We paid $3 for shipping as it was a combo deal when we bought it (combo with other items). It is a variable shipping cost based on deals on AliExpress and other items you're buying in the same order / from the same seller, which spreads cost. There are often multiple sellers for this cooler. Find our cooler reviews playlist here! ruclips.net/video/iRe8zVCjCNw/видео.html Now for the obvious note: Shipping is a consideration given that it'd be coming from AliExpress, but we can't accurately review shipping cost for all the different regions and it can often get bundled in with other items for 'free' shipping. Either way, if shipping is enough to push it towards the $15 mark, there are a ton of competitive options and shipping heavily influences value there. Learn about our CPU cooler testing methodology here: ruclips.net/video/fmTOJP4KOyk/видео.html
Both of my builds are Jonsbo cases! Top spec inside when I built them, they make some amazing cases. One is ATX the other ITX. Both amazing quality and definitely not "boring" tower cases (TR03 is a chonky boy but so unusual! 🤩) *Edit for spelling
Which means gamers are some of the biggest suckers when it comes to extracting surplus value from them. People will religiously defend brands, prices, jumping to conslusions about R&D costs, expensive materials, you name it... Just look at Digital F*undry and their privileged early access to products and features. It used to be called 'access journalism' and everyone knew you can throw independence out of the window when it comes to that. You can't be really honest and expect a company to keep inviting you to take a look before anyone else. So do gamers call them out for that? Hell no, "channel make shiny videos on shiny features, me like! gotta buy myself 🤤"
@@RR-gx4ec Gamers are the absolute lowest of the low in the entire entertainment industry. A heroin addict has higher standards for his cheap back alley heroin than the average gamer does of a triple-A $70 game. GPUs, naturally part of the gaming industry, also get ridiculous price hikes because it's been proven that the braindead morons that pre order trash bottom of the barrel games are also happy to pay $800 for a GPU that should cost no more than $299.
@@RR-gx4ec Nah, not just gamers, basically every industry has people like this. Car companies, clothing industry, even furniture manufacturers prey on people buying stuff that doesn't cost even half of what they claim it does.
For 3 bucks, I'd be content with it even making it to my doorstep in the first place. Seems like this could be a steal for a low-power budget build of some kind.
@@FAT9L Yeah. My old nhd-15 and dark rock pro 4 air coolers were over $100 ( AUD) each so this thing being like $5 AUD or less is a steal. My liquid cooler.. Well let's not mention the price of it 😂.
Not sure if someone has commented this yet, but the Jonsbo CR1200 is usually bundled "for free" with "tray" CPUs in my local market (Indonesia). Same goes for its brother the 4 heat pipe Jonsbo CR1400. They basically serve the same segment as stock coolers but with a bit more flair.
@@ahmadrizkihidayat5139 Guess this is an inside joke for you and yours alone eh :( Feels a bit rude, commenting in another language on a video produced in English for an English-speaking audience.
tbh it's a pretty good way to do budget gaming. This price diff could bump someone up from something like an 10th gen i3 to a 13th gen i3 -massive real world difference in performance compared to if they went with a regular priced cooler
Why would spending $3 to test a fan that turned out to be adequate, be more fun than spending $7000 to test a prebuilt that turned out to be less than adequate? Oh no wait, I think I get it.
@@GamersNexus At 14:20 Beautiful helper.... Who is the cute thing that was helping demonstrate your silicone mod mat?? She is cute!! (Guessing she, since it appears to be a pastel calico....calicos are always female, unless messed-up genetics are involved.)
I have used this cooler several times for older platforms and it just gets the job done while looking decent. Can't complain. For higher powered budget builds I usually use the Raijintek Themis II since it usually goes for lower than 20 euros in my country and seems to be the best value in that price bracket. I'd love to see a review of that cooler!
The 30-35 USD (in my country) HX6240 and HX6250 claims its support to a TDP* of 250W, which I doubt. Would like to see if the claims are true, although IIRC each CPU manufacturer calculates TDP in their own diff ways.
I love these videos giving a chance to unknown/ less popular brands. Also, its really cool to see case mods and different solutions to common problems in computer land. I did a case mod and it ended up awesome in the looks department and really efficient (improving airflow in an "aquarium" case).
Gotta remember the cost of shipping. A lot of products will be listed for $2~4, but have $10~15 shipping, because it makes it more appealing at a glance in the search than a $17 item with free shipping, especially when you need to click the product to see the cost of shipping.
Exactly and if you select free shipping the base price go to 18 or 20$. They might got a discounted shipping when ordering multiple items from same seller but still cant call it a 3$ cooler its just clickbait title.
Jonsbo has some decent products, especially their cases; I was recently looking at their VR3 case (which is a Meshroom S derivative) and it looks fairly promising
11:09 I do love the relative simplicity of the AMD mounting system - not having to worry about having proper tension or keeping to a specific tightening pattern, but at the same time, that clip mechanism is a PITA to work with a lot of them time.
True, those clip mechanisms are annoyingly fiddly, but at the same time they can be toolless and I guess all those other methods are a large part of why soo many used AM4 mainboards lack the brackets or even the backplates.
Those circular adapter brackets seem to be extremely common. I've seen them bundled with cheap chinese coolers and salvage motherboards. The actual cooler itself seems to be designed to mount to the stock AMD mounts and that ring's purpose is to adapt that clamp to intel sockets.
As this HSF would work fine on AM5, AM4, AM3, AM2, S939, S754, FM1, FM2, it would seem the path of least resistance and cost. A stock design that literally did not change for over a decade and still works today (well enough anyway) with sunk costs paid some time ago it seems prudent to use it one more time. The intel ring adapter is also a cheap proven and good enough solution that this HSF would be good enough for IDK the entire S115x range, going back to the 1st 'i' series intel chips.
Keep these great cooler videos coming Steve besides being highly informative to people trying to save a buck or two one their build the videos are very enjoyable. Thank you Steve.
The Cooler Master Hyper/ Blizzard T2 has an interesting heat-pipe trick. It has two heat-pipes but they are installed upside down, so the contact area is four heatpipes wide.
I would like to see the ID Cooling SE 214 XT tested, it seems to perform pretty well for the price and is a very noticeable noise level improvement over AMD stock coolers.
With them clip style coolers for the modern AMD sockets I found it easiest to first loosen the screws and take out the retention bracket mount the cooler to the retention bracket by clipping it then lower the whole thing back on to the CPU and back plate then tighten it back down. Makes it a lot easier and less risk and stress on the socket and/or CPU.
And don't forget: new old motherboard (like h61, h55, h81) still for sale Usually chinesium mobo rebranded to local brand. Brazil, Indonesia, India, are some of biggest market for chinesium motherboard. Chipset said from e waste pull
I'd love to see more budget coolers. More specifically, the ID-cooling SE-214-XT which is nearly identical in price and has many design similarities. Their dual tower cooler is worth a look as well.
i second ID-cooling. i was making an HTPC based athlon 3000G server for HomeAssistant(python based smart home server). bought a cheap SFF case together with picoPSU and IS-30 from ID-cooling as it was the lowest profile that I had found (30mm of height!). for something like 22eur. it is very silent and powerful comparing it's size.
Oh that silicon mat! That's honestly EXACTLY what I've been looking for to use for making my models/doing clay work! It's big, can be used for organising, and silicon, which is so much easier to clean! When I've got the money for it, I'll definitively look into getting it!
I use one of their HX6250 coolers on a 5900x and its a beast, better performance than coolers that cost twice as much. Would definitely buy their stuff again in future.
The Jonsbo CR-1200 is also available for as little as 6$ (with free shipping) domestically. It also has a 92mm (edit: confusing naming led to some misinformation) variant called CR-1400 which is sold at more or less the same price.
@@bladeoflucatiel Idk perhaps they primarily sell to prebuilt vendors and then excess warehouse stock is just shipped out for a dime to maintain a steady cashflow and goods? Maybe just for brand recognition marketing? It can be very tough to pinpoint why exactly a product exist at its given price range, especially in the extremes of ultra inexpensive/expensive. In my experience some of the worse offenders are the ultra expensive ones, like I saw a 3080 10gb sitting at a shelf for literally 2.5k usd (converted). That thing would not sell in a thousand years, yet it just sits collecting dust and taking up precious space. Why? Nobody knows, I bet not even the people selling it are aware of its existence lol.
@@bladeoflucatiel snowman the cooler of choice for low cost build has been selling at this price for ages, jonsbo just have better sales network, so they can replicate that price universally
Are you sure about that? The product page says it's a 92mm cooler for the CR-1400. Even the official Jonsbo product page says 92mm. I don't understand why this is getting upvoted so much when it is just factually wrong. But on pricing/domestic availability, that's helpful to know - thanks for pointing that out!
after seeing the pressure test results, I started wondering: would lapping the cooler to improve its flatness make a noticeable difference in performance? Iv heard of cpu lapping, but not cooler lapping. Curious to see if it would improve anything, on a cooler this cheap the extra work might be worth it haha
I seem to see the heat pipes sticking out from the cold plate and if this is so, it would not help to lap the cold plate without thinning the heat pipe walls to a questionable degree.
@@richardgarrett2792 Lapping can take off an incredibly small amount of material. It can be done and have benefits. That said, the poor pressure map was not due to flatness as much as the mounting mechanism. At least, that's my understanding.
@@richardgarrett2792 Would be interesting to see how flat someone COULD get it before the heat pipe rips open or close the gap with some aluminum foil.
Some overclockers used to (probably still do) lap both cpu and cooler. Though generally people usually just use a well known, good cooler and only have lapped the cpu when necessary. I personally do neither.
Thank you for looking at budget (and cheaper) items. It is great that your content can span the wide number of price points, so all DIY enthusiasts can make choices that are good for their budget.
Was going to get this for my dream PC build, but then it went up to $2.96 due to inflation, which would shatter my budget. I am once again denied by limitless corporate greed.
Right now they have on sale the Aigo ICE 200 PRO, it is basically the same design but without the top cover and static RGB. The cooler is around 5 USD but to be able to pay that price you have to buy another two items, which you can get for 2USD each. You'll end up paying 9 USD but free shipping is guaranteed by geting 3 items so i think is totally worth it. Got mine to replace the Wrath Spire of my R5 1600 (that one still has the copper vapor chamber) and my temps dropped 10 degrees.
As a matter of fact im still running a system that is constantly up(with semiannual maintenance to remove the dust) for 14 years on socket 1156 (i7 870), and been constantly upgrading that computer over the last decade, neither MB nor CPU specs mention it's capable of having 32GB of RAM because at the time the 8GB DDR3 sticks weren't mainstream yet. I enjoy building out older systems, and truly impressed mine didn't fail yet. Many of the systems i have are just headless linux servers doing their small things because they're still capable of running stuff, with the right setup and care.
It would be interesting to see how lapping the surface improved performance, if at all. 🤔 It could be part of a "small changes to budget things" series?
Potential Correction: I left a comment on a previous cooler review asserting the Spirit and Assassin X are not actually the exact same cooler. I do not believe the Assassin Spirit and Assassin X are essentially the same product. The X may have replaced the Spirit, but it is not a simple rename. Not only is the top of the fin stack different, but the heat pipe spacing through the fins is different, and the X appears to have around 45 fins while the Spirit has just over 50. The X is also 46mm wide while the Spirit is 48mm wide according to the Thermalright website. Performance will likely be similar, of course, but I know you like to be very technically correct.
I replaced my old 212 Black RGB Edition with a Jonsbo A5 and was blown away by the results it practically slashed the temps by 10 degrees Celsius in idle and peak compared to the 212.
I'm curious how the fan is separate from the cooler. At $2.77 you could buy enough to fully populate your case and probably break even by selling the copper for scrap.
got intrigued and searched online and they have very good coolers especially the HX series.. they have a 280W double tower cooler with 7 heat pipes called HX7280 and it looked really cool..
Would love to see you review ID-Cooling SE-226-XT.....the product said its TDP is 250W....it works well for my i3 12th gen....but kinda want to see how the cooler perform for the higher end cpu....
I bought a Jonsbo G3 home theater PC case (because of its desktop shape and relatively small size) a good few years ago and used for while as my rig. Then moved into another case, bigger one, but just few months ago I pulled it out of storage and re-installed it as home theater PC.
I built a pc for a client, he wanted white, RGB and good enough to cool a overclocked 9900k but needed it under $50. Under $50 fine but white and RGB was extremely hard to find for $50 then I found jonsbo had their CR2000gt for $36.99 in white and RGB. That thing was a beast.
I've been using Jonsbo CR1400 and CR1000 (not the CR1200) for many mid-range builds. I wanted you guys to check them out They work well with 4 heat pipes, great price, and surprisingly good looking ARGB
@@brunorodriguez327 it's rated for that wattage and would probably work but they've gone up in price lately so you're better off spending a few extra dollars and getting a deep cool or be quiet cooler imo
Everything aside, i hope that your viewers, mainly the US ones, finally understand that all companies out there have HUGE (!) profit margins calculated into the products price. There are way too many people out there who always think that product X cant be 5 bucks cheaper otherwise the company goes insolvent....
You guys have sometimes talked about lapping CPUs to improve contact surface with the cooler. Would it sometimes be viable to lap a cooler to improve contact area?
Yep. It used to be a common practice when lots of coolers were less than ideal out of the box. There are instructional vids on RUclips. Just don't get carried away and put a hole in the heat pipe.
Nice review! Love budget options being covered in reviews. I have an interesting choice: how about the stock dell/hp coolers that they have in prebuilds? They're cheap and seem like they could fit in some sockets? I have a prebuild hp pavilion with it in there and I swapped the fan with the fan from the AMD Wraith spire while keeping the stock heatsink in and noticed a 3-4°C decrease under full load for a Ryzen 7 2700.
Just got a Jonsbo C6 case. I needed something very small to fit inside another Industrial machine cabinet. I was going to use a Nuc or some other mini PC but the manufacturer really wanted a full PC not a mini AIO. So this case is really interesting. It has only one bad point. The good is that it's the size of many ITX cases and manages to fit a MATX board which is great. The quick release mesh sides are a very good thing for something this small because you can get at everything easily if needed. It uses a full size power supply or a small one. It has a front USB C. The one downside is that there's no room for any kind of tower cooler so you either use the stock cooling or a slimline Noctua maybe. But other than that... it's incredibly simple and tiny for a MATX case.
I hate living in Turkey. Just checked aliexpress and this piece of junk is sold for $25 to my country while it's $7 for US. Plus $15 or so shipping, it costs $40 total for me...
@@USSMariner nah I'm better off buying a local made cooler which is what I did for a ryzen 3600 recently. $20 after tax 4x6mm pipes and 120w tdp. dark x123.
This cooler came on the prebuilt I bought for my daughter, it keeps her 10400 nice and cool through everything she does ( Minecraft, Genshin Impact, Sims 4, etc).
For what is worth, my experience with this brand is as follows. I bought a used Ryzen 2700x which didn't have a cooler, so I got a Jonsbo 4-pipe cooler (can't remember the model), and even when CPU is at 100% my temps have never gone over 68c (with ambient around 24c). I'm not sure if that's too high, low, or decent, when compared to other coolers, but I paid just under €15 for it (shipping included), so I think it's ok.
They may have gotten the coolers added on to orders of items that are very profitable like cases (heck, they may have stuffed cases with boxes of coolers in shipping cause the space would be wasted anyway.
Id cooling have tower coolers (like the ID-Cooling SE-226-XT) that are pretty well priced, prehaps if you have the time reviewing some would surely be interesting.
We paid $3 for shipping because it was bundled with some other item we bought. That's why the description and top comment say that shipping is variable.
the small size and older mount support suggests it was an oem cooler for something like the Bulldozer /Excavator or i3 business machines back when (thank Dell and HP). The really low price suggests they are clearing out forgotten warehouse space, so they don't have to pay for storage somewhere for parts that aren't going to be relevant going forward.
That's 17 euros here in Finland, so quite a lot more than your 7 us dollars 🤔 I actually bought one couple of months ago for a friends old 2600k system, since the original Intel cooler was missing one of the 4 pins to attach it to the mobo. Worked fine 🤷🏻♂️
I have the Jonsbo D31 Mesh SC. It is a quality product and I would suggest it so much that my next build will be in the Jonsbo D41 Mesh SC. This maybe a cheap cooler, but as a company, the products seem to be exactly what you pay for. Keep up the good work Jonsbo. Thanks Gamers Nexus for keeping us informed about little known manufacturers.
Thanks for the always great and entertaining reviews! ☺️ I'd love to see a test on the Arctic Freezer i35 or A35. Here in Denmark it's dirt cheap (about 25$, and 30$ for an ARGB version - which trust me, is really cheap for anything resembling a computer component here). I've recently had to use one in a budget build, which I had to get ready to give away, and this was the only budget friendly cooler in stock nearby to be picked up. Ran some simple tests with it and I was actually really impressed!
For the money, especially on sale that's actually really impressive. On a low wattage CPU, maybe a 45w even and it's really going to be more than enough.
Jonsbo used to be sold in the polish equivalet of microcenter, as far as i know it had good reviews. They seems to try to build reputation up to become a "standard" company, no problems with quality control and good rma.
There's definitely lack of ID-Cooling products reviews, I would love if you'd take a look at their SE-224-XT base model or its modifications. Thank you for not forgetting about budget segment, it's a lot of fun sometimes.
A note on how far we've come. I made serious builds with $50 coolers in the LGA775 era (including several overclocked Q6600s) which had cooler performance about this level. Today, that level of performance is as close to free as anyone cares about!
"For your real needs" I appreciate that slogan on the box. Like there's zero bs or big headedness about it. Not something like, "Passion beats eternal" or something ridiculous.
in portugal they sell that brand on retailers, they have cases, cooling related components, one interesting case they sell is a Jonsbo D41 MESH, with a 8" display on the front of the case. that cooler in particular is sold for 12€
Would be interesting to see more 92mm fan coolers for restricted height cases. I bought a Thermalright Assassin X 90 SE recently for a Ryzen 3600 in an ITX case. Runs cool and quiet.
jonsbo's stuff are pretty popular for budget PC builds in my country actually, legit everytime I see a 200$ prebuilt deal it will always have the cr1200 installed
I paired this cooler with e3 1240v3 since the stock cooler ran pretty hot (90+C) on cpu-z stress test. with this it can hold 75C all day. been 3 years, worked fine!
$2.77 is actually not real price. As you could see, shipping is about $15. It is trick for the case if you will need to open a dispute due to faulty sample and if the dispute will be fulfilled, shipping "cost" will not be refunded anyway. And part of the "shipping cost" is actually seller's margin. So I would call this is sort of speculation in video.
Can remember a while ago being able to buy some left over, one gen old and low end, tray CPUs for quite low prices. Without a cooler. Would be awesome as a cheap solution for something like that.
Thermalright has some new coolers out, they have one called Silver Soul 110 which appears to be a dual tower with a single fan in the middle for ~$30. Would be interesting to see how this compares to the Fuma 2, could be a good budget option.
Used this cooler for a year and a half and i can't really complaint that much cause it does it's job decently for my beast of a processor (jk) R5 3500X. Recently changed to ID-Cooling SE-224XTS just because of changing it. If not probably would stick to this CR-1200 for a few more years wkwk
We paid $3 for shipping as it was a combo deal when we bought it (combo with other items). It is a variable shipping cost based on deals on AliExpress and other items you're buying in the same order / from the same seller, which spreads cost. There are often multiple sellers for this cooler.
Find our cooler reviews playlist here! ruclips.net/video/iRe8zVCjCNw/видео.html
Now for the obvious note: Shipping is a consideration given that it'd be coming from AliExpress, but we can't accurately review shipping cost for all the different regions and it can often get bundled in with other items for 'free' shipping. Either way, if shipping is enough to push it towards the $15 mark, there are a ton of competitive options and shipping heavily influences value there.
Learn about our CPU cooler testing methodology here: ruclips.net/video/fmTOJP4KOyk/видео.html
there's a CR-1400 version which has 4 heat pipe's, i have the CR-1400 :)
that flatness graph hurt my head
Totally missed this. China subsidizes shipping, so aliexpress shipping is usually used to offset the website cut.
I might get one purely because of the socket support, Might be handy to have a cooler like that laying around.
@@jayreed2692 yeah plus let's be real, that fan is worth the 3 bucks based on its glory alone
Jonsbo is actually widely accepted in asia market. Its a powerhouse for alternative/budget build, they also offered small form cases as well
I know, I have used some of their products, such as the CR-301. It's honestly pretty solid.
Also a known brand in Europe.
I bought one of their mATX cases. It's probably one of the smallest mATX cases for the price. It has good features and great build quality.
Both of my builds are Jonsbo cases! Top spec inside when I built them, they make some amazing cases. One is ATX the other ITX. Both amazing quality and definitely not "boring" tower cases (TR03 is a chonky boy but so unusual! 🤩)
*Edit for spelling
yup i used the cr-701 in my build and it worked fine. kept my 2700x reasonably cool in my matx case.
What is insane to me is that it is 3 dollars and it still has RGB.
Which means gamers are some of the biggest suckers when it comes to extracting surplus value from them. People will religiously defend brands, prices, jumping to conslusions about R&D costs, expensive materials, you name it...
Just look at Digital F*undry and their privileged early access to products and features. It used to be called 'access journalism' and everyone knew you can throw independence out of the window when it comes to that. You can't be really honest and expect a company to keep inviting you to take a look before anyone else. So do gamers call them out for that? Hell no, "channel make shiny videos on shiny features, me like! gotta buy myself 🤤"
@@RR-gx4ec Yup, too many idiots in this world.
@@RR-gx4ec
Gamers are the absolute lowest of the low in the entire entertainment industry. A heroin addict has higher standards for his cheap back alley heroin than the average gamer does of a triple-A $70 game.
GPUs, naturally part of the gaming industry, also get ridiculous price hikes because it's been proven that the braindead morons that pre order trash bottom of the barrel games are also happy to pay $800 for a GPU that should cost no more than $299.
@@RR-gx4ec it isn't just gamers. Everyone knows a $200 pair of sneakers is better than a $40 pair of sneakers. It's just the way we're wired.
@@RR-gx4ec Nah, not just gamers, basically every industry has people like this. Car companies, clothing industry, even furniture manufacturers prey on people buying stuff that doesn't cost even half of what they claim it does.
Honestly seeing those results it's insane value compared to other coolers costing many times the price.
For 3 bucks, I'd be content with it even making it to my doorstep in the first place. Seems like this could be a steal for a low-power budget build of some kind.
@@FAT9L lol same, like hell ive never replaced my hyper 212 for decades now and has been pass 3 builds
GPP to GDP: " you under estimate my power"
@@FAT9L Yeah. My old nhd-15 and dark rock pro 4 air coolers were over $100 ( AUD) each so this thing being like $5 AUD or less is a steal. My liquid cooler.. Well let's not mention the price of it 😂.
My next build will be a 7800X3D on a dirt cheap A620 ASRock board with this cooler. 😂
Not sure if someone has commented this yet, but the Jonsbo CR1200 is usually bundled "for free" with "tray" CPUs in my local market (Indonesia). Same goes for its brother the 4 heat pipe Jonsbo CR1400. They basically serve the same segment as stock coolers but with a bit more flair.
lol that's cool, hope the tray R5 2600 here does also.
may I know which marketplace/store offers these as a bundle with tray CPUs? thanks.
@@CrimsonSeas00 Ya pasti tokped bang, siapa lagi kalo bukan enterkomputer😆
Ada indonesia nya coyy 😱😱🥸
@@ahmadrizkihidayat5139 Guess this is an inside joke for you and yours alone eh :(
Feels a bit rude, commenting in another language on a video produced in English for an English-speaking audience.
For when your cooler budget is only 1% of your CPU budget.
tbh it's a pretty good way to do budget gaming. This price diff could bump someone up from something like an 10th gen i3 to a 13th gen i3 -massive real world difference in performance compared to if they went with a regular priced cooler
More like 0.2%
@@10siWhiz You're spending $1500 on your CPU? What kind of monster system are you running?
@@Real_MisterSir well i mean the i3 comes with stock cooler, but ok lmfao
@@10siWhiz 💀 bro using a 3$ cooler to cool a modern server CPU
5:15 Steve and the team never fail to brighten my day. Love you guys
It kept falling over!
@@GamersNexus xdd
Why would spending $3 to test a fan that turned out to be adequate, be more fun than spending $7000 to test a prebuilt that turned out to be less than adequate?
Oh no wait, I think I get it.
@@GamersNexus
At 14:20
Beautiful helper....
Who is the cute thing that was helping demonstrate your silicone mod mat??
She is cute!! (Guessing she, since it appears to be a pastel calico....calicos are always female, unless messed-up genetics are involved.)
I have used this cooler several times for older platforms and it just gets the job done while looking decent. Can't complain. For higher powered budget builds I usually use the Raijintek Themis II since it usually goes for lower than 20 euros in my country and seems to be the best value in that price bracket. I'd love to see a review of that cooler!
I hope you'll take a look at Jonsbo's HX series of tower coolers. They look quite slick and understated.
Hadn't heard of them before! We'll try to look into them!
@@GamersNexus You should also take a look at their cases, they have a lot of high quality ones at a reasonable price (At least in Asia)
The 30-35 USD (in my country) HX6240 and HX6250 claims its support to a TDP* of 250W, which I doubt.
Would like to see if the claims are true, although IIRC each CPU manufacturer calculates TDP in their own diff ways.
@@First-Name_Last-Name they are not
I have the Jonsbo HX7280 and it's an excellent cooler.
I switched from an NH-D15.
Both are fantastic choices.
It's a baby cooler, we need to wait for it to grow up
What will it become then?!
@@GamersNexus Probably some of the aliexpress snowman coolers with "RGB"
will it become Jonsbo CR3000?
@@GamersNexus Jonsbo CR1400
It's "just there" 4-heatpipe cooler. That somehow perform bit worse than 3-heatpipe AG300
I love these videos giving a chance to unknown/ less popular brands. Also, its really cool to see case mods and different solutions to common problems in computer land. I did a case mod and it ended up awesome in the looks department and really efficient (improving airflow in an "aquarium" case).
Gotta remember the cost of shipping. A lot of products will be listed for $2~4, but have $10~15 shipping, because it makes it more appealing at a glance in the search than a $17 item with free shipping, especially when you need to click the product to see the cost of shipping.
Yes calling it a $3 cooler is simply not correct.
Exactly and if you select free shipping the base price go to 18 or 20$. They might got a discounted shipping when ordering multiple items from same seller but still cant call it a 3$ cooler its just clickbait title.
this is already mentioned in the pinned comment and description
@@gracelim5565 It should have been mentioned immediately when he discussed price, in the video.
@@gracelim5565 ppl hate reading
I love seeing these low budget component benchmarks. It really highlights what companies can do when they apply themselves to maximising value.
Thank you for reviewing this.
I woke up this morning with a real need. I think this may be just the thing!
Jonsbo has some decent products, especially their cases; I was recently looking at their VR3 case (which is a Meshroom S derivative) and it looks fairly promising
Personal experience: Jonsbo T8 was a blast, put a full sized ATX PSU un it (rgb, white+white cables), client was very happy. Interesting company.
11:09 I do love the relative simplicity of the AMD mounting system - not having to worry about having proper tension or keeping to a specific tightening pattern, but at the same time, that clip mechanism is a PITA to work with a lot of them time.
True, those clip mechanisms are annoyingly fiddly, but at the same time they can be toolless and I guess all those other methods are a large part of why soo many used AM4 mainboards lack the brackets or even the backplates.
Those circular adapter brackets seem to be extremely common. I've seen them bundled with cheap chinese coolers and salvage motherboards. The actual cooler itself seems to be designed to mount to the stock AMD mounts and that ring's purpose is to adapt that clamp to intel sockets.
As this HSF would work fine on AM5, AM4, AM3, AM2, S939, S754, FM1, FM2, it would seem the path of least resistance and cost. A stock design that literally did not change for over a decade and still works today (well enough anyway) with sunk costs paid some time ago it seems prudent to use it one more time. The intel ring adapter is also a cheap proven and good enough solution that this HSF would be good enough for IDK the entire S115x range, going back to the 1st 'i' series intel chips.
Keep these great cooler videos coming Steve besides being highly informative to people trying to save a buck or two one their build the videos are very enjoyable. Thank you Steve.
Jonsbo cases are quite good IMO. Their ITX case Jonsbo C2 is insane value for money and is ultra-light.
I like how you guys test all tiers of products, and I love these random AliExpress products.
The Cooler Master Hyper/ Blizzard T2 has an interesting heat-pipe trick.
It has two heat-pipes but they are installed upside down, so the contact area is four heatpipes wide.
I would like to see the ID Cooling SE 214 XT tested, it seems to perform pretty well for the price and is a very noticeable noise level improvement over AMD stock coolers.
With them clip style coolers for the modern AMD sockets I found it easiest to first loosen the screws and take out the retention bracket mount the cooler to the retention bracket by clipping it then lower the whole thing back on to the CPU and back plate then tighten it back down. Makes it a lot easier and less risk and stress on the socket and/or CPU.
This cooler is being offered as a combo for "Tray CPUs" in some third world countries like Indonesia and whatnot, no wonder why it's so cheap.
Interesting! Had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
So Muricans gonna be lovin' it!
Hahaha nasib hidup di negara dunia ketiga emang
And don't forget: new old motherboard (like h61, h55, h81) still for sale
Usually chinesium mobo rebranded to local brand. Brazil, Indonesia, India, are some of biggest market for chinesium motherboard. Chipset said from e waste pull
I'd love to see more budget coolers. More specifically, the ID-cooling SE-214-XT which is nearly identical in price and has many design similarities. Their dual tower cooler is worth a look as well.
HC also doesnt include that cooler in their reviews :/
i second ID-cooling. i was making an HTPC based athlon 3000G server for HomeAssistant(python based smart home server). bought a cheap SFF case together with picoPSU and IS-30 from ID-cooling as it was the lowest profile that I had found (30mm of height!). for something like 22eur. it is very silent and powerful comparing it's size.
Oh that silicon mat! That's honestly EXACTLY what I've been looking for to use for making my models/doing clay work! It's big, can be used for organising, and silicon, which is so much easier to clean! When I've got the money for it, I'll definitively look into getting it!
Small correction, but I do believe you mean silicone. Silicon is a mineral that's used in the production of CPUs.
I use one of their HX6250 coolers on a 5900x and its a beast, better performance than coolers that cost twice as much. Would definitely buy their stuff again in future.
The Jonsbo CR-1200 is also available for as little as 6$ (with free shipping) domestically. It also has a 92mm (edit: confusing naming led to some misinformation) variant called CR-1400 which is sold at more or less the same price.
I have a CR-1400 as spare part, it still is a 92mm size, but has 4 heat pipes instead of 2.
How can they even make money out of it? The copper alone is worth more LOL
@@bladeoflucatiel Idk perhaps they primarily sell to prebuilt vendors and then excess warehouse stock is just shipped out for a dime to maintain a steady cashflow and goods? Maybe just for brand recognition marketing?
It can be very tough to pinpoint why exactly a product exist at its given price range, especially in the extremes of ultra inexpensive/expensive. In my experience some of the worse offenders are the ultra expensive ones, like I saw a 3080 10gb sitting at a shelf for literally 2.5k usd (converted). That thing would not sell in a thousand years, yet it just sits collecting dust and taking up precious space. Why? Nobody knows, I bet not even the people selling it are aware of its existence lol.
@@bladeoflucatiel snowman the cooler of choice for low cost build has been selling at this price for ages, jonsbo just have better sales network, so they can replicate that price universally
Are you sure about that? The product page says it's a 92mm cooler for the CR-1400. Even the official Jonsbo product page says 92mm. I don't understand why this is getting upvoted so much when it is just factually wrong. But on pricing/domestic availability, that's helpful to know - thanks for pointing that out!
after seeing the pressure test results, I started wondering: would lapping the cooler to improve its flatness make a noticeable difference in performance? Iv heard of cpu lapping, but not cooler lapping. Curious to see if it would improve anything, on a cooler this cheap the extra work might be worth it haha
I seem to see the heat pipes sticking out from the cold plate and if this is so, it would not help to lap the cold plate without thinning the heat pipe walls to a questionable degree.
@@richardgarrett2792 Lapping can take off an incredibly small amount of material. It can be done and have benefits. That said, the poor pressure map was not due to flatness as much as the mounting mechanism. At least, that's my understanding.
@@richardgarrett2792 Would be interesting to see how flat someone COULD get it before the heat pipe rips open or close the gap with some aluminum foil.
Some overclockers used to (probably still do) lap both cpu and cooler. Though generally people usually just use a well known, good cooler and only have lapped the cpu when necessary.
I personally do neither.
love that you also look at stuff in the value end of hardware as well
Thank you for looking at budget (and cheaper) items. It is great that your content can span the wide number of price points, so all DIY enthusiasts can make choices that are good for their budget.
Considering the category of this cooler, i would have loved to see the intel stock cooler added to that chart.
Was going to get this for my dream PC build, but then it went up to $2.96 due to inflation, which would shatter my budget. I am once again denied by limitless corporate greed.
Right now they have on sale the Aigo ICE 200 PRO, it is basically the same design but without the top cover and static RGB. The cooler is around 5 USD but to be able to pay that price you have to buy another two items, which you can get for 2USD each. You'll end up paying 9 USD but free shipping is guaranteed by geting 3 items so i think is totally worth it. Got mine to replace the Wrath Spire of my R5 1600 (that one still has the copper vapor chamber) and my temps dropped 10 degrees.
As a matter of fact im still running a system that is constantly up(with semiannual maintenance to remove the dust) for 14 years on socket 1156 (i7 870), and been constantly upgrading that computer over the last decade, neither MB nor CPU specs mention it's capable of having 32GB of RAM because at the time the 8GB DDR3 sticks weren't mainstream yet. I enjoy building out older systems, and truly impressed mine didn't fail yet. Many of the systems i have are just headless linux servers doing their small things because they're still capable of running stuff, with the right setup and care.
It would be interesting to see how lapping the surface improved performance, if at all. 🤔
It could be part of a "small changes to budget things" series?
I was thinking the same thing.
Seems like the flatness of these coolers could be a big variable, would love to see all the coolers lapped Vs unlapped
Potential Correction: I left a comment on a previous cooler review asserting the Spirit and Assassin X are not actually the exact same cooler.
I do not believe the Assassin Spirit and Assassin X are essentially the same product. The X may have replaced the Spirit, but it is not a simple rename. Not only is the top of the fin stack different, but the heat pipe spacing through the fins is different, and the X appears to have around 45 fins while the Spirit has just over 50. The X is also 46mm wide while the Spirit is 48mm wide according to the Thermalright website. Performance will likely be similar, of course, but I know you like to be very technically correct.
I replaced my old 212 Black RGB Edition with a Jonsbo A5 and was blown away by the results it practically slashed the temps by 10 degrees Celsius in idle and peak compared to the 212.
no way.....i have the same cooler 212 rgb black as well...damn cooler master is shafting us, i paid 50$+ for it lol.. in comparison to $3?
That aliexpress seller probably mixes up the specs and promotional materials of CR-1200 and that of CR-1400, which is a 4 pipes cooler version.
I'm curious how the fan is separate from the cooler.
At $2.77 you could buy enough to fully populate your case and probably break even by selling the copper for scrap.
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Could've added the auto-topple feature to those marketing materials of theirs.
I am 4 minutes in and I am rooting so hard for this cooler.
I pray it is at least better than the box coolers.
Amd wraith prism boxed cooler is pretty good imo
2:36 Baby Tech Jesus awwww
hahaha
got intrigued and searched online and they have very good coolers especially the HX series.. they have a 280W double tower cooler with 7 heat pipes called HX7280 and it looked really cool..
Yea jonsbo is a serious name in the Chinese CPU coolers market. They're not a meme company
The name doesn’t need working on… they hit all the keywords in the title alone! Masterclass!
Easily my favorite CPU cooler review. I loved the explanation of math and how pipes work.
Thanks, Steve
Would love to see you review ID-Cooling SE-226-XT.....the product said its TDP is 250W....it works well for my i3 12th gen....but kinda want to see how the cooler perform for the higher end cpu....
those plastic clips that hold the circular frame easily broke for me. i replaced mine with a small screw-nut-washer.
I bought a Jonsbo G3 home theater PC case (because of its desktop shape and relatively small size) a good few years ago and used for while as my rig. Then moved into another case, bigger one, but just few months ago I pulled it out of storage and re-installed it as home theater PC.
I built a pc for a client, he wanted white, RGB and good enough to cool a overclocked 9900k but needed it under $50. Under $50 fine but white and RGB was extremely hard to find for $50 then I found jonsbo had their CR2000gt for $36.99 in white and RGB. That thing was a beast.
It's literally like 16 to 30$ on AliExpress right now
I've been using Jonsbo CR1400 and CR1000 (not the CR1200) for many mid-range builds. I wanted you guys to check them out
They work well with 4 heat pipes, great price, and surprisingly good looking ARGB
How much cost the CR-1400 in your country? in Venezuela they are around 40 US$
@@manuelpereira4247 wow! Here it's around 13-14 usd. Really popular in asia
Got the CR1400 from Newegg for around $15 on my i7 9700 and it does the job just fine
The CR1400 is good for a 12600K ?
@@brunorodriguez327 it's rated for that wattage and would probably work but they've gone up in price lately so you're better off spending a few extra dollars and getting a deep cool or be quiet cooler imo
Everything aside, i hope that your viewers, mainly the US ones, finally understand that all companies out there have HUGE (!) profit margins calculated into the products price. There are way too many people out there who always think that product X cant be 5 bucks cheaper otherwise the company goes insolvent....
I learned a whole new meaning today of the word "interact"... Thanks, Beve.
You guys have sometimes talked about lapping CPUs to improve contact surface with the cooler. Would it sometimes be viable to lap a cooler to improve contact area?
Yep. It used to be a common practice when lots of coolers were less than ideal out of the box. There are instructional vids on RUclips. Just don't get carried away and put a hole in the heat pipe.
Nice review! Love budget options being covered in reviews. I have an interesting choice: how about the stock dell/hp coolers that they have in prebuilds? They're cheap and seem like they could fit in some sockets? I have a prebuild hp pavilion with it in there and I swapped the fan with the fan from the AMD Wraith spire while keeping the stock heatsink in and noticed a 3-4°C decrease under full load for a Ryzen 7 2700.
GN has had Dell reviews before. I think they use a proprietary mounting that prevents 3rd party coolers.
I'd like to see Steve juggling complex, multi-piece orders
I swear, this is the only channel where I don't skip the ads, love your content bro
Were there any videos on the office builds? Im seeing the monitors behind you and wanna see that process.
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Never thought I would see a less than 3$ cooler thats actually good for its price
I'm kinda extremely happy that this thing exists as a hyper-budget option
Jonsbo makes some really good small form factor cases.
ID-Cooling FROSTFLOW X 240.
Just got a Jonsbo C6 case. I needed something very small to fit inside another Industrial machine cabinet. I was going to use a Nuc or some other mini PC but the manufacturer really wanted a full PC not a mini AIO. So this case is really interesting. It has only one bad point. The good is that it's the size of many ITX cases and manages to fit a MATX board which is great. The quick release mesh sides are a very good thing for something this small because you can get at everything easily if needed. It uses a full size power supply or a small one. It has a front USB C. The one downside is that there's no room for any kind of tower cooler so you either use the stock cooling or a slimline Noctua maybe. But other than that... it's incredibly simple and tiny for a MATX case.
I really like the Jonsbo NAS case.
Accurate product name though... so that's something.
I hate living in Turkey. Just checked aliexpress and this piece of junk is sold for $25 to my country while it's $7 for US. Plus $15 or so shipping, it costs $40 total for me...
At that rate, you might be better off with a slightly larger cooler that AliExpress has a ton of stock off.
@@USSMariner nah I'm better off buying a local made cooler which is what I did for a ryzen 3600 recently. $20 after tax 4x6mm pipes and 120w tdp. dark x123.
This cooler came on the prebuilt I bought for my daughter, it keeps her 10400 nice and cool through everything she does ( Minecraft, Genshin Impact, Sims 4, etc).
For what is worth, my experience with this brand is as follows. I bought a used Ryzen 2700x which didn't have a cooler, so I got a Jonsbo 4-pipe cooler (can't remember the model), and even when CPU is at 100% my temps have never gone over 68c (with ambient around 24c).
I'm not sure if that's too high, low, or decent, when compared to other coolers, but I paid just under €15 for it (shipping included), so I think it's ok.
For me, that price inflicts recycle vibes, taken from "dumpsters" of other cheap-make companies.
I love these deals where a company orders a massive amount of a product tehn decides they dont want it.
They may have gotten the coolers added on to orders of items that are very profitable like cases (heck, they may have stuffed cases with boxes of coolers in shipping cause the space would be wasted anyway.
Also somehow, for some reason
Here in Indonesia, this cooler usually pair with Tray CPU. Despite how relatively expensive here individually
I find Mikes fan installation demonstrations strangely calming.
Id cooling have tower coolers (like the ID-Cooling SE-226-XT) that are pretty well priced, prehaps if you have the time reviewing some would surely be interesting.
All ID-Cooling cooler are insanely underrated tho
Except IS-47K. Fuck those thing. Still get hot even after using modified AM4 backplate
...how much was shipping, Steve?
Steve, how much was the shipping?
We paid $3 for shipping because it was bundled with some other item we bought. That's why the description and top comment say that shipping is variable.
@@GamersNexus I read it, I was just playing with you guys. Thanks for the content to go along with breakfast 🙏
Jonesbo also has some larger coolers you see sold in many international markets. It would be great if you reviewed their 120mm and 140mm coolers.
the small size and older mount support suggests it was an oem cooler for something like the Bulldozer /Excavator or i3 business machines back when (thank Dell and HP). The really low price suggests they are clearing out forgotten warehouse space, so they don't have to pay for storage somewhere for parts that aren't going to be relevant going forward.
This whole video i got the feeling Steve is in love with ThermalRight Assassin X.
That's 17 euros here in Finland, so quite a lot more than your 7 us dollars 🤔
I actually bought one couple of months ago for a friends old 2600k system, since the original Intel cooler was missing one of the 4 pins to attach it to the mobo. Worked fine 🤷🏻♂️
I have the Jonsbo D31 Mesh SC. It is a quality product and I would suggest it so much that my next build will be in the Jonsbo D41 Mesh SC. This maybe a cheap cooler, but as a company, the products seem to be exactly what you pay for. Keep up the good work Jonsbo. Thanks Gamers Nexus for keeping us informed about little known manufacturers.
Jonson makes some of the best little tempered glass sided ITX cases and tower coolers when it comes to price to quality in my experience.
There is a AIO with RGB in the tubes, the Xigmatek Neon Aqua 240 and the Xigmatek Neon Aqua 360.
Thanks for the always great and entertaining reviews! ☺️
I'd love to see a test on the Arctic Freezer i35 or A35.
Here in Denmark it's dirt cheap (about 25$, and 30$ for an ARGB version - which trust me, is really cheap for anything resembling a computer component here).
I've recently had to use one in a budget build, which I had to get ready to give away, and this was the only budget friendly cooler in stock nearby to be picked up. Ran some simple tests with it and I was actually really impressed!
For the money, especially on sale that's actually really impressive. On a low wattage CPU, maybe a 45w even and it's really going to be more than enough.
Jonsbo used to be sold in the polish equivalet of microcenter, as far as i know it had good reviews. They seems to try to build reputation up to become a "standard" company, no problems with quality control and good rma.
There's definitely lack of ID-Cooling products reviews, I would love if you'd take a look at their SE-224-XT base model or its modifications.
Thank you for not forgetting about budget segment, it's a lot of fun sometimes.
I like to see even more different cooler reviews as well!
A note on how far we've come. I made serious builds with $50 coolers in the LGA775 era (including several overclocked Q6600s) which had cooler performance about this level. Today, that level of performance is as close to free as anyone cares about!
"For your real needs" I appreciate that slogan on the box. Like there's zero bs or big headedness about it. Not something like, "Passion beats eternal" or something ridiculous.
in portugal they sell that brand on retailers, they have cases, cooling related components, one interesting case they sell is a Jonsbo D41 MESH, with a 8" display on the front of the case. that cooler in particular is sold for 12€
Would be interesting to see more 92mm fan coolers for restricted height cases. I bought a Thermalright Assassin X 90 SE recently for a Ryzen 3600 in an ITX case. Runs cool and quiet.
The Arctic Freezer Esports duo is the best CPU fan recommendation I have ever received from this channel.
jonsbo's stuff are pretty popular for budget PC builds in my country actually, legit everytime I see a 200$ prebuilt deal it will always have the cr1200 installed
I paired this cooler with e3 1240v3 since the stock cooler ran pretty hot (90+C) on cpu-z stress test. with this it can hold 75C all day. been 3 years, worked fine!
$2.77 is actually not real price. As you could see, shipping is about $15. It is trick for the case if you will need to open a dispute due to faulty sample and if the dispute will be fulfilled, shipping "cost" will not be refunded anyway. And part of the "shipping cost" is actually seller's margin. So I would call this is sort of speculation in video.
Jonsbo is present in Europe, I have a very nice aluminum case from Jonsbo, UMX4!
Can remember a while ago being able to buy some left over, one gen old and low end, tray CPUs for quite low prices. Without a cooler.
Would be awesome as a cheap solution for something like that.
Thermalright has some new coolers out, they have one called Silver Soul 110 which appears to be a dual tower with a single fan in the middle for ~$30. Would be interesting to see how this compares to the Fuma 2, could be a good budget option.
Used this cooler for a year and a half and i can't really complaint that much cause it does it's job decently for my beast of a processor (jk) R5 3500X. Recently changed to ID-Cooling SE-224XTS just because of changing it. If not probably would stick to this CR-1200 for a few more years wkwk