Deepcool Gamer Storm Assassin III

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Attempting to dethrone Noctua's NH-D15.

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[Tunnah]

Really good to see something compete with Noctua, and I'm glad for them. But I'm firmly a Noctua fanboy (er...no pun intended). I've been using them for so long, nothing has ever broken, solid performance, I've migrated their bits through several builds over the years. They're rock-solid and absolutely will always be my go-to for cooling.

And once I contacted support about getting a spare part, they wouldn't accept money for it!

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Need to see if Gamer's Nexus does a "dB for dB" comparison... ramping up the fans to get better cooling is a tradeoff that needs to be properly considered and for many it isn't a great tradeoff. (This is part of the reason I run a 360 rad custom loop.)

[Zak33]

It's superb to see DeepCool pushing so far into the monster heatsink territory and along with bequiet! Dark Rock 4 and Noctua, you're spoiled for choice at the top end.

And I will always be a top end Air Cooler user .. I'm not ito AIO Water cooling.

Well done Deep Cool - there's room in this market for a monster cooler with good clearance all around it.

But.. . seeing Noctua offering FOC mounting kits for older coolers to fit new motherboards.... that's the ultimate step towards long term customer service. That's the next step perhaps?

[Mr_Jon]

That's another big boy up around 1.5kg. How much weight can modern mobos take when mounted vertically?

[Gentle Viking]

Well my heat killer IV PRO head are 900 grams on its own, but its right down on the CPU so not much leverage in it.

[LeSWiS]

The Cryorig R1 Ultimate is also in the same class as those.

[cptwhite_uk]

To be fair it's prettier than the Noctua NH-D15. But I'm a Noctua fanboy. When they sent out a FREE AM4 mounting kit for a NH-D14 I purchased 5 years ago, that pretty much made me a customer for life.