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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While stress testing in Cinebench, I run both with power limits removed and with an enforced 200W CPU power limit, using MSI’s Z690 A Pro DDR4 Motherboard and Be Quiet’s Silent Base 802 Computer Case. Only the most capable coolers are able to pass Cinebench testing when power limits are removed. Tier 3: These coolers are able to keep the i9-12900K under TJ max with CPU power limits of 140W enforced. Testing Methodology Where things get really interesting with the Peerless Assassin 129 SE is in lower wattage loads. In fact, I had to retest these results multiple times because I couldn’t believe my own results. When limited to 140W and with fans running at the default fan curve, the Peerless Assassin SE outperformed every cooler I’ve tested – including many high-end AIOs. At 140W with fans reduced to 50% speeds, Thermalright’s cooler tied with BeQuiet’s Pure Loop 2 FX and Cougar’s Poseidon GT360 AIOs for the best cooling performance. 95W OCCT Test Results

In all workloads tested, the Peerless Assassin 120 SE ran very quietly. When running at maximum fan speeds, it is the second-quietest cooler we’ve tested thus far. At an enforced 50% fan speed, it runs quieter than all coolers we’ve tested except for Cooler Master & Corsair’s AIOs. Conclusion Intel ® Core™ i7-12700 | GIGABYTE B660 AORUS MASTER DDR4 | Gigabyte Radeon™ RX 6650 XT Gaming OC | 32GB Corsair Vengeance® RGB Pro SL DDR4 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Green 1.5TB | Windows 11 Pro | NZXT H510 Flow White I looked at the Peerless Assassin and was initially put off by the installation. But then, what is the guy in the review doing? He complains about the amount of force required and the bend on the MB, but he's installing it where all the corners are elevated on 1 inch high pins? I presume this is the 'professional' way to do it, but wouldn't you put it flat if it was bulging like that? Saw a couple of other installs where they were done on flat surface with ease. graphs while leveraging the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, illustrating how each cooler performs under various varying CPU power levels. This allows for a clear comparison of theirDifficult to increase sample size with multiple TH reviewers. Leaves me wondering about comparison to the Deepcool AS500 (or similar single-tower 140mm coolers, Scythe Fuma 2, etc.) Would be nice if testing can be normalized in a way that allows results to be transferred/combined for larger lists. Also from what I see now, the fans are noticable at 1200 RPM, but I just set my curve to never spin more than 1200 RPM then, because it cools too well even below 1200 RPM Math Geek said:in the very limited couple days we've had with am5, i've not seen anything to say otherwise. everything i have seen says am4 coolers are compatible. Of course, that's not super-compact, but using only 120mm fans, it's a lot smaller than something like Noctua's NH-D15, a cooler that pretty much sets the benchmark in the category but is rather sizeable in pulling off that achievement. RichardtST said:Awesome. So it should work pretty well if I remove the fan covering the RAM? Or move it to the other side? Gotta have my pretty RGB RAM and cannot be covering it up! Mounting system looks like a breeze too.

Awesome. So it should work pretty well if I remove the fan covering the RAM? Or move it to the other side? Gotta have my pretty RGB RAM and cannot be covering it up! Mounting system looks like a breeze too.There should be more all-white any hardware in the market.Well, they say that sometimes, once in a while, occasionally.... It doesn't come with a screwdriver like some other coolers, but you don't need it because it has access to the mounting screws, unlike some coolers where you need to insert a long screw driver to a tiny hole Deepcool AK620. This was a good contender, but Chinese company with dodgy rep. Still, I probably would have bought their upcoming cooler/redesigned existing line with big LCD screen atop the heat sink, but they've been faffing around for too long now. Due to requests from our readers, I’ve begun to include 95W results, which should be broadly applicable to CPUs like AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600V or Intel’s Core i5-12400. In these lower wattage tests, the Peerless Assassin once again lives up to its name, outperforming it’s nearest rival by six degrees C when fans ran at the default fan curve, and a whopping 12 degrees C when set to 50% fan speeds.