Igloo Electric Cooler Not Cooling

Great cooler did well with cooling off 14900k l, that's even using the power saving mode in armory crate.

Ever since top vents started coming into vogue, I've longed for a case like this to make an appearance, and it's everything I wanted. The key differentiator of this case compared to most other, modern cases is that it has no vents on the top. For air cooling, this is ideal because you want air to go through the CPU cooler and out the back, not go out the top and skip the cooler entirely or come in from the top and screw up the flow direction. There is a slope in front of the top-mounted PSU that forces the incoming air from the empty space at the top of the front fans down into the CPU cooler. Then the GPU area is fed by additional fans on the bottom to ensure there's plenty of fresh air. This amount of airflow allows you to run the fans at pretty low speeds, being almost silent at 60% in the front and 40% on the bottom, while not significantly reducing the cooling potential. There are mesh filters in front of both sets of fans, keeping the interior a lot cleaner than it would be without them. The panels pop off nicely with some sort of magnetic or tension mounting. Overall, the design of the toolless access and working inside this case feels like an improvement over the Meshify C case I had before. Of course, there is one compromise. If you want non-nvme drives, it only has room for a couple on the rear of the motherboard panel, and there's not much airflow in that area, so I'd hesitate to use a spinning platter hard drive. At this point, I only use nvme drives and a separate NAS for storing media, so that's no problem for me.

My company recently implemented new security policies on our workstations which effectively removed all administrative privileges from our user accounts. To do anything that requires administrative privileges, even installing/updating software, we have to contact an admin to remote into our computers and enter their credentials. As an electrical engineer I have a lot of software that I use for various work related reasons. Finding this new policy as a hindrance on my ability to do my work efficiently, I decided to update my ~8 year old PC and do my work on my own equipment. Coming from a third generation i5 processor, the difference is night and day. I did find that the stock cooler was not cooling as well as I would like, even without overclocking. So I did upgrade to a larger and more efficient cooler and my idle temps are below 40C, and jump between 50C and 60C under heavy load. My previous setup was water cooled but it is a pain to setup and maintain so for now I'm just keeping it simple with air cooling. I would have spent a bit more and purchased a processor with a higher core count but I have heard that AMD will be coming out with a new processor series with the AM5 socket, so I didn't want to invest too highly on this AM4 processor. This processor was my middle ground and so far I am very happy with it!

Performs as advertised. Serious speed. This beast needs serious cooling. Neither a big air cooler nor a 120 mm x 120 mm radiator can keep it below 90C at full load . About to install a 120mm x 360mm cooler.

I have a small hatch back and was looking for a mobile power station to use with my electric cooler. The space in my trunk is very constrained and simply put, this knocks it out of the park. This unit easily runs my cooler for 24 hours, even in my confined trunk with minimal airflow. I have also been using it as a portable power station to run my Laptop, charge USB devices, etc. with zero difficulties. It really is as simple as plug in and go. The light weight is also a massive bonus and makes loading the car very simple!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Igloo home Smart Padlock gave me a sense of security when using this in my home. I was able to set the padlock up with ease and I liked that it could be controlled on an app I downloaded to my smartphone.

it just looks much cooler than the digital ones.

Stock cooler is all you need. This is the one.

Blows air like all the others but looks cooler doing it!

Seems to run cooler.