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The selling point for me on this was the fact that it did not require motherboard removal and installation of a backplate

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Installed this fan and temp fell to 90 degrees f with minor overclock

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The preapplied cooling grease made me nervous at first im used to doing that myself but it went on without a hitch and maybe just one fingerprint from my careless handling

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The arctic freezer extreme lowered temps on my 125w amd fx8120 by 10 degrees celcius over the oem cooler smaller heatpipe and fan cooler now it runs at or under 50c depending on which sensor is read with 100 load on all 8 cores and idle temps are in the low 30s c

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The larger freezer 13 partially obscures ram making it impossible to use lage dimms with heat spreaders and exhaust heat can only be directed up directly into psu or down on the gpu

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Yet another benefit in my setup is the fact that the stock amd cooler blows hot exhaust down on the motherboard elevating socket and northbridge temps as well as directing heat onto a nearby capacitor bank the freezer extreme eliminates this issue as most of the cpu heat goes directly out the back of the case now

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Not sure how it happened but the fan broke off

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I read the reviews good and bad and what i got out of that was it was going to be hard to install