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Review on Deepcool GAMMAXX 300 CPU cooler, silver/black/blue by Micha ukasiewicz

Revainrating 5 out of 5

It's the best purchase I ever made, I will definitely do it again.

I installed it on Core i7-3770 (TDP 77 W, without overclocking). In a 20 minute stress test (LinX/linpack), the peak temperature of the cores was 70 degrees (Arctic Cooling MX-4 thermal paste). Before that, there was DEEPCOOL Alta 10 - it reached 78 degrees with it, and it made more noise. The revolutions change from 1000 to 1600 per minute. The cooler is mounted on metal brackets, can be easily removed and can be replaced with a similar one (not necessarily the same round one :) In addition, you can move the fan to the other side of the radiator, although the branded round fan is still a little "one-sided" - you can turn it over, but there nuances. But the second set of brackets for attaching the second cooler is not included in the kit, alas. Conclusion - an excellent cooler for processors with a TPD of 77 watts. You can even overclock a bit - it will survive. It simply makes no sense to put such cooling on processors with lower power consumption, and on 125-watt processors it is better to find something more solid, like Zalman 10X Performa.

Pros
  • - High-quality cooling; - Compactness (on my motherboard (ASRock Z77 Pro3) the cooler didn't close even the nearest memory slot); - Snap fastening (this is a plus, because you don't need to remove the motherboard to install the cooler); - Smooth, though not polished, base.
Cons
  • - At maximum speed (1600 rpm), the noise, although not strong, is present