The attached 92mm rifle bearing cooling fan is PWM adjustable from 600 RPM to 2,000 RPM and can flow up to 34.73 CFM of air at 29.38 dBA. Aluminum is also lighter and less expensive than copper, hence the combination of the two in this design. It features four copper heatpipes that facilitate the transfer of heat from the base of the sink upwards and into an array of aluminum cooling fins that the fan blows air across.Ĭopper is better than aluminum at wicking heat away from a source but aluminum is able to dissipate absorbed heat more quickly than copper. Amazon's offering doesn't look much different than your run-of-the-mill tower-style cooler. It looks sleek and stylish, but not too much in your face.In a nutshell: Amazon is diving head-first into the PC cooling game with an Amazon Basics-branded CPU cooler for select AMD and Intel processors. I really like what Cooler Master has done with the RGB lighting. When you power on your system you’ll notice the RGB LEDs on the cooler light up. Finally connect the controller to power and you are good to go.

Simply connect the 3-pin RGB cable to the extension cable which plugs into the controller. Cooler Master includes cables to connect to all major motherboards, but we decided to use the controller. With the cooler installed the last thing you are going to want to do is connect the fan to the CPU fan header on your motherboard and connect the RGB elements to either your motherboard or to the supplied controller. This definitely has to be one of the easiest installation of a Cooler Master CPU cooler in recent memory! With everything lined up screw in each side. Now install the included thermal paste on your CPU and very carefully place the cooler on top of your CPU lining up the screws on each side of the cooling with the holes in the mounting bars.

Cooler Master uses thumbscrews for this, which makes installing pretty easy. With the backplate installed on the backside of your motherboard go ahead and install the AMD mounting bars. The included backplate works for both AMD and Intel sockets, you want to make sure for AM4 the text “AMD” is facing you when installing the backplate. Then go ahead and install Cooler Master’s backplate.

You first want to fully remove the AMD stock socket mount and backplate. We will be installing in our X470 test bench so our installation process will be for the AM4 socket. Getting the MasterAir MA620M installed is much easier than previous Cooler Master CPU coolers.

Installing cooler master cpu cooler