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Thermalright 360mm AIO ?

As far as I'm aware, they're among the best value (and very good) AIOs, but the Phantom Spirit/Peerless assasins are also great for the money.
(I'm using an assassin king (single tower, £17) on my 5950x and it's just about enough)
I didn't try the stock thermal paste but I'm sure it's fine, but if you need more, I've always been happy with mx4 and you can get 20g for around a tenner - 8g has lasted me since 2017 doing several machines for myself as well as friends... pretty sure 20g would last me until retirement age!
 
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Stick a second fan on your Assassin King and you have a slightly thinner Assassin Spirit but with a extra heatpipe. The Assassin Spirit will cool a 263w cpu and so yours with a extra fan should be capable of similar. Thermalrights TF-7 thermal paste that comes with most of it's coolers and AIO's is very good stuff, almost as good as TG Kryonaut. It is rather thick though and can be a pain to spread but this is easily sorted if you warm it before application.
 
I big shout out to all the old fogies in the house.

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I've only used two air coolers in 20 years, both Thermalright, well 3 if I include a Taisol CGK742092 in 2001.
 
My mate paired Frozen Notte 360 v2 with 9800x3d and it does perform really well. Pump is nice and quiet. Can't go wrong for 50 quid!
 
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Stick a second fan on your Assassin King and you have a slightly thinner Assassin Spirit but with a extra heatpipe. The Assassin Spirit will cool a 263w cpu and so yours with a extra fan should be capable of similar. Thermalrights TF-7 thermal paste that comes with most of it's coolers and AIO's is very good stuff, almost as good as TG Kryonaut. It is rather thick though and can be a pain to spread but this is easily sorted if you warm it before application.
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It's a fair shout, but I'd have to fashion an extra fan mount out of something, for now I'll just leave the side panel off and hopefully get around to rebuilding my PC with WC soon (got a 480mm rad and a new case to accomodate it... but getting tempted by mITX now lol)
 
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You can get fan clips on Ebay for a couple of quid a pair. I got a set so I could fit a third fan to my Peerless Assassin.
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What kind of gains did you get from this temp wise? Or was it just so you could run all 3 fans a bit quieter?
 
It was a bit of both really as I was running the motherboards silent profile to control the fans. It was only a degree or two improvement but it did stop the fans from ramping up at all so a worthwhile thing to do. I get these ideas in my head and they won't go away until I have tried them out and this is where that came from. My latest one is to play around with my Thermalright AIO. I had the idea to stick a shroud between the fan and the rad, it worked when I was watercooling properly so why not on a AIO? I might also try a extra pair of fans so it's in push/pull mode which should give a similar cooling effect but at a lower rpm, not that it's noisy anyway, just another of my "ideas".
 
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It was a bit of both really as I was running the motherboards silent profile to control the fans. It was only a degree or two improvement but it did stop the fans from ramping up at all so a worthwhile thing to do. I get these ideas in my head and they won't go away until I have tried them out and this is where that came from. My latest one is to play around with my Thermalright AIO. I had the idea to stick a shroud between the fan and the rad, it worked when I was watercooling properly so why not on a AIO? I might also try a extra pair of fans so it's in push/pull mode which should give a similar cooling effect but at a lower rpm, not that it's noisy anyway, just another of my "ideas".
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Nice!
I'm the same to be honest, I love tweaking stuff, especially when I improve it and don't make it worse :cry:
That sounds cool, I'll be interested to hear how that goes!
 
I am having some time off my "ideas" for the time being after my last farce. It get's a bit silly after you have taken your gpu apart for the fith or sixth time (as you saw in my thread in the project logs section) but I am sure it will keep nagging at me until I eventually give in.
 
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I am having some time off my "ideas" for the time being after my last farce. It get's a bit silly after you have taken your gpu apart for the fith or sixth time (as you saw in my thread in the project logs section) but I am sure it will keep nagging at me until I eventually give in.
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Ah mate, don't be so hard on yourself, it's always worth it once you eventually achieve what you want, surely? For me it is. I really like learning/tweaking things/thinking outside the box and doing something unique that others haven't thought of, or mastering something only a few can/have done?

I think you should go do it ;) haha!
 
Im using the Aqua Elite V3 360 here with a 9600x. I also have the 240mm version in my lads PC running a 7600x, but have had a 7800x3d on the 240 as well. Been excellent never had any issue with either. 240 was 39.99 360 was £42. Both have nice ARGB too. Unbeatable IMO
 
240mm Frozen Notte user. Had it on for 18 months now. No complaints (well except I should have got the 360mm mainly because I have a third fan up there anyway so would have made sense to have the extra radiator area). Oh well for £50 I can replace it cheap enough when I next do a CPU upgrade.
 
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