derek2esilent

• Pros:
  Shiny Base
  Comes in a box
  Cons:
  No Push/Pull
  Crappy
  Overpriced
  Cools Poorly
  Loud

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OpTicaL

What I find funny is all this bashing based on 1 review site and not a single one of you owns this cooler.

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ljason8eg

What has Zalman done with their coolers to make us believe that this one will be any different? Remember the 9900? That thing is terrible.

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iandh

I'm sorry, $80 for an air cooler is ridiculous no matter how good it is. I mean, you can put together a respectable watercooling setup with a 220 rad for $120 if you bargain shop.

The only saving grace for this cooler is the nifty built in fan controller, but even that is somewhat gimmicky IMO when any decent mobo has built in fan control, oftentimes with adjustable profiles.

gtarmanrob

lol you guys should try buying this stuff down here. my TRUE was like $90 or something.

i dont bother with all this lapping crap, mine works fine out of the box.

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OpTicaL

I don't know why you people think push/pull is a con when in fact it does virtually nothing to aid cooling.

They finally dropped the integrated fan and flower design and gave users the choice to replace a fan of their choosing. I say it's a step in the right direction albeit a late one.

That's like saying SSDs are expensive when they first launched.

This is a new cooler, it takes time for the price to settle. I wish they came out with a model without a fan to save a few bucks.

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videoman5

Push/Pull lowered my load by 5C, pretty respectable.

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Brutuz

Looks are subjective, I think my TRUE looks better since it doesn't have a tonne of plastic on the fan.

Actually, the Zalman F3 fans were quite good iirc.

I have no mods on my TRUE apart from the shroud (Which I had one laying around, so why not?) and it keeps my Phenom II x3 720 with this overclock under 30c, I'd like to see the Noctua do that.

The Xigmatek can't, I tried it.

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kaivorth

When prices settle, they settle like $5. Not $50 which this thing needs to "settle" on.
I owned a Zalman 9500, excellent cooler for it's time. This one isn't.

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sLowEnd

How are "Crappy" and "Cools poorly" any different?

Btw, this cooler isn't bad, just horrid for the price (like most other zalman coolers)

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