Cooler Master Heatsink Cooling Fan for AMD FX 6100 FX 6300 Processor Socket AM3+

When the PC booted up the temps were in the 30's but would slowly escalate as high as 70c. When I placed a box fan in from the the system the temps would stay around 59c-63c and just hover in that area. I tried a higher RPM 70mm CPU fan and made damn certain it was pointed in the right direction.....nothing. I tried reseating using Kryonaut which is the best paste on the market..... nothing. The problem here is the temps are too slow to fall when there is little load on the CPU. This cooler is just not dissipating the heat away fast enough.I have a real watercooled Core i7-4930k setup with an EK Supremacy EVO block, a 6800k on a H115i, 2600k on an H105, 6700k on an H100i, and I've owned the likes of the D-14, Fuma, IFX-14, CM V8, H80, H70, H50, H100 throughout the years. I've lapped the base of a couple of these coolers to get better temps and I have tried many different pastes and way of applying those pastes just to shave off a couple degrees off my load temps. I've tried using the stock cooler on a Phenom II x4 945. With any of these I have never experienced this much trouble with the temps hovering close to the highs.Then I upgraded the Cooler to the Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 120mm fan tower cooler and now the CPU temps stay in the upper 30's at idle and the temps will quickly fall back to that level when there is no or little load on the CPU.This cooler was being used on an 89w Athlon 64 x2 6000+ on a HP regular sized mATX tower. Not a SFF case. Since this is an older and slower CPU, it constantly spiked up to 100% usage. Maybe it's the fact the 6000+ I am using will volt it self as high as between 1.325v to 1.375v which I have no control over because the BIOS of the motherboard I am using is locked. I don't really know but the temps should fall a lot quicker than what they do when there is a 3% load on the CPU.At least I didn't try using this junk cooler on a 125w chip. I do not see how this would ever work on an FX-8350. If you have one I would recommend spraying the fins out with spray-air once a week. Now I see how people can constantly ask the same CPU overheating and throttling questions on internet Q and A forums. Spending an extra $10 will get you a Cooler Master 212 cooler or Cryorig H7 which I say is totally worth it, even if mounting it requires you to remove the motherboard.The only upsides this cooler has is it's extremely easy to install on any AM2 to AM3+ system with the plastic mounting bracket and it's compact. All you need to do to install it is clean up the old paste on the IHS of the CPU with a Coffee Filter or a lint free rag and 90% or higher rubbing alcohol, or you can use the Arctic-Clean 2 step cleaner. As far as I can tell a variation of Shin-Etsu paste was pre-applied to the bottom and this is very good paste that kinda rivals Arctic Silver 5.

Was in need a low profile CPU Cooler for a used AMD FX-6300 on a designated Plex Server located in a Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini-ITX Computer Case where space was at a premium. This after-market cooler works well under normal use of on the fly transcoding up to three stream of videos. Only time it let CPU go above 50c was a prolong Handbrake transcoding of a Blue-Ray file and only after a hour of use of all six cores at near 100%. Cooler held temp. stable floating around 58c to 62c till Handbrake transcoding was finished. Mostly my transcoding is done on a septate computer and ported over to Plex Server via file-share as server has no monitor, keyboard, or mouse. For normal use this CPU cooler seems a little step above stock, nothing to right home about, but for special need applications like mine is just what the doctor ordered.Over all CPU stays cool under normal Plex use and only climbs as you'd expect a stock cooler would under the heavy load of Handbrake Transcoding. For most if installed properly should work just as good or slightly better than stock AMD CPU cooler. Don't know about life expectancy yet, time will only tell, but as with anything with moving parts some fail sooner than others.

Terrific cooler. It keeps 110w fx processors between 25 and 43 c . I love that it maintains the clips to clamp onto the provided original manufacturer equipped processor brackets. Very easy, for someone with very little knowledge to attatch. It even comes with thermal paste pre applied!

purchased this for my son. He says his pc is working great now.

My husband says it's doing a great job.

Easy to install and cools well!

Thank you!

Still kickin' it!!!