Friday, August 20th 2021
Akasa Introduces SOHO H4 Tower-Type CPU Cooler
Akasa, a leading provider of active cooling solutions has released their brightest tower cooler yet, with aRGB functionality. Standing at 157 mm tall, the SOHO H4 cooler is an excellent addition to any high end PC build, and its 185 W TDP rating allows the most powerful CPUs to be tamed, such as the unlocked Core i9 and the Ryzen 9. This cooler features premium aRGB aesthetics, bright enough to turn heads and show off the best of your PC.
The SOHO H4 is made up of a premium aluminium heatsink with copper heat pipes and an Akasa aRGB top panel. The aRGB is sync compatible with most major motherboard lighting software, including MSI JRainbow, ASUS AURA ASRock RGB Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion, and Razer Chroma. With up to 16 million colour combinations, the world is your oyster when customising the lighting effects - display your PC to its maximum potential! Inside the box, a SOHO AR fan is also included, a part of the SOHO range at Akasa. Installation is as easy as pie; simply snap the fan onto the cooler and plug the fan into the motherboard! The fan can be elevated on the cooler for RAM clearance, and a second fan can also be attached to the opposite side for even better heat dissipation.
The SOHO AR fan included with the cooler is able to provide excellent cooling and a high airflow, compared to its low noise level. The quiet, high performance fan is excellent for productivity, producing less distractions and more focus on the tasks at hand. The cooler is perfect for those who want the flair that comes with aRGB, mixed with the powerful cooling capabilities which are able to tame some of the best CPUs currently on the market!
Pricing and Availability
The SOHO H4 is made up of a premium aluminium heatsink with copper heat pipes and an Akasa aRGB top panel. The aRGB is sync compatible with most major motherboard lighting software, including MSI JRainbow, ASUS AURA ASRock RGB Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion, and Razer Chroma. With up to 16 million colour combinations, the world is your oyster when customising the lighting effects - display your PC to its maximum potential! Inside the box, a SOHO AR fan is also included, a part of the SOHO range at Akasa. Installation is as easy as pie; simply snap the fan onto the cooler and plug the fan into the motherboard! The fan can be elevated on the cooler for RAM clearance, and a second fan can also be attached to the opposite side for even better heat dissipation.
Pricing and Availability
- The SOHO H4 (AK-CC4018EP01) starts at £52.95/ €55.85 (prices may vary by reseller)
- The SOHO H4 is available to order throughout Europe and the US.
22 Comments on Akasa Introduces SOHO H4 Tower-Type CPU Cooler
But I am sure reviews will tell us more.
I used to review their kit when I worked at PCW and that's getting to around 20 years ago...
The Akasa Venom was the only mostly decent cooler they made in this form.
This is a cheap cooler;
Direct-contact heatpipes - especially those that have gaps between them rather than just adding more heatpipes - are not what you'd want to see on €30+ coolers and they're downright insulting at almost €60
(from akasa.com.tw)
I have no idea if this specific cooler is good or not, but Akasa makes a wide range of products, just like most companies, some of it good, some of it not so good.
Pro tip: When a company advertises more about the cooler's lighting features than its cooling performance, they have created a lightbulb capable of cooling, not a cooler capable of lighting.
Whats odd though is their NUC and SFF passive cases are insanely well built. Their build quality is as high as anything I've seen thats made from machined and anodized AL, just feels odd its the same company.
They also make a ton of cables that have always been really good quality in my experience.
www.techpowerup.com/285741/silentiumpc-announces-fera-5-argb-cooler-and-fluctus-120-pwm-argb-fan
It's basically the same product for €20 less, and even that looks to be overpriced based on comments in that thread.
All three of these coolers would run absolute rings around what is potentially just a hyper 212 in disguise. Hell... even an hyper 212 would be cheaper and probably perform just about the same as this akasa.
at last it would have more features (airguide/5 excentered heatpipe/better fin side shape/matte black or white neat finish) by just losing the aRGB top (the fan look good tho ... but i prefer hub lighted fans than ring/side)
the pics in that press release ... the fan going up to clear the RAM look ridiculous, it's almost shown as being something worth doing instead of being downright silly (and not mentioning that almost any other HSF can do so ... )
the ETS-T50 is not marketed as a high end cooler and 50-60ish pricing is rather top of mid-end, to me. (not mentioning there are a lot of extremely good contestant in that price bracket ... 50% deal was what decided me :laugh: )
and the ETS-T50 perform usually a little bit cooler than a Fuma 2 (situational but most of the time 1-2c cooler) and between a NH-U12S and a NH-D15 in most reviews i saw.
i need to straighten some fins and clean the base but.... still
The problem with that class of cooler is that the double-ARGB pushes it into the price into the territory of better coolers. Both dual-fan 120mm towers and a couple of reputable 140mm 6-heatpipe options....and here's a perfect example of apples-to-apples comparison. The Fera 5 Dual is both cheaper and better than the stupid ARGB one. When you're on a budget to get a job done, you can either choose to do the job well, or you can choose to look good whilst failing.
IMO, succeed first, add bling only if there's spare budget to do so. At this highly-competitive price point, there is no spare budget.
the Fera 5 is priced alongside the Katana 4 which was a mid end no frills, good one nonetheless, HSF (and the Vendetta 2 which was exceptional but, there too, no "rainbow unicorn puke" addition :laugh: )
in short the Soho-H4 and my ETS-T50 Axe aRGB are at least 20$ too much (although the ETS-T50 has a 5th heatpipe and a slight better look ... but no top aRGB shroud :ohwell: )