The "CO" in the name of Arctic Alpine 12 CO cooler stands for "Continuous Operation", so for 24/7 use. There is a cheaper version with white fan (non CO fan), like literally -1€ :D
Yeah they seem to make a whole bunch of different versions of that cooler. I got the CO one coz I could find it at a local shop and didn't have to actually buy it on Amazon. 😅
@@ffwast if the non CO fan actually fail under like 3 years or something like that, i would say that is some stupidly low quality fan even random intel stock cooler fan or even just random case fan can last more than 6 years in my experience until they going slower since not enough lubrication but that's an easy fix
The Deepcool Gammaxx 400, one of the absolute best budget coolers out there, is $19 right now on Amazon US. I know it's not a fair fight because that's a deep discount while the PCCooler blue square turdface is always $10 or whatever, but anyone either building or rocking anything from this video in a mid-tower right now should be aware of that price.
Agree Gammaxx 400 is a great budget cooler. I paid $24 on Amazon, which was still a deal. It is also shorter than a Hyper 212 if you want a tower cooler with limited case height.
The best budget air cooler is the snowman in my opinion, 4 copper tubes, really good cooling performance and its $15 for the single fan and $20 for the dual fan version.
That's if you can get one. I bought one from aliexpress, they sent me the single fan 4 heatpipe version when I ordered the dual fan 6 heatpipe version. Seller wouldn't cooperate, ali gave me a partial refund. I bought another one from a different seller, they sent me the right one this time but it was completely destroyed. the fan was cracked and there was a big dent in the middle of the bottom of the cooler (where it contacts the CPU) so it's not really usable because you can't get proper contact. I gave up and bought a Wovibo cooler, which cost a little bit more, but also has a shit ton of RGB if you like that, and it was actually packaged properly and I was sent what I had ordered. Very good performance for the money. Can be a bit difficult to install sometimes but can't complain for the £23 GBP I paid for it.
@@Cazman1989 its probably more feasable for chinese / asian purchases. international seems to be full of damaged products that arrive when it comes to cheaping out on packaging with cpu coolers in particular
@@mikeymaiku its the way they handle shipping, when the product gets to the warehouse for storage they literally just dump it in storage, the don't bother sorting packages because of the volume so they just throw it in there and it lands somewhere and something lands on top of it and that's how it goes, they don't really take care, but that's if you use standard shipping, if you go for the premium it is taken care of, but premium costs range from $30 to a $150.
Considering that Dell has been using that cooler for over a decade... I imagine they have a warehouse full of them like that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, they could have cost like .50 cents a pop.
@@HarmonyEdge They've been using the shorter ones just as long, they just used them in SFF and USFF systems. The MT got the beefier cooler up until the 40 series when they went to the smaller chassis. If only they use the XE2 heatsink in everything. Those weren't half bad.
Considering that Zalman was a premium cpu cooler leader in the industry before cpu cooling became a hobby for most pc enthusiasts I'm not surprised their lowest end cooler still performs with acceptable results for a oem replacement. It's also good to see the gamix tower from deep cool is the best for under 20. Great video.
A note about that tower cooler: I put one on a Core 2 quad Q9650 machine I owned two years ago, and it did admirably. That same cooler, CPU, and motherboard are presently living in a new tower in a friend's business office, running 24 hours a day, and the cooler fan is still working fine. I think it's probably the best inexpensive cooler out there.
Yeah Deepcool is solid. I used their coolers (higher end ones than these) in my builds and it's great. Their "GamerStorm" sub-brand is also pretty good (thermal paste and whatnot)
@@MisterFribble sure a more expensive cooler will be better, but how much better is the real question. If it's 2.5x the price and only 5C better then there is an arguement for buying the cheaper product if on a budget. It's all relative
The best sub £20 air cooler i bought and i'm still using it, is an Antec A40 Pro. Tbh, i would say it's on par with the Hyper 212 although it's cheaper.
The Gammaxx 200T is a hidden gem in my book, performance and noise levels being impressive for the price. Used one with a mildly overclocked 2500k. 10/10 would recommend!
Great video. It looks like that Deepcool tower cooler is pretty decent. For like $5 more there's a version with 4 heat pipes vs 2 which would presumably cool even better.
I don't know if you knew this Dawid but Zalman is still making their legendary copper tube cooler. $27 USD on Amazon. It might be the most unique looking cooler out there.
I love how you leaned into the fact that we've probably heard you say the word Linode so many times that Linode stops Linode like a word Linode Linode Linode Linode Linode in your ad Linode.
I bought a Zalman cooler, different than the one featured here , and it's fantastic. Has better temps than the previous cheapo cooler I had (Thermaltake UX100)
I have the arctic. I bought it not because it was cheap but because I needed a low profile cooler. Like really low profile. Less than 4 inches tall. It works perfectly. I’ve daily used it for gaming for the past 2 years. It actually cools similar to the noctua version for a good amount cheaper.
A friend and I were looking at starting a small PC building business so we invoiced a bunch of CPU cooler companies to give us a quote for some CPU coolers we could buy wholesale. One representative from a company I invoiced offered us 25 stock Intel coolers for $4.55/cooler.
When he said he had another one I knew instantly what I wanted it to be. I’ve used a dell stock cooler my entire life. It’s Way louder then you would expect a fan to be, especially when it spins up all the way
I buy used coolers from the mid 2000s - 2010s because you can get a decent 6-heatpipe 120mm cooler for like $10 I've bought old Zalman coolers (CNPS 9900A/9700), fully copper ones
I replaced the stock cooler on my 9400F with a Be Quiet basic tower cooler. I think the biggest benefit was the reduction in noise. I think that was the rationale behind buying it as the temps weren't that bad with the Intel leaf blower.
I have a similar Arctic cooler in my case for an AM4 socket. My fan is much quieter than yours, subjectively admittedly. I have used several of these and all are quieter than what you show. Artic case fans tend to be quiet and long lasting as is the Alpine series and AC does honor the 6 year warranty. Which i seriously doubt the others would do. Also due to the down draft of this style of low profile cooler, they have the added benefit of cooling the VRM. And it does amke a difference.
The reason why the stock Dell cooler ran better than expected was because it has been used in a open case scenario. In Dell's prebuilts, there's not much airflow available for them to breath, hence the high temps.
On deep cool coolers you can twist those mounting pins like screws to get them out. Easier than making a lever with screwdriver and you do not risk of breaking them.
I think the dell cooler performed that well because it was the only one that had screws leading to more evenly spread force against the cpu heat spreader which propably lead to better heat antisipation
The CO version of the Arctic cooler means it uses a ball bearing fan, hence why it is a little louder. CO stands for continuous operation, meant for always on reliability. The rest of the coolers all use either basic sleeve/rifle bearings, or fluid bearings (the Deepcool models). As to the Dell cooler, it performed so well because the fan is insane (they used to be Deltas, but I can't say for sure that is what the one in the video is). That's why Dell hides the fan curve with it, because on their systems, the curve is tuned for noise performance, at the expense of CPU temps. By using it on another board, it no longer is limited to roughly 60% PWM, like it would be on an actual Dell system. So the results are basically invalidated for two reasons.
Running an x58 motherboard + 6 core 2.93 ghz Xeon x5670 in a early 2000's Antec full atx case with one 80 mm fan and the Intel stock cooler. It idles at 70c and sounds like a jet engine. Gonna have free heat in my guest house this Winter.
I have the Gammaxx 200T and it cools quite well i7 from 3-4 generations (the CPUs are being used in stock). The cooler is quite flimsy, but if you are careful it performs great for the price.
My artist gf chimed in about product design on the fans, as the colour blue suggests cool, calming, and trustworthy operation. You can do some really cool just playing with colours on products.
Keep in mind this is on an open air test bench if anyone actually was thinking of buying one of these, just get the budget option tried and true "Cooler Master Hyper 212" instead.
I got a Be Quiet Pure Rock cpu cooler for my prebuilt around $30-40 and it's been fantastic. Haven't seen any reviews for it, but it works wonderfully and it's well quiet the acoustics are much lower than the intel e waste that my PC came with.
Been using the Gamma archer on an intel pentium gold G5400 and it stays below 60°c even on heavy load it also cools the board/ram with a large airflow also blue is quite eye-catching but the fan can get quite noisy. 9/10 would recommend
I have that Gammax 200t. Its on a i5 2500k running at 4.6ghz pulling 1.38 vcore. Ive always loved that little 13 dollar cooler, been rocking it in my older PC builds for a while.
Nice video, I had to replace my HP Omen stock cooler with a cheap BeQuiet2 which worked a treat. I do think the temp results would be slightly different if mounted in a case as the tower cooler can be positioned to blow out the case where-as all the other coolers just blow hot air down on the motherboard within the case, recirculating the hot air which would add to the tower coolers overall winning position
Was the surprise guest cooler at the end stripped from a Boeing 737 or 777? Goes to show that a decent design+fan doesn't have to break the budget for great cooling solutions!
Got the deal of the year when I bought 5 AMD Wraith Stealth coolers for 6€ each for my LED light project. worked amazing, cools more than good enough at 8V so there's hardly any audible noise.
I have a kitted out Dell optiplex 3090 with six fans in it. I come from a time when having a lot of fans on your computer was cool. In my opinion, the hum it makes is absolutely amazing.
@@AS-zq2cq there is an ID cooling one as well for 65-70 rgb, same performance as the cooler master, i think its the master liquid v2 rgb variant you are talking about.
I picked up an interesting cooler recently for an ITX build. It's a vetroo V3 92mm tower cooler. Cutest little thing but i put it on a Ryzen 2200G and it barely broke 50C on AIDA64
Tip: Buy a used Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. Literally just got one for 20 bucks from a friend and i couldnt be happier. Not to mention that you can upgrade to a much more powerful CPU down the road and not care about cooling. On the other hand, the DeepCool Gamma Archer and the Arctic Horse coolers surprised me. From my experience, those kinds of coolers perform about as well as the intel stock cooler (not good) but maybe thats because im working with older parts that let out more heat.
saw the arctic cooler in the intro, guessing that one is gonna win before watching the video edit: saw the deepcool after the sponsor, i may have been wrong
That Dell cooler probably costs about $2USD, around $0.50 for the aluminum, $1 for an 80MM fan, $0.50 for other corporate garbage. This is my best guess XD
When you showed the guest surprise cooler I laughed so much but then got very impressed by it and now I don't know what to do with myself I am speechless as to how it got those temps.
The reason the tower finished so far ahead isn't because it's a tower, it's because it's the only one here with actual heat pipes and not just a milled block of aluminium with a bunch of bent fins radiating out. I suppose it's going to be difficult to find budget top down coolers with heatpipes, but if they exist they're going to finish similarly well and might even cool surrounding components like the VRMs better than a tower would.
That 200T deep cool cooler has been around 20 dollars since at least 2016. Used in my FX-6300 gaming system which I built in 2016 which happened to be my first gaming PC. But a really capable cooler. I ran a 4.4 ghz OC on my 6300 for years and it never got crazy hot like those FX chips liked to do. If my memory serves me correctly it never got hotter than 70c which back then was relatively cool for an AMD chip of that Era lol
PC cooler makes some weird stuff. They make aftermarket GPU coolers for lower power GPUs, PcCooler K80/K81/K90/K91. I think they might be interesting things for you to review!
I remember my first, unexpected, very good cooler for an Intel processor. After changing the processor to the i7 4790k, I didn't have a cooler for it, so I installed the one I had from the i5 4440, which turned out to be a mistake in terms of temperatures. Having nothing else for this soclet, and no money, I dug out an old computer cooler for socket 775, with a set of fins almost three times higher, and a full copper core (those were the times when the fan did not reach its legs to the board while holding the radiator, but when the radiator had four metal legs and the fan fastened to the radiator with two latches). I don't know what processor it came from, but it was a typical factory cooler, only much taller. Of course, the mount from 775 did not fit 1150, but I came to the conclusion that the plates holding the mointing clasps were too long so I would try to enlarge the hole in them. So I dismantled the clips, used a saw to cut the holes completely outwards so that now the cooler legs resemble a two-finger fork, I put the clips on and in this way I received an efficient cooler that fits from the 775 stand to even the 1200 (I haven't tried it on the 1700 yet) which allowed me to run without any problems 4790k until I bought a tower cooler and now it is waiting in the drawer when I have something for diagnostics, or as a solution in the meantime, e.g. water cooling is under complaint. Of course, it does not keep up with the new 200+W processors, but when using them without overclocking at the base clock, it allows you to use a computer that otherwise will stand waiting for another cooling solution.
I'm not surprised the Dell cooler is able to compete, but I am surprised at where it placed. Stock coolers are SO underrated. They tend to actually do perfectly fine in a normal case, it's just that the cases prebuilts use have like no airflow. Of course, if you had a super hot running CPU, no stock cooler for you, but I've used everything from like AMD Phenom quad-cores to i5's (so max power draw of I think 95W) and they all did fine with stock coolers. By fine, I mean they didn't ever hit their max temps under load, and thus didn't throttle. What stock coolers lack in metal, they tend to make up for in raw fan speed, so a cheaper way to achieve the same temperature result, albeit with much more noise. Bonus: If you're building something using the AM3 socket, totally recommend the stock coolers. You can get cheap $5 Chinese copies that perform the same, and then the 125W versions of the stock coolers are good too, because they're literally Wraith Prisms with smaller fans on them.
I have one of Arctic's cheaper coolers in an old Athlon 64 X2 build I have lying about, along with a matching... 90mm exhaust fan. They are both nice and quiet, I do like those and they look nice matching.
I have a Deepcool Ice Blade 200M that is exencially the same tower as that Gammax 200T but has dual 92mm fans with it. Used it with my Phenom II X4 965 BE and then my Ryzen 5 1600X both at around 3.9ghtz all cores . Worrked well even with overclocking either cpu. Replaced it with the much bigger Deepcool Lucifer K2 just to get more comfortable temps on the Ryzen system. Debating on installing it back on the Phenom II or HP Envy Phoenix I7-4770K system. The Ice Blade 200M has about $15 CAD when I bought it and impressed me enough that I went a Deepcool RF120M Case Fan 5 pack as well when I got the Lucifer K2 and needed to replace the case fans in my system at a fair price. ($55 for the Lucifer K2 and about $45 for the RF120M 5 pack at the time)
1:29 why does the one in the middle remind me of the Intel Stock Cooler Edit: After watching him testing it, it is basically a Intel Stock Cooler. Also enjoyed the Dell cooler return.
i wish i had this knowledge before souping up an optiplex. went with a $15 “alseye” rgb cooler from amazon to cool the 2600k in there. made my own mounting system. it performs okay for a system that doesn’t make any sense.
I think Dawid just likes saying "Linode." That they sponsor him is the cherry on top
Linoooooooooooode
Laaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinooooooood
He needs to add a creepy whisper "liiiinuuuuuuuuuud" version
That's why they sponsor him
"When a woman is attracted to a man, she speaks in a higher pitch than she does normally"
The girl I like: LINOOOOOOODE....
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@@cheebsgod linude
I'm actually looking at cheap CPU coolers for a build I had planned. This couldn't have come at a perfect time xd
Just go with a gammax Gte v2 or any deepcool gammax
Please, take the extra coin and get the noctua nh12s redux! You'll get this below 50$ and the performance is just out of this world!
@@jason04112 I actually found some chinese seller with a twin tower 90mm cooler, but I am a bit sus of the shop
@@F4mouzzZTheRaper I actually found a great deal on a used one for like 40, but I will most likely be cooling a 65w tdp cpu lol
theres some chinese brand that pretty famous like ID cooling, Aigo (i think this one has dual tower cooler at cheap)
"oh come one the dell cooler can't be that bad"
*hears the noise test*
"wow that sounds like a 747 on takeoff roll"
still quieter than my two-usb 80gb PS3
Oh come one come all?
@@EvilTurkeySlices get those fans swapped out. 🤣
The "CO" in the name of Arctic Alpine 12 CO cooler stands for "Continuous Operation", so for 24/7 use.
There is a cheaper version with white fan (non CO fan), like literally -1€ :D
Yeah they seem to make a whole bunch of different versions of that cooler. I got the CO one coz I could find it at a local shop and didn't have to actually buy it on Amazon. 😅
Having used both CO and non-CO versions in a 24/7 server for over a year, both are fine.
So they pay you to keep it?
@@Fay7666 they're fine for the first year,let us know how much longer one of the fans takes to fail
@@ffwast if the non CO fan actually fail under like 3 years or something like that, i would say that is some stupidly low quality fan
even random intel stock cooler fan or even just random case fan can last more than 6 years in my experience until they going slower since not enough lubrication but that's an easy fix
The Deepcool Gammaxx 400, one of the absolute best budget coolers out there, is $19 right now on Amazon US. I know it's not a fair fight because that's a deep discount while the PCCooler blue square turdface is always $10 or whatever, but anyone either building or rocking anything from this video in a mid-tower right now should be aware of that price.
Agree Gammaxx 400 is a great budget cooler. I paid $24 on Amazon, which was still a deal. It is also shorter than a Hyper 212 if you want a tower cooler with limited case height.
I double that. Gammaxx 300 is a solid choice too and should be around 20 w/o a discount, used to cool my 4+ ghz fx6300 very good.
just buy a mugen5 for $50 and be done with it.
@@mongoosemcmongoose2786 why spend x3 when you can spend x7 by buying Noctua NH-U12A, amrite?
Oh damn! That is a really good price. The budget cooler space is very competitive.
I feel like that shirt was made just for me... ha
Hey timmy. I hope you're doing well :)
Hey Tim! Hope you've been feeling good and doing well.
Good to see you in the comments ^_^ Hope you are well.
Hope your doing well Timmy
Hahaha mayyybe. But let's just say you are not the only one who struggles to say his name ;)
"Cause blue means cool, I guess?"
And Intel took that personally
The best budget air cooler is the snowman in my opinion, 4 copper tubes, really good cooling performance and its $15 for the single fan and $20 for the dual fan version.
That's if you can get one.
I bought one from aliexpress, they sent me the single fan 4 heatpipe version when I ordered the dual fan 6 heatpipe version. Seller wouldn't cooperate, ali gave me a partial refund.
I bought another one from a different seller, they sent me the right one this time but it was completely destroyed. the fan was cracked and there was a big dent in the middle of the bottom of the cooler (where it contacts the CPU) so it's not really usable because you can't get proper contact.
I gave up and bought a Wovibo cooler, which cost a little bit more, but also has a shit ton of RGB if you like that, and it was actually packaged properly and I was sent what I had ordered. Very good performance for the money. Can be a bit difficult to install sometimes but can't complain for the £23 GBP I paid for it.
@@yotoprules9361 yeah the shipping is a problem, they never secure a package.
@@Cazman1989 its probably more feasable for chinese / asian purchases. international seems to be full of damaged products that arrive when it comes to cheaping out on packaging with cpu coolers in particular
@@mikeymaiku its the way they handle shipping, when the product gets to the warehouse for storage they literally just dump it in storage, the don't bother sorting packages because of the volume so they just throw it in there and it lands somewhere and something lands on top of it and that's how it goes, they don't really take care, but that's if you use standard shipping, if you go for the premium it is taken care of, but premium costs range from $30 to a $150.
No way! That sounds awesome. I'll go check it out.
15s in everything looks better than a dell stock cooler.
EDIT: Booing at guest appearance.
to be fair, the dell cooler *did* do well.
@@curvingfyre6810 WHAT?!? I CAN'T HEAR YOUR COMMENT OVER THE ROARING NOISE OF THE DELL COOLER.
@@curvingfyre6810 only because the fan was running at 100%.
Deepcool are up to 400 version of their tower with RGB fan for £18, but they also do a 120mm AIO for £39
Considering that Dell has been using that cooler for over a decade... I imagine they have a warehouse full of them like that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, they could have cost like .50 cents a pop.
Those are more recently made. Stock coolers from 3rd and 4th gen intel Optiplexes are much beefier.
@@HarmonyEdge They've been using the shorter ones just as long, they just used them in SFF and USFF systems. The MT got the beefier cooler up until the 40 series when they went to the smaller chassis. If only they use the XE2 heatsink in everything. Those weren't half bad.
glad you do all the budget stuff.
hope you're well dawid
Thanks! I am doing well. I hope the same for you. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff how's your back after the chair fiasco
Considering that Zalman was a premium cpu cooler leader in the industry before cpu cooling became a hobby for most pc enthusiasts I'm not surprised their lowest end cooler still performs with acceptable results for a oem replacement.
It's also good to see the gamix tower from deep cool is the best for under 20.
Great video.
A note about that tower cooler: I put one on a Core 2 quad Q9650 machine I owned two years ago, and it did admirably. That same cooler, CPU, and motherboard are presently living in a new tower in a friend's business office, running 24 hours a day, and the cooler fan is still working fine. I think it's probably the best inexpensive cooler out there.
Yeah Deepcool is solid. I used their coolers (higher end ones than these) in my builds and it's great. Their "GamerStorm" sub-brand is also pretty good (thermal paste and whatnot)
id love to see these compared with something a little more expensive like a hyper 212 or something
I'd put money on the 212 blowing them out of the water. Its fin stack is much larger and it has proper copper heatpipes.
@@MisterFribble wouldnt be surprised if expensive cooler beat cheap cooler
@@MisterFribble sure a more expensive cooler will be better, but how much better is the real question. If it's 2.5x the price and only 5C better then there is an arguement for buying the cheaper product if on a budget.
It's all relative
Gammaxx 400 is similar or better than the classic hyper 212
As a non-cooler expert, it's really helpful to hear the compare/contrast of different mounting styles and hardware. Nice video.
The best sub £20 air cooler i bought and i'm still using it, is an Antec A40 Pro. Tbh, i would say it's on par with the Hyper 212 although it's cheaper.
The Gammaxx 200T is a hidden gem in my book, performance and noise levels being impressive for the price. Used one with a mildly overclocked 2500k. 10/10 would recommend!
Dawid - Hey Dell, your cooler did ok.
Dell - WHAT?
That tower cooler seems to might be a good friend of mine!
i mean i expected the dell cooler to be loud but DANG THAT WAS LOUD
I've had great results with the Gammaxx tower coolers. The blue and red LED models I my preferred.
I used a V2 White with a 3950x for 2 months without any issues
Great video. It looks like that Deepcool tower cooler is pretty decent. For like $5 more there's a version with 4 heat pipes vs 2 which would presumably cool even better.
I don't know if you knew this Dawid but Zalman is still making their legendary copper tube cooler. $27 USD on Amazon. It might be the most unique looking cooler out there.
Oo agreed! I noticed it on Amazon and was intrigued by its design.
I've been pretty happy with DeepCool products. I use their RGB fans and higher end RGB air cooler in my gaming PC and the temps are great.
I love how you leaned into the fact that we've probably heard you say the word Linode so many times that Linode stops Linode like a word Linode Linode Linode Linode Linode in your ad Linode.
I bought a Zalman cooler, different than the one featured here , and it's fantastic. Has better temps than the previous cheapo cooler I had (Thermaltake UX100)
I have the arctic. I bought it not because it was cheap but because I needed a low profile cooler. Like really low profile. Less than 4 inches tall. It works perfectly. I’ve daily used it for gaming for the past 2 years. It actually cools similar to the noctua version for a good amount cheaper.
A friend and I were looking at starting a small PC building business so we invoiced a bunch of CPU cooler companies to give us a quote for some CPU coolers we could buy wholesale. One representative from a company I invoiced offered us 25 stock Intel coolers for $4.55/cooler.
That’s hella interesting! Thanks for commenting 😊
It's fine to take noise into account. Gamers Nexus always does Noise-Normalized Thermal tests, because noise is a big concern for a lot of people.
When he said he had another one I knew instantly what I wanted it to be. I’ve used a dell stock cooler my entire life. It’s Way louder then you would expect a fan to be, especially when it spins up all the way
I buy used coolers from the mid 2000s - 2010s because you can get a decent 6-heatpipe 120mm cooler for like $10
I've bought old Zalman coolers (CNPS 9900A/9700), fully copper ones
I replaced the stock cooler on my 9400F with a Be Quiet basic tower cooler. I think the biggest benefit was the reduction in noise. I think that was the rationale behind buying it as the temps weren't that bad with the Intel leaf blower.
I have a similar Arctic cooler in my case for an AM4 socket. My fan is much quieter than yours, subjectively admittedly. I have used several of these and all are quieter than what you show. Artic case fans tend to be quiet and long lasting as is the Alpine series and AC does honor the 6 year warranty. Which i seriously doubt the others would do. Also due to the down draft of this style of low profile cooler, they have the added benefit of cooling the VRM. And it does amke a difference.
"Starting off with the Pc Cooler cooler" had me laughing 😆
The reason why the stock Dell cooler ran better than expected was because it has been used in a open case scenario. In Dell's prebuilts, there's not much airflow available for them to breath, hence the high temps.
I bought the tower cooler because of this video. Thanks Dawid!
On deep cool coolers you can twist those mounting pins like screws to get them out. Easier than making a lever with screwdriver and you do not risk of breaking them.
I think the dell cooler performed that well because it was the only one that had screws leading to more evenly spread force against the cpu heat spreader which propably lead to better heat antisipation
Had zalman quiet cooler back in the day, wicket cooler indeed used for over ten years.
I really liked this video, can you make another one comparing the gammax to popular coolers like the stock amd cooler and some other ones?
I was hoping that the Dell cooler would make its apperance, i was not disappointed, thank you Dawid!
The CO version of the Arctic cooler means it uses a ball bearing fan, hence why it is a little louder. CO stands for continuous operation, meant for always on reliability. The rest of the coolers all use either basic sleeve/rifle bearings, or fluid bearings (the Deepcool models).
As to the Dell cooler, it performed so well because the fan is insane (they used to be Deltas, but I can't say for sure that is what the one in the video is). That's why Dell hides the fan curve with it, because on their systems, the curve is tuned for noise performance, at the expense of CPU temps. By using it on another board, it no longer is limited to roughly 60% PWM, like it would be on an actual Dell system. So the results are basically invalidated for two reasons.
Ah yes, the biweekly dose of Linoooode. Thanks, Dawid.
I have the Gammax 300B cpu cooler. It was around 25$ when i bought it and it is doing a great job at keeping my i5 10400f cpu cool
Running an x58 motherboard + 6 core 2.93 ghz Xeon x5670 in a early 2000's Antec full atx case with one 80 mm fan and the Intel stock cooler. It idles at 70c and sounds like a jet engine. Gonna have free heat in my guest house this Winter.
I have the Gammaxx 200T and it cools quite well i7 from 3-4 generations (the CPUs are being used in stock). The cooler is quite flimsy, but if you are careful it performs great for the price.
My artist gf chimed in about product design on the fans, as the colour blue suggests cool, calming, and trustworthy operation. You can do some really cool just playing with colours on products.
Yay, a new Dawid video! Let's have a cup of coffee and watch this.
Keep in mind this is on an open air test bench if anyone actually was thinking of buying one of these, just get the budget option tried and true "Cooler Master Hyper 212" instead.
Or a scythe fuma 2
I love how he says PC cooler cooler.
I got a Be Quiet Pure Rock cpu cooler for my prebuilt around $30-40 and it's been fantastic. Haven't seen any reviews for it, but it works wonderfully and it's well quiet the acoustics are much lower than the intel e waste that my PC came with.
I would love to see a comparison with the 212 and a arctic freezer 34
arctic isnt under $20
Now this, this is really interesting
Been using the Gamma archer on an intel pentium gold G5400 and it stays below 60°c even on heavy load it also cools the board/ram with a large airflow also blue is quite eye-catching but the fan can get quite noisy. 9/10 would recommend
I have the dell stock cooler from a new dell pc I got a bit ago and yes, it sounds like a jet turbine
Great video as always. Enjoyed the surprise guest.
I have that Gammax 200t. Its on a i5 2500k running at 4.6ghz pulling 1.38 vcore. Ive always loved that little 13 dollar cooler, been rocking it in my older PC builds for a while.
Nice video, I had to replace my HP Omen stock cooler with a cheap BeQuiet2 which worked a treat. I do think the temp results would be slightly different if mounted in a case as the tower cooler can be positioned to blow out the case where-as all the other coolers just blow hot air down on the motherboard within the case, recirculating the hot air which would add to the tower coolers overall winning position
GAMMAXX 200T is probably the best of the budget bunch. I'm currently using a GAMMAXX 400 as some others here and it's really good.
I have that exact arctic cooler on my 2400g. Works a treat
Was the surprise guest cooler at the end stripped from a Boeing 737 or 777? Goes to show that a decent design+fan doesn't have to break the budget for great cooling solutions!
Got the deal of the year when I bought 5 AMD Wraith Stealth coolers for 6€ each for my LED light project. worked amazing, cools more than good enough at 8V so there's hardly any audible noise.
I have a kitted out Dell optiplex 3090 with six fans in it. I come from a time when having a lot of fans on your computer was cool. In my opinion, the hum it makes is absolutely amazing.
There are alot of AIO cooler's on Amazon that are pretty decent for $40-$70 from 120-240
The ID cooling frostflow goes for $50 i think and its a 240mill, I saw some tests of it and its pretty good.
Arctic Liquid Freezer is the way to go. It even outperforms some higher end AIO's
Yeah there’s a coolermaster 240 AIO with RGB fans that goes for 80~ so
I’d say that’s some good value
@@AS-zq2cq there is an ID cooling one as well for 65-70 rgb, same performance as the cooler master, i think its the master liquid v2 rgb variant you are talking about.
@@felixklimm7225 yeah liquid freezer v2 goes for around a $100 and its one of the best on the market.
I picked up an interesting cooler recently for an ITX build. It's a vetroo V3 92mm tower cooler. Cutest little thing but i put it on a Ryzen 2200G and it barely broke 50C on AIDA64
Tip: Buy a used Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo.
Literally just got one for 20 bucks from a friend and i couldnt be happier. Not to mention that you can upgrade to a much more powerful CPU down the road and not care about cooling.
On the other hand, the DeepCool Gamma Archer and the Arctic Horse coolers surprised me. From my experience, those kinds of coolers perform about as well as the intel stock cooler (not good) but maybe thats because im working with older parts that let out more heat.
saw the arctic cooler in the intro, guessing that one is gonna win before watching the video
edit: saw the deepcool after the sponsor, i may have been wrong
That Dell cooler probably costs about $2USD, around $0.50 for the aluminum, $1 for an 80MM fan, $0.50 for other corporate garbage. This is my best guess XD
You should do the next price bracket, like a comparison of several $50 air coolers
Got the 200T for my mega power Intel Quad q9400 pc . Works great 30 deg C decrease from stock Intel .
When you showed the guest surprise cooler I laughed so much but then got very impressed by it and now I don't know what to do with myself I am speechless as to how it got those temps.
The reason the tower finished so far ahead isn't because it's a tower, it's because it's the only one here with actual heat pipes and not just a milled block of aluminium with a bunch of bent fins radiating out. I suppose it's going to be difficult to find budget top down coolers with heatpipes, but if they exist they're going to finish similarly well and might even cool surrounding components like the VRMs better than a tower would.
The arctic is my backup "just run idle" backup cooler.
Got a HEAVY overkill cpu cooler on my 10400F right now.
43c MAX with the Alpenfohn Olymp twin tower dual 140mm.
That 200T deep cool cooler has been around 20 dollars since at least 2016. Used in my FX-6300 gaming system which I built in 2016 which happened to be my first gaming PC. But a really capable cooler. I ran a 4.4 ghz OC on my 6300 for years and it never got crazy hot like those FX chips liked to do. If my memory serves me correctly it never got hotter than 70c which back then was relatively cool for an AMD chip of that Era lol
Nowadays you can find a number of tower coolers for around 20 bucks, and a few of them are pretty good too.
PC cooler makes some weird stuff. They make aftermarket GPU coolers for lower power GPUs, PcCooler K80/K81/K90/K91. I think they might be interesting things for you to review!
I remember my first, unexpected, very good cooler for an Intel processor. After changing the processor to the i7 4790k, I didn't have a cooler for it, so I installed the one I had from the i5 4440, which turned out to be a mistake in terms of temperatures. Having nothing else for this soclet, and no money, I dug out an old computer cooler for socket 775, with a set of fins almost three times higher, and a full copper core (those were the times when the fan did not reach its legs to the board while holding the radiator, but when the radiator had four metal legs and the fan fastened to the radiator with two latches). I don't know what processor it came from, but it was a typical factory cooler, only much taller. Of course, the mount from 775 did not fit 1150, but I came to the conclusion that the plates holding the mointing clasps were too long so I would try to enlarge the hole in them. So I dismantled the clips, used a saw to cut the holes completely outwards so that now the cooler legs resemble a two-finger fork, I put the clips on and in this way I received an efficient cooler that fits from the 775 stand to even the 1200 (I haven't tried it on the 1700 yet) which allowed me to run without any problems 4790k until I bought a tower cooler and now it is waiting in the drawer when I have something for diagnostics, or as a solution in the meantime, e.g. water cooling is under complaint. Of course, it does not keep up with the new 200+W processors, but when using them without overclocking at the base clock, it allows you to use a computer that otherwise will stand waiting for another cooling solution.
Seeing a Gammax tower cooler in the box with a bunch of downdraft slug coolers and I know where i'm putting my money even before the ad break.
I'm not surprised the Dell cooler is able to compete, but I am surprised at where it placed. Stock coolers are SO underrated. They tend to actually do perfectly fine in a normal case, it's just that the cases prebuilts use have like no airflow. Of course, if you had a super hot running CPU, no stock cooler for you, but I've used everything from like AMD Phenom quad-cores to i5's (so max power draw of I think 95W) and they all did fine with stock coolers. By fine, I mean they didn't ever hit their max temps under load, and thus didn't throttle.
What stock coolers lack in metal, they tend to make up for in raw fan speed, so a cheaper way to achieve the same temperature result, albeit with much more noise.
Bonus: If you're building something using the AM3 socket, totally recommend the stock coolers. You can get cheap $5 Chinese copies that perform the same, and then the 125W versions of the stock coolers are good too, because they're literally Wraith Prisms with smaller fans on them.
You should have used a cheap thermal paste like arctic mx2 ,that tube costs almost like one of these coolers :)
I was impressed by the little zalman cooler, it's not even the copper version
I've used zalman coolers for ages, the copper 6 heatpipe versions
He's got kurzgesagt posters in the background, its really cool to see another fan of that channel!
I have one of Arctic's cheaper coolers in an old Athlon 64 X2 build I have lying about, along with a matching... 90mm exhaust fan. They are both nice and quiet, I do like those and they look nice matching.
Other manufacturers: "We need to make it more quiet while not compromising the performance."
Dell: "LEAF BLOWER!"
Should’ve documented the fan speeds, I would’ve loved to see those for a true comparison. That aside, awesome vid, and lol @ the Dell jet engine.
I bought the gamaxx 200t for my wife's pc which has a 10400f. It keeps it cool.
The dell cooler he’s using is at max rpm, my same cooler at home is barely loud and really silent, also seems to have good performance
I have a Deepcool Ice Blade 200M that is exencially the same tower as that Gammax 200T but has dual 92mm fans with it. Used it with my Phenom II X4 965 BE and then my Ryzen 5 1600X both at around 3.9ghtz all cores . Worrked well even with overclocking either cpu. Replaced it with the much bigger Deepcool Lucifer K2 just to get more comfortable temps on the Ryzen system. Debating on installing it back on the Phenom II or HP Envy Phoenix I7-4770K system. The Ice Blade 200M has about $15 CAD when I bought it and impressed me enough that I went a Deepcool RF120M Case Fan 5 pack as well when I got the Lucifer K2 and needed to replace the case fans in my system at a fair price. ($55 for the Lucifer K2 and about $45 for the RF120M 5 pack at the time)
That 200t dual pipe cooler has literally been doing work on this media pc Ive had for about a decade now haha.
1:29 why does the one in the middle remind me of the Intel Stock Cooler
Edit: After watching him testing it, it is basically a Intel Stock Cooler. Also enjoyed the Dell cooler return.
Gammax 200T by a mile... Had a gammax 400 which isn't much more expensive, but is an excellent cooler. Good Bang for the Buck!
_even now, idk lol imma just go and sort with price low to high and pick the first one as always_
quality content as usual, Dawid!
Can I recommend the $30 cooler master hyper 212 instead of any of these options?
Best performance for value, I've found
PCCooler has an amazing chassis fans, the 120mm Halo.
i wish i had this knowledge before souping up an optiplex. went with a $15 “alseye” rgb cooler from amazon to cool the 2600k in there. made my own mounting system. it performs okay for a system that doesn’t make any sense.