Monday, July 12th 2021
Thermalright Intros AXP90-X47 Full Copper CPU Cooler
Thermalright is on a roll with top-flow CPU cooler launches lately, and just added its latest creation, the AXP90-X47 Full Copper. Fit for low-profile builds, this 47 mm-tall top-flow cooler, as its name suggests, uses a heatsink that's made almost entirely of copper, complete from the base-plate to the heat-pipes, to the dissipation-fins, with the only non-copper bits being the retention module.
Four 6 mm-thick copper heat-pipes make indirect contact with the CPU through a C1100-grade copper base, conveying heat to a stack of 54 copper fins. This 32 mm-tall heatsink is ventilated by a 15 mm-tall TL-9015R 90 mm fan. Featuring a hydraulic bearing, the fan spins at 2,700 RPM, pushing up to 42.58 CFM of airflow at 1.33 mm H₂O static pressure, and 22.4 dBA minimum noise. Measuring 95 mm x 94.5 mm x 47 mm (WxDxH, including fan), the AXP90-X47 Full Copper weighs 520 g. CPU socket types supported are AM4, LGA1200, and LGA115x. The company didn't reveal pricing.
Four 6 mm-thick copper heat-pipes make indirect contact with the CPU through a C1100-grade copper base, conveying heat to a stack of 54 copper fins. This 32 mm-tall heatsink is ventilated by a 15 mm-tall TL-9015R 90 mm fan. Featuring a hydraulic bearing, the fan spins at 2,700 RPM, pushing up to 42.58 CFM of airflow at 1.33 mm H₂O static pressure, and 22.4 dBA minimum noise. Measuring 95 mm x 94.5 mm x 47 mm (WxDxH, including fan), the AXP90-X47 Full Copper weighs 520 g. CPU socket types supported are AM4, LGA1200, and LGA115x. The company didn't reveal pricing.
25 Comments on Thermalright Intros AXP90-X47 Full Copper CPU Cooler
I would love for Thermalright to do full copper dual-tower behemoth. They once did produce single tower but it's been discontinued: thermalright.com/product/true-copper/
For example the IceGiant Prosiphon Elite is 2KG: geizhals.eu/icegiant-prosiphon-elite-pe-240-bla-a2461145.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
Several Cooler Master Dual-Towers are 1,62KG.
Considering the target market i doubt many people will mount these behemoths to 35W CPU on entry level boards.
Its a nice looking cooler, interested to see how it performs.
ah goody, 27K RPM to eat my face off!
(from the aliexpress links above)
What if the made a Direct touch heatpipe version too.
When you add the high weight and cost to the low strength of copper, it's simply not the economical choice for a radiator fin. In some circumstances where the radiator fin is very long and heat has a fair distance to travel from the heatpipe to the fin tip, there may be enough of an advantage in conductivity of copper to outweigh the minor advantage aluminium has at radiating heat away. For something this small I see zero advantage, and would be surprised to see any difference in effectiveness between this and its aluminium variant.
Thermal radiation is nothing more than emission of infra-red light, and just like visible light, shiny things like mirrors absorb/emit poorly and dull things like matte black absorb/emit the best. Copper is shinier than aluminium, though at least here Thermalright haven't polished or machined the copper fin plates - which is important because machined copper stays shiny, whilst machined aluminium goes dull to oxidation very rapidly.
(And yes, I still have it)
Not expecting it to keep up with the L12S and Black Ridge obviously, but if it can match the L9x65 and L12 then it seems like a decent competitor. And with 72-75mm clearance you might be able to slap a 92x25mm thick fan on there, which isn't possible on the L9x65.
On second thought, maybe not, Thermalright didn't give it an extra set of notches for 25mm fans like on the L9x65.
"With the fan in place, the AXP-90 Full Copper measures 97 mm x 92 mm x 47 mm (WxDxH), weighing 490 g."
"Measuring 95 mm x 94.5 mm x 47 mm (WxDxH, including fan), the AXP90-X47 Full Copper weighs 520 g."
The two seem more or less the same except the X47 has a combined Intel/AMD mounting bracket.
Re-releasing a product because it's had a trivial update is nothing new in the PC industry. Sometimes, the update is nothing more than a new label on the box!