However, a disadvantage is the size:
- On the one hand dominated the 150mm fan in the middle of the double Towers the heatsink itself and meets with me to both the insulated side wall of the Towers (Silverstone ST-02) as well as to the graphics card on a ASRock X79 Extreme7 motherboard in which the graphics card already further from the CPU sits, as for example in some Gigabyte X79 motherboards. With a bit of violence can be the clips that hold the fan, bend a little, so that the fan is no longer pressed against the graphics card.
- The other limit of 140mm fan on the side of the double towers of the heatspreader of the RAM (RAM-bars have 4x). By removing the heatspreader fit then but. If required, but you can omit the 140mm fan, and only use the 150mm fan in the middle of the cooler, which still provides fairly good cooling.
It is good that the cooler is accompanied by a Y-cable that connects the two fans can be plugged into a single CPU fan connector on the motherboard, and so both can be automatically regulated depending on the CPU temperature.
Under full load the fan is clearly audible from the case, but have other than the fan noise no unpleasant noise. But a permanent load situation as under Prime tests comes in everyday rarer and then the fans are still very pleasantly quiet at lower RPM.
In total good Tower, but, although for X79 (Socket 2011) designed, but caused due to the size of multiple problems that I remove my case with heatspreader, motherboard with further removed graphics card slot and straighten something just could not solve. Due to the minor problems I subtract one point and admit concerns that the cooler for some combinations of tower, motherboard and graphics card is probably too large.
