ARCTIC Alpine 64 GT - 80mm CPU Cooler Compatible with AMD, AM4, AM3(+), AM2(+), FM2(+), FM1, Ultra-Quiet CPU PWM Fan Cooler with Fluid Dynamic Bearing

I bought this for £8.50 to replace my two year old stock cooler and I'm delighted. The tech stuff Cheap Asus motherboard, an FX 6300 turbo boosted to 4.1Ghz (No overclocking. Manufacturer's boost technology). My stock AMD would get really whiny as the temperatures hit 70 degree mark, which was happening a lot during long gaming sessions and getting grating. This took me five minutes to install. It's pretty simple on an AMD board. The thermal paste is already applied, just be careful not to accidently remove it by touching the bottom of the heatsink! You need a star head or small flathead srewdriver to loosen one of the clamps. Clamp the stiff side on first. Then place the second clamp in place and tighten the screw til you are satisfied it's on sturdy. Plug in your fan. That's it. If you installed only a stock cooler in the past, this'll take you five minutes and you're good to go. Results? Even when running CPU stress tests such as Prime95, my CPU never goes above 64 degrees. The fan on the heatsink is quieter than my case fans. You may get some decent results with overclocking. It's not an option for me because I don't trust my motherboard won't fry. If you are thinking of major/extreme overclocking, look elsewhere. At more expensive options. It'll be worth the better results. This is a solid replacement for an AMD stock cooler. It cools better and is much more quiet. I highly recommend this to anyone using the AMD stock cooler currently. Even if you aren't too tech savvy. Watch a Youtube video on replacing AMD stock coolers, read the instructions to replace. 10 minutes work max. A great, cheap upgrade imho.

My 5 year old PC had become so noisy that it sounded like a plane was flying through my home whenever it had to do anything even slightly demanding such as playing an HD video. I knew it was the CPU fan so I replaced it with this one and it works brilliantly. It's silent even when under full load for several hours and it was easy to install even though it's the first time I've ever replaced this part. The temperatures are good too, around 28 idle and up to 73 under full load, usually levelling out around 65 degrees. For the low price you can't beat this and I think it's great even for heavy users such as myself who do hours of video encoding per week. My PC is now so quiet and cool I could even sleep in the same room as it which would have been impossible before.

This is probably one of the cheapest AM4 coolers from a known brand. If you've spent all your money on other items you could do worse than buying this - comparative to the standard AMD Wraith cooler (!) Using it with a Ryzen 2600 (65W) and works well - almost no noise but perhaps not for higher (Ryzen 1700/2700+ 95W) wattage. It is entirely made of aluminium, no copper whatsoever - and the base is a bit rough; it even has pre-applied MX4 so if you somehow don't have any paste then again you could do worse. Note that while it fits well in a not tall desktop mATX case (e.g. Silverstone Milo) it is still a big chunky and might just squeeze through. The fan is fine but due to non-standard mount if it dies you cannot just clip a new 92mm fan. But for the cost what can you expect? The biggest issue is that I absolutely hate the AM4 standard "plastic bracket" install - and I would not advise trying to "clip it on" as per instructions; best loosen the bracket screws, clip the cooler and then tighten them back. I tried the "recommended" install and broke the plastic mainboard clip! Even AMD has moved away from this with some of their coolers screwing directly onto the baseplate. Still for the price it seems great to me best use the money for that expensive DDR4 memory...

Fitted to a 95W TDP processor on a FM2+ motherboard, works fine. Main reason for the purchase was that although 'large' it didn't overlap any PCIe or RAM slots on the motherboard - something not all coolers adhere too. Ideal for a processor that is not going to be over-clocked. Interestingly this was the first cooler I could configure via the BIOS to run at 12% minimum loading, rather than the more common 25%. Unfortunately I decided that 25% was more sensible as the increase in noise is only really apparent when > 50%. Fitting was quite easy, just loop one hedge on and then slowly compress the other till attached. Loosen the two screws a bit first, especially the one you're going to hook last. When both hedges are attached, alternate slow tighten of the both screws. Not need for high tightness as the paste will spread a bit once the processor heats up. Chief benefit of this over the stock cooler is that the white fan indicate when the cooler needs cleaned and re-seated (the thermal paste can dry out after a few years). Frankly if you're on a budget - and not going to over-clock - and what to save £10 just use the stock fan and plan on replacement - with this one - within two or three years. -------------------------------------------- Review of the Alpine 11 for Intel CPU purchased Sept 17 I have an old computer that used the E8300 (65w) Cpu and upgraded to a Q8400 (95w). I initially tried using the old cooler with extremely poor results so purchased the >100w Alpine 11. I had also had my fill of the stock Intel Cooler design which is generally impossible to remove without pulling the motherboard - the plastic pins lose there elastically with time and can easily break. The Alpine 11 has a weird attachment and I found it best to ignore the instructions as the diagrams caused more puzzlement than actually looking at the attachment parts and working it out - actually simple you just have to make sure the get the direction of the two plastic holder correct, i.e. parallel with the VRM caps and usually the Ram slots. Performance with very impressive. I tested out of the box as I sure as heck didn't want to have to pull the motherboard out again. With all four cores fully loaded via CPU-Z software I got 56C at 20C ambient (CPU max is 70 with shutoff at 100). Really very good when you consider the CPU is about ten year old and cost the same as the cooler! Only odd thing was that in going for idle to max load the fan didn't seem to speed up noticeably nor was there much of a change in noise (which was very low, less than the PSU for sure). Frankly if it wasn't for the sheer hassle of removing old Intel coolers I would replace them all. It's not that cooling performance would be improved much, its the fact that the old cooler fans go slightly off-centre with age and cause old machines to be very loud (low pitch rumble)as the motherboard and consequently case act as a sound board. I also suspect sightly-off-centre vibration isn't doing old motherboards much good either. One more point, one of the plastic holders will have to fit over the VRM caps at the side of the CPU, if these caps are too high - say > 1cm - you will have a problem. However the bridging part doesn't seem to serve any purpose regards secure fitting and I suspect you can DIY remove with a cutter - if you're unlucky - and carry on fitting the two plugs sans bridge part. I suspect the bridge is there to spread stress loading when alternatively tighten the screws. Certainly I would consider the cutting option before sending the item back, esp. if you have had to pull the motherboard to get the old intel cooler off. Anyway I now have a ancient 4-core Intel CPU purchased for £9.80 that can easily cope with Microsoft Updater 10, which makes me one happy puppy! BTW: Note that CPU temperature sensors are only really accurate around the max point.

Produit de bonne qualité. très silencieux et s'adapte sans difficulté sur un processeur Athlon AMD. système de fixation inhabituel. bien lire la notice: il faut dévisser les vis sur le dessus avant d'approcher les deux pattes et revisser ensuite. le radiateur est recouvert de pâte thermique et protégé.Le connecteur possède 4 fils afin de contrôler la vitesse. Prix très raisonnable pour le résultat obtenu. je recommanderai ce produit sans hésiter.

Ottimo prodotto di casa Arctic che da qualche anno sta commercializzando una linea rinnovata ed estremamente valida di ventole e dissipatori. Veniamo ora a questo dissipatore, dedicato a chi del PC ne fa un uso normale e non si interessa di overclocking. Il modello 64 Plus è dedicato ai socket di casa AMD (installato su AM3 e FM2+) e grazie ai fermi regolabili con delle comode viti che vanno dapprima allentate per agganciarli alla mobo e successivamente strette, permettono di non correre rischi di danneggiamenti, visto che a differenza della controparte Intel, quello AMD è rimasto negli anni un aggancio un po' "rustico". In tema di performance, sono felice di affermare che questo dissipatore compie egregiamente il suo lavoro, ne ho comprati due, uno per un Phenom II 955 Black e l'altro per Athlon II x4 845 e devo ammettere che non solo è estremamente silenzioso rispetto al jet fornito da AMD, ma grazie alle generose (ma non troppo) dimensioni ed alla ventola da 90mm e del dissipatore stesso, riesce a mantenere una temperatura stabile ed inferiore al dissipatore OEM. Sono un installatore ed è oramai da un paio di anni che utilizzo principalmente prodotti Arctic, come ad esempio la meravigliosa pasta termica MX-4 e le ventole in formato 90/120/140 PWM o con termometro integrato, prodotti tutti caratterizzati da alte prestazioni e prezzo contenuto e che qui mi sento caldamente di raccomandarvi.

Elegí este ventilador para instalar en un equipo miniitx con una apu de AMD a10-7700K, pues con el disipador de fabrica tenia 40º en idle y 63º en full, y cuando pasaba de 50º el ventilador de 7cm de dicho disipador subía mucho de revoluciones y rugía como un avión. Por 10€que me costo estoy encantado. Tiene el tamaño justo, dejando espacio para instalar las dos pastillas RAM de altura normal, y la temperatura en idle se ha quedado en 32º y en full en 52º. Al tener el ventilador 2 cm mas de diámetro que el traía de serier va a muchas menos revoluciones y no se escucha lo mas mínimo. Es muy fácil de instalar, pues viene con la pasta térmica preaplicada y se ajusta a los ganchos de la placa. Si vas a hacer OC necesitaras algo mas potente, pero si no es asi y lo que quieres es mejorara de 5º a 10º las temperatura que tienes con el disipador de serie y sobre todo eliminar el ruido esta es una solución mas que eficaz y por unos módicos 10€!!!.

Ich wollte eigentlich nur meinen im täglichen Gebrauch befindlichen, alten LIDL- Compi von 2007 mit AMD Athlon AM-2 4800+ Prozessor etwas stärker aufrüsten. Während der Jahre davor hatte ich bereits n. u. n,. eine neuere "alte" Top- Grafikkarte Sapphire Radeon 4850, und mehr RAM, ein größeres Netzteil und zwei größere Festplatten eingerüstet. Der alte PC schien danach umso kraftvoller durchatmen zu können, eine deutliche (!) Leistungssteigerung war das Ergebnis! Gerade habe ich mehrere gebrauchte AMD- Athlon AM-2 5600*+ gekauft, um den lt. "Windows 7- Leistungsindex" schwächsten Faktor des Systems voranzutreiben, nämlich den Prozessor. Da der neue 5600-er+ Doppel- Kern nominell ein 6-stel mehr leistet, und auch dementsprechend mehr Hitze produziert, entschloss ich mich zum Kauf dieses Kühlelementes von "ÄLPEIN"! Der Aluminium- Kühlkörper ist gewichts- und flächenmäßig um einiges größer als das Original, genauso wie das Schaufelrad des Lüfters. Dafür ist die Drehzahl des Propellers um einiges niedriger. Folglich ist die Geräuschreduzierung im Betrieb im Vergleich zu vorher auch deutlich hörbar. Mein alter Athlon- X2- 64 PC ist im Betrieb um geschätzt 30% leiser geworden. Ein super Lüfter mit filigranem Alu- Kühlkörper, mit vor- aufgetragener Wärmeleitpaste, zu einem unschlagbar fairen Preis. Sehr empfehlenswert, das Teil! Nachklapp: Der Original- Kühler auf meinem Ahtlon - X2- 4800+ Prozessor war ein Alpine 64-Pro Lüfter mitAlu- Kühlkörper, mit 27 Kühlrippen, und per Meßschieber gemessenen errechneten 1734 cm² Kühlfläche. Der bessere Arctic Alpine 64-Plus hat einen Kühlkörper mit 33 Kühlrippen und 1965 cm² Kühlfläche, zusammen mit seinem vergrößerten Lüfterrad mit mehr Propellerblättern. Die Kühlleistung sollte etwa geschätzt 20 % über dem Standard- Kühler von LIDL liegen! Da aber noch kein Prozessor wegen Frostbeulen den Geist aufgegeben hat, habe ich den Prozessorkühler schließlich durch einen massiven Arctic Freezer 13, auch von Alpine, ersetzt. Dieses Riesending, mit 5 Heatpipes und doppelt faustgroßem Wärmetauscher, hat wohl alle Hitzeprobleme des Prozessors dauerhaft beseitigt! Der Alpine 64 Plus kühlt heute, mit einem Eigenbau- Adapter gespannt, auf einem 478- Sockel einen P-4 2,8GHz Prozessor herunter. Und das sehr gut.

We are extremely happy with this product. After much painful testing, we learned that the stock heat sink and fan was not working properly. Old unit caused the CPU to heat up to 70 degrees and shut down after about 10 minutes of use. This unit fit perfectly in my somewhat compact home theater case. My product choices were cut back due to size constraints (like the ones with the heat pipes were definitely a no go). The larger and higher rated fans would not have fit. But this product definitely did the job. After 24 hours of use, the CPU is still running at 40 degrees - to put that into perspective, my system temperature is at 44 degrees after 24 hours. Amazing that the CPU is cooler than the rest of the case. Even at 100% load, the hottest the CPU got was to 50 degreed, but it did touch 55 after prolonged load. It's also whisper quiet, which is great for a home theater PC. The stock fan was audible from across the room. This one is not audible at all, even at top speed, as my system fans (I have 4) are together louder than this fan will ever get. And you can't beat the price! I cannot speak to the durability of the product as I just installed it the other day. But it does not seem to be of poor quality. The hardware seems at least as good as the stock unit. I would definitely recommend this product. However, if you have a PC with poor ventilation that will routinely handle high CPU load, you may want to buy a better unit. My CPU did go over 50 with prolonged load. But since my PC is for home theater use, and the video and sound cards do all of the video and sound processing, it's extremely rare that the CPU will hit 80%+ load for more than a couple of seconds.