Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE Black CPU Air Cooler,7 Heat Pipes CPU Cooler,Dual 120mm PWM Fans, 25.6dba,for AM4/AM5&Intel 1851/1700/1150/1151/1200, PC Cooler Tower

If you're looking for top-tier air cooling performance without diving into the world of AIOs or spending a fortune, the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 an absolute gem. I’ve used many coolers over the years, and this one genuinely punches well above its price point - both in terms of build quality and raw cooling power. I installed this on an AMD AM5 build, and the mounting process was straightforward thanks to the clear instructions and solid hardware. The cooler feels premium right out of the box - sleek black finish, sturdy dual-fan setup, and those seven beefy heat pipes scream high performance. You can immediately tell this isn’t some budget-tier knockoff. In actual use, this cooler is a powerhouse. Temperatures dropped under load compared to my stock cooler and even outperformed some mid-tier AIO solutions I’ve tested in the past. What really surprised me is how quiet it runs - even when my CPU is under stress during gaming or video rendering, the fans remain barely audible. This cooler is a standout choice for builders who want serious thermal performance, a stealthy aesthetic, and exceptional value. Pros: Excellent cooling performance even under heavy loads Near-silent operation thanks to efficient dual 120mm fans Premium build quality with a sleek all-black design Compatible with a wide range of Intel and AMD sockets Easy installation with included hardware and clear instructions

This is a review of the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120SE. I read many performance reviews online before purchasing this. According to those reviewers, this offers top-tier cooling vs noise at a fraction of the price. It even competes with some AIOs. I recently replaced an AIO with this, the first air cooler I've used in a while. I did it because this computer is getting long in the tooth, and I'm more concerned about long-term reliability than a couple of degrees Celsius. If you are building a new computer, this is much easier to install and more reliable than an AIO water cooler. Compared to my old NZXT Kraken X63, this gets very similar cooling performance. The temperatures fluctuate more than they did with the AIO, but the minimum idle temperature is now slightly lower than it was with the AIO, and the max temps are only a couple of degrees hotter than they were with the 280mm AIO. This is all despite the fact that I used about half of the normal amount of thermal paste due to a screwup on my part. As long as you're not using a processor with a very high TDP, this is the ideal cooler. Note: you should prefer this over the 120 EVO. Yes, the EVO has RGB and can get you a couple of degrees cooler on higher TDP processors, but at the cost of much higher noise. If you're using anything less than 170watt CPU, this is probably the better choice. Addendum: now using this on two computers. Zero regrets. Addendum: this cooler does make it more difficult to replace the M.2 drive without removing the cooler. Not impossible, just obnoxious. Addendum (November 2024): started getting obnoxious fan noises about a half year later. Thankfully, there are a variety of fans you can replace these with that will produce reasonably similar performance, including the Arctic P12 or the Noctua NF-A12x25 (the latter being about as expensive per fan as this entire cooler with included fans).

I've got an intel 13700k which was thermally throttling with a Noctua NH-U9S CPU cooler so I upgraded to this Phantom Spirit 120 CPU. This cooler definitely has more cooling than my older Noctua. The 120mm fans are much more quiet than the 90mm fans I had, it sounds like more of a blowing and less of a whining. I only tested with Cinebench but with the Noctua my processor would have to throttle down when it hit 100 degrees C. With the Phantom Spirit the hottest I saw any single core was 93 degrees C briefly. My office is usually around 76 degrees F. Upgrading to this cooler got me about 8.5% more performance under synthetic workloads even after lowering my thermal throttle to 90 degrees C from 100 degrees C. The quality seems good. It was relatively easy to install although I forgot you have to take the motherboard out to install a new cooler.

This thing is a beast. Comes with everything you need including thermal paste. Overall temp 47c, core temp 35c at idle with 9800x3d. If I had one complaint, I decided to use the stock fans and I can hear them. I will probably go back to my Arctic 120mm fans. But it's so quiet you can barely hear it, not enough to be annoying, but I do notice it. Biggest and best CPU cooler I've ever owned, hands down. And mounting on AM5, precise and flawless! You cannot screw it up.

The installation was decent the clips are easy to use and it provides pretty cool temperatures for Ryzen 9000 cpus. The noises is pretty quiet the quality is good for the price and performance is decent for budget cooler.

Built well and great value for money. Easy to install the fans. Gives me great thermals. The reason I knocked a star off was for two reasons: one, because it does not tell you what direction to put the fans in - you have to imply it from the picture on the box. But the worse reason is two - this thing is big, and will likely encroach on your RAM's space, and if the RAM is too tall, one of the fans won't clear it and will be sitting "on top of" the RAM. Which is okay, if that didn't mean my case can no longer shut properly. So I had to move the fans into a pull configuration instead of a push, and that caused the fans to rattle due to some way they sync up and interfere with each other. I ended up replacing them with Noctua fans that don't have this same rattle, but realize that you could probably be better off (and for less money) just buying a thin profile fan that will clear the RAM.

Es barata, silenciosa y muy fácil de instalar. Tengo un Ryzen 5 5600G y una RX 6750XT y bajó las temperaturas de 75 a 60 grados jugando ultra en varios juegos. ¡Súper recomendada!

ممتاااااز

5800x3d ile 7 aydır kullanıyorum. daha önce arctic freezer esport duo kullanıyordum. soğutma olarak hemen hemen aynı sayılır ama sessizlik olarak Phantom harika diyebilirim. 5800x3d yapısı gereği bazen boştayken bile birkaç saniyeliğine 55-60 dereceye çıkıp inebiliyor, arctic kullanırken bu "spike"lar da fan sesi sinir ediyordu, ama ,phantom'da hiç fark etmiyorum bile. Performans olarak yakın performansta olacaklarını bildiğimden "acaba gereksiz mi almasam mı" diye düşünüyordum ama pişman olmadım. Sevkiyat sürecinde sorun yaşanmadı, amazon us'ten yaklaşık 12 günde geldi.

Çok iyi soğutucu çok memnunum.

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