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Review on Thermalright Peerless Assassin Aluminium Technology by Chris Hall

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Thermalright Direct 3 is legal; This cooler is cool

So I searched for this PA120 for my newly purchased Master NR200P cooler and found 2 different product pages and 2 different sellers. "Thermalright direct" with many ratings and "Thermalright direct 3" with 0 ratings. Now I risked the latter because the cooler was $5 cheaper but was still in stock from Amazon. The cooler was well packaged and is genuine. Now to the cooler itself. Absolutely great cooler for NR200/P. It's 157mm tall, so you can't use it with a side mount or tempered glass side panel, but that's a compromise you'll have to make for great thermal performance. Runs 5600x with extended PBO2, curve optimizer -30 and reaches 4.85 GHz on all cores in aida64, 74C after half an hour of stress test. The included C12 fans are a bit noisy under full load. Set the maximum speed to 1200 rpm and you have a near-silent system. I used to have to import Thermalright products at a higher cost and longer waiting times since Thermalright products were not widely available in the US a few years ago. I'm glad they are stepping up their game in the US and I hope more people get to know them because you can get 90% Noctua half price at Thermalright.

Pros
  • Computer components
Cons
  • Only available in white