

Overall Review: With both fans attached to the Frio it makes it rather large. Make sure to check the amount of space you have available before purchasing, mainly the distance between your CPU and RAM!

Pros: Some might be surprised to learn that even with G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (8 x 4GB) @ 1833MHz, this cooler can be installed with both fans semi-installed. The designers of this unit, in their infinite wisdom, included specially designed rubber pegs that fit into the mounting holes on the fans. So I arranged the fans such that the upper two rubber pegs fit into the fans (arranged in a push pull setup), so that I have a setup like the following diagram: Back<-/X\<-Front (/ and \ represent the fans arrangement on the cooler X; <- means air-flow) The fans are tilted over the DRAM, which goes over quite well for cooling, surprisingly enough, enabling the end user to have a slight downward blow, over the mounting area itself. I have not tested the effectiveness of this setup in OC on my new i7-3820 (SB-E), but running Intel Burn Test (memory setting at high), reaching a clock rate of 3.8GHz, through turbo boost, the max temp with four threads used was 69C with fans at 2000R

Cons: It's pretty large, and I was lucky enough to figure out the setup I have in the pro section. The RAM I have appears to be relatively low-profile memory, so it most likely won't work with large heat spreaders. Stay away if you like to have all of your RAM installed and its not low-profile memory. The unit is fairly expensive, and probably not the most ideal choice at this price range. However, due to how I managed to set it up, I'm extremely pleased with it, including the fan controllers that allow me to set the fans however I like, whenever I like, so I think the cost is worth it.

Overall Review: This is a very good unit for LGA 2011, X79, if you have low-profile memory. Hopefully it will last me for a good while to come. The relevant components in my build: MEM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 F3-14900CL9Q2-32GBZL CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core BX80619i73820 PSU: XFX ProSeries P1-1000-BELX 1000W ATX12V V2.2 MBO: ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 CASE: NZXT CA-SW810-W1 White Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Pros: Had this thing over a year now, and wow, still cooling like day 1. Both fans can pump out some serious air flow!!!! I have some nice paste on too, my 6 core never gets over 30C under a full load...seriously I couldn't believe it either!

Cons: a bit load, i usually have fans close to max no autocontrol/software control for fans!!! that is the only bad thing about this unit, you have to manually turn it down.

Overall Review: manual control doesn't bother me a whole lot since i'm usually gaming or editing and need it to stay cool so I have them turned up

Pros: COOL! this guy is a super cooler - running my i7 3770k at 4.2 with no more that 45 C which that board normally OCs at 65 push pull fan set up give maximum airflow

Cons: Big, gotta find something wrong. Thing is definitely a 2 person install job. glad my gf was there to help. poor instruction but not overly complicated.

Overall Review: need a big case, mine has plenty of room but big case. also make sure you have ram clearance before installing second fan, rotating 180 or 90 degrees will fix most clearance issues.

Pros: I'm running a AMD FX-8 core black edition running at 3.1 GHz, gaming so far i have played Test Drive unlimited 2 and Cod 2. so far i have not had my processor break 76 Degrees Fahrenheit. its a pretty big heatsink to say the least

Cons: none yet

Overall Review: if you plan on getting this make sure you have a case that will fit it. it almost didn't fit mine.

Pros: Phenomenal cooling! I am 1hour into running a Prime95 stress test, and it has level'd out at 51c/52c @ 4ghz on a 955BE 1.42v

Cons: None, whisper quiet. Not designed for small cases, recommended for aftermarket computer cases.

Overall Review: Doing exactly what the product's name implies,Overclocking! 4Ghz on air, gaming stable,furmark stable, Futuremark11 stable. Normal 4ghz idling is in the low 30c. Thermaltake has earned a lifetime customer, thoroughly pleased.