Review on DEEPCOOL Gamma Archer CPU Air Cooler with 120mm Fan for Intel and AMD Processors - High Airflow Design by Alvin Siah ᠌

Name: DEEPCOOL Gamma Archer CPU Air Cooler with 120mm Fan for Intel and AMD Processors - High Airflow Design
Item: DEEPCOOL Gamma Archer CPU Air Cooler with 120mm Fan for Intel and AMD Processors - High Airflow Design
Rating: 4

December 28, 2022

Good value for money, I recommend it.

Cool - cool, what else to ask for? Do overclocking under this, bet on some old 6-core atlons or 10900k? Obviously not about him.
By the way, the mass of the radiator itself is 170g. For example, in the photo next to this archer - a radiator from some box from the 478th socket - weight 330g.
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Pros

- Design. So, no matter how strange it may sound, but just look at an ordinary box from some 1151: a small nondescript bag and a "huge" (special quotes) blue archer with a bizarre shape. The choice is clear. - Fan - "120" mm (why in quotes - see minuses) - lower speed to create the same flow as in 90s. We win in silence. - Fastening through a bracket. Not an obvious plus. But if you have Intel and decide to upgrade the cooler, you can use the secondary and find all sorts of incomplete COs from old systems - after all, you already have a mounting frame. In addition (I'm talking about archer now), for me personally, it's easier to install and remove than the ala boxing option through "bugs". - Heatsink height (pure heatsink, without fan) - 40mm + large gaps between the heatsink fins - a good option for installation in any slim case with (ala Foxconn rs-338) 80-100mm. You can remove the standard fan from the archer, and instead attach it to the case wall - 120/140mm with pwm. - The price is cheap and cheerful.

Cons

- Non-standard fan. The seats of this fan are inside and form a square 48x48mm (the corners of the square are the center of the fastening screws). In the case of a fan replacement, you will have to make the mount yourself. - Maintenance-free (sealed) fan. No, it's not funny anymore. Tried to pry - does not lend itself. More than sure that soldered. (I saw this on some kind of glaciate - there, too, at first I thought that a plastic plug was pressed in. As a result, it turned out to be soldered, because when I even drilled a hole and tried to pry it, I did not succumb to the word "completely". Here, I I think the same). - Fan - 3 pin. And the real 3 pin. (Let me clarify. Some manufacturers do something to distinguish between models: they put the same fans, but one is soldered as 3 pins, and the other as 4 pins.) For the sake of interest, I even drilled out places for soldering the wire. 3 pin and there is no space for the 3rd wire on the board. I looked at the fan motor driver - the sip 4 case (having looked at the driver right away, it was possible not to drill, but didn’t think of something) marking 211 PG10T - I couldn’t find anything, but most likely it doesn’t differ much from the same Allegra A1262. - Like 120. That's just to the bottom of the fan there is a narrowing and the blades are "cut". Take a look at any 120 for a case. But this was done for obvious reasons - an attempt to increase the flow rate at the outlet (in fact, it would be interesting to compare, under the same conditions, the native fan on the archer and one of the dip cool catalog without narrowing (usual for the case) - the same uf120.)