Thursday, May 20th 2021
Thermalright Outs AXP90-X53 Black Top-Flow CPU Cooler
Thermalright today rolled out the Black variant of the AXP90-X53 top-flow CPU cooler. The AXP90-X53 Black comes with black anodized aluminium fins, matching copper heat-pipes, and an all-black TL-9015B fan. The cooler's design entails four 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes making contact with the CPU through a nickel-plated copper base, and passing through a stack of 54 aluminium fins arranged along the plane of the motherboard. This is ventilated by a 92 mm hydraulic bearing fan. This fan can turn at speeds of up to 2,700 RPM, pushing up to 42.58 CFM of airflow at 1.33 mm H₂O pressure, with a noise output of 22.4 dBA. The cooler supports LGA1200, LGA115x, and AM4 CPU socket types. The company didn't reveal pricing.
18 Comments on Thermalright Outs AXP90-X53 Black Top-Flow CPU Cooler
It's probably just for ease of manufacture. They could either undercut to reduce the amount of surface that needs machining/polishing, or they could just machine/polish the whole lot. There's probably very little difference in machine time and cost between the two options.
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Pricing on AliExpress is reasonable, $43 for black vs $37 for unpainted with a grey fan.
As coolers they were fine, and good quality but my NH-U12 is still in service after, uh, 12 years or something like that.
It's alright, better than the noctua LN9a but thats much thinner.
If you only have 53mm, it's about as good as it gets .
If you can get a tiny bit more space, the ID cooling IS 60 is a better option,
Note the IS60 evo, is not the same thing, and its 63mm tall..... its the IS 47 with top fan.
There isn't a cooler already out there that won't fit Alder Lake.
NH-L9a/L9i are 37mm, AXP90-X53 is 53mm, IS 60 is 55mm.
Keeping many of these coolers at 92mm fan size is deliberate as well - this fits into the standard cooler clearance limits around the CPU socket and will not cause issues with surrounding components, RAM or heatsinks. Anything that low and larger to accommodate a 120mm fan is likely to have limitations with how they fit on motherboards. He was pointing at Alder Lake being rectangular instead of square like LGA115x/1200 (37.5 x 37.5 mm). AM4 is also square and not too different at 40 x 40 mm. Both have a few millimeters smaller IHS size.
Coldplate on AXP90-X53 is 36x55 mm, so Alder Lake's LGA1700 actually might have been a consideration. AXP90-X53 came out in October last year when LGA1700 was a recent but known thing.
If the L9i includes AM4 mounting in the box now, why does the L9a still exist?! :)
It is the Intel cooler and the AMD mounting brackets are free from Noctua and available separately to enable it's use in an AMD system.