Aircooler, need help with recommendation

Thaifood said:

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE​

down to 33.90 on some rain forest place which is a bargain
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The white ARGB version was £32.90 for the last month, you'd think the prices would be going up not down.

Matty8787 said:
Seen it but would need to see how others get on before deciding if I should replace my U12s Redux

Edit: Don't have a 5600x anymore, need to update sig.
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I have a Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE (£37.90) cooling a 5800X3D and it's fine with no issues, although I am running -30 all core curve optimizer. It runs at an average of 74.4c running Cinebench R23 with a 22c ambient room temperature.
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Eddie99 said:
The white ARGB version was £32.90 for the last month, you'd think the prices would be going up not down.


I have a Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE (£37.90) cooling a 5800X3D and it's fine with no issues, although I am running -30 all core curve optimizer. It runs at an average of 74.4c running Cinebench R23 with a 22c ambient room temperature.
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What's the noise like, fan speeds etc
 
I know we don't have much testing to go on but Fuma 3 isn't going to do all that well. There are lots of other as goood with quite a few being better including Thermalright's twin towers released in last few years They are not only extremely competitive or better than competition but also much lower priced.
 
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Matty8787 said:
Interested to know, keep us in the loop.
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Installed yesterday.

Ambient temp in my room was 27 degrees, so fairly warm.

I had Kombo Strike at 2 on my motherboard, so -20 offset on all cores.

On a Cinebench run, I peaked at around 82 degrees. If I ran Prime 95 small FFT torture test (I find this utterly murders CPU's and takes it to absolutely extreme temps) then I'm literally at 89 degrees, so virtually hitting thermal limits.

If I use PBO Tuner and set all cores to -25 (my 5800X3D is not stable at -30), then its at around 86-87 in Prime.

Previous cooler was an Alpenfohn Brocken 2 PCGH Edition Dual Fan (5 heat pipes) that I picked up from here for £27. When I ran the same tests back in December when ambient temps were 20-21 degrees with the -25 offset, Prime test was giving me 84 degrees. given that the Broken used 2x 140mm fans, even those at full speed were very quiet. The PA's 2x120mm fans at full speed are noticeably noisier.

So for me, the PA isn't massively better than my previous cooler. I think if I ran my old cooler yesterday and benchmarked the temps, it would be slightly higher than the PA.
 
You make it sound like we change / add RAM or NVME like we change socks.

Reality is very few of us add / change / or NVME.

If you are the odd one who does change RAM / NVME, than either use one of the many air coolers that does not block RAM / NVME sockets .. or simply remove /reinstall cooler when you need access to them. Might take 5 minutes to R&R a cooler with new TIM.
 
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Wing-Man said:
The Peerless Assassin is amazing but dont forget the Phantom Spirit if you have room for a 140mm fan

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Pretty sure both Peerless Assassin (PA120) and Phantom Spirit (PS120) are both 120mm fan coolers very close to same size.
Peerless Assassin is L110 mm x W125 mm x H155 mm​
Phantom Spirit is L110 mm x W125 mm x H157 mm​
 
Wing-Man said:
Your right it’s the frost spirit that’s 140mm
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That makes sense.
Frost Spirit is L121 mm x W140 mm x H158 mm w/ 4x 8mm heatpipes.​

I prefer
Frost Commander; same W121 mm x W140 mm xH158 mm size but 2/ 5x 8mm heatpipes.​
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All are very good coolers slight differences in cooling ability, noise level and price.
 
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