Question Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB - will it fit?

[penutpls]

Hi everyone,

I just have a quick question. I want to buy this Thermalright cooler for setup, but I'm kinda afraid that it won't fit. The setup I have now is a B450 Aorus Elite for the motherboard and for RAM I have the Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR4. The only way I see it to work is to put it the other way around so that it blows into the RAM. Or am I just tripping and it actually would fit?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Lutfij]

If we're looking at the motherboard and ram alone, then yes the cooler will fit but whether you need that large of a cooler is up for debate. Out of curiosity, what processor are you trying to cool? You can look at examples of how people have oriented their coolers here;
https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/by_part/zyNxFT

You should also be wary of the case as it can and will have clearance limitations. That being said, what is the make and model of your case?

 

[penutpls]

Thanks for your reply!

Right now I have an old and trusty 2700x, but next week I'm buying either the 5800x or 5700x3d.

The case shouldn't be a problem as it's the Cooler Master TD500 Mesh, which is a fairly specious case.

 

[Phaaze88]

The cooler will fit - but the front fan won't.
Reason: the current ram kit(51mm) is too tall. There's a limit to how far the fan clips can be raised on the heatsink before... well, you run out of heatsink to clip 'em on to and the fan is just hanging off. About 10mm is around what most fans in that position can be increased.
It would've been fine for more moderate ram kits, like 40-45mm.

 

[penutpls]

Yeaa, that's what I was afraid of and I don't want to put the front fan on the other side and blow hot air into my RAM...
You have any suggestion for a coller that would actually work normally?
Thanks for your help!

 

[Phaaze88]

Scythe Fuma 3 - if it's available.
If not that, then single tower coolers... oh wait:

Royal Knight 120 – Thermalright

thermalright.com

Royal Knight 120 SE – Thermalright

thermalright.com

I guess Thermalright took inspiration from Scythe...
If that's not available to you, then look to the dual fan, single towers, like the Burst Assassin 120

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I have this cooler on my 7600x3d except my cooler is the white version.

What I did was mount both fans, but I’ve got the 2 fans mounted to the left side of each of the towers. Works just fine. Just set it up with the fans pulling air through the towers from the back side of each one instead of pushing air from the front side.

 

[penutpls]

Scythe Fuma 3 - if it's available.
If not that, then single tower coolers... oh wait:

Royal Knight 120 – Thermalright

thermalright.com

Royal Knight 120 SE – Thermalright

thermalright.com

I guess Thermalright took inspiration from Scythe...
If that's not available to you, then look to the dual fan, single towers, like the Burst Assassin 120

Wooaaah, this is amazing! Thanks!

I'll probably go for the Royal Knight. Do you know if brackets are included with the cooler?

 

[ilukey77]

Noctua NH-U12s will smash a 5700x3d or the 5800x3d no issues .. bit more expensive than thermalright s dual towers ..

The royal knight uses 6 heat pipes where as the Noctua NH-U12s uses 8 heat pipes as does the thermalright assassin 120 evo does and i can assure you ( because ive used both on my 7800x3d ) that the Noctua is just as good if not slightly better in single tower form !!

 

[Phaaze88]

I'll probably go for the Royal Knight. Do you know if brackets are included with the cooler?

Yes.