Tuesday, January 18th 2022
Thermalright Outs TA120 EX Mini White Compact Tower-type CPU Cooler
Thermalright today introduced the TA120 EX Mini White, one of the company's more compact tower-type CPU coolers. The cooler is designed with a height of 135 mm, even though it uses a 120 mm fan for ventilation. It features a conventional tower type design, in which five 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes make indirect contact with the CPU at the base (nickel-plated C1100-grade copper with mirror finish), pushing heat through the fin-stack, which is ventilated by a TL-D12 PRO-W fan. It features a fluid-dynamic bearing, and turns at speeds of up to 1,850 RPM, pushing up to 82 CFM of airflow, with 2.1 mm H₂O static pressure, and 29.6 dBA noise output. Among the CPU socket types supported include LGA1700, AM4, and LGA1200. The company didn't reveal pricing.
14 Comments on Thermalright Outs TA120 EX Mini White Compact Tower-type CPU Cooler
Thermalright has been pushing out a ton of these new "Mini" versions of their 120mm towers. They are all 135mm tall basically 92mm towers with a 120mm fan strapped on.
The problem is that the SS135 is alright but not really much better than the beefier 92mm coolers like the U9S. These other single tower 135mm Mini coolers are even smaller, with less heatsink mass, and less heatpipes than the SS135. At the end of the day SS135 and SA130 still seem to be the only real performers, can comfortably handle a stock 5900X with good airflow.
I'm not sure about this white edition TA120 Mini, but quite sure I've seen its regular version floating around on the TR website since before the SS135 released.
Fully agree on the fans - the clips stretched to barely fit P12 redux but frustrating af, annoying that TR doesn't sell/include regular 120mm clips.
The SS135 had some minor cosmetic-looking scratches that turned out quite deep and pitted my CPU, so I can't really comment as to the quality
my undervolted 275-300w 3080 with replaced pads and 125/150w 11700 feeling comfortable though. But it’s all thanks to these sffpc tower coolers getting more spread in the last few years.
As far as TR availability goes, they have an extensive selection of products on amazon here in the US though their PR is not doing them any favors. Not a ton of reviews out there especially in the YouTube space.
That's all you need to know about this cooler.
a "WHITE" component that is actually, you know, "WHITE" instead of 90-95% white + 5-10% black/grey/silver etc.......