Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Air Cooler,PA120 SE,6 Heat Pipes Cpu cooler,Dual 120mm TL-C12C PWM Fan,Aluminium Heatsink Cover,AGHP Technology,for AMD AM4/AM5 Intel 1851/1700/1150/1200

My CPU temps were hitting up to 90-100°C on demanding games with the STOCK intel cooler (was playing Oblivion Remastered, so maybe I should say poorly optimised games lol).I’ve got an i5 14400f paired with an RTX 4070, so these temps were crazy high, and straight up dangerous for my CPU.Now, I know the stock intel cooler is generally not great, but I was not expecting the crazy results that this CPU cooler gave me. I bought this for £27 (I think on sale). And, for £27, it lowered my temps from 90-100°C in Oblivion, to 50-55°C — incredible.This game often utilises up to 70% of my CPU, and sometimes higher, and the fact that I’m getting such low temps is amazing. I was honestly expecting, and hoping for, maybe 70-75°C on this game. I am really pleased with this CPU cooler, and it seems to be working amazingly.It gets kinda noisy in-game, but still NOT as loud as the Stock Intel Cooler. It’s audible when the fans start speeding up in more demanding games/environments, but I assume it’s to maintain those lower temps. If you really wanted to, you could create a custom fan curve, and you’d probably solve this issue. It’s honestly not an issue for me, it’s really not that loud at all. Also, at least it doesn’t turn my room into a sauna like the stock intel cooler!TL;DR: good quality, really nice temps with my CPU, really affordable price, and is compatible with AM4 boards, AM5 I believe as well (double check that), in addition to Intel boards. Can get a bit noisy, create a custom fan curve or buy a more premium CPU cooler or even a Liquid Cooler if you are sensitive or disturbed by fan noise.I used to play PS4 all the time, so I can tolerate fan noise pretty well, since that console was a jet engine. But honestly, it’s not that loud at all, just audible. Even playing with speakers, and no headphones, the fan noise doesn’t bother me.

Used in a fairly small case with limited airflow on a Ryzen 5600. In benchmarks the CPU won’t go over 60 degrees now, it was hitting 93 degrees. Installed fairly easily, took me a while to understand the fan clips, should have looked at the Amazon listing rather than the instructions. Seems fairly quiet, not really worried about that though. I was doing some other bits to my PC so I think it took me 12 is mins to install and cable manage this particular thing…..I’m not particularly experienced working on desktops. Instructions were alright…..not great.I only really play wrestling games, TLOU, Red Dead Dead Redemption 2 and a bit of STALKER 2….it keeps the cpu much cooler that the old one. The old one wasn’t a stock cooler, it was a decent budget one. This one was a bit cheaper and it’s much better.

This air colour is huge but it does a great job of keeping the CPU temperature cool. The heat sink is so large that I can run the CPU fan on silent mode without it breaking a sweat. it just about fitted on my matx Motherboard And therefore accessing other components on your motherboard might be tricky. For instance, I have to remove my my graphics card and remove one of the cooling fans to be able to get to my memory slots. If you’ve got the space and don’t want to do liquid calling option then I fully recommend this.

Great cooler at an excellent price and keeps my Rizen 9 processor pretty cool. One star off as the thermal compound was useless and I had to spend another £8.95 to buy some.

Great performance for the money, absolutely blown away. Installation was a pain as i have a mATX motherboard and an ATX case but got it working, although quite a lot of sag as my graphics card is big, definitely fixable with a sag bracket or two.Dropped my temps by 30 WHOLE DEGREES playing games, was previously running at 85-90 under load, now sits at around 50 ish. Could not recommend more absolutely insane performance for the price.

Purchased to replace my 120 AIO water-cooling set up. Was pleasantly surprised to find it outperformed my old set up and I've went from 60°c idle on a 5600x down to 33°c. For the price I would definitely recommend. The ability to connect the RGB to a compatible motherboard is a massive plus. The supplied fans are very quiet but perform great.

Straight forward install on a AMD 7800x3d ( you just need to use the brackets supplied).CPU idle speed with old cooler was 60C & this cooler it is now 40C , so all good .

Went from around 96c with my AMD stock cooler to around 45c with this. Would highly recommend.