Specs:AMD Ryzen 5600XAorus B550 Elite AX V2G.Skill Trident Z 2x8GB 3200MHz (black and white)EVGA 1070 FTW3housed in a:Corsair 4000D/4000D Airflow case (I have both front panels).So I've found this cooler through JayzTwoCents. You know, the guy who nearly convinced me to upgrade to watercooling... but I digress (hah). I've had this for a few weeks now but never wrote a review... so here are my thoughts:Pros:- Surprisingly good cooling! I was blown away by how good this little guy is (check screenshots). Idle temps are very much under control: low 30s all day. Even lower if you can get by the noisy fan (more on that later). Load temps never seem to cross 70s. I ran Cinabench R20 and maxed out at around 65.5 C. I do have plenty of airflow as I mentioned with my case, so your mileage way vary.- Despite there the small gap between the heat pipes on the base plate, it doesn't seem to affect the heat transfer at all. The part of heat pipes touching the IHS is actually nicely polished. It doesn't feel cheap or like they've machined it flat and left it rough. Point is, heat transfer is absolutely a non issue and there is almost zero compromises here.- I don't know if this is a ceracoat, or if it's actually painted, but either way, there doesn't seem to be any paint isolation. if you're worried its color being black, don't. I have noticed when installing it that the heatsink chipped a little (check the photos) so it may be in fact painted. Either way, temps don't leave me worried too much about it.- RAM clearance is absolutely NOT an issue. I'm not using the closest slot to the CPU, but I definitely could. Even if you orient the fan downwards, there is a cutout in the heatsink to allow you to clear your DIMMs, but I wouldn't do that as your fan won't get adequate air with the GPU in the way.- The ARGB fan is pretty nice and feels high quality. The ARGB cable a daisy-chain in case you wanna connect another ARGB thing to it. It doesn't hog your only ARGB header, so that's nice.- They include a second set of fan clips in case you wanna install a 120mm pull fan, but that's obviously an extra cost and I'm not sure how many people would do that. You're better off with a bigger heatsink at that point.Cons:- Speaking of installation, this was easy to install. The mounts are already pre-essembled, and you're using the stock AMD backplate. However, and I know that this can help prevent people from overtightening the screws, the mounts have springs, similar to stock AMD coolers. It made installing a bit frustrating as I had to apply more force than I felt necessary to tighten the screws. It also didn't help that the heatsink was in the way somewhat and I could barely get to the screws exactly perpendicular. The irony is that those screws are supposed to stop you from overtightening the cooler, but I still felt like I did. I didn't, so that's obviously good.- Noise. Oh the noise. So, with some fan curve adjustments, you can get this thing to be bearable. But stock out of the box, this thing is loud. It can go up to 1500rpm, and it really does wanna work at the higher RPMs. But don't do let it. First off the cooling is perfectly adequate at half around 700-900rpm, as you can see from my temps in the screenshots. The 65C temp I got is from Cinabench so that's pretty much the worst case scenario for most people. Realistically, you'll get around mid 50s in a game. I tried to adjust the fan curves just to see what kind of cooling I would get, and the temps barely fell. The fan is a hydraulic bearing type, so there is a fluid inside and it's the one most commonly used at this price bracket. So my recommendation is to go into your BIOS and tune the fan curve to something more bearable. Granted my 4000D isn't the quietest case, but it's definitely a noticeable thing, at least for me. Anything above 900rpm starts to sound like a rattling mess. It sounds broken almost, and it's one of the reasons why I'm gonna switch it out soon.- 150 TDP. That's fine for most CPUs, especially AMD's Ryzen, but a lot of Intel users might wanna look elsewhere.The bottom line is that this an AMAZING cooler for the money. Don't even consider the Hyper 212 from CoolerMaster with this on the market, it's just better. It's got very good heat dissipation, it has 5 heatpipes that feel more than adequate for most people, the included fan feels pretty high quality, the colors are vibrat and it's ARGB, it's black and I even wouldn't mind the loudness if it was a good sound signature. But if you care about acoustics like me, look elsewhere. Yes that's a dealbreaker to me. But if you just want something that'll keep your CPU cool, you're on a budget, and won't do any crazy overclocking, then this is a bargain. Go right ahead! For me, I'll be going back to be quiet.