It was a client build and they had no need for an aftermath cooler. If it was my personal rig I would have a 'proper' cooler on it. I did manage to get a nice solid 4GHz stable overclock out of the locked 2500. My main personal rig is Nuclear Fission, but if Emerald Shark was my person rig I would either sleeve the cables or run extensions on the PCI-E, 24Pin and 8Pin ESP cables then make a PSU shroud to his the cables comming out of the PSU.