With all the glaze online, I decided to try this cooler out. I ran the stock cooler on my i3-14100F for a while, and from my testing the maximum CPU temperature I could get was around 86°C. After installing this cooler, the maximum temperature dropped to around 70°C, so about a 15–20°C improvement, which is a huge plus. The ARGB lighting is also controllable, which is nice. Overall, I definitely recommend this cooler. I also want to mention that Wootware’s service was amazing, it arrived in just 2 days, which was impressive.

Minor issues (mostly just me being picky):
The top aluminum color doesn’t perfectly match the white of my case. My case is more of a cool white, while the cooler is slightly warmer in tone. Also, the included thermal paste packet works fine and is sufficient, but I personally would have preferred more thermal paste.

Overall, it’s a great cooler and I’m very happy with it.

This pairs incredibly well with my trusty 12400F, temps are very low and the noise is non-existent, HOWEVER, my crappy GPU runs at high fan speeds and causes a bit of vibration in the case. The plastic cover over the heatsink rattled like crazy due to this, so I recommend remove the cover altogether or tightening it up (I did not attempt this, prefer the look without the cover). All in all, this comes highly recommended.

This has some good reviews on the net. I think its easily as good as far more expensive products out there. Its on top of my ryzen 7600, which is a "cool" processor. But I think it could easily handle a bigger processor.

The fan is silent, even with the side panels off on my case. The lighting slowly shifts through a rainbow of colours if the argb plug is plugged into the board. It easily fits into my atx case. Theres also lots of space all round to get to plugs on the board. It has some thermal paste, but I used my own artic mx-2 which is non-conductive.

A tip: I plugged my 8-pin cpu power cable onto the board before installing the cooler because the location is way up on the top left corner, but its still accessible.

Oh, and the two metal brackets go onto the RED standoffsas my cpu is AM5. .. I think Intel uses the blue.

Nice cooler, well made, plenty of fins. With room temperature of 28 deg, its doing about 40 or 45 deg depending what Im doing. 10/10, I would get this again.

This was pretty much the cheapest cooler on Wootware's site when purchased, so I was a little worried... But there's a reason Gamers Nexus gave this the "best value" award in their air coolers selection. Also goes great when paired up with some TF-12025 fans. Easy RAM and VRM clearance (for AM4 anyway) and highly compatible with most of the popular sockets.

For the price, it is a stonking little cooler. Would have loved to give it 5 stars, but that is reserved for perfection. If I have to nit-pick, the fan is brilliant white and the plastic on top of the cooler, more of a yellowish white: it would be awesome if they could match the whites. And if you buy a SE 226, you get a nice ID Cooling badge/sticker with it : not with this though, bummer. I like stickers:) Performance and installation is very good/easy though on AM4. Highly recommended.

good enough for low to mid end CPU's if you aren't overclocking. If you're wondering what the difference between this and the premium is, on this one the fins are chrome and on the premium they're painted

I bought two, one white one black for my twins's PCs.
They look good quality, works great for the 10300s they're cooling and the bonus of ARGB. Would definitely recommend.