After building new desktops and barely making headway installing other heatsinks, I found this item to be the easiest ever to install. After plotting the data, I was honestly surprised by how well it performed compared to the other heatsinks.

The wide-space heatsink jointed with 5 sintered heatpipes can transfer and ventilate the heat effectively, and offset design for better compatibility to memory and components on motherboard. You see this thin fascia is not just there for finishing looks but instead the fan mounts to it and as it is screwed the fin array… nothing is going anywhere unless you want it to.

As strange as all of that is, we can understand the desire to stay at 30 dB to appeal to the masses, and usually, this goes in an HTPC where silence is vital, but we feel the cooler could do more, but for some odd reason, it isn't. The side panel was closed for this review because the heatsinks tested both fit inside the case without issue. Max Performance The cooler has option for swapping original 15mm fan to common 25mm fan for maximum cooling performance.

Slim and Fit Overall height is only 69mm including fan; this product is perfect solution for small form factor system (HTPC; Mini ITX). The newly developed Kaze Flex II 120 Slim PWM fan ramp up to 1800 RPM, now offers improved performance thanks to a new fan frame.This fan is horizontal placed over the processor which leaves ample room without the risk of touching the side case cover.