Corsair A500 Air Cooler Review

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I could sit here and ramble away for far too long about every pro and con in excruciating detail that Corsair’s new A500 cooler has, but instead I’m going give you as much of a rounded look at it, with my opinion thrown in too, and you can make your own mind up about it from there. First though, I have to pay the bills.

So, Corsair’s new A500 cooler then. It’s a re-entry for them into the CPU air cooler market they’ve been out of for a long time now, and quite a different design to their current product line. Styling wise, it’s actually devoid of any RGB or lighting at all, something I never thought I’d say about a Corsair product, which I know some of you will be over the moon about, and some it’ll be a complete turn off. 

Functionality wise, it’s a dual tower cooler with two ML120 fans strapped to the sides, which actually come pre-attached out of the box which is nice. They are attached via shrouds that I assume are meant to help maintain the static pressure the fans create, but that’s a pretty fruitless endeavour as they went and stuck a massive hole in the middle, and covered it with an open top panel that isn’t even attached to the cooler in any meaningful way, only plastic pins hold it on. 

The massive hole, which, no isn’t big enough for a third fan, is there so you can mount the mammoth thing, using only two spring loaded nuts. The cooler is rather tall, and that gap isn’t all that big, so they felt they had to include what is a rather nice philips head screwdriver in the box so you can actually mount it. And speaking of mounting, it’s not as simple as it might seem. On AMD anyway, all you do is screw their brackets, on spacers, into the existing backplate, then drop the cooler on top and tighten it down. It does have thermal paste pre-applied which is good to see, but that was wasted on me as it’s almost impossible to see the tiny studs on the brackets, and how they line up with the nuts. I smeared the pre-applied paste and had to use the other included paste to get it right.

Which brings us nicely onto performance. I was testing with a Ryzen 3900X it draws about 145W during a Blender BMW test render, and made this hit a max of around 83 to 84°c. That’s not terrible but for £90 I’d expect better. Now I should add, I spent basically a full day troubleshooting everything I could think of to see if there was a mistake. I tried re-seating, re-pasting, tried Arctic MX-4 instead of Corsair’s TM30, tried different fan headers, different mounting pressures, but nothing made a difference. 

To compare those temps to a similarly priced AIO watercooler, say the Fractal Design S24 I recommend so often, which is around £10 more than the A500, I’d expect that to max out at around 70°c, while being a significant amount quieter, because man this thing aint quiet. While you do get the bonus of reliability with an air cooler, if I cared about that enough I’d get an Arctic Freezer 34 eSports DUO instead, as it’d perform similarly to the A500, but it’s more stylish and less than half the price.

Overall then, it’s not something I’d go out of my way to recommend, I mean it’s certainly not a terrible choice and potentially for higher heat output chips like Threadrippers it might perform a little better, but for me I’d go with a cheaper air cooler or an AIO for now. Or Noctua. 

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