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welcome back to tech s city and this is the dark coming back to you guys today with one of those reviews about the CNP s 14 speed Zalman 140 millimeter fan CPU cooler now this thing is a strong strongly not recommended I do not recommend this unless you got it given to you for free even then the hassle and the pain of installing this thing might want might make you want to throw it in the bin so anyway this thing I'm gonna quickly be reviewing this because I just don't want to spend too much time on it literally I couldn't even be bothered throwing up charts because I'm not gonna recommend this cooler I'll just talk about the temps that I got on this when I was testing it when I was doing the AMD testing on this test bench here but ultimately let's talk about the positives because there's so many negatives to go through and there's so little positives I'll quickly mention the positives the first positive is that the CPU cooler once it's installed after you finally get it installed it actually does look pretty good I mean it looks pretty big it looks good in your rig I do like the styling of it the next good point is that it does cool reasonably well I mean it's better than the stock cooler for cooling performance once I got it installed it was I did an Ida sixty-four 30-minute benchmark and it was a I think the ambient temperatures were nine degrees I was really cold but I only managed to get it up to 29 degrees so it was a 20 degree Delta at 4.4 gigs on the AMD CPU so it is about 20 degrees and I did it test it in the Zalman case but that's only for five minutes we're gonna test it a little bit more I was doing a fine job at four point four gigs so it does cool okay not as good as the animatics t 40 I know that because then ni max to 40 is a beast anyway this thing yeah there there the two good points that I can think of let's get on to the bad points straight away the first thing is you're installing this CPU cooler the fins are really sharp so if you're a diabetic with thin skin on your hands or your hands cut easily you may be cutting your hands on this thing it wasn't you know my hands are okay but I just thought damn you know even coolers ten years back in the day like an old Knox you're cool that I my way back we're gonna what cpu cooler I put it on back in 2006 maybe to that five even that was fine I mean that didn't have sharp edges this thing really was just like cut like in the factory you you you let's let's release some ninja knives to people and call it a CPU fan because essentially yeah you cut your hands on this pretty easily I think they're pretty sharp definitely a lot sharper than the NMAC 40 and I'm gonna be comparing this throughout the review to the NMAC 40 because they're similarly priced I mean this is about this was about thirty dollars the Animax was thirty dollars however it went up to 34 dollars and I thought hell I'll try a new CPU cooler and I get to give you guys a review as well but in hindsight I wish I had never got this cooler man like let's get on to the worst part was installing this thing holy crap when I got the instruction manuals out they just clumped Intel AMD everything together just clumped it all in one section and you had to read the whole thing and free-for-all it and then the pictures were illustrating the installations so bad there was just there was no circle or no sort of there was no sort of enlarged graph on what point they were talking about they just put the diagram in two parts and just said okay and you just had to look really closely and you're like oh there's the subtle difference right there like definitely if you if you if your eyesight wasn't 20/20 you freaking probably wouldn't even see the difference in the instruction manual that's how about poorly written the instruction manual was for this thing now let's get onto the other part of the installation installing this thing was just like a ghetto job because I had mounted it to my test bench and I didn't realize but once I took it out of my test bench which took forever and got it installed in the Zalman z3 plus I realized that holy crap this CPU cooler I mean they gave you this double-sided tape and it came off and you couldn't install it again it was just useless I had to get some nail polish remover and get it off because half of it came off and half of it was stuck on the friggin base still so I ended up I'm now using it in the Zeeman zelmans III plus case which is a fantastic case by the way but I'm using that with just no double-sided tape I just decided to leave it out I mean why they even included it if it was so bad it's just beyond me they could have saved themselves some money because you don't even need the double-sided tape but stupid there as well now the worst thing this is the worst thing right when you're installing it it's like you're sitting there and you're like okay is this right is this how I install it and then you finally get it install once you're clamping down the screws and they pretty much clamp in but there's no washer there's no bolt in between it's just like this free ghetto spring mechanism that they're using it's absolutely horrid I've never seen anything worse for clamping down a CPU cooler in my life I mean even the stock intel on the stock AMD cooled this clamp down miles better than this thing and that leads me on to the other bad point about this cooler is it's so hard to screw the fricken cooler in like once if you need to take it out if you've just got your whole rig installed and you've got to maybe remove the CPU cooler because you want to replace the CPU paste or you want to tighten it down again you literally are in fat luck because you can't get this CPU cooler clamped down again and which you know and honestly it will inevitably come loose because of the ghetto spring mechanism pulling against the bolt because there's no washer there's no sort of tension bolt in between it's just there's this spring well there's this metal piece of metal that's pushing against the bolt which over time it will come loose and so if you want to pull it and tighten it again you're gonna have to take your whole rig out whole motherboard out and then get to it with their little lake ghetto screw thing and yeah like literally this thing is just horrid do not buy it I'm surprised that in 2014 or two I don't know when this reserve weighs maybe two last year 2013 I'm surprised they could release a cool of this bad I mean did they test this thing themselves before they sold it because I mean yeah the the spring tension is gonna be point and I couldn't even get into the top-left corner when I try to tighten them down again on zelmans III click case I could tighten three of them but I couldn't tighten the top left corner was like impossible so even if my baby even if I could have the hands of the size of my baby I couldn't install this cooler so absolutely horrid point there what else was just there and this is now let's get on to another bad point about this case so sorry I got to tell you guys why you shouldn't be buying this freaking cooler the noise it's just horrible they say here on the back let's have a look here low noise they say here low noise 140 millimeter p WM fan with nut low noise let me play the noise for you right now is that low noise to you man I noticed it straight away coming from my inner max T 42 this thing it was horrid the noise was bad it was the worst fan in my whole system and it shouldn't be especially when the CPU cooler is really cool they should have a switching mechanism that goes from low to high where they right here on their box conveniently no switching noise no switching noise what switches on a CPU cooler make no noise when my Animax changes speeds the fan just simply ramps up so really god damn I mean Animax really have to pay attention to detail because this thing is hard ah and there's another bad point let me talk about another hard point of this cooler it wobbles even if you tighten it to the extreme which I did this thing just wobbles it wobbles it wobbled on my test bench it wobbled it's wobbling in the zelmans III so they should have renamed this cooler the Zalman CNP s 14 speed wobble because it'll wobble for 10 times harder than any CPU cooler you used to so honestly yet I mean it come like a little good point about it they do include some thermal grease and stuff like that but yeah I mean honestly I cannot recommend this cooler it was just a horrible experience okay so in conclusion I cannot recommend this CPU in any circumstances it was just a it was the worst experience I've ever had with the CPU cooler and this is going back from memory even back when I was installing CPU coolers in like 2005 and I mean that that's what that was when the market was still relatively young that was when the CPU cooler it was kind of just starting to get some traction and getting popularity this thing is like 2013 I don't even know when was this thing released 2012 but I mean modern CPU cool like this sucking this bad is just not on like I mean it really did not hit any points for me I mean it did look good but hey for me looks do not really matter on a rig I mean I'm not sitting here looking at my rig 24/7 I'm playing video games doing content for you guys or working on my computer so it looks really don't bother me you know I'd rather have the ugliest CPU cooler in the world that's a breeze to install and performs really well then have this thing which is a good-looking CPU cooler with high noise and a horrid installation and I even dread the day when I'm gonna have to read 10 retighten the bolts on my AMD ring so god I just yet I cannot recommend this CPU cool on any circumstances I hope you guys enjoyed this review I mean I didn't enjoy yeah I didn't this product was just frustrating I didn't enjoy doing it so I really want to just get on with this get on to the next review so I'll be reviewing an SSD soon and also I will be you guys can say hello to the ghetto highs as they're sitting there but anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I'm gonna go now and peace out and if you did like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions about this CPU cooler which I don't think you should have I just yet seriously don't don't buy it let's just this is just one of those things that you you know you don't talk about you just you know one of those embarrassing things you don't talk about and you don't tell your kids about this is that CPU cooler anyway guys peace out for now bye