Kingston Hyperx Cooling Fan Accessory - Black

You cant tell by the pictures, but this thing is VERY wide. If you have a reasonably sized case it will not fit. I have an ASUS M51AC for reference and it didn't fit. You have to look at how close your drives are towards you motherboard. The span of the fans is twice as wide as the width of the RAM.. Maybe wider. I gave it to my friend who has a MUCH larger G10AC and it fit with no problem but came a little close to the Graphics card but did not touch. I wrapped the metal arm with electrical tape just incase it was bumped while the computer was on so that it wouldn't short out the graphics card. The stability of the clamping mechanism is not the greatest. I made it slightly more secure by bending the arms inward slightly. Overall its a good buy if it fits. The lights bring a much needed color and visibility to your case and its not loud at all.

My main concern when I bought this was the instability of the product staying in place tightly and the noise it might produce.My system: HAF X case. Asus M4A89GTD PRO motherboard. 4 (4x4 GB) G. Skill Sniper RAM. Corsair H70 water cooling. Rheosmart 6 FAN controller.Misc: Sapphire Radeon 6870. Litescribe DVD multirecorder RW. AMD Phenom II x6.Air movement and noise: First impression was WOW! I have it set to a fan controller at max and the noise was not audible at all. compared to my case fans which are whisper quiet already. They moved a lot of air. I could feel it hitting against the memory ram and the heat dissipating outward from the site.Size and fitting: An eye candy. Definitely noticeable. The holder is longer than the 4 slots I have, the attachment part stick out a bit but it did no harm nor did it affect surrounding components (Probably made to cool 6 RAM slots). The fitting is not locked in place like I would have wanted it to, but it is definitely tight enough to prevent movement when clipped into the position of your liking. Only requiring slight effort to push/pull side to side for adjustment. The height that it sits away from the RAM isn't bad at all like I had feared due to air being pushed versus distance it has to travel. Enough for me to put my fingers in between the cooler and the ram heading with little extra space. I may try to upload some pictures so you all can better. Pictures are worth a thousand words after all.LED brightness: Very bright blue. It lights up my whole internal case nicely. I don't care for brightness since it sits facing the wall, but I like looking into my case and admiring the hardware every so often without a flashlight. As any other LED fans on a voltage controller, it becomes brighter as you increase voltage (faster spin on fan), and dimmer as you decrease voltage (slower spin on fan). It has to remain above approximately 40% power for the fans to spin, otherwise it stops, though at near thresh hold, led still remain on, but very dimmed.I have owned it for about 2 weeks so far. Its been working amazingly. I do not have exact temperature reading differences with/without, but judgement by feeling alone, I can tell its doing its job very well and will last a long time.Edit: 12/7/2012It has been running perfectly up to this point and I run it max. It collects dust heavily, but what electronic equipment doesn't right? Otherwise, I just wanted to post and say that the product is great and still lives up till today running strong as ever.Edit: 3/6/2014Still running perfect. Figured it's been a long time and I'm still with the same setup up, minus a couple upgrades to hardware.

Pros: LED fans are cool looking, very bright, pretty quiet and blows a lot of air. very good RAM height clearance(Corsair Vengeance Pro has plenty of height to spare)Cons: the fan assembly is just too wide. So wide that it's hitting my radiator hoses on the left side while the right side of the bottom latch is hitting the USB 3.0 header. If I look at it from the top, left side of the fan assembly is almost hanging over the screw holes that anchor CPU cooler and it's almost completely hanging over the USB 3.0 header and 24 pin Main Motherboard Power connector on the right side. Also, the latches are not doing a good job of latching on to the DIMM slots. I can relatively easily pull the fan assembly off with screws tightened.I'm usingAsus crosshair V formula Z(ATX board with single sided DIMM module release latches)Kraken X60(very flexible radiator hoses)Good idea but very poor execution. I expected better from a company like Kingston.

I purchased this fan set as a way to make sure I kept good airflow on the heat sensitive parts of my motherboard when I upgraded to water cooling. Going from a traditional fan/heatsink setup to a water block removes a great deal of air circulation around the Voltage Regulators (Usually quite close to the CPU Socket) and the ram. Both of which should be kept cool so as to keep them healthy and extend their life (especially importiant that VRs are kept cool when overclocking).Not only does this fan set look great in my case (pairs well with the colored water block illumination of my NZXT Kraken), but it achieves exactly what I had hoped for it. My board temps are holding steady despite my overvolting and I'm sure that I'm getting a more stable overclock due to this fact alone.

Originally wanted to gave 5 stars for it, nice clearance for the ram, beautiful LED's on it, good airflow and pretty silent too.After a month or so the fan starts vibrating and the noise from it becomes extremely irritating. Had to hook a fan controller to it, and everything is well after you down-volt it (still bright LED's but lesser airflow).

I have used these fans for over a year and they are still functioning great.Pros:Very silent, I have never heard themKeeps RAM cooler for better OC performanceBlue LED plus the design of the fans and enclosure look greatEasy installation, clips right onto the memory holders.Cons:Flimsy mount. Don't get me wrong, it's not worth any lower stars or anything but the mounting mechanism is very delicate and can be knocked over easily if working in your PC. If you put them on and transport your PC, or just every day usage, they stay on just fine.