I was very surprised when I unboxed this giant! My last build with the phenom 2 1100t used a Cooler Master n520 and this is bigger still. Manufactured with top-quality materials and very solid. Cools my CPU as well as I'll ever need it to! I surely would've used this baby before had I known how well it performed. Although it does cost a pretty penny, I believe that you get what you pay for, and skimping when it comes to cooling your CPU isn't the area to go cheap. One thing they need to improve is the thermal paste. It's very hard to spread and caused me problems until I re-applied new paste (arctic silver) and it hasn't skipped a beat since. They need to just not include it or include better paste because when u spend 70 bucks for a air cooler, you'd expect all that is included with it to be of good quality. Really, that's my only complaint. I'll be using this one from now on for all of my builds that require air cooling!