**The Not-So-Great Experience with a Vintage CPU Cooler**

I recently had the opportunity to play with a vintage CPU cooler that I'd been looking forward to trying out. As an LGA 2011 enthusiast, I was excited to see how this cooler would perform on my system. However, as I delved deeper into my experience with it, I realized that there were some major issues with its design and performance.

**AMD Mounting Hardware: A Nightmare**

The first problem I encountered was with the AMD mounting hardware. The cooler came with a clip that attached to the two ends of the bracket, similar to the one used on the M4 platform. However, this meant that it didn't secure the cooler across four points, spreading the weight across instead. This resulted in some slack involved, which made me wonder if I'd actually damage my motherboard by using it.

**Strain on CPU Socket: A Big Problem**

The main issue with the AMD mounting hardware was that it put a lot of strain on the actual CPU socket. I remembered an old system I had back in the day where I'd used a similar cooler, and I'd even taken it for a drive in my car without removing it. The cooler cracked my motherboard, which was a huge problem.

**Intel Mounting Hardware: A Similar Nightmare**

When I looked at the Intel mounting hardware, I found that it used the same clips as the stock Intel cooler. This meant that if you had a massive tower cooler, it would be difficult to get in there and actually lock the clips once they'd been pushed in.

**Temperature Performance: Disappointing**

Despite its beefy design and multiple heat pipes, this cooler's temperature performance was disappointing. I compared it to the Reven E12, which is an entry-level aftermarket cooler, and found that the Riva e 12 performed much better, with a three-degree advantage in some cases.

**Launch Reviews: Not Impressive**

I even looked at reviews of this cooler when it was launched back in 2009, and it didn't impress. It only marginally outperformed the stock Intel CPU cooler, which is not exactly something to brag about.

**Conclusion: Not Worth It**

In conclusion, while this vintage CPU cooler looks great, its performance just doesn't justify its existence. The price is reasonable at around $35, but you can get better-performing coolers for similar prices. Additionally, the fan design prevents upgrading, which limits its potential.

Overall, my experience with this vintage CPU cooler was not a positive one. While it's an interesting piece of hardware, its flaws and limitations make it not worth using on your system.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enno miss thermopane based on it buddy now if you've looked at enough PC builds you've probably realized that all CPU coolers are pretty much a variation on the same thing there a fin stack with a fan voltage in the front so that's why I was really excited when I found this cooler by thermal tech which is a little bit unique and it's called this spin Q all the black widow I'm actually not really sure which one they want me to call it because it says both names on the box and yeah that actually brings me to the packaging of the black Q because it is awesome it's really dated somehow it looks like the kind of packaging you would find an action figure in in the Northeast and then it's got really weird blurbs on it like it's got a VR fan controller how does that work does it have virtual reality controlled fans like I don't understand that and then like on on this side here it's got like it says in English it says this is a computer CPU cooler please refer to our official website but they're not really giving any information there why do they say that on the side of the box in 10 different lengths in 10 different languages like it's just it's just crazy now it does make sense that the packaging of the spin Widow looks a bit dated because it is the cooler was first released in 2009 now I know that that makes it dated in the same way that Justin Bieber is dated but honestly I think the thermal Widow aged a bit better because honestly just look at that cooler it looks amazing and that actually brings me to the physical design of this cooler now this cooler has a circular fin stack where they actually put a fan in the middle blowing air out and I think it's a really cool design idea the way that it actually gets heat from the CPU into the fin stack is via six heat pipes which means that even though the cooler doesn't weigh much at about 700 grams it should perform quite well compared to its heavier competition although we'll get into that fact a bit later now what's quite weird about the fan is that it's not for pimpy Wm it just has a three pin fan which means that your motherboard can't actually control the fan speed and you have to use that via our fan control thing to actually set the fan speed so that means that I'd probably just set it at max speed and leave it there which honestly isn't that bad because the fan isn't that noisy now the fan in question is very proprietary so it means that you can't replace it with a better performing aftermarket fan which may or may not be an issue when we actually look at the thermals later now another aspect of this fan is that it does have a blue LED in it which again is also very period specific like if it was a modern cooler it would definitely be RGB but I really like the blue LED because it's quite faint and it gives it this alien heart effect now let's get to the first and I have to admit it's a fairly considerable downside of this cooler and that's the mounting hardware that it uses now the mounting hardware is fairly versatile you can mount it to pretty much any CPU you can find today unless it's an h EDT cpu platform so you can't mount it to like a thread ripper CPU or an LGA 2011 CPU but again in reasons we'll explain later that isn't much of a problem and you can actually mount this cooler to an a m4 CPU but it's got some of the worst AMD mounting hardware I've ever seen I actually had a cooler from about this period back in the day and it had similar AMD mounting hardware and honestly it's a bit of a nightmare because it uses this clip that attaches to the two ends of the kind of like normal bracket that comes with the a m4 platform and with a m3 back in the day but what that means is that it doesn't secure the cooler across four points it kind of spreads the weight across - and then it means that the cooler kind of hinges on the CPU and there is actually some slack involved now that's that's a problem for two reasons the first one is that doesn't have much mounting pressure but the other much bigger problem is the fact that it puts a lot of strain on the actual CPU socket this is a huge problem because with the cooler in that old system that I was talking about I put it in a car and I drove a bit of a distance with it and I forgot to take the cooler off and the cooler actually cracked my motherboard so that is something that you should bear in mind if you do mount this cooler on an a m4 platform don't move it because you may actually damage your motherboard and the story actually gets kind of worse when you look at the Intel mounting hardware because it uses the exact same clips that you have on the stock Intel cooler now if any of you have ever used this stock Intel cooler you'll know that it's horrendous now so it's got these little plastic clips which you actually push through the CPU mounting hole in the motherboard now this isn't the worst thing ever if you've got the kind of like stock Intel cooler which isn't very big so it means once you've pushed pushed it through you can fairly easily twist it and lock it into place but if you've got a massive Tower cooler in the way that's quite sharp I have to say it's really difficult to get in there and actually lock the clips once you've once you've actually pushed them in and it means that you get this kind of seesaw effect where you like push one clip in and then push the other one in and it like pops the other one out it it really is irritating but that's not really the worst part because honestly the temperatures on this cooler are really disappointing like I was I was quite hopeful when I got it because it's a fairly beefy looking cooler and with all of those heat pipes you'd imagine that it performs really well while I compared it against a reven e 12 which is a fairly entry-level cooler and honestly the Riva e 12 performed quite a bit better you were getting three degrees better performance on the ribbon E 12 so it doesn't even compare to a fairly entry-level aftermarket cooler in fact I actually went and looked at some reviews of this cooler when it was launched back in 2009 and it actually performed only marginally better than the stock Intel CPU cooler which is which is really horrendous honestly you shouldn't buy the CPU cooler even though it does it doesn't cost very much money you can buy it for around $35 which seems like a really good deal but it doesn't even outperform similarly priced coolers from this generation so that brings me to the conclusion yes it's a really cool looking cooler and it was quite a fun experience playing with it because it's so different from the normal CPU coolers that we have today but honestly it doesn't perform well enough to justify having it on your system even though it does look great and what are the problems with it is because of the price three fan design you can't actually upgrade the fan to get better performance and I honestly think that's one of the reasons why all air coolers today are designed the way they are because well all of the other variations don't work as well now if you liked this video do like and subscribe to the channel check out my Instagram and my Twitter page for more da vid does tech stuff show your friends this video if you think they'd enjoy the ridiculous cooler and yeah until the next video bye byeno miss thermopane based on it buddy now if you've looked at enough PC builds you've probably realized that all CPU coolers are pretty much a variation on the same thing there a fin stack with a fan voltage in the front so that's why I was really excited when I found this cooler by thermal tech which is a little bit unique and it's called this spin Q all the black widow I'm actually not really sure which one they want me to call it because it says both names on the box and yeah that actually brings me to the packaging of the black Q because it is awesome it's really dated somehow it looks like the kind of packaging you would find an action figure in in the Northeast and then it's got really weird blurbs on it like it's got a VR fan controller how does that work does it have virtual reality controlled fans like I don't understand that and then like on on this side here it's got like it says in English it says this is a computer CPU cooler please refer to our official website but they're not really giving any information there why do they say that on the side of the box in 10 different lengths in 10 different languages like it's just it's just crazy now it does make sense that the packaging of the spin Widow looks a bit dated because it is the cooler was first released in 2009 now I know that that makes it dated in the same way that Justin Bieber is dated but honestly I think the thermal Widow aged a bit better because honestly just look at that cooler it looks amazing and that actually brings me to the physical design of this cooler now this cooler has a circular fin stack where they actually put a fan in the middle blowing air out and I think it's a really cool design idea the way that it actually gets heat from the CPU into the fin stack is via six heat pipes which means that even though the cooler doesn't weigh much at about 700 grams it should perform quite well compared to its heavier competition although we'll get into that fact a bit later now what's quite weird about the fan is that it's not for pimpy Wm it just has a three pin fan which means that your motherboard can't actually control the fan speed and you have to use that via our fan control thing to actually set the fan speed so that means that I'd probably just set it at max speed and leave it there which honestly isn't that bad because the fan isn't that noisy now the fan in question is very proprietary so it means that you can't replace it with a better performing aftermarket fan which may or may not be an issue when we actually look at the thermals later now another aspect of this fan is that it does have a blue LED in it which again is also very period specific like if it was a modern cooler it would definitely be RGB but I really like the blue LED because it's quite faint and it gives it this alien heart effect now let's get to the first and I have to admit it's a fairly considerable downside of this cooler and that's the mounting hardware that it uses now the mounting hardware is fairly versatile you can mount it to pretty much any CPU you can find today unless it's an h EDT cpu platform so you can't mount it to like a thread ripper CPU or an LGA 2011 CPU but again in reasons we'll explain later that isn't much of a problem and you can actually mount this cooler to an a m4 CPU but it's got some of the worst AMD mounting hardware I've ever seen I actually had a cooler from about this period back in the day and it had similar AMD mounting hardware and honestly it's a bit of a nightmare because it uses this clip that attaches to the two ends of the kind of like normal bracket that comes with the a m4 platform and with a m3 back in the day but what that means is that it doesn't secure the cooler across four points it kind of spreads the weight across - and then it means that the cooler kind of hinges on the CPU and there is actually some slack involved now that's that's a problem for two reasons the first one is that doesn't have much mounting pressure but the other much bigger problem is the fact that it puts a lot of strain on the actual CPU socket this is a huge problem because with the cooler in that old system that I was talking about I put it in a car and I drove a bit of a distance with it and I forgot to take the cooler off and the cooler actually cracked my motherboard so that is something that you should bear in mind if you do mount this cooler on an a m4 platform don't move it because you may actually damage your motherboard and the story actually gets kind of worse when you look at the Intel mounting hardware because it uses the exact same clips that you have on the stock Intel cooler now if any of you have ever used this stock Intel cooler you'll know that it's horrendous now so it's got these little plastic clips which you actually push through the CPU mounting hole in the motherboard now this isn't the worst thing ever if you've got the kind of like stock Intel cooler which isn't very big so it means once you've pushed pushed it through you can fairly easily twist it and lock it into place but if you've got a massive Tower cooler in the way that's quite sharp I have to say it's really difficult to get in there and actually lock the clips once you've once you've actually pushed them in and it means that you get this kind of seesaw effect where you like push one clip in and then push the other one in and it like pops the other one out it it really is irritating but that's not really the worst part because honestly the temperatures on this cooler are really disappointing like I was I was quite hopeful when I got it because it's a fairly beefy looking cooler and with all of those heat pipes you'd imagine that it performs really well while I compared it against a reven e 12 which is a fairly entry-level cooler and honestly the Riva e 12 performed quite a bit better you were getting three degrees better performance on the ribbon E 12 so it doesn't even compare to a fairly entry-level aftermarket cooler in fact I actually went and looked at some reviews of this cooler when it was launched back in 2009 and it actually performed only marginally better than the stock Intel CPU cooler which is which is really horrendous honestly you shouldn't buy the CPU cooler even though it does it doesn't cost very much money you can buy it for around $35 which seems like a really good deal but it doesn't even outperform similarly priced coolers from this generation so that brings me to the conclusion yes it's a really cool looking cooler and it was quite a fun experience playing with it because it's so different from the normal CPU coolers that we have today but honestly it doesn't perform well enough to justify having it on your system even though it does look great and what are the problems with it is because of the price three fan design you can't actually upgrade the fan to get better performance and I honestly think that's one of the reasons why all air coolers today are designed the way they are because well all of the other variations don't work as well now if you liked this video do like and subscribe to the channel check out my Instagram and my Twitter page for more da vid does tech stuff show your friends this video if you think they'd enjoy the ridiculous cooler and yeah until the next video bye byeno miss thermopane based on it buddy now if you've looked at enough PC builds you've probably realized that all CPU coolers are pretty much a variation on the same thing there a fin stack with a fan voltage in the front so that's why I was really excited when I found this cooler by thermal tech which is a little bit unique and it's called this spin Q all the black widow I'm actually not really sure which one they want me to call it because it says both names on the box and yeah that actually brings me to the packaging of the black Q because it is awesome it's really dated somehow it looks like the kind of packaging you would find an action figure in in the Northeast and then it's got really weird blurbs on it like it's got a VR fan controller how does that work does it have virtual reality controlled fans like I don't understand that and then like on on this side here it's got like it says in English it says this is a computer CPU cooler please refer to our official website but they're not really giving any information there why do they say that on the side of the box in 10 different lengths in 10 different languages like it's just it's just crazy now it does make sense that the packaging of the spin Widow looks a bit dated because it is the cooler was first released in 2009 now I know that that makes it dated in the same way that Justin Bieber is dated but honestly I think the thermal Widow aged a bit better because honestly just look at that cooler it looks amazing and that actually brings me to the physical design of this cooler now this cooler has a circular fin stack where they actually put a fan in the middle blowing air out and I think it's a really cool design idea the way that it actually gets heat from the CPU into the fin stack is via six heat pipes which means that even though the cooler doesn't weigh much at about 700 grams it should perform quite well compared to its heavier competition although we'll get into that fact a bit later now what's quite weird about the fan is that it's not for pimpy Wm it just has a three pin fan which means that your motherboard can't actually control the fan speed and you have to use that via our fan control thing to actually set the fan speed so that means that I'd probably just set it at max speed and leave it there which honestly isn't that bad because the fan isn't that noisy now the fan in question is very proprietary so it means that you can't replace it with a better performing aftermarket fan which may or may not be an issue when we actually look at the thermals later now another aspect of this fan is that it does have a blue LED in it which again is also very period specific like if it was a modern cooler it would definitely be RGB but I really like the blue LED because it's quite faint and it gives it this alien heart effect now let's get to the first and I have to admit it's a fairly considerable downside of this cooler and that's the mounting hardware that it uses now the mounting hardware is fairly versatile you can mount it to pretty much any CPU you can find today unless it's an h EDT cpu platform so you can't mount it to like a thread ripper CPU or an LGA 2011 CPU but again in reasons we'll explain later that isn't much of a problem and you can actually mount this cooler to an a m4 CPU but it's got some of the worst AMD mounting hardware I've ever seen I actually had a cooler from about this period back in the day and it had similar AMD mounting hardware and honestly it's a bit of a nightmare because it uses this clip that attaches to the two ends of the kind of like normal bracket that comes with the a m4 platform and with a m3 back in the day but what that means is that it doesn't secure the cooler across four points it kind of spreads the weight across - and then it means that the cooler kind of hinges on the CPU and there is actually some slack involved now that's that's a problem for two reasons the first one is that doesn't have much mounting pressure but the other much bigger problem is the fact that it puts a lot of strain on the actual CPU socket this is a huge problem because with the cooler in that old system that I was talking about I put it in a car and I drove a bit of a distance with it and I forgot to take the cooler off and the cooler actually cracked my motherboard so that is something that you should bear in mind if you do mount this cooler on an a m4 platform don't move it because you may actually damage your motherboard and the story actually gets kind of worse when you look at the Intel mounting hardware because it uses the exact same clips that you have on the stock Intel cooler now if any of you have ever used this stock Intel cooler you'll know that it's horrendous now so it's got these little plastic clips which you actually push through the CPU mounting hole in the motherboard now this isn't the worst thing ever if you've got the kind of like stock Intel cooler which isn't very big so it means once you've pushed pushed it through you can fairly easily twist it and lock it into place but if you've got a massive Tower cooler in the way that's quite sharp I have to say it's really difficult to get in there and actually lock the clips once you've once you've actually pushed them in and it means that you get this kind of seesaw effect where you like push one clip in and then push the other one in and it like pops the other one out it it really is irritating but that's not really the worst part because honestly the temperatures on this cooler are really disappointing like I was I was quite hopeful when I got it because it's a fairly beefy looking cooler and with all of those heat pipes you'd imagine that it performs really well while I compared it against a reven e 12 which is a fairly entry-level cooler and honestly the Riva e 12 performed quite a bit better you were getting three degrees better performance on the ribbon E 12 so it doesn't even compare to a fairly entry-level aftermarket cooler in fact I actually went and looked at some reviews of this cooler when it was launched back in 2009 and it actually performed only marginally better than the stock Intel CPU cooler which is which is really horrendous honestly you shouldn't buy the CPU cooler even though it does it doesn't cost very much money you can buy it for around $35 which seems like a really good deal but it doesn't even outperform similarly priced coolers from this generation so that brings me to the conclusion yes it's a really cool looking cooler and it was quite a fun experience playing with it because it's so different from the normal CPU coolers that we have today but honestly it doesn't perform well enough to justify having it on your system even though it does look great and what are the problems with it is because of the price three fan design you can't actually upgrade the fan to get better performance and I honestly think that's one of the reasons why all air coolers today are designed the way they are because well all of the other variations don't work as well now if you liked this video do like and subscribe to the channel check out my Instagram and my Twitter page for more da vid does tech stuff show your friends this video if you think they'd enjoy the ridiculous cooler and yeah until the next video bye bye