Editors Liked
- Amazing performance
- Easy installation
- Nearly silent at full speed
- Budget-pricing for the large cooler segment
Editors Didn't Like
- Covers all memory slots
- Cooling performance on high-end CPUs with big overclocks
Direct Competitors and Related Products
Expert reviews and ratings
By realhardwarereviews.com
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The silent assassin that may be too silent With its unique tower design, the Scythe Ninja 5 does offer a lot of performance for its asking price. However, it has been designed to be a low noise cooling solution. This does negatively impact total...
By ThinkComputers
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The Scythe Ninja 5 is definitely the largest CPU cooler we've reviewed in 2018! With that it offers some pretty amazing performance too! In our load testing it was 6 degrees cooler than any other cooler in our test group! Even more impressive is just...
By Tom's Hardware
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A strong contender as a large, heatpipe cooler for the moderate overclocker, the Scythe Ninja 5 struggles for outright cooling dominance for top-tier overclocking...
By PCPer
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The Ninja 5 is a fine addition to the Ninja family and as a more modern product it adds AM4 support out of the box. This improved cooler support and additional fan help justify its higher $79.99 MSRP make it a good value at its $59.99 MSRP, which is...
By HardOCP
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Scythe has made a fantastic cooler with its latest revision of the Ninja. That is provided you have enough room for it. It is impressively simple to install, performs well, and is incredibly quiet.At the time of writing the Scythe Ninja 5 is currently...
By techPowerUp!
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The Scythe Ninja 5 has an MSRP of $59.95. Good cooling performance Ultra-low noise output Easy to install Good build quality Improved memory compatibility Smaller heatsinks rival its performance Hangs over DIMM slots Heavy Packaging could offer more...
By eTeknix
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When it comes to your system build, the more powerful you make it, the more optimal you want the airflow to be. A cool system, after all, will always run better and more efficiently than a hot one. With this in mind, we take a close in-depth look at the...
By eTeknix
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For a price in the region of £59.99, the Scythe represents what can fairly be called the middle ground in terms of air cooler prices. While not as inexpensive as an entry-level model, it's certainly got more than enough to distinguish itself from...
By funkykit.com
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Scythe Ninja 5 is one of the best CPU coolers we can find on the market. It's well designed, performs great and is really quiet. If we add it's also inexpensive then it's hard not to recommend this product to all users who expect high performance or...
By Basic-Tutorials DE
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Der Scythe Ninja 5 ist in unseren Augen ein schlichter, aber performanter CPU-Kühler. Durch das Prinzip eines massiven Kühlkörpers und zwei langsam drehenden Lüftern im Push-Pull-Betrieb, kann bei einer geringen Lautstärke trotzdem eine gute Kühlung...
By hardwareinside.de
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Der neue Scythe Ninja 5 ist derzeit ab rund 50 Euro im Handel zu haben. Den Käufer erwartet ein gut verarbeiteter aber auch sehr massiver Kühler, der sowohl mit guten Kühleigenschaften als auch mit einem leisen Betrieb glänzt. Allerdings ragt der Kühler...
By Gamezoom.net
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Der neue Ninja 5 von Scythe konnte uns auf Anhieb überzeugen. Für den üppigen Kühler sprechen in erster Linie die sehr gute Kühlleistung und die niedrige Lautstärke der beiden 120-mm-PWM-Lüfter. Auch in Sachen RAM-Kompatiblität und...
By geektopia.es
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Personalmente me gustan dos tipos de equipos: los mini-PC y los equipos más grandes totalmente silenciosos. Hay bastante gente como yo que busca montarse un equipo que no haga ruido, y a ser posible sin gastarse demasiado ruido. Esta refrigeración Ninja...
By mod-your-case.de
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Mit dem Ninja 5 hat Scythe die nächste Version des Ninja CPU-Kühlers auf den Markt gebracht, bei der man mal wieder gezeigt hat, dass man sich auch nach vielen Jahren noch über weitreichende Änderungen Gedanken macht und diese dann auch konsequent...
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