Review Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 V2 Plus review: Essential cooling, with a reverse fan

[Admin]

We tested Thermalright’s Assassin Spirit 120 V2 Plus with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. How well can a budget cooler with a reverse fan perform?

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[thestryker]

Seems like the biggest advantage to this over one of the single fan models would be better cooling at lower noise level. It's still nice to see the budget area having real options worth getting.

I'm still really curious how the ones with the cold plate, like the Assassin X 120 PLUS V2, fare when compared to similar direct touch. Since they're all in the same general price range I think that'd be an interesting comparison so folks would know which design to look for from Thermalright.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

Assassin X 120 PLUS V2

Thermalright has so many SKUs.

 

[thestryker]

Thermalright has so many SKUs.

Absolutely! I had to go look that one up because the one with a cold plate I remembered was actually one of the 5 heatpipe models not 4.