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15 Air Cooler is Surprisingly Good (Coolwhist CN326 Extreme CPU Cooler)

15 Air Cooler is Surprisingly Good (Coolwhist CN326 Extreme CPU Cooler)

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2
We accidentally bought this CPU air cooler for 15 in Shenzhen a few years ago, and recently, we thought we'd see how it does versus stock AMD coolers and the Vetroo V5. This is a review of the Coolwhist CN326 Extreme, a dragon-themed CPU air cooler that we bought for about 15 a few years ago. The CN326 Extreme didn't include an AM4 kit originally, but some impressive post-sale customer support came through and was able to get us one for a few bucks. As for thermals and installation, overall, we were surprised by just how well this cheap cooler did. It has some faults -- the fan isn't the highest quality -- but for something charmingly unique, it does well enough. We'd like to see more products make unique changes without sacrificing performance. Kaz: Usually around the same price you can find a Snowman 6 heatpipe dual tower cooler from aliexpress. Would like to see it professionally tested have only seen a couple videos about it. Seems like the only one actually worth possibly waiting for shipping. Every other has a comparable priced local counterpart. But getting a dual fan double tower for 20 might actually be more of a value.
Date: 2022-03-13

Comments and reviews: 9


I think Steve is right about the doing something different thing.
Big companies play safe and safe in design usually amounts to boring.
I'm not saying go steal images but think outside the box like Yeston.
Consider GPUs, the back is the boring part, let's make it the interesting side so it looks nice in a case.
Remember the limited edition Assassin's Creed Origins card? More things like that, doesn't even have to be a licensed product either.

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I currently reside in Sweden but I am chinese. I got the GAMMAXX 400S which had a somewhat whiny fan. I switched it out with an Arctic P12 (PWM, always get PWM) and now it works so very amazing. The mounting sure was painful, and it doesn't look the best, but it sure is worth the 20 dollars.
Edit: 8 dollars for the cooler (on Taobao), 5 dollars for the fan (Amazon Sweden) and then plus some shipping costs.

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Just looking at the size of the cooler, it already look like a performer. I've always wondered why no one is selling a heatsink with an all around fan bracket, so you can just buy a separate fan (at least I haven't seen one). If that's available locally, I would be happily buy the cooler alone for 15 and then get, say a 13 bequiet Pure Wings 2, 7 NZXT aier P 140mm, or 16 arctic bionix 140mm.
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Gamers Nexus: This looks like a Prolimatech Megahalems. I had one in a 2007 build. Very good performing cooler back then. I imagine that the designs were bought and modernised for newer CPUs.
Fantastic work RE Artesan Builds and Newegg reporting. Loved the BB episode where you helped a guy out. I read it on reddit and wasn't expecting it to be in a YT vid!

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I think maybe you might be using the fan clips wrong maybe , I think that maybe you are supposed to wrap the loop of the clip into the hole rather than using the hole and the V shaped edge of the clip to secure it. In the grand scheme of things there would only ever be a difference for like no longer worrying about the clips falling and shorting something.
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Big brand Companies used to use art way back when. I have a 9800GTX+ nVIDIA GPU with a beautiful art decal on it. Like Steve said, cool back then, lol. To be fair, there was no vertical mounting, so you couldn't see the artwork anyway. Just a little easter egg when you first open the box. Thinking about mounting it in a box frame and hanging it on my wall.
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This cooler would actually fit my use case perfectly. I have a Ryzen 3200G APU no graphics card. So having the fan mounted on the bottom would be fine. I have 120mm exhaust fans top and rear with 140mm front intake fans. Would love to see what this cooler would do with a spare BeQuiet 140mm fan. As a builder I often have spare fans lying around.
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Please review more smaller and unknown manufacturers from China, especially factory tours from them. They usually are more willing to innovate and listen to what we actually want. We need more competition from them in the West. More competition means the larger brands will have to get their stuff together and start listening to your suggestions.
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my favs are artic7 i love them snap em up on ebay for 10 bucks 2nd hand ,shitty clips ,i bolt them with fibre washers , just finger tight ,3o-35c idle on 1156'ers etc, my ol amd 1090t was a room heater until i got unbranded chinese cooler with red lights idles at 40-45c now, that one with pic ,tempted tho ,would look amazing on my wall pc
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