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Review on Zalman Performa Performance Powerful Included by o Bnh ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

The item is average, not sure if it's worth the money.

Why does this model have so many positive reviews? Bought for them. As for me, a terrible cooler, before that it was Thermaltake, it worked for 5 years without a single failure, under any loads the minimum temperatures, never even changed the thermal paste under it, I had to change it due to switching to another socket. Let's start with the fact that the cooler makes it difficult to set the RAM bar, the radiator fins are very low, you can, of course, pull the fan up to the limit, but then the two lower fins are not involved. The surface of the base, by eye, was processed with a chainsaw, an hour was spent polishing with fine-grained sandpaper on glass. And now about the saddest thing, the fan . is terribly balanced, even the figure eight at 1000 rpm is visible to the eye, put it on the table turned on, almost ran away from me. At 1500 rpm, a terrible low-frequency rumble, and not from the air flow, but from the bearing. I had to buy and install a deepcool fan, that's where the silence is, you can't really hear it, and the airflow is higher, after the replacement the temperature dropped by about 5 degrees. Complete disappointment, I will never again purchase cooling systems from Zelman, no matter what they write there, Thermaltake and DeepCool are at least 20-30% more expensive, but many times better and more durable.

Pros
  • Copes with cooling, perhaps everything.
Cons
  • Low height to radiator fins. HORRIBLE fan. Poor polishing quality.