On Montag 01 Dezember 2008, Martin Herrman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2008, Martin Herrman wrote: > >> I'm using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro at my Q9300. > > > > oh great. AC ... > > > > just make sure to check the fan A LOT. AC fans are highly susceptible to > > dust. More so than any other fan. They also need a lot of room around > > the fan so the 'air vortex' can build up - without it they have a abysmal > > throughput. So no cables or anything else next to it! > > Well, reviews I read were positive about this cooler, and it does it's > job well as I'm aware of. Thanks anyway for the warning, I checked for > cables and fortunately that's not an issue. In my previous PC I had a > Zalman, the copper part became very dusty too.
because reviews only test for a view minutes in nice, big cases, with good cable managment. Reviews never test a cooler over a couple of month. AC gets good reviews, but if you don't clean the fan a lot or there is a lot of dust in the air, the FAN suffers a lot. Their open spindle is very sensitive. I don't like Zalman. No way to change the cooler. Stupid fastening system, no pwm.
