I ordered this fan as I did with Arctic generally good experiences and the floor could not cope with the cooler condition of the warm summer. The fan was so hardly arrived unpacked. The heatsink is already provided with the fan and for the AM3 and AM3 + socket means when installing down once fans because that is really the way otherwise. Then you have bolts on the terminals and is then kept the heat sink and the whole thing with voltage, ie left of the slot to hook one wing and also to have the right, then to get into the correct position and lock is already a little adventure, that can take up to ten minutes.
For true performance, in operation up to 50 ° C and that is for a CPU perfectly okay, idling the temperature reaches about 40 to 43 ° C
Who rest in the installation and is sent should not shy, the other should consider whether it perhaps can give to a buddy through a bit annoying fumbling not who does it for you. Otherwise, super fan, good price