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right here on this little motherboard beside me I have a cooler mounted on it and it's not just any cooler it cost me three dollars and it's brand new I think this is the cheapest new cooler I've ever bought in my life also comes with a blue LED fan and promises to cool a nice seven but actually Kenneth let's find out so here this cooler is right here on the desk it's a zero it's made in China it's got a heap of Chinese characters on there which I can't read says it's super silent and it actually comes with the 12-centimeter fan and it promises 48 CFM which I'm kind of a little bit skeptical of those numbers but on the side here it's got compatibility comes with a very simple kit that will mount very easily to indeed the LGA 1156 t6 and also 2011 though I would caution mounting it to both 1366 and 2011 because they have higher TDP CPUs that I honestly think will overload this cooler wayne this cooler up it weighs in at a monstrous 167 grams which actually for three dollars isn't too bad at all that's without the mounting kit but here's the mounting kit right here it's actually the same one that antec used on their a 32 well that said we've got this thing mounted on an i7 3770 we've even used the included thermal paste in the box so let's give it a whirl so I am shocked this thing is actually not throttling so at first I was looking at the graph and I'll seeing it and it was going up and up and up and I was like no way this is not gonna make it but then it's sort of plateaued out at around 90 degrees now it is not optimal to keep your CPU at around these temperatures especially 24/7 but at the same time it's not going to be too bad so does getting to 94 degrees but it is running at pretty low voltage one point one volts not draining up a lot of heat and so if you guys are experienced with laptop CPUs they actually do run a lot of the times constantly at 90 to 95 degrees somewhere around there so it's kind of I guess you're getting laptop style performance on your desktop PC and another thing to remember is that this is a stress test and it is loading up the CPU like a hundred percent complete so usually games won't stress CPUs like this and not nearly as much so you could see maybe around 80 degrees in games but we will be testing that and also I'm gonna let it run until about thirty minutes just to see if it does throw so here we are now we're running the noise tests and this thing shocked me it's running as low as 28 decibels so they do say it's super silent on the box and it is literally whisper quiet I cannot hear it at all I actually had to stop my graphics card here to fan on that to get a proper reading because before that this thing was running at about 43 decibel mind-blowing so far so here we are now after 30 minutes of testing and I'm completely blown away so we haven't thermal throttled at all max we've hit is 95 degrees and admittedly it is a little bit of a cooler day it's not summer so in summer this thing might actually strata so it is 22 degrees but like we're talking about before games don't stress the CPU generally anywhere near like out of 64 so what we're gonna do now is load up games especially pub G comes to mind very popular title pretty CPU intense but of course we do need a more powerful graphics card so we just finished playing pop G and the results are surprisingly good this managed to keep the CPU in around the 60 to 70 degree range and pop G does utilize quite a bit of CPU the RX 580 that we're using here was sitting at 100% as well so that's really good news for this little cooler right here however all is not perfect with the $3.00 cooler there's a normal one there that is what you'd expect it works absolutely fine and then we go over to this one here and we try to spin it we see the fan blade is not only slowing down quickly it's also making this really obnoxious noise so if you do come into this cooler and you do get that noise there's an easy way to fix it and that is just what I call the tech yes-man grille that is grab it then just give it a little bit of a sort of like a flex always it's really sort of crunching it up there perfect and so we've got dota 2 loaded up here we can see the FPS on the 3770 is actually really damn high GPUs loaded 100% so we've actually turned the settings down from 1440p high to medium to try and stress the CPU a little bit more so we'll give this a good 20 minutes of gameplay and then come back and see how the CV is holding up so just finish playing up dota 2 then and play the full match on the ez bot mode of course it's so easy to get kills on this mode but nonetheless we stress test the CPU because I turn the settings down as we said before and that enabled the CPU to get up to about 82 degrees so I'm actually really comfortable considering that is a worst-case scenario for it in games because it's then stressing the CPU a little bit more than the usual gamer would be used to but regardless it's still impressive so let's move on now to a conclusion so now we've got the verdict on the $3 cooler and I mean I think the three dollars in itself justifies how impressed I am with this little thing right here now I did get a heap of them and one of them did have a problem with a noisy fan rattling fan and easily fix that by doing the man grip as we saw before but besides that I mean the quality control I'm sure is not as good as more expensive companies but this is a cooler that's coming in usually at a fifth of the price of anything in its league and I had sad thing is I couldn't find this up on Aliexpress anymore so it's three dollars for the cooler one dollar for shipping and it it made it's really lightweight comes in at 160 grams and the closest thing I can now find on it is about four dollars and it's got a different fan it looks like it's the same heatsink so this looks like it's a standardized heatsink design from some factory but the fan they've put on the one on Aliexpress that's available now is a little bit smaller so I'm not sure if that will handle the i7 but also the other benefit of it was that it was indeed really silent like it said on the Box 28 decibels some of the quietest fans I've ever heard in my life so not a bad job I mean some of these experiments thank you guys for recommending them to me I'm definitely gonna keep looking out for things like this I'm glad I did grab a couple of them because they're really going to help if I've got a standardized build especially with an i-5 in it and I need to sell it and I need a cooler and it's got a blue LED fan too to go on top this surprise I mean I pay you in Australia like three dollars for a piece of sushi I should just maybe start eating this instead though with all that aside I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below have you ever tried something like this if so what was your experience like if not will you give it a shot loved reading thoughts and 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