Thermalright Direct 2 via Amazon has Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler w/ Dual Fans (Various Styles) on sale as listed below from $33.01. Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Thermalright Direct 2 via Amazon has Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler w/ Dual Fans (Various Styles) on sale as listed below from $33.01. Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Model: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Air Cooler, Dual Tower 6 Heat Pipe, Dual 120mm TL-C12C PWM CPU Fan, for AMD AM4/AM5/Intel LGA 1700/1150/1151/1200, AGHP Technology, Aluminium Heatsink Cover
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FWIW if you don't have a super beefy CPU to cool, their Royal Knight cooler is still just $19.87 (very similar cooler but with different fans): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCNY3D3R
i just installed their 7-pipe kit (paid $40 w/tax&ship) was missing an am4|5 standoff, and it was clearly 3mm taller than spec'd 🤐 but it did lower my cpu temps nearly 20°C below amd stock cooler, so worth the hassle.
Scythe fuma 3 is also great and same price at amazon. It's designed to be quieter and fans at lower rpm, it's also smaller and easier to install in more systems.
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have one of these on an Intel 9900K in my HTPC (super power hungry & hot CPU from the past) and it can keep it in the mid 70's under a full core load which is quite impressive for a 9900k. my friend has one on his 7800X3D and he says he stays in the 60's while gaming.
only thing i did was get rid of the fans for some noctuas. the factory fans are just too loud for my taste
FWIW if you don't have a super beefy CPU to cool, their Royal Knight cooler is still just $19.87 (very similar cooler but with different fans): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCNY3D3R
This is much better deal for simiral performance.
Also the PS SE is only a couple of bucks more and it adds an extra Heatpipe. https://a.co/d/0fr6v22e
The coolers in the OP are not the best deal on TR on Amazon
Yes, this is a great cooler for the money. If you do buy this, plan to upgrade the fans. I'm not normally very picky about the noise but these do produce a fair amount of coil whine that drove me nuts.
I have had good luck with the 5 packs of arctic p12 and p14 fans available on the jungle website. bequiet! also makes great fans for the money.. I probably have about equal parts of both in all of my systems. I usually just buy plain, black fans as I like the blacked out look; and I'm not a fan of all the bells and whistles. My systems just need to compute - They don't need to put on a show.
I put this cooler on a 7700k (upgrade from a CM Hyper 212). It's like pretty much every other cooler that has spring tension mounts which are normally pre-tensioned... which makes it fool proof so you just crank it down and that's that.
Maybe things have changed now (I last bought this cooler in 2023) but it's a LOT of tension, and thanks to that I learned the hard way that LGA 1151 boards are prone to breaking traces if you apply too much tension around the CPU socket. So if you plan on putting this on a lga 1151 board, just be aware of this or don't be surprised if your system won't POST after installation. Lesson learned. On the bright side, it was a great excuse to upgrade the motherboard.
Anyway, as for cooling performance, it does very well. On the 7700k, it doesn't perform any better or worst than a 360mm aio. The 7700k has such terrible thermal transfer capabilities that it needs to be delidded anyway for any kind of OC over a couple hundred mhz. That said, there's a big difference between this and the hyper 212. No comparison really.
Amazing cooler but I think it's usually around this price? On a retro build I'm taking a i5-4690k to speeds that are supposed to need liquid cooling.
Yeah this is standard price. Unless you have a 12+ core CPU the Thermalright Royal Knight 120 SE for $20 is a better buy and will perform very similarly.
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only thing i did was get rid of the fans for some noctuas. the factory fans are just too loud for my taste
Also the PS SE is only a couple of bucks more and it adds an extra Heatpipe.
https://a.co/d/0fr6v22e
The coolers in the OP are not the best deal on TR on Amazon
I have had good luck with the 5 packs of arctic p12 and p14 fans available on the jungle website. bequiet! also makes great fans for the money.. I probably have about equal parts of both in all of my systems. I usually just buy plain, black fans as I like the blacked out look; and I'm not a fan of all the bells and whistles. My systems just need to compute - They don't need to put on a show.
I put this cooler on a 7700k (upgrade from a CM Hyper 212). It's like pretty much every other cooler that has spring tension mounts which are normally pre-tensioned... which makes it fool proof so you just crank it down and that's that.
Maybe things have changed now (I last bought this cooler in 2023) but it's a LOT of tension, and thanks to that I learned the hard way that LGA 1151 boards are prone to breaking traces if you apply too much tension around the CPU socket. So if you plan on putting this on a lga 1151 board, just be aware of this or don't be surprised if your system won't POST after installation. Lesson learned. On the bright side, it was a great excuse to upgrade the motherboard.
Anyway, as for cooling performance, it does very well. On the 7700k, it doesn't perform any better or worst than a 360mm aio. The 7700k has such terrible thermal transfer capabilities that it needs to be delidded anyway for any kind of OC over a couple hundred mhz. That said, there's a big difference between this and the hyper 212. No comparison really.
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