Bester "Top"-Luftkühler: Thermalright AXP-140

Review @ X-bit labs

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As I have already mentioned above, the cooler boasts the highest quality of assembly. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same about the base – an Achilles heel of most Thermalright coolers.

...it covers the entire area around the CPU socket and hangs 15mm off the edge of the mainboard PCB when positioned this way. Note that it will be extremely inconvenient to plug in the 8-pin power connector, which is usually located in the upper left corner of the PCB.

... its efficiency dropped by 8-10°C under maximum CPU load compared with the installation when the heatpipe ends were facing up. ... It will make sense to remember that the cooler base is very uneven and the central contact spot is a little off. It looks like the contact was best for the highest heat transfer efficiency when we installed the cooler with its heatpipes facing up.

This allows us to conclude that Thermalright AXP-140 working in quiet fan mode will do perfectly fine with any existing processors.

Let’s start with the drawbacks. In my opinion, there are three of them and they can be lined up as follows in order of significance: support of LGA775 platform only, high price, limited compatibility.

Other than that, Thermalright AXP-140 with a 140 x 140 x 25mm fan is the most efficient “top” cooler today. It is not just efficient for CPU cooling, it also works well for the cooling of the area and components around the processor socket, which as a rule improves the overclocking results and system stability.

Zitat von Viper780

sehr nett, der XP-120 war ja nach wie vor der bete Topdown Kühler den es gab, leider am Markt fast nicht zu finden

ich hab einen zu hause, war aber damals net schwer zu kriegen?

muss aber sagen meinen ifx geb ich so schnell nicht mehr her

Zitat von Smut

besser als der SI-128 SE?

angeblich ja (laut spcr), den SI hatte ich nie.

@XXL damals nicht, jetzt aber schon, da fast nu rmehr billige Top Blow oder sehr viele Tower verbaut werden - Tower bekommst aber selten in Desktop cases, einen IFX 14 (wie ich ihn auch hab) bekommst nur in große Case, in meinen Threehundred geht der Backplane Kühler zB nimma rein und auch vorne is knapp