DeepCool Launches ASSASSIN IV: Advanced CPU Air Cooler for Superior Thermal Dissipation
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cucaulay malkin
wow really pretty.
reix2x
excellent industrial design
AuerX
Yes, if you keep it completely dust free at all times it will look great.
chispy
I don't like the Borg Cube theme 😕 , after reading some reviews on it seems it has a hissing sound problem and it is air starve 😏. Also the price it's high when compared to the king of price to performance ratio wish is the thermalright peerless assasin 120 SE wish retails for $34US Dollars often in amazon ( i bought one at that price of $34 one week ago ) , this Borg Cube costs $100US Dollars and have some noise problems plus it cannot beat the thermalright peerless 120 SE in performance.
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Carfax
Just bought this cooler off of Amazon for $99.00. I currently have a Noctua NH-U12A with Phantek T-30 high speed fans. This setup does a great job keeping my 13900KF at 5.6ghz very cool, but it's extremely noisy. I'm hoping the Assassin IV can give me cooler temps and more quiet operation, while boosting my clock speed to 5.7ghz. The Noctua NH-U12A with Phanteks can give me 5.7ghz, but it throttles after one cycle of CBR23.. It's coming next week (no rush delivery gave me an extra 7% off with my Amazon Prime visa card) so I'll update when I have it installed. 😀
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Carfax
DeepCool Assassin IV Review: Quietly Assimilates the Heat | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
fantaskarsef
A new tower cooler and people are really discussing it and posting reviews to the news.
Old school. I love it. Well done peeps.
Astyanax
need more cartridge type twin coolers.
cucaulay malkin
I was gonna get sth small, but I guess doing the exact opposite wouldn't hurt.
fry178
anything above 60$ and i install a 240 from corsair (5y warranty on whole pc if it fails),
or Alphacool/arctic if ppl are looking for low cost LC.
and you can noticeable drop internal temps, so drives//chips/vrms and gpu get much cooler air to breath,
something no aircooler will do (short of separate duct for airflow).
cucaulay malkin
looks great, cartridge type fan mounting for dual tower coolers is going to be the new normal.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/deepcool-assassin-iv-dual-tower-cpu-air-cooler/images/installed3.jpg
matches 280/360mm aio coolers for performance.
https://tpucdn.com/review/deepcool-assassin-iv-dual-tower-cpu-air-cooler/images/noise_normalized_perf.png
TheDeeGee
Good luck cooling a OCed 13900K with an air cooler and keeping it quiet.
TheDeeGee
Depends, not being able to replace the fan with anything else is a big no no.
Carfax
You'd be surprised. The big key with air cooling is to have good ventilation and airflow in your case. For air cooled setups, the Fractal Design Torrent is definitely number one and I have that case.
The NH-U12A is a good cooler and easily handles my undervolted 13900KF at stock frequencies and even at 5.7ghz during gaming workloads. Where it fails is during high CPU loads like CBR23 or Handbrake where the CPU at 5.7ghz will hit the thermal wall in 15 seconds and start to downclock. If it weren't for that I think I could tolerate the noise from the fans.
Having a single tower is a real drawback for the NH-U12A, which has amazing efficiency for a single tower design. So the Assassin IV having a dual tower design is a major advantage and I expect a nice improvement in temps from it even if the fans are much slower than the Phantek T-30s I have on my Noctua. 😀
Why not use liquid cooling you may ask? I just don't trust it and I like the simplicity of air cooling. And the top end air coolers are about as good as the midrange liquid cooled ones these days.
Carfax
Another review:
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Carfax
From what I've seen so far, the lack of the intake fan hurts performance in certain configurations like open air test benches (which most reviewers use for heatsink tests) or cases with low ventilation. But if you have a high ventilation case that supplies enough air, then this heatsink should pull ahead of the Thermalright Peerless Assassin due to more heatpipes and larger size, especially at high wattages similar to how the Noctua NH-D15 pulls ahead.
Astyanax
standard fan screwed into the holder.
Neo Cyrus
From the reviews I've seen it still doesn't surpass the NH-D15... it feels like I've been waiting for a true upgrade to that thing for a decade.
I do like the cube/slot design though.
Carfax
My take so far is that it ties or edges the NH-D15 while having far superior aesthetics and RAM compatibility. There are conditions associated with that however, in that the Assassin IV needs either a well ventilated case due to having its default fans in a pull-pull setup, or a third fan to push more air into the heatsink, but that further limits RAM compatibility.
Designing effective heatsinks that have a high degree of compatibility without sacrificing performance is more complicated than what most people would think. I can see why Deepcool made the changes they did to the Assassin IV, and it's a good compromise for perfect RAM compatibility.
Here it is edging the Noctua NH-D15 and Tomshardware didn't use an open test bench, they tested using a Be Quiet! Silent Base 802 which has two intake fans and one exhaust fan. Under these conditions the Assassin IV performs well.
Hardware Canucks likely used an open test bench but the reviewer didn't state his testing methodology so I can't say for sure.
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Some not so bright people though are going to install this thing in a tiny case with one exhaust fan and wonder why it doesn't perform well.
TheDeeGee
The middle 140mm fan is proprietary, and nothing else will fit to replace that without modding the replacement fan. It's a 140mm fan frame with 120mm hole spacing and all corners removed.
Only the front 120mm fan can be replaced with a standard form factor.
