Need help finding a new cpu cooler

[TurkishBTW]

hello i need a  small new cpu cooler that is good for gaming that will keep my ryzen 5 3600 cool and quiet but I also want the cooler to be small and use the easy clip am4 brackets the one the wraith prism uses

[h0m3]

24 minutes ago, TurkishBTW said:

hello i need a  small new cpu cooler that is good for gaming that will keep my ryzen 5 3600 cool and quiet but I also want the cooler to be small and use the easy clip am4 brackets the one the wraith prism uses

What would be the concept of small? Height? Width? Tower air coolers tend to be very skinny but very tall like the Hyper 212, while there are flower type coolers that are almost flush but they normally take a lot of horizontal space like the NH-L12S for example and maybe interfeer with ram or vrm heatsinks. There are also AIOs that are small on the CPU block but you have a big radiator to accomodate.

Without more info a personal choice of mine is the NH-U9S. Its a tower style cooler but it uses a 90mm fan and its smaller than the 120mm counterparts. Also its very silent. I have one cooling a 5700X on a CM NR200 and fit very easily. Should be more than enough to cool a 3600X and even survive some small upgrades.

Coolers with the clips like the Prism are becoming rare this days, the only place i've found them was on Corsair AIOs. But most cooler use screws directly on the AM4 backplate. You remove the original screws that hold the plastic tabs and replace with the cooler mouting gear. I'm a really fan of Noctua's SecuFirm mount, doesn't use tabs but its two brackets + two screws, stupidly easy to assembly and they give you a long screw driver to tight the screw between the blades.

But noctua coolers are expensive. I dont know your budget.

[TurkishBTW]

6 minutes ago, h0m3 said:

What would be the concept of small? Height? Width? Tower air coolers tend to be very skinny but very tall like the Hyper 212, while there are flower type coolers that are almost flush but they normally take a lot of horizontal space like the NH-L12S for example and maybe interfeer with ram or vrm heatsinks. There are also AIOs that are small on the CPU block but you have a big radiator to accomodate.

Without more info a personal choice of mine is the NH-U9S. Its a tower style cooler but it uses a 90mm fan and its smaller than the 120mm counterparts. Also its very silent. I have one cooling a 5700X on a CM NR200 and fit very easily.

Coolers with the clips like the Prism are becoming rare this days, the only place i've found them was on Corsair AIOs. But most cooler use screws directly on the AM4 backplate. You remove the original screws that hold the plastic tabs and replace with the cooler mouting gear. I'm a really fan of Noctua's SecuFirm mount, doesn't use tabs but its two brackets + two screws, stupidly easy to assembly and they give you a long screw driver to tight the screw between the blades.

um i need it to be relatively small because I have an Ibuypower mini case and a asrock b550m-c so I need it to be small in all demensions because I have 2 sticks of tforce ram that are pretty big and then my huge gpu thats a strix 3060  also are you positive that it has the same clip as the wraith prism

[TurkishBTW]

19 minutes ago, h0m3 said:

What would be the concept of small? Height? Width? Tower air coolers tend to be very skinny but very tall like the Hyper 212, while there are flower type coolers that are almost flush but they normally take a lot of horizontal space like the NH-L12S for example and maybe interfeer with ram or vrm heatsinks. There are also AIOs that are small on the CPU block but you have a big radiator to accomodate.

Without more info a personal choice of mine is the NH-U9S. Its a tower style cooler but it uses a 90mm fan and its smaller than the 120mm counterparts. Also its very silent. I have one cooling a 5700X on a CM NR200 and fit very easily.

Coolers with the clips like the Prism are becoming rare this days, the only place i've found them was on Corsair AIOs. But most cooler use screws directly on the AM4 backplate. You remove the original screws that hold the plastic tabs and replace with the cooler mouting gear. I'm a really fan of Noctua's SecuFirm mount, doesn't use tabs but its two brackets + two screws, stupidly easy to assembly and they give you a long screw driver to tight the screw between the blades.

i think that noctua would fit in height but im not sure in width my budget could be like $90

[h0m3]

13 minutes ago, TurkishBTW said:

i think that noctua would fit in height but im not sure in width

Noctua has a compatibility tool on their website, its not a perfect list but should get the basics. As i've checked the cooler seems to fit on any Asrock B550 board and none of those has any ram clearance warning. Its a good sign. But since the case is from a OEM Noctua doesn't have on its site. You would need to measure to make sure it would fit okay.

I've already bought 3 different air coolers from noctua and they didn't missed the support clearance claims yet But 3 is a very small sample size hahaha.

In the page they also have the size specifications: https://noctua.at/en/nh-u9s/specification

[TurkishBTW]

4 minutes ago, h0m3 said:

Noctua has a compatibility tool on their website, its not a perfect list but should get the basics. As i've checked the cooler seems to fit on any Asrock B550 board and none of those has any ram clearance warning. Its a good sign. But since the case is from a OEM Noctua doesn't have on its site. You would need to measure to make sure it would fit okay.

In the page they also have the size specifications: https://noctua.at/en/nh-u9s/specification

ill have measurements in a bit but this is what my pc looks like so maybe you can kinda inderect measure it and like guess i guess

[Failure 101]

59 minutes ago, h0m3 said:

What would be the concept of small? Height? Width? Tower air coolers tend to be very skinny but very tall like the Hyper 212, while there are flower type coolers that are almost flush but they normally take a lot of horizontal space like the NH-L12S for example and maybe interfeer with ram or vrm heatsinks. There are also AIOs that are small on the CPU block but you have a big radiator to accomodate.

Without more info a personal choice of mine is the NH-U9S. Its a tower style cooler but it uses a 90mm fan and its smaller than the 120mm counterparts. Also its very silent. I have one cooling a 5700X on a CM NR200 and fit very easily. Should be more than enough to cool a 3600X and even survive some small upgrades.

Coolers with the clips like the Prism are becoming rare this days, the only place i've found them was on Corsair AIOs. But most cooler use screws directly on the AM4 backplate. You remove the original screws that hold the plastic tabs and replace with the cooler mouting gear. I'm a really fan of Noctua's SecuFirm mount, doesn't use tabs but its two brackets + two screws, stupidly easy to assembly and they give you a long screw driver to tight the screw between the blades.

But noctua coolers are expensive. I dont know your budget.

or the 214xt