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It’s 2003 and you bought a turbine for your PC

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In 2003 coolermaster released these absolutely cool looking coolers.
The Aero 7 amd Aero 7lite (aluminium)

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  2. BaconHammer9000

    can confirm. i had this exact cooler on my system at the time

  3. DuBcEnT

    I didn’t need these, I was the guy with 4 tornados and a fan controller. I would turn it on at game nights and slowly ramp up the speed. It sounded like a jet getting ready to launch from a carrier.

  4. gafftaped

    It’s giving turbo and I kind of love it

  5. Death_Rises

    It’s called a turbo, stole it out of some guys 85 civic.

  6. annihilatorg

    They were always sold as “silent” and were absolutely obnoxious rattling monsters at all running speeds. Compare to the real GOAT Zalman CNPS7000-CU assuming it would fit on your board. Lots of ram clearance issues.

  7. Inexorably_lost

    *loads up cyberpunk 2077 with path tracing at 4k*

    *Computer reaches escape velocity and is never seen again*

  11. CanOtacticalBacon

    Squirrel cage. Looks ripped right out of a car.

  12. CharcoalGreyWolf

    Didn’t have those but Arctic Cooling was making some good third-party GPU coolers I was using to greatly enhance my experience.

  13. 7orly7

    I love the “no stick finger I here” sticker

  14. KarateMan749

    https://www.newegg.com/zalman-cnps9500a-led/p/N82E16835118223?nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=afc-ran-com-_-Cashback+on+Bing+for+non-Edge+browsers&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=afc-ran-com-_-Cashback+on+Bing+for+non-Edge+browsers&utm_source=afc-Cashback+on+Bing+for+non-Edge+browsers&AFFID=3624890&AFFNAME=Cashback+on+Bing+for+non-Edge+browsers&ACRID=1&ASUBID=oc5A05L8E_cFrofF6SHThByRNYxh5oOneJBUjF0uOIPJDS4CVbtxRs4abaFyZBjy&ASID=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=3624890&ranSiteID=msYS1Nvjv4c-mj9eN9HLNdcxrK76.FHoQA

    What i had 😎. Still got it looking brand new in its box

  15. kram_02

    PCs were so much noisier back then if you wanted good cooling. I built my first one around 2001 or so. Standard fan size was still 80mm and if you wanted good airflow and you didn’t have a permium case with exotic fan sizes you had to just buy loud ones. Vantec Tornado fans were in style and what not lol.

    GPU and chipset fans were tiny and whiny 🤮

  16. KillerSpectre21

    I’m a sucker for these older cooler designs, modern ones have the formula down for effectiveness but unfortunately there’s just nothing weird and cool like these anymore.

    The Thermaltake SpinQ is my favourite but it’s quite a bit newer (2008-2010), also it may or may not lacerate your hand when mounting it.

    https://preview.redd.it/2k6yv80e649f1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0f1267ff959dbd648130e7a2c736730d43c3d75

    Unfortunately wasn’t even that [great in 2010](https://www.techpowerup.com/review/thermaltake-spinq/) let alone now, really shows how the simple finstack tower approach is just more efficient.

  17. shysaver

    Haha when I bought my first proper PC this was the cooler I bought, tbf it did look pretty rad for 2003. Remember this was the era of ricing cars etc so designs back then were wild

  18. ELB2001

    Dude you agree confusing the younglings

  19. BtotheVV86

    Oh yes. Hooked that badboy up to my Cooler Master Aerogate, check the temps under load on my Cooler Master Musketeer 2, uliminate the whole thing with 2 UV cold cathode lights. Glow in the dark everything… big time nerding

  21. disgruntledempanada

    Friend of mine had one of these. Was comically loud lol.

  22. scuba_scouse

    Don’t stick your finger or your dick in that

  24. OutrageousStorm4217

    Had one of these on my motherboards south bridge chipset, not sure if it did anything though….

  25. ahandmadegrin

    I had one that looked like a turbo fan jet engine. Cooled for shit, but boy was it cool. Wait, that, um, never mind.

  27. XFauni

    “CPU cooler”. HUH? That fucker could cool my car 😂

  28. Strongit

    I miss the aesthetic of these things. My dad used to call them squirrel cage fans.

  29. dj_vicious

    Back in the day those 80mm case fans were little more than noisemakers. I remember around ’06 or so when the Antec Nine Hundred came out with that 200mm top fan and it was such a foreign concept to have real airflow.

    Although PC components ran cooler back then, the multitude of little case fans and leaf blower GPU coolers meant that PCs never really ran quiet, even at idle.

    Nowadays I have a 5000x that I swapped the front and top panels for the ‘d’ airflow ones. 6x 120s will certainly get a little noisy while gaming, but PCs today are virtually silent at idle.

  30. Beneficial-News-2232

    Still have little one on my x570 chipset 😇

  31. Ritchie_Whyte_III

    I always referred to them as a “squirrel cage blower”, which is an actual term for that type of fan.

  33. jasonsong86

    When coolers were small you gotta move as much air as possible.

  34. Mr_Pigg

    My case in college has a giant plastic fan. Not too long in it started to rub against the outer plastic. Most annoying shit ever, just ended up taking off the case pannel

  37. CharAznableLoNZ

    I had one, it was quite loud. Back then we didn’t care as much though.

  38. SubmissiveDinosaur

    Sorry mr Decal, but I want to put my finger in it

  39. H0vis

    Back then a noisy PC was kind of necessary. Unless you wanted to lean into a very expensive and risky water cooling system or some sort of passive/low power cooling system that straight up wouldn’t do the job.

    My old PC back in the day sounded like an air cavalry brigade dusting off when you tried to play a bit of Half Life 2 and it was a beautiful thing.

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