 What's up internet? Reviewing today a CPU cooler from Cougar. Cougar not so well-known for their CPU coolers actually, mostly well-known for their cases. And the 4x8.5 when you look at it, looks like a pretty standard air cooler. It's a single tower cooler, 160mm in height. Although it does look quality and fairness. Di naman siya mukhang cheap. And the positioning is a bit interesting. It's a single tower cooler but Cougar is trying to suggest na kaya niya mas mabilis na CPUs. CPUs that you would normally pair with dual tower cooler such as the Dark Rock Pro 4, NHD15, the Deep Cool AK620. So the bigger boys. Cougar is trying to subtly suggest that you might want to try a single tower cooler, our single tower cooler, even with these hotter CPUs. So we'll be taking a look at that today whether it is a realistic option to pair a CPU that notoriously runs a bit hot with a single tower air cooler. The 4x8 does come with extra clips necessary already to slap a second fan here in the rear. But we only tested it with one fan with the default option of the cooler. The 4x8 being a modern cooler, it does support all of our usual suspects. So that's LGA1700, Intel 12 and 13th gen. And the previous generations with Intel 11 5x. AMD of course supported AM4 and AM5. So basically any modern system can use the Forza. Let's get to the numbers. And the first test we ran was with the MX360 with the side panel off. Trying to mimic a open test bench setup where airflow is less of a problem and we can get a better idea of the raw performance of the cooler. So we stacked up the Forza 8.5 against a Deep Cool AK620 which is an unfair contest since the AK620 is a bigger 2 tower 2 fan cooler. So it's not a fair contest but the numbers were actually pretty close. We ran all tests to the Ryzen 7 5800X and the Forza 85 got very good results. Top temperature recorded in Cinebench was 80.1 degrees versus 77.4 degrees for the Deep Cool AK620 so that's less than a 3 degree difference. In timespy the AK620 actually at a higher temp of 69.1 degrees compared to 68 degrees for the Forza 85. We further tested the Forza 85 in Cougar's dual face. So that was two front panels. The mesh front panel gave us a temperature of 79.1 degrees in Cinebench and 66.3 in timespy. So very good numbers for the Forza 85 especially when it's in a good airflow case. For cases with restricted airflow such as the Cougar MX360 the Forza 85 had decent temperatures in Cinebench. It was at 86.1 degrees in timespy 70.6 degrees and then compared that to the AK620 in the same case cooler at 81.2 degrees so about a 5 degree variance or so in favor of the AK620 and again the weird result in timespy where the AK620 is just slightly hotter than the Forza 85. Now I wouldn't put too much stock in the timespy result although just reporting it since it is the data that we collected. But overall very impressive performance for the Forza 85 even going up against a much larger cooler with proven performance in the AK620 especially in cases with good airflow such as the dual face when using the mesh front panel cooling performance was excellent and while Cougar is not known for its air coolers they seem to have a winner with this one. A relatively short single tower cooler delivering excellent performance. So overall actually pretty impressive. The Forza has substantial performance gains over the stock cooler. Dapat lang. But it's also basically able to keep neck and neck with the AK620 an established cooler that we really like and that we've recommended very often for our own builds in the shop. Trusted na namin yung AK620 and the fact that it can keep basically at pace with a larger cooler that we trust is a very impressive point for the Forza. It's not a look-at-me cooler so there's no RGB involved but it does seem to suggest that you don't need a super bulky cooler if you're aiming for a CPU that is mid-range to slightly above mid-range. You can get away with a single tower cooler as long as it performs as well as the Forza does. Thanks for watching. Paminsan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kaming computer shop na trusted yung hindi kalolo ko hin. Actually meron kami. Full service PC store ang hardware sugar. Nagbabenta kami ng PC components. Nagbabenta rin kami ng fully assembled rigs. We clean computers. Kasama na rin yung excellent table management namin and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning. We also clean and repaste cheap use. Na sa makati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up-to-date yung inventory dun. Kung instock yung item sa amin, available yung sa site. We also ship nationwide. Thanks for watching and maybe one of these days, magkita tayo sa shop.