For an "active" cooler, it didn't cool any better than the heatsink that came with my motherboard. The fan is generally not very loud and doesn't seem to be doing anything useful. The RGB lighting is poorly diffused and has distinct bright spots for each LED. Color accuracy seems good at best, but they're bright enough. All in all, if you're looking to upgrade without a heatsink by adding a bit of spice to your build, that's probably fine, but if you're looking to keep NVMe temperatures down for read/write-intensive applications, it's probably something you'd prefer spend more for a better solution. .