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Most Favorable Review

Great microATX cooler

Thermaltake TOUGHAIR 110 140W TDP Top Flow CPU Cooler, Intel/AMD Universal Socket (LGA 1700/1200), 120mm 2000RPM High Static Pressure PWM Fan with High Performance Copper Heat Pipes LGA 1700 Ready
Thermaltake TOUGHAIR 110 140W TDP Top Flow CPU Cooler, Intel/AMD Universal Socket (LGA 1700/1200), 120mm 2000RPM High Static Pressure PWM Fan with High Performance Copper Heat Pipes LGA 1700 Ready

Pros: Fit's in the smallest of cases Handles thermal load well

Cons: Pushes warm air onto the voltage regulator, northbridge, and RAM in small cases

Overall Review: I was skeptical when I ordered this cooler, especially considering my past experiences with Thermaltake. Now installed, the cooler is doing it's job with zero complications. I was initally going to use a thermal pad from Cyber Grizzly but I'm glad I used the included thermal paste, as even the best pad isn't as efficient as paste. Her build consists of: ASRock B450M/ac v2.0 AMD Ryzen 5 4500 750w PSU 16gb DDR4 RAM RX 6500 XT 1TB NVMe M.2 And of course, this cooler, packaged inside a DIYPC DIY-F2-P case with 3 120mm case fans. In this build, this cooler works wonderfully.

Most Critical Review

Very low quality board

ASRock B450M/AC R2.0 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock B450M/AC R2.0 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: BIOS settings are well organized and make sense. Board visual quality is great.

Cons: Drops USB for no discernable reason. Has a setting that gates the PCIe slot down to gen 1, the setting loves to reset itself once disabled. BIOS reads RAM incorrectly. board compatibility with CPU is sketchy at best.

Overall Review: I normally like ASRock products but this board is not on that list. The board feels like maybe it was an enterprise chip painted black and loaded with a gaming version of ASRock Bios in order to offer a budget gaming motherboard. That's the only reason we can think of to have a setting that gates the PCIe lanes in a gaming purpose built mobo. If the board wasn't having major USB issues and ASRock got rid of PCIe gating entirely then it would be the perfect low end gaming mobo.