Originally Posted by
Rav106
Well, I should probably have noted why a budget cooler is my priority choice now. I think that, like many now, waiting of a new generation of hardware, like DDR5, CPU and everything accompanying. We still do not have much information, but it is already clear that the update will probably be in the next two years. And then the question will follow, how does this all relate to the cooler, which most likely can be installed on new motherboards. My current system is quite old but has the legendary i5-2500k and the current cooler just started to hum not much, but it distracts me a little and I want to remove it at the same time to get some overclocking capability. Should I buy good cooling already now considering its use in the future or consider budget options at the moment. Actually I don’t know, but probably the second way looks more common sense for me.
Speaking of items from aliexpress, I made several orders and received both pretty good and not very good items, but the fact that the prices for most of the things there are very low. Buying there, you can consider it as a temporary purchase or something like that, however, if the product meets expectations, then this is definitely a great deal. Besides, if there are many reviews, then it probably won't be so terrible item. On the other hand, I am almost sure that the budget segment of the brands contains very similar components that are hardly designed for durable use.
I liked HYPER 212 BLACK it seems like it should be quiet enough and it looks very nice, but is there somewhere a massive comparison of all the lines of brands, where let's say can see the difference between Thermalright, Arctic Freezer 34 eSports or hyper? I mean that each manufacturer has several subsections, for example HYPER 212 EVO or HYPER 212 black or EVO V2 and etc with a very close price, is there any difference worth talking about?
Anyway thanks to all for your advices. it would be great if someone could tell about the experience of using HYPER 212 BLACK or GAMMAXX GTE V2 BLACK probably one of them will be my purchase.