Best air cooler AM4?

Matty8787

Matty8787

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Looking for one that will give me enough clearance for my RAM slots, all 4 of them are Corsair vengeance RGB pro and are to the right hand side of the CPU slot, on my current setup I have a Kraken AIO but because of the pipes I had to have the cooler off centred to be able to fit.

I don't overclock my CPU as I find the boost more than adequate.
 
Matty8787 said:
Looking for one that will give me enough clearance for my RAM slots, all 4 of them are Corsair vengeance RGB pro and are to the right hand side of the CPU slot, on my current setup I have a Kraken AIO but because of the pipes I had to have the cooler off centred to be able to fit.

I don't overclock my CPU as I find the boost more than adequate.
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Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE. Overclockers don't sell it but it can be purchased for £21.90 elsewhere. It may not be the best cooler but it'll be within a couple of degrees of a £100 Noctua on a stock 5600x, there's no point getting anything better if you're not overclocking.

I'm using it with a 5700G, running Cinebench R23 with the fan at 100% the max it reached was 68c. With the fan at a fixed 700RPM which is inaudible to me it reaches 77c.
 
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Eddie99 said:
Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE. Overclockers don't sell it but it can be purchased for £21.90 elsewhere. It may not be the best cooler but it'll be within a couple of degrees of a £100 Noctua on a stock 5600x, there's no point getting anything better if you're not overclocking.

I'm using it with a 5700G, running Cinebench R23 with the fan at 100% the max it reached was 68c. With the fan at a fixed 700RPM which is inaudible to me it reaches 77c.
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Do you push/pull or just the one fan pulling?
 
mickyflinn said:
One of the best coolers for the money (£33) with 100% ram clearance is the broken 3 and virtually silent.

It's 165mm tall so check it fits ypur case.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm

Order Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
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Cool, 190mm according to Be quiet so I should be good
 
mickyflinn said:
One of the best coolers for the money (£33) with 100% ram clearance is the broken 3 and virtually silent.

It's 165mm tall so check it fits ypur case.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm

Order Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
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micky I hope the reason it is virtually silent isn't because its broken! :p
 
mickyflinn said:
One of the best coolers for the money (£33) with 100% ram clearance is the broken 3 and virtually silent.

It's 165mm tall so check it fits ypur case.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm

Order Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
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How is this one of the best for the money? It's more expensive than the Thermalright AK120 and performance looks to be well below average.

 
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Eddie99 said:
How is this one of the best for the money? It's more expensive than the Thermalright AK120 and performance looks to be well below average.

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Its silent which does sacrifice a couple of degrees but is a 3rd of the price of the dark rock pro4 . Compared to the assain king 120 the assasin is a good cooler for the money but its not the peerless assassin which is £45 monster but cover ram slots..
 
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The best cooler for not covering ram slots is the u12a, way too pricey but its a beast. Have it on my 13900k, handles it like a champ. Now whether you willing to spend that much is a different story.
 
mickyflinn said:
Its silent which does sacrifice a couple of degrees but is a 3rd of the price of the dark rock pro4 . Compared to the assain king 120 the assasin is a good cooler for the money but its not the peerless assassin which is £45 monster but cover ram slots..
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I can't find any noise normalized reviews for the Alpenfohn Brocken 3 but it gets beaten by the Hyper 212 Black edition in this review, which is a below average cooler itself. The Assassin King 120 is most likely the better cooler. The Peerless Assassin 120 SE is currently £35, but in this 87w 35dBA test the Assassin King 120 is only 0.9c behind the Peerless Assassin 120 and 1.9c behind the Noctua NH-D15.

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Bencher said:
The best cooler for not covering ram slots is the u12a, way too pricey but its a beast. Have it on my 13900k, handles it like a champ. Now whether you willing to spend that much is a different story.
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This is the best single tower cooler, but OP is running a stock 5600x. It's debatable whether a 400% price increase is worth running at 71 degrees instead of 73 degrees. It would be interesting to know how good the TR AK120 SE is if you put 2 of those Noctua NF-A12x25 fans on it.
 
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