Correction: The charts list this as a 120 fan, but as stated earlier in the video, it's a 140 fan. The cooler was tested with the stock 140 fan. Just a typo. Watch our tour of the Shenzhen SEG E-Market (massive electronics marketplace) from 2019! ruclips.net/video/nXWB9GPkm3U/видео.html Grab the GN toolkit: store.gamersnexus.net/products/gamersnexus-tear-down-toolkit Check out our Cooler Review Playlist to see full reviews of these coolers and more: ruclips.net/p/PLsuVSmND84QtyyYcalFch402w3ypcp1TQ
Hello GamersNexus. I have this cooler and it goes by the name Prolimatech Megahalems in the US market. It is a design from 2010. It was a $60-70 cooler back then. And was made for LGA775 or 1155 I am very impressed that you can get this cooling capability for $15
Could it be possible that at least part of the base plate was originally supposed to be for some kind of CPU water cooler, with the scouring being on top as if it has been reversed to be useable again, possibly a project that failed? Just looking for a resomn why it would be milled for no good reason and still be part of a well priced cooler.
The dragon subsidized the production cost with a portion of his hoard. Hence the company's airbrush immortalization of his contribution on the heatsink. Sweet business model.
Man, that dragon decal is pretty sweet! Not my style, but I wish more brands in the states did more unique designs like that. So much more interesting than black, silver, or 6th grade 'gamer' leds
The main reason u buy components for your PC. I bought a case once and the only thing I put in there was dragon stickers. Just because it looks better in a case, than on furniture.
would need to be a new SKU, not everyone likes decals like that. Thus quite a bit more expensive, and it would make the base coolers more expensive too as some sales would be cannibalized
All the parts for the silliest build ever are coming together nicely. Coolwhist is gonna be caught off guard when they suddenly sell a bunch of these off the back of a dusty shelf
I've actually found many of these unheard of Chinese brands do have good customer service. I once had a UMIDIGI phone and I broke the charging cable by running over it with my chair, so I contacted them because the spare generic cable I had wouldn't fit the phone securely, they said they had no spare cables, but they would send me £15 ($22) to buy a new cable from a different store on Amazon!
Agree, some of these chinese brands have decent customer service for example 8bitdo. My controller joysticks started to break apart and I tried emailing them asking if they sell replacements, they didnt ask for any warranty card or receipt, they just asked me of what part I need to replace and mailing details so they can send me the parts for FREE and that was during the lockdowns and me living in a different country. Respect for that company.
They're great actually. Due to just how competitive the local market is, non of them actually make it big enough to, so to speak, corporatize. This result in these brands mostly run by just a few guys and gals with stocks of at most 1000s per stock cycle, which also means that there's very little chance for the head of the company to be disconnect from their customer. Even with the biggest ones that make it to international market, they're usually at most around 20-40 employees.
Try one of the "SNOWMAN" brand coolers on Aliexpress. TechYesCity uses them all the time on builds and it would be nice to see how they really perform. There is one configuration with 6 direct contact copper heat pipes and 2 fans for $22. It's the first item that comes up when you search "snowman cooler".
@@Saltssaumure Ya, well coolers have not changed much since 2019. Then again CM still sells the 212. I stuck on of them friends PC that had his AIO pump die on him around the time of the intel I7 920s or 2008ish.
iirc the difference between the 4 pipes/1 fan and the 6 pipes/2 fans was really small, but the price difference is about 10~15 bucks, so idk, you could maybe get two Arctic fans for your case for that price.
@@GamersNexus the tones are always hard for people who aren't used to it. I grew up speaking Cantonese which has 6 tones so that's even more of a challenge. The important part is being comprehensible.
"Please show me your open loop watercoolers" "Buy this $15 air cooler" "Yes!" I tip my hat to Steve's generosity by supporting the small vendor speaking a foreign language in a foreign country - or by a gracious misunderstanding. Either way, vendor made a buck and GN an interesting video. Its a win-win. 😅
I love how much Steve seems to be having fun with this. We need more of this random stuff where you guys just test random stuff and act like a kid in a candy store 🤣
Kudos for actually having customer support. Imagine if the big companies had these standards for their consumers, instead of all the shady stuff we've been having lately (Newegg, Gigabyte, NZXT...)
You think $50 coolers are cheap? "Cheap" coolers need to cost the same as the price difference between an OEM CPU, and one with the cooler. And they need to perform better.
I love Steve's enthusiasm and general happy demeanor while talking about this. Certainly the recent reporting they have done re: Newegg, etc. is important, but I'm glad y'all find the time to make videos like this.
I really enjoy these fun, weird, budget cooler reviews. Please try the AliExprese “Snowman” cooler next! Around $20 cost, unsure if that includes shipping
I love seeing Steve having fun in a more cheerful funny type of video, his laugh is great and the fact this was filmed by hand rather than a tripod really helped the casual feeling. Great stuff!
If you could actually get the heatsink for $15 it might be worth getting a good 140mm fan (you can get a 140mm Noctua fan for $20 on sale). Those test results with the bad fan make me wonder what you could do with a good one.
@@dhjohns1956 About 50% of enterprise computers in the developed world are not suitable for Windows 11 according to current requirement. In addition, people in developing countries who use components that are 2~3 gens earlier than the current gen. You need to understand that you and your neighborhood do not represent the world. Otherwise you will remain very biased for various matters.
@@mingyi456 3-4generations? i was about to upgrade and the chip apocalypse hit. for now im still on sandy bridge-im sure there are plenty of others in the same boat
It's more like the bar for REALLY low end coolers has become really easy to reach. I have several coolers from AliExpress that cost less than $10 USD and are perfectly functional. I even have 2 different coolers with heat pipes that cost $3 and $4 respectively. Those ones needed some gentle adjustment. And I ended up flattening them and doing a quick lapping job. But still, getting the job 97% done from the factory, and doing a bit of light finishing work yourself can be acceptable in certain situations. (I bought them for an ultra budget build, and to have coolers that I wouldn't really mind breaking if I needed to hack together custom mounting solutions.)
Not really brand name per se. Yes they play a part, but we mostly pay for their staffing, engineering and marketing budget, which very small amount actually goes into actually making the products. Like seriously, how much can some heatpipes and aluminium panels cost?
@@berryquick6224 I will say some companies are worth paying extra for the customer service, but we have seen how poor that is from many big names. Heck this Chinese company gave him better service than many US based firms.
Even though Noctua is the best brand in terms of performance, I gotta admit I've really been missing out a ton on these cheaper coolers, especially when building for others.
Noctua being the best in terms of performance is questionable at their respective price ranges. Not terrible coolers by any means, but their prices make them perhaps not as good of a choice as they are often made out to be.
With Noctua, you get excellent quality, ESPECIALLY the fans, and you usually get more accessories coming with them, and installation is typically quite easy. You also get a 6 year warranty and better customer service. Noctua will send you mounting upgrade kits for FREE. I got a completely free AM4 mounting kit for my old Noctua cooler when it was already past its warranty, and that model was probably already about 8 or more years old at that point.
@@unitedfools3493 Many of us say it's expensive to be poor, it takes money to make money, buy once cry once et al. It's one of the ways the poors stay poor so effectively; they can't buy things in bulk or quality things.
16:55 Reminds me of the way the Chinese govt build huge skyrise apartment blocks right next to a few small houses who have refused to sell their homes to the developer. Personally even if this was free I wouldn't stick the god-awful ugly monstrosity in any case I built.
Looks like a copy of the Prolimatech Megahalems or Mega Shadow, with some minor differences (missing groves on the heat sink. EDIT: The dimensions are a bit bigger than the Megahalems, too.) A very good and pricey cooler back in the days of Sandy Bridge and Phenom II. The company is long gone. I still have a Prolimatech Genesis, a real giant in a case. To work around it makes you go mad...
The split design is definitely inspired by it, any 6x6 heatsink is going to be somewhat decent as long as the cold plate isn't complete garbage at this point though lol.
This cooler having a pretty good build minus the fan is actually excellent for budget builds. Speaking personally, I like the fact that when I buy a set of RGB fans for a case, one of which will be replacing the cooler fan anyway, the money I spent on the cooler seems to mostly have gone into the actual cooler itself, rather than having a better fan but worse cooler.
This is exactly what I did recently, built an SFF system with a 12400f and a low profile downdraft Jonsbo cooler (CR-701) that I got on sale for $15AUD (may as well be free!). I just used random bits laying around to hardmount it as it was not designed for LGA1700, and swapped the fan (more a sidegrade than upgrade) for a coolermaster ARGB to match the others which I already had. End result looks great, beats the stock cooler and hums away at a reasonable volume.. far from perfect in any metric but for $15? How could I possibly complain about that
It would be interesting to see how well it performs with a 20$ fan like the NF-F12. The overall price is still 35$ ideally, which could be a pretty good deal depending on what socket you are.
This is exactly what I was thinking. "What if you put another fan on it" and what kind of performance will you get then. And ideally a range of fans like 3 - 5 some cheapo fans from reputable brands. Some good fans and battle it out
@@budgetking2591 I put 2 of those as intake in my case and they reach maximum cooling performance at 30% fan speed. I can't get any better temperature if I set them faster. They are dead quite at that fan speed so I'm happy with that
@@ifyouwantmoneythengivemeev8094 it says in translated by Google: This magical Chinese radiator is not sold on Taobao in China. I found it on Amazon instead.
This cooler would actually fit my use case perfectly. I have a Ryzen 3200G APU no graphics card. So having the fan mounted on the bottom would be fine. I have 120mm exhaust fans top and rear with 140mm front intake fans. Would love to see what this cooler would do with a spare BeQuiet 140mm fan. As a builder I often have spare fans lying around.
There's actually a decent percentage of companies in China, that don't really mind that much when somebody uses an IP or straight up, takes someone else's product without asking. Especially when so many aren't patented. The vaping industry is really into that stuff. Then again, all those Chinese Vape Companies are in the same neighborhood/building/factory, in Shenzhen. lol
I think Steve is right about the "doing something different" thing. Big companies play safe and safe in design usually amounts to boring. I'm not saying go steal images but think outside the box like Yeston. Consider GPUs, the back is the boring part, let's make it the interesting side so it looks nice in a case. Remember the limited edition Assassin's Creed Origins card? More things like that, doesn't even have to be a licensed product either.
Usually around the same price you can find a Snowman 6 heatpipe dual tower cooler from aliexpress. Would like to see it professionally tested have only seen a couple videos about it. Seems like the only one actually worth possibly waiting for shipping. Every other has a comparable priced local counterpart. But getting a dual fan double tower for $20 might actually be more of a value.
Damn, at $15 per unit at bulk for that performance I could definitely see a SI using that for entry level systems, even if they have to replace the fan and cover the copyrighted art.
Nice, this looks like it comes from the same factory Prolimatech Megahalems were made back in the day(now Prolimatech Basic 83 on aliexpress). That was one mighty cool, and cool looking cooler, back in the day ~2010. The original top is Transformers like motif xD. It's a shame Prolimatech as a brand folded. At least the factory is still making similar heatsinks! I still own my "first tower cooler" Prolimatech Mega Shadow which was the full nickel-plated limited "deluxe version" of the Megahalems, and I'm hoping to display it as an art/show piece together with a Crosshair IV Formula, Geil Black Dragon Evo One RAM, Zaward Golf G3 and a Scythe Gentle Typhoon.
You're not suggesting that a Chinese manufacturer may have breached "copyright" legislation ??? Surely not.. Its a knock off to my Chinese Snowman M-T4.. Its been tested in Australia by a YT'r and provided better results than AMD stock coolers.
How about not ordering from any company that uses Fedex for delivery? I ordered a 5600x from B&H and Fedex attempted one delivery on a Sunday when I was not home. They did not try to deliver again, message me (I have a Fedex account...), or anything. After not hearing anything the next thing I receive is an email from B&H saying that my return/refund is confirmed? WTF? I feel bad for B&H since they shipped the product, but Fedex F***ed up as usual. I refuse to purchase anything from a company that uses Fedex for delivery.
The miscommunication over the cooler reminds me of my vegetarian sister. She studied Spanish in College while working on her masters and went to Honduras for a few weeks. She tried to order a beer and they brought her cow tongue.
I've no need for a budget air cooler, but I hit the video immediately upon seeing it in my recommended. This channel has motivated me to work harder as a Mechanical Engineer. Thank you for your passionate, honest reporting and attention to detail GN! Also the Micro Center video was great, more field trips please!
They sent you an AM4 mounting kit for $4 bucks?! Holy S**T! O_O I did NOT expect that from such a cheap cooler at all. How many cooler brands will actually send you mounting kits for cheap? Keep in mind also that an AM4 mounting kit is particularly useful, as it will also work with AM5 motherboards as well (according to AMD).
Around 11:30, you guys decide to use a new type of graphic to show exactly what you're talkin about with the pressure, and I think that is a fantastic choice, whoever's idea that was gets a high five from me
Can you test the Gammaxx 400 as a budget CPU cooler. It really is $15-20 (depends on color) without having to buy in bulk and I'm having good results with using it to overclock the iGPU in my 5700G and I'm curious to see how it compares to other coolers.
LOL! I just watched Jayz by a GPU mystery box from Amazon and now this!!🤡 You could flatten that surface by putting wet & dry 360 grit sandpaper, securely held down on all 4 corners, on a very flat surface, and running the "copper" part back and forth. This would be like lapping it.
@Gamers Nexus: This looks like a Prolimatech Megahalems. I had one in a ~2007 build. Very good performing cooler back then. I imagine that the designs were bought and modernised for newer CPUs. Fantastic work RE Artesan Builds and Newegg reporting. Loved the BB episode where you helped a guy out. I read it on reddit and wasn't expecting it to be in a YT vid!
Next time you're looking for anything with liquid cooling, just bring Jay along. His vibes alone will make everyone in the store understand that it's liquid cooling you're after.
Pulling / Pushing Air from the top of the case sounds actually good to me for an air cooled build. Are there similar coolers? I always wanted to do a top-to-bottom airflow build (or vice versa) since the silverstone ft03 (the new alta series just doesn't cut it for me). With almost every case having top mounts for 120 fans this makes makes more sense than pulling air from the sides and trying to push it out through that single hole in the back. Or maybe even bottom / top in and side out?
top intake generally doesn't make much sense because you'll end up recirculating warm air outside the case, and internally, you're blowing hot air towards the GPU (in standard ATX tower layout). You're also going to get a lot of dust, since most cases don't have top air filters.
@@michaelschueffler A cheap magnetic dust filter solves that problem. Recirculating warm air outside the case is assuming the worst case ignoring the environmental heat dissipation. You can make that assumption for any part of the case, because the whole point of air cooling is to have air circulation. It's not that I dismiss the logic behind it, but without restrictions I could assume that the air from the back circulates to the bottom GPU intake and the a top exhaust just circulates to the front. The air blown towards the back of the GPU will most likely be still cooler than the GPU itself not accounting for a backplate. And that's not even considering the turbulence created by a standard GPU installation. The thing is how you model your air flow is probably the most important part. And imho front intakes are a super inefficient relic from the past when HDDs still needed cooling. The turbulence created by a standard GPU position (that ctually blows hot air towards the CPU) and the possible "cannibalization" of front intakes by a top exhaust (like in that one LTT video where they tested their fog machine) are kinda design flaws that cases can struggle with. I also wouldn't mind (in a theoretical case) to have the option to replace some of the pcie brackets with a fan. Purely anecdotic; I can flip my FT03 upside down and basically have a top intake with no temperature change. On the other hand the GPU in a Lian Li Dynamic (air cooled) seems to benefit more from an inversed position. I would just love to try that, but my Arctic Cooling 34 isn't rotatable on AM4 and I don't feel like buying a Noctua just for that.
I've had an idea for a while that you could make a really effective design with: - Horizontal motherboard (like an old-school desktop case) - Bottom intake through a proper pleated furnace filter (not mesh, with it's zero load capacity and high aerodynamic resistance) - 90° rotated CPU cooler, blowing toward the GPU backplate - Negative pressure top exhaust (which would be "side exhaust", in a tower configuration) That gets you lots of filtered, cool air directly on the back of the motherboard to remove heat from non-heatsinked components and high-current traces, and the exhaust fan directly sucks hot air out of the CPU and side-exhausting GPU coolers.
A Dragon has to be good ofc hehe. Furtherly to this 15 bucks - cooler, my 2 well-tested recommendations for low- and mid- budget air coolers are: EKL Ben Nevis for under 25 bucks and the Scythe Mugen 5 for under 50 bucks
I used to love having my CPU heatsink aligned horizontally. Back in the days where my CPU was 65 w and my gou was 150-200w kept everything nice and cool Used to have one of those wrap around thermal right GPU heatsinks as well. Running passively just the CPU fan pulling heat from it. Good times.
Correction: The charts list this as a 120 fan, but as stated earlier in the video, it's a 140 fan. The cooler was tested with the stock 140 fan. Just a typo. Watch our tour of the Shenzhen SEG E-Market (massive electronics marketplace) from 2019! ruclips.net/video/nXWB9GPkm3U/видео.html
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Check out the snow man good budget cooler on Ali express.
Windale 6 cpu cooler in the line up plz
so what about this and a decent fan?
Hello GamersNexus. I have this cooler and it goes by the name Prolimatech Megahalems in the US market. It is a design from 2010. It was a $60-70 cooler back then. And was made for LGA775 or 1155
I am very impressed that you can get this cooling capability for $15
Could it be possible that at least part of the base plate was originally supposed to be for some kind of CPU water cooler, with the scouring being on top as if it has been reversed to be useable again, possibly a project that failed? Just looking for a resomn why it would be milled for no good reason and still be part of a well priced cooler.
The print quality for the dragon looks damn good. They could’ve easily made it look stupidly cheap but didn’t.
Agreed!
definitely, should use this cooler in an MSI build, way better dragon
The dragon subsidized the production cost with a portion of his hoard. Hence the company's airbrush immortalization of his contribution on the heatsink. Sweet business model.
Now it all makes sense!
Smaug: Well played, sir! 👏🏻🐉
I thought you meant the ccp with dragon
Usually yes, but here a literal dragon.
Your future in advertising awaits.
I love the more budget focused reviews!
got to have budget hardware so that the wallet can handle the cost of graphics cards these days
Hey Steve. Please do more Montech reviews. Or Tecware if it is available in the States.
Is the dragon decal cheesy? Yes but I have a certain nostalgia of the 3D art on GPU boxes of the 90s...
That was the best time for GPU box art! Especially the weird werewolf art.
@@GamersNexus or the fairies and anime girls on the fan shrouds of the older Nvidia Cards(2001-2007)
@@Bobis32 yes
Oh the worst ones got to be club 3ds joker face and palits mech frog.
@@Bobis32 yes my 6600 GT had a sweet fairy on the box lol
Man, that dragon decal is pretty sweet! Not my style, but I wish more brands in the states did more unique designs like that. So much more interesting than black, silver, or 6th grade 'gamer' leds
You turned off all the 6th graders here
yep stickers are much more mature than LEDs
The main reason u buy components for your PC.
I bought a case once and the only thing I put in there was dragon stickers. Just because it looks better in a case, than on furniture.
would need to be a new SKU, not everyone likes decals like that. Thus quite a bit more expensive, and it would make the base coolers more expensive too as some sales would be cannibalized
That dragon looks pretty 6th grade 'gamer' to me
All the parts for the silliest build ever are coming together nicely. Coolwhist is gonna be caught off guard when they suddenly sell a bunch of these off the back of a dusty shelf
_technically_ it's even a dual tower cooler, all for $15
hahaha, excellent point -- there's a job for you in marketing!
And it works...
I've actually found many of these unheard of Chinese brands do have good customer service. I once had a UMIDIGI phone and I broke the charging cable by running over it with my chair, so I contacted them because the spare generic cable I had wouldn't fit the phone securely, they said they had no spare cables, but they would send me £15 ($22) to buy a new cable from a different store on Amazon!
Agree, some of these chinese brands have decent customer service for example 8bitdo. My controller joysticks started to break apart and I tried emailing them asking if they sell replacements, they didnt ask for any warranty card or receipt, they just asked me of what part I need to replace and mailing details so they can send me the parts for FREE and that was during the lockdowns and me living in a different country. Respect for that company.
wow, £15 is a lot of money, you can buy a pack of cables in China😂
@@Eliii023 I use a 8bitdo Android controller
They're great actually. Due to just how competitive the local market is, non of them actually make it big enough to, so to speak, corporatize. This result in these brands mostly run by just a few guys and gals with stocks of at most 1000s per stock cycle, which also means that there's very little chance for the head of the company to be disconnect from their customer. Even with the biggest ones that make it to international market, they're usually at most around 20-40 employees.
Isnt 8bitdo japenese?
Try one of the "SNOWMAN" brand coolers on Aliexpress. TechYesCity uses them all the time on builds and it would be nice to see how they really perform. There is one configuration with 6 direct contact copper heat pipes and 2 fans for $22. It's the first item that comes up when you search "snowman cooler".
Damn, that thing's still available? I remember people on buildapc recommending it in 2019.
@@Saltssaumure Ya, well coolers have not changed much since 2019. Then again CM still sells the 212. I stuck on of them friends PC that had his AIO pump die on him around the time of the intel I7 920s or 2008ish.
iirc the difference between the 4 pipes/1 fan and the 6 pipes/2 fans was really small, but the price difference is about 10~15 bucks, so idk, you could maybe get two Arctic fans for your case for that price.
Got two of the 6 heatpipes version, they're absolutely good and well crafted!
@@krisreddish3066 Meanwhile I still run an i7 870.
I'm consistently stunned by how good Steve's Mandarin is whenever he uses it.
Haha, thanks! It's a lot better than in that 2019 video, but still pretty bad on the specific nouns of computers!
@@GamersNexus the tones are always hard for people who aren't used to it. I grew up speaking Cantonese which has 6 tones so that's even more of a challenge. The important part is being comprehensible.
@@GamersNexus to be fair you'd be hitting the "technical words" part of vocab by that point and it's much harder to learn that stuff.
@@GamersNexus maybe hit up Xiaomanyc for some practice.
"Please show me your open loop watercoolers"
"Buy this $15 air cooler"
"Yes!"
I tip my hat to Steve's generosity by supporting the small vendor speaking a foreign language in a foreign country - or by a gracious misunderstanding. Either way, vendor made a buck and GN an interesting video. Its a win-win. 😅
I love how much Steve seems to be having fun with this. We need more of this random stuff where you guys just test random stuff and act like a kid in a candy store 🤣
Kudos for actually having customer support. Imagine if the big companies had these standards for their consumers, instead of all the shady stuff we've been having lately (Newegg, Gigabyte, NZXT...)
Thermalright has recently released a bunch of really good cheap coolers. Should check out how the 50$ pa120 does.
Working on it!
@@GamersNexus Thermalright's thermal pads have amazingly good performance. Maybe you could test them out?
@keep rollin Nice spam.
You think $50 coolers are cheap?
"Cheap" coolers need to cost the same as the price difference between an OEM CPU, and one with the cooler.
And they need to perform better.
@@Prophes0r Cheap in comparison to other dual tower dual fan coolers, like the NH-D15, DRP4, and Fuma 2.
I love Steve's enthusiasm and general happy demeanor while talking about this. Certainly the recent reporting they have done re: Newegg, etc. is important, but I'm glad y'all find the time to make videos like this.
I really enjoy these fun, weird, budget cooler reviews. Please try the AliExprese “Snowman” cooler next! Around $20 cost, unsure if that includes shipping
Please!
I love seeing Steve having fun in a more cheerful funny type of video, his laugh is great and the fact this was filmed by hand rather than a tripod really helped the casual feeling. Great stuff!
I hadn't noticed til I read this, but yeah, totally. I love the vibe of this video
@@monte0704 Plus handcam makes the zoom on Steve's face and cameraman interaction a lot easier and even better/smoother than usual
he still managed to put Newegg on blast there, but did it with a smile so yeah nice to see
that's a lot of fins and a lot of heatpipes for 15-20$
If you could actually get the heatsink for $15 it might be worth getting a good 140mm fan (you can get a 140mm Noctua fan for $20 on sale). Those test results with the bad fan make me wonder what you could do with a good one.
definitely!
$10 Arctic P14 = gg?
This will be great when my entire neighborhood needs 500 brand new CPU coolers in a couple years when Windows 10 loses support
If you are having issues with Windows 11 you have a bad computer.
@@dhjohns1956 Or it's even slightly old. Microsoft's requirements are stupid.
@@dhjohns1956 About 50% of enterprise computers in the developed world are not suitable for Windows 11 according to current requirement.
In addition, people in developing countries who use components that are 2~3 gens earlier than the current gen.
You need to understand that you and your neighborhood do not represent the world. Otherwise you will remain very biased for various matters.
@@patrickH206 Pretty sure components that are 3 to 4 generations old are very common even in developed countries.
@@mingyi456 3-4generations? i was about to upgrade and the chip apocalypse hit. for now im still on sandy bridge-im sure there are plenty of others in the same boat
It's sad when you think about how overall decent this cooler is that some big brand expensive coolers are trash.
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You're just buying their name brand not the actual product's performance.
Cause they're that big, then they can just be lazy. Lol
It's more like the bar for REALLY low end coolers has become really easy to reach.
I have several coolers from AliExpress that cost less than $10 USD and are perfectly functional.
I even have 2 different coolers with heat pipes that cost $3 and $4 respectively. Those ones needed some gentle adjustment. And I ended up flattening them and doing a quick lapping job. But still, getting the job 97% done from the factory, and doing a bit of light finishing work yourself can be acceptable in certain situations.
(I bought them for an ultra budget build, and to have coolers that I wouldn't really mind breaking if I needed to hack together custom mounting solutions.)
Yep we pay for the brand name not the quality
Not really brand name per se. Yes they play a part, but we mostly pay for their staffing, engineering and marketing budget, which very small amount actually goes into actually making the products.
Like seriously, how much can some heatpipes and aluminium panels cost?
@@berryquick6224 I will say some companies are worth paying extra for the customer service, but we have seen how poor that is from many big names. Heck this Chinese company gave him better service than many US based firms.
Even though Noctua is the best brand in terms of performance, I gotta admit I've really been missing out a ton on these cheaper coolers, especially when building for others.
Noctua being the best in terms of performance is questionable at their respective price ranges. Not terrible coolers by any means, but their prices make them perhaps not as good of a choice as they are often made out to be.
With Noctua, you get excellent quality, ESPECIALLY the fans, and you usually get more accessories coming with them, and installation is typically quite easy. You also get a 6 year warranty and better customer service. Noctua will send you mounting upgrade kits for FREE. I got a completely free AM4 mounting kit for my old Noctua cooler when it was already past its warranty, and that model was probably already about 8 or more years old at that point.
@@nunyabeeswax3012 Agreed but the lifetime cost of Noctua is a lower.
Just think about how Noctua would just dominate every other brand of their coolers/fans were as cool looking as they were temp-wise.
@@unitedfools3493 Many of us say it's expensive to be poor, it takes money to make money, buy once cry once et al. It's one of the ways the poors stay poor so effectively; they can't buy things in bulk or quality things.
Dragon Decals lowers temps by 5C. Scientifically verified.
Yeah, the dragon on the cooler keeps away the heat, as it breathes fire
For $15 you really can’t complain! Dell should buy all of the stock left and greatly improve there systems.
Best comment.
*their
better yet HP
16:55 Reminds me of the way the Chinese govt build huge skyrise apartment blocks right next to a few small houses who have refused to sell their homes to the developer. Personally even if this was free I wouldn't stick the god-awful ugly monstrosity in any case I built.
Looks like someone got the leftover Thermalright tooling and put it to good use 😂
We're actually working on some Thermalright tests, too!
@@GamersNexus awesome, they used to be so popular back with the ultra 120 extreme I can't believe they lost that huge edge they had back then.
Looks like a copy of the Prolimatech Megahalems or Mega Shadow, with some minor differences (missing groves on the heat sink.
EDIT: The dimensions are a bit bigger than the Megahalems, too.)
A very good and pricey cooler back in the days of Sandy Bridge and Phenom II.
The company is long gone.
I still have a Prolimatech Genesis, a real giant in a case. To work around it makes you go mad...
The split design is definitely inspired by it, any 6x6 heatsink is going to be somewhat decent as long as the cold plate isn't complete garbage at this point though lol.
I used to have the Genesis too, it's magnificent as long as you don't have to work on your pc
Steve, on the charts you have the fan listed as 120 mm instead of 140 mm
Yeah i noticed that too. I thought he changed it to another fan.
Thanks. That's an error.
This cooler design is incredibly reminiscient of the Prolimatech Megahalems.
This cooler having a pretty good build minus the fan is actually excellent for budget builds. Speaking personally, I like the fact that when I buy a set of RGB fans for a case, one of which will be replacing the cooler fan anyway, the money I spent on the cooler seems to mostly have gone into the actual cooler itself, rather than having a better fan but worse cooler.
This is exactly what I did recently, built an SFF system with a 12400f and a low profile downdraft Jonsbo cooler (CR-701) that I got on sale for $15AUD (may as well be free!).
I just used random bits laying around to hardmount it as it was not designed for LGA1700, and swapped the fan (more a sidegrade than upgrade) for a coolermaster ARGB to match the others which I already had.
End result looks great, beats the stock cooler and hums away at a reasonable volume.. far from perfect in any metric but for $15? How could I possibly complain about that
It would be interesting to see how well it performs with a 20$ fan like the NF-F12. The overall price is still 35$ ideally, which could be a pretty good deal depending on what socket you are.
Put a Arctic P14 on it since you're already going for the budget route. Also 140 noctua fans aren't particularly good.
@@maozedowner5915 arctic p14 are amazing value
@@maozedowner5915 the noctua industrial 3,000 rpm 140mm is great.
This is exactly what I was thinking. "What if you put another fan on it" and what kind of performance will you get then. And ideally a range of fans like 3 - 5 some cheapo fans from reputable brands. Some good fans and battle it out
@@budgetking2591 I put 2 of those as intake in my case and they reach maximum cooling performance at 30% fan speed.
I can't get any better temperature if I set them faster. They are dead quite at that fan speed so I'm happy with that
这款神奇的中国散热器，竟然在中国的淘宝没有售卖。我反而在亚马逊搜索到了。😊
I don't know what it says but I upvoted it.
@@indiepyx translation: Surprisingly, I was unable to find this cooler on taobao, instead I found it being sold on amazon.
@@ifyouwantmoneythengivemeev8094 it says in translated by Google: This magical Chinese radiator is not sold on Taobao in China. I found it on Amazon instead.
@@ifyouwantmoneythengivemeev8094 yes
@@prla5400 good
Lol! Love the reason how you accidentally purchased the air cooler. Good reason as any!
I don’t even need a cpu cooler, but I watched the whole thing. Always love your vids. Thanks for the entertainment Steve and Co. :)
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This cooler would actually fit my use case perfectly. I have a Ryzen 3200G APU no graphics card. So having the fan mounted on the bottom would be fine. I have 120mm exhaust fans top and rear with 140mm front intake fans. Would love to see what this cooler would do with a spare BeQuiet 140mm fan. As a builder I often have spare fans lying around.
Indeed, more than just the standard layout.
There's actually a decent percentage of companies in China, that don't really mind that much when somebody uses an IP or straight up, takes someone else's product without asking. Especially when so many aren't patented. The vaping industry is really into that stuff. Then again, all those Chinese Vape Companies are in the same neighborhood/building/factory, in Shenzhen. lol
Just saying, the yongsan pc market in South Korea is also quiet big, and is also an AMAZING place for flagship pc parts.
I think Steve is right about the "doing something different" thing.
Big companies play safe and safe in design usually amounts to boring.
I'm not saying go steal images but think outside the box like Yeston.
Consider GPUs, the back is the boring part, let's make it the interesting side so it looks nice in a case.
Remember the limited edition Assassin's Creed Origins card? More things like that, doesn't even have to be a licensed product either.
Usually around the same price you can find a Snowman 6 heatpipe dual tower cooler from aliexpress. Would like to see it professionally tested have only seen a couple videos about it. Seems like the only one actually worth possibly waiting for shipping. Every other has a comparable priced local counterpart. But getting a dual fan double tower for $20 might actually be more of a value.
Damn, at $15 per unit at bulk for that performance I could definitely see a SI using that for entry level systems, even if they have to replace the fan and cover the copyrighted art.
The human eye can't even see more than $8 dollars.
And one tube of thermal paste
I feel like this actually has some upgrading potential.
I would love to see what this cooler can do with a proper fan...
Wait! That is looks just like the Prolimatech MegaHalems?!?!
Hey GN, please check out the Snowman CPU cooler on AE
Would have liked to have seen what the cooler could do with a better and more efficient fan.
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honestly any hyper 212 style cpu cooler will be way better then any over priced AIO bull crap
Dbrand needs to make cooler fin stack stickers to make up for their PS5 case sticker losses.
Kinda looks like a Prolimatech Megahalems ripoff, which was a wildly popular some 10-15 years ago!
Gotta love budget stuff that works well
Move over, Lucky, THIS is what a DRAGON looks like!
Nice, this looks like it comes from the same factory Prolimatech Megahalems were made back in the day(now Prolimatech Basic 83 on aliexpress). That was one mighty cool, and cool looking cooler, back in the day ~2010. The original top is Transformers like motif xD. It's a shame Prolimatech as a brand folded. At least the factory is still making similar heatsinks!
I still own my "first tower cooler" Prolimatech Mega Shadow which was the full nickel-plated limited "deluxe version" of the Megahalems, and I'm hoping to display it as an art/show piece together with a Crosshair IV Formula, Geil Black Dragon Evo One RAM, Zaward Golf G3 and a Scythe Gentle Typhoon.
You're not suggesting that a Chinese manufacturer may have breached "copyright" legislation ??? Surely not..
Its a knock off to my Chinese Snowman M-T4..
Its been tested in Australia by a YT'r and provided better results than AMD stock coolers.
How about not ordering from any company that uses Fedex for delivery? I ordered a 5600x from B&H and Fedex attempted one delivery on a Sunday when I was not home. They did not try to deliver again, message me (I have a Fedex account...), or anything. After not hearing anything the next thing I receive is an email from B&H saying that my return/refund is confirmed? WTF? I feel bad for B&H since they shipped the product, but Fedex F***ed up as usual. I refuse to purchase anything from a company that uses Fedex for delivery.
That cooler almost looked like Prolimatech Megahalem but with dragon slapped on the top
I would've liked to see it put on an overclocked 12900k, for science.
Oh your Mandarin improving greatly :) Remember LIAN LI ! 2 words 2 sounding then is correct ,unlike English Li An Li .
dammn this looks COOL i would even pay 25,- for this 😁
newegg, gigabyte and nzxt can learn a lot from this company 🤣
I would love to see how this cooler could perform with a better fan.
GN can review snowman air cooler from Ali express and both four and six heat pipe air cooler both has good reviews by hardware canucks
Copy of the legendary Prolimatech Megahalems.
The miscommunication over the cooler reminds me of my vegetarian sister. She studied Spanish in College while working on her masters and went to Honduras for a few weeks. She tried to order a beer and they brought her cow tongue.
Not for long it's not!
$15*
Welp, I should have watched the video first.
Jesus walked on WATER !! How could you forget Water ??? lol
To be fair though, I do the same thing a lot when I don't understand the question ...in English... 😂
Looks like a knock-off megahalems, it's probably been about 10 years since I've heard about one of those, is Prolimatech still going?
Look very similiar to Prolimatech Megahalems cooler design. Pretty cool!
Man this one looks exactly like the old Prolimatech Megahalems Cooler! if anyone remembers that one 😅
that game looks like 100% a WoW clone, complete with stolen gear sets from BC and Wrath.
I've no need for a budget air cooler, but I hit the video immediately upon seeing it in my recommended. This channel has motivated me to work harder as a Mechanical Engineer. Thank you for your passionate, honest reporting and attention to detail GN! Also the Micro Center video was great, more field trips please!
hey scalpers, here's an opportunity for you to buy 500 coolers and sell them all for $30 each
Before the intro, and wow, that looked an awful lot like a Prolimatech Megahalems.
Based on their customer service maybe it actually was licensed for the game
this cooler....gives me Prolimatech Megahalems vibe.
Looks like a Prolimatech Megahalems with dragons
This cooler looks a lot like one of the all time greats from the yesteryears, the Prolimatech Megahalems
the dragon looks real good imagine if the eyes glow according to the temp of the fins or cpu
You should buy 500 units and then resell them to your fans on gn store. i'd buy one
reminds me of a prolimatech megahalems
They sent you an AM4 mounting kit for $4 bucks?! Holy S**T! O_O I did NOT expect that from such a cheap cooler at all. How many cooler brands will actually send you mounting kits for cheap?
Keep in mind also that an AM4 mounting kit is particularly useful, as it will also work with AM5 motherboards as well (according to AMD).
Noctua sends you mounting kits of other sockets for free
Around 11:30, you guys decide to use a new type of graphic to show exactly what you're talkin about with the pressure, and I think that is a fantastic choice, whoever's idea that was gets a high five from me
People really be scalping even the O11 Evo, huh? Sad times...
Looks like the old prolimatech megahalems...
That's a pretty sick decal.
They actually sent the AM4 kit?
wow.
Review the Pentium G7400 pls
I would just show the vendor a photo of an open loop water cooling system from my phone and ask if they have anything similar.
Not on Amazon. Not on eBay. Not on Newegg. Neat.
Impressed by your enunciation of Chinese. It's at leasr 2 tiers above "It's not Dell" award!
Same design as prolimatech megahalems
That was a fan-tastic video. *Joke*
Can you test the Gammaxx 400 as a budget CPU cooler. It really is $15-20 (depends on color) without having to buy in bulk and I'm having good results with using it to overclock the iGPU in my 5700G and I'm curious to see how it compares to other coolers.
LOL! I just watched Jayz by a GPU mystery box from Amazon and now this!!🤡 You could flatten that surface by putting wet & dry 360 grit sandpaper, securely held down on all 4 corners, on a very flat surface, and running the "copper" part back and forth. This would be like lapping it.
@Gamers Nexus: This looks like a Prolimatech Megahalems. I had one in a ~2007 build. Very good performing cooler back then. I imagine that the designs were bought and modernised for newer CPUs.
Fantastic work RE Artesan Builds and Newegg reporting. Loved the BB episode where you helped a guy out. I read it on reddit and wasn't expecting it to be in a YT vid!
I actully still use the Megahalems with a Noctua AM4 mounting kit. Works like a charm! Outperforms anything but the D15.
Next time you're looking for anything with liquid cooling, just bring Jay along. His vibes alone will make everyone in the store understand that it's liquid cooling you're after.
Pulling / Pushing Air from the top of the case sounds actually good to me for an air cooled build. Are there similar coolers?
I always wanted to do a top-to-bottom airflow build (or vice versa) since the silverstone ft03 (the new alta series just doesn't cut it for me). With almost every case having top mounts for 120 fans this makes makes more sense than pulling air from the sides and trying to push it out through that single hole in the back. Or maybe even bottom / top in and side out?
top intake generally doesn't make much sense because you'll end up recirculating warm air outside the case, and internally, you're blowing hot air towards the GPU (in standard ATX tower layout). You're also going to get a lot of dust, since most cases don't have top air filters.
@@michaelschueffler A cheap magnetic dust filter solves that problem. Recirculating warm air outside the case is assuming the worst case ignoring the environmental heat dissipation. You can make that assumption for any part of the case, because the whole point of air cooling is to have air circulation. It's not that I dismiss the logic behind it, but without restrictions I could assume that the air from the back circulates to the bottom GPU intake and the a top exhaust just circulates to the front.
The air blown towards the back of the GPU will most likely be still cooler than the GPU itself not accounting for a backplate. And that's not even considering the turbulence created by a standard GPU installation.
The thing is how you model your air flow is probably the most important part. And imho front intakes are a super inefficient relic from the past when HDDs still needed cooling. The turbulence created by a standard GPU position (that ctually blows hot air towards the CPU) and the possible "cannibalization" of front intakes by a top exhaust (like in that one LTT video where they tested their fog machine) are kinda design flaws that cases can struggle with. I also wouldn't mind (in a theoretical case) to have the option to replace some of the pcie brackets with a fan.
Purely anecdotic; I can flip my FT03 upside down and basically have a top intake with no temperature change. On the other hand the GPU in a Lian Li Dynamic (air cooled) seems to benefit more from an inversed position.
I would just love to try that, but my Arctic Cooling 34 isn't rotatable on AM4 and I don't feel like buying a Noctua just for that.
I've had an idea for a while that you could make a really effective design with:
- Horizontal motherboard (like an old-school desktop case)
- Bottom intake through a proper pleated furnace filter (not mesh, with it's zero load capacity and high aerodynamic resistance)
- 90° rotated CPU cooler, blowing toward the GPU backplate
- Negative pressure top exhaust (which would be "side exhaust", in a tower configuration)
That gets you lots of filtered, cool air directly on the back of the motherboard to remove heat from non-heatsinked components and high-current traces, and the exhaust fan directly sucks hot air out of the CPU and side-exhausting GPU coolers.
A Dragon has to be good ofc hehe. Furtherly to this 15 bucks - cooler, my 2 well-tested recommendations for low- and mid- budget air coolers are: EKL Ben Nevis for under 25 bucks and the Scythe Mugen 5 for under 50 bucks
The one with the sticker above is a classic though...
just search for Vanessa CPU cooler (was my first CPU cooler)
From a brief look, it has the resemblance of the Prolimatech Megahalems. It sucks that Prolimatech doesn't offer AM4 support.
I used to love having my CPU heatsink aligned horizontally.
Back in the days where my CPU was 65 w and my gou was 150-200w kept everything nice and cool
Used to have one of those wrap around thermal right GPU heatsinks as well. Running passively just the CPU fan pulling heat from it. Good times.