EnermaxETS-F40 ARGB CPU Air Cooler White - 140mm PWM Fan, 4 Copper Direct Heat Pipes, 200W+ TDP for Intel LGA 1851, 1700, 1200, AMD Socket AM4, AM5

I gave it a 5 out of 5 stars because of the style and the reliability that this Enermax heat sink has to offer. Having read some reviews around the net, I chose this purely based on aesthetics compared to, let's say, a Hyper 212 EVO. Matching perfectly with my case along with the white LED's that emit very brightly within my dark case, highlighting edges and shadows, which in my opinion makes it look cooler than what it was if you wanted to show off to your friends.Currently, I am running an Intel I5-3570k processor on an ASRock Pro 3 MoBo at 4.2GHz. This MoBo however gives you less of an option to tweak your desired voltage specifically (or maybe I'm just inexperienced enough with the ASRock BIOS), so currently it runs in between 1.1V to 1.3V respectively. On idle, the temps don't go above 30C keeping it to about 26C-28C from what my CPUID has told me. On my stress tests, the highest voltage at 1.3V got me about 68C-72C. Respectable in my opinion. Oh, my thermal paste of choice was Arctic Silver, just one dab on the center of the CPU.The fan that comes with the heat sink has three settings where you can switch from quiet/normal/overclock which I thought was a nice added touch. Quiet is still audible, but barely, though normal can get quite loud as well for the overclock sounding like a typhoon within my case. It can still be set automatically if you decide to just leave it on overclock through the BIOS depending on what temps you want to raise your RPMs at.As for the 'thermal white paint' or whatever Enermax is calling it to dissipate heat more effectively. Ah, the 'TCC' (Thermal Conductive Coating). I didn't really notice any differences on that part compared to the 212 EVO. Again, I love the look of this heat sink, so I bought it for the aesthetics.A big con of mine was the bracket installation for an LGA 1155 socket, the back plate especially. It might just be my fumbly hands or the positioning of the holes on the bracket, but I could not for the life of me figure out the diagram they showed me in the manual saying that the LGA 1155 lined up on the lower corner or the upper corner. When I did align two holes to match up respectively, the bottom two wouldn't line up so I had to start again. Maybe it's my aging eyesight, or clumsy fingers but I did manage to get it to work after two attempts. Again, it might have just been me.So, if you're looking for something in the aesthetics department and a cool looking, albeit loud, fan with white LEDs, get this. It's worth the 50 dollars. If not, the Hyper 212 EVO is still a very good option.

Very quiet, keeps cpu temps in acceptable range. A bit of work to assemble but overall a great budget fan.

Install on a ProArt Z890-CREATOR WIFI. It looks good so far. I will test the cooling ability in a couple of days when the build is finished.

I mainly bought it because it was white. This is a pretty good fan, but it was incredibly difficult to find on PCPartPicker and while searching.WHITE FAN FOR PC AIR COOLING (Incase google is looking for a keyword)Pure white all the way, even equipped with white LED's which shine on the white fan (its white).Not that big, fit perfectly well in my H440i case (white with the window)When installing be careful reading the manual, it offers guides on both Intel/AMD and is slightly confusing to be honest.I bought RAM that was a bit too big for the clearance on this fan (buy low profile) and was super incredibly disappointed, but alas, the mounts allow for turning of the fan for 90 degrees and it looks even better turned than how it's supposed to go. (now that I think about it.... maybe that was the way it was supposed to go). Just to clarify, it doesn't swivel, it just allows you to place the mounting brackets in the opposite way. Such as instead of vertical | | you can go = horizontal.I don't really know much about benchmarks to offer comparisons between nonfan heat (which should be higher obviously) and fan cpu heat. I apologize, but so far while doing the most taxing things in my un-airconditioned room it hasn't failed or anything.*Important* Buy Amazon's two day shipping or whatever you can. I went the cheap route when buying this and it took around a week and some change to arrive. While the other 18 items I ordered arrived in 3 days or less. (Ordered Thursday night, got some sat/sun/mon and then a week later this fan came in, was really anxious by then). **

I've gone through 2 of these in the span of a few years. After a bit of time they get noisy like it's hitting something, but nothing visible is getting hit, then they require a "jump start", then just stop working entirely.

I know it sounds crazy, but this fan really did decrease my idle temps from 60 sometimes 70 degrees Celsius to 30 at idle. I was running a Ryzen 5 5600x with a stock wraith cooler. Most places say its okay to use the stock coolers but honestly that's bad advice for these new gen CPU's. Running games like PUBG and Warzone I was getting temps at 90 degrees Celsius. Super People was crashing because my CPU was hitting temps of over 100 degrees. As soon as I installed this cooler, my initial temps were under 30 and now I'm only hitting temps of 60 or less at full load. This cooler isn't loud at all and install was easy.I'm also very impressed with the vent direction adjuster. You can literally adjust which direction the exhaust blows so I'm able to angle the vents directly to my PC case exhaust fan.Addressable RGB runs well with Polychrome for ASRock, just remember to set your addressable RGBs to 12 so that all the effects work properly.I will give another review in 3 months because some people complain that the fan gets louder as time goes on, but right now I'm very impressed. I'll also add a photo later.PC SPECSRyzen 5 5600xB550pro4 AsrockRadeon RX6800Oly Warhawk Ram 3600mhzMustex Mid case 6 fans