From OCZ Store we have two coolers manufactured by one of their divisions. I know nothing about the way OCZ ships these products because we received early samples. Maybe that there are shipped in a kind of box, with thermal compound. I sincerely do not know. The OCZ Gladiator is a cooler with a cooper heatsink and a 60mm fan installed on the buyer preference. We tested a version with one of the most powerful fans on the market, a small 7.20W monster from YS-Tech. The heatsink is small, but very well manufactured. It has a lot of cooper plates which are soldered on the cooper base. The soldering technique is very good and the base is well polished. The hole assembly is good work, I would be very curious to know which company manufacturers them for OCZ. It's not very heavy, but this is only a matter of its reduced dimensions, cooper is heavy and manufacturers do not have solution to this problem.

The fan is a YS-Tech spinning at over 7000rpm, which makes a lot of noise. This is one of the most powerful fans available, it's able to move 40CFM! The small heatsink size influences the noise level. We measured 64dB(A), a lot of noise for such a small cooler. The interesting fact about this fan is that it uses an ATX header to take power from the ATX source and a fan header which provides the rpm monitoring.

The clip features a very easy installation/removal and can be operated only by hand. It has only one hole, but it's surely enough to hold it close to the socket.

Unfortunately I do not know anything about the CPUs this cooler can be used with, but in our test system it succeeded to reach a superior performance. The maximum temperature of 43C was one of the best in this roundup.

As far as I have seen on the web, this cooler is pretty inexpensive also. I recommend you this cooler but take care that it can be heard by your neighbors :) It fits to any motherboard and it provides a performance suitable for overclocking applications.

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