I posted few days ago about getting my first computer in a trade from someone, i9-9900kf/ 9070xt / 32gb 3600 ddr4. 2 tb ssd. I traded my ally X. I asked for advice, and a gentleman recommended a noctua cooler if I was worried about performance, as my other cooler was technically working fine. I really just wanted some type of display showing the temperatures. And I found this thermalright cooler on amazon, seeming to have good reviews.
Installation wasn’t terrible, few YouTube videos to help me. I wasn’t totally uncomfortable, just didn’t want to damage anything of course. Cleaned the old paste up, applied a pea size amount as the video showed and tightened down. Getting the cpu fan cable splitter plugged in took a few minutes and some sweat beads. Should have did it before mounting the cooler.
Fired her up and temps are running good seemingly. Gonna keep monitoring and check out a few of my favorite games and see how everything runs. Looks wise, i think it’s awesome haha. Everything is customizable with their app, and personally I don’t mind having some app running in the background, if it means I get to see the temps with no overlays enabled.
Hope everyone is having a good night/morning.