Conclusion

Since meanwhile ten years Apack, the company behind the Zerotherm products, has been develping and manufacturing high quality CPU coolers. Also with the FZ120 they did a good job and they manage to hit the top third of our chart list.

We highly appreciate the very easy mounting solution which also guarantees a very thorough installation. It is easy and uncomplicated. Futhermore Zerotherms FZ120 is also able to bring its decent looks in scene.

If you drive the fan with 12 volts it is subjectively noisy and a 25 percent clock increase can easily be done. At 6 volts the performance is still good and sufficient to hold the CPU at adequate temperatures. The noise level in this case we describe as subjectively very silent.

Because of the coolers exceptionally good price/performance rating we give it our OCaholic Top Hardware Award.

You can buy Zerotherms FZ120 at Digitec.ch to a price of CHF 35.- (ca. EUR 23.-).

Author: i.gigier@ocaholic.ch

Revised by: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch