Our Overall Score:
9.4/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the PC fans and coolers category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £89.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Corsair or alternative products in the PC fans and coolers category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler
CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler scores 9.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with PC fans and coolers. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for PC fans and coolers, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any PC fans and coolers? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler scores 9.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the PC fans and coolers category was £339.95, whilst the cheapest we found was £1.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the PC fans and coolers category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the PC fans and coolers category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the PC fans and coolers category. This was £56.88 from the 242 products we found in that category. So CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler actually comes in above average at £89.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £339.95 and the least expensive, which was £1.99. In total we found that of the 242, 49 were more expensive and 191 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler.
Prices of products from Corsair
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Corsair. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Corsair, which was £82.15 of the 82 products we found. So CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Corsair was £8 with the most expensive coming in at £235.
Prices of products from Corsair and in the PC fans and coolers category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Corsair that sit specifically within the PC fans and coolers category.
For this we found that the average price was £71.58, making CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler at £89.99 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £163 with the lowest priced item being £22.99. In total there were 2 items that were more expensive and 9 that was less expensive.
Reviews of CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler
CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler scores 9.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler is.
Overall score
CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler scores 9.4/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Corsair so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: CORSAIR A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler
- Brand: Corsair
- Model Number: A500
- Pre-applied thermal pasteSpeed: 2400 rpmCT-9010003-WWMax noise level: 37 dBMax airflow: 75 CFM
- EAN:
- Description: Keep even the most demanding processors cool with the Corsair A500 120 mm Dual Fan CPU Cooler. With direct-contact, copper heat pipes and high-performance thermal paste, this fan draws the heat away from your overclocked CPU.You can easily adjust fan speed to go from super-quiet all the way up to extreme cooling. Or anything in between. Easy to install, the A500 CPU Cooler fits most modern AMD and Intel CPUs. Thermal paste is pre-applied, and you get an extra tube if you tweak your setup in the future. And because the height is adjustable, it’s easy to fit all your components in.Supported chipsets: AM4, AM3, FM2, LGA115x, LGA20xx
- Product ID: 25922613069
