Kingwin RVT-9225: Budget priced cooling results in budget performance

Conclusion

There's not much to say here. We really expected the RVT-9225 to perform better than it did, particularly with a 120mm case fan exhausting the air directly behind it. Overclocking performance is equivalent to a unit half the price (the Alpine 7) at orders of magnitude more noise than that heatsink.

We can't recommend this product over its competitors, and can only hope that the 120mm variants in this line put up more of a fight. Even worse is that we wouldn't even recommend this cooler over the "free" Intel retail cooler. It does post slightly better scores in a few areas, but the noise outweighs the slight wins. Even if you have $30 burning a hole in your pocket, there are clearly better ways to spend it.