Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Air Cooler, 6 Heat Pipes Cpu cooler, Dual 120mm TL-C12C PWM Fan, Aluminium Heatsink Cover, AGHP Technology, for AMD AM4 AM5/Intel 1150/1151/1200/1700

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This new socket marks a big departure for AMD — the company is moving from its long-lived Pin Grid Array (PGA) AM4 sockets to a Land Grid Array (LGA) AM5 layout. The pads are firm, so I assumed they were used as spacers if the cooler’s mounting brackets don’t make solid contact with the SST. Despite the entirely different LGA1718 socket interface (1718 pins), the AM5 socket will still support AM4 coolers. This cooler knocked close to 20C off my12600K's load temps compared with the Deepcool Gammaxx 400 it replaced, despite being just as quiet.

This means that coolers that kept previous-gen products like the i9-10900K nice and cool sometimes struggle to keep Intel's i9-12900K under Tj max–the maximum temperature before the CPU starts to throttle. The Unofficial Noctua Subreddit was created as a place for users to find information, share and discuss Noctua products. The Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB CPU Air Cooler is, quite simply, a triumph in the air cooling segment. Problem is likely the huge varience in IHS surface and/or PCB thickness to socket depth and resulting IHS top height being higher with thinner motheboard PCB thickness. This would thus decrease distance from top of IHS to top of spacers and top of mount and increase distance from top of mount on mobo to top of cooler base.

Also, it's noticable at 1200 only when I open the glass panel, and put my head close to it, since the PSU I am using is very noisy, it's a shitty 450W PSU. Thermalright installed two TL-C12B fans on the unit, which can spin at a speed of up to 1550 RPM, when they produce 25. The lighting is crisp, vibrant, and fully customizable, offering aesthetics as impressive as its cooling capabilities. So while you won't get the same cooling performance, you'll still get pretty close with two cooling towers and 120mm fans. Not sure what's different, but when you tighten the first screw it raised the unattached side slightly, and I tightened the first one only slightly once it caught vs how TR tightened each side.

For the most part, the new aluminium dual fin-stack cooler is identical to the original, spare for a few changes.The problem was that the AC was quite loud already and it's a small room, and then I had no time to test it with the AC off, so I will update this as soon as I can. I have the Peerless Assassin SE120 with fairly tall memory and you can easily mount the fan a little higher so it sits above the memory. This cooler can handle tough tasks and serious overclocking for some CPUs, making it a popular choice for keeping your computer cool and running smoothly. So after you run a stress test, make sure you gently, without applying much force, rotate the old heatsink left and right (after unscrewing the screws), in small movements, until you can get more freedom to rotate more and more, and then it should be easier to lift it up. CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X | Motherboard: B550 PRO V2 | GPU: RX 480 Nitro+ | RAM: Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz 2x32GB | Hard Drive: Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB | Hard Drive: XPG SX8200PRO 1TB | Hard Drive: WD Blue 4TB | Power Supply: EVGA G2 750W | Cooling: Thermalright Frost Commander 140 | Cooling: Morpheus II | Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro | Operating System: Kubuntu 22.

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To test the limits of a cooler's thermal dissipation capabilities, I run two primary stress tests: Cinebench and OCCT, each for 10 minutes. You can always replace the fans and get something quieter if the fans at high rpm annoys you, but if the airflow is good and the chip isn’t running full blast 24/7, should be more than enough. It has two 120mm fans that ensure your computer stays cool and runs smoothly, and it's compatible with various types of processors.These results are even more interesting when you consider that most coolers do worse when limited to 50% fan speeds in this test.