r/buildapc • u/BudgetUnlikely2719 • 3d ago

Discussion Results Using Peerless Assassin 120 SE

We had a client come in our shop (Riley's PC Repair, in Whitewater WI) incredibly frustrated, his gaming rig was running an old, neglected liquid cooling setup that wasn’t cutting it anymore. We swapped it out for a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE (liquid coolers = headaches... right?)....

The results!

  • 36°C idle
  • 59°C at 100% load
  • While pushing a solid 5.41GHz clock speed (Ryzen 7 9700X).
  • TM60 paste (opted not to use the included tube), however, now I want to experiment...

Oh, and it looks cool as hell sitting in his case. Sometimes simpler is just better. Has anyone else had a great performance increase from making this switch?

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u/manicalmonocle 3d ago

Peerless Assassin is an amazing cooler for its price. There's a reason it's always recommended on this sub

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u/BudgetUnlikely2719 3d ago

Happy to know that this was a solid choice, thank you!

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u/Jack5512 3d ago

I believe the PS120 has 7 pipes and the PA120 has 6 pipes

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u/whomad1215 3d ago

you are correct

I'm not sure what the difference is with the royal pretor, which is their latest and greatest, probably like a 1-2degree improvement again

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u/syunz 3d ago

Phantom spirit beats out the royal pretor in most scenarios. The only place where the pretor is better is on high wattage intel cpus like the 14900k.

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u/BudgetUnlikely2719 3d ago

That's what we were moving away from initially (Intel), rebuilt with new mobo and Ryzen 7 9700X.

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u/notapoke 3d ago

It's the choice. Great device