Alright, even tho I did not plan for this but yea I ended up buying a tower 'slim' cooler for my 12100F.
Pen drive is for my father, he said 32 GB is enough so I picked this + decently priced too with gen 3.2
'not like he will ever use that but still'
Originally I wanted a top down cooler for my CPU cause I do prefer the aesthetic design of those but when I checked the LGA 1700 coolers at every big etailer in my country it made me feel like this:
Literally found only 2, one I did not like cause it was some weird tall looking Thermaltake and one stupidly expensive Noctua for small form builds so yea nothing for me.
When it comes to tower coolers I'm only okay with the slim-ish designs, don't fancy a big block of metal in my PC and this was the only one I somewhat liked.
'I used a Be Quiet Pure Rock Slim in my AM 4 system'
At least the full black coating looks nice + I do like RGB as long as its static 1 max 2 colors.
The stock Intel RM 1 cooler was okay for a stock cooler and generic use on my 12100 but it could spike up to temps I wasn't too comfortable with and I could hear it at that point.
'still its useable compared to the older Intel stock coolers if nothing else is available'
I paid ~37$ for this ID cooler, did a Cinebench R23 multi core loop for the same time as the stock cooler and this is now 18 celsius lower/cooler while being completely silent with default fan settings.
Well at least I won't have to use the stock cooler when its ~30 celsius in my room during summer..
O ye the cooler came with a 5V RGB splitter '4 way' and a tube of their own thermal paste which I did use cause I was curious.
'even tho I have MX 4/GD 900 at home'
Installing was really simple too, even for me who can be kinda clumsy at times.
