Arctic Cooling 92mm CPU Cooler (A7P-75000023) Free after $20 Rebate + Free Shipping

Good enough, thanks OP!

Why does it say limited 5 per customer but the heading says 4?

Quote from jackyche : Does it come with thermal compound?

"The pre-applied ARCTIC MX-2 thermal compound and the convenient pushpins by Intel helps save time during installation."

Quote from eecs_guy : Frankly, I am tired of CA tax and Newegg's extremely slow rebates.

Move. It is a free country, you can live wherever you want. There are a few states that have no sales tax, and a few more that have no income tax. No one is holding a gun to your head.

Quote from gimper48 : Agreed Rebates are CRAZY slow. Still waiting 3 months later for 2 of them.

3 months? Maybe that's too long. I just received a rebate last week which I brought on BF.

I used to not mind electronics making noise, but now it drives me nuts. Passive heatsinks or passive liquid is all I will do anymore. I guess I'm actually getting old --I find myself lining my cars with dynomat to kill road noise too. UGH!

These received pretty mediocre user reviews even from others who got them for free after rebate. It doesn't sound like they're much better than a stock heatsink for a low-end processor in terms of cooling, but perhaps a bit quieter on those systems if you run them at a reduced speed.

According to the review at Silent PC Review [silentpcreview.com] (from 2008), the heatsink will probably work fine with lower end processors with a TDP under 65 watts or so, which today would be your Core I3s and Celerons.

Intel CPU coolers w/ pin install. bite. Never again. Back plate types for me.

Quote from suednim : Intel CPU coolers w/ pin install. bite. Never again. Back plate types for me.

Alot of cases today have access to the base of the motherboard, allowing for easy installation/removal of 'back plate types'.If you dont have a case with access to the back plate, these push pin heat sinks are a life saver.


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Quote from gimper48 : Agreed Rebates are CRAZY slow. Still waiting 3 months later for 2 of them.

i dont know about newegg rebates but the ones i have done from tigerdirect is awesome,only about 1 month total, that includes my part with forms and shipping. i just bought something from newegg w/ rebate, u guys are scaring me

Quote from iluvu4eternity : i dont know about newegg rebates but the ones i have done from tigerdirect is awesome,only about 1 month total, that includes my part with forms and shipping. i just bought something from newegg w/ rebate, u guys are scaring me

iluvu4eternity,

Don't sweat it. I filed more than $6000 worth of rebates last year and every rebate arrived. Had to wait on some of them, but everyone arrived.

Most arrived well within the 8-12 week waiting period. The only nightmare I had was with Xigmatek...they finally mailed my last $58 rebate check 14 months after filing for it. That was absolutely insane.

If you follow the simple instructions for each rebate, I have found the companies honor the rebates on a consisent basis.

Soar

I have over $88K of rebates since 1998, just sayin.




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Quote from iluvu4eternity : i dont know about newegg rebates but the ones i have done from tigerdirect is awesome,only about 1 month total, that includes my part with forms and shipping. i just bought something from newegg w/ rebate, u guys are scaring me

Its not newegg rebate are slow but the processor they use (rebateaccess) usually its full 3 month, and tigerdirect uses (4myrebate) which is much faster.

Still struggling to decide weather pull the trigger on this one or not.

Quote from Cryo : These received pretty mediocre user reviews even from others who got them for free after rebate. It doesn't sound like they're much better than a stock heatsink for a low-end processor in terms of cooling, but perhaps a bit quieter on those systems if you run them at a reduced speed. According to the review at Silent PC Review [silentpcreview.com] (from 2008), the heatsink will probably work fine with lower end processors with a TDP under 65 watts or so, which today would be your Core I3s and Celerons.

Cryo,

Thank you for posting the link to the tests and benchmarks on this CPU cooler. I found it very informative.

For me, the most important info was that these fans work best at 7 volts with the following results: 1,340 RPM 22 dBA@1m.

According to the people testing this CPU cooler, 7 volts appears to be the best setting for sound/cooling ratio.

I will definitely takes this into consideration if I ever use one of these units to cool a low end Intel HTPC.

Soar