A Closer Look

On the surface, the design looks similar to many other tower coolers; however, upon closer inspection the various features become more apparent. Examples are the offset heat pipes for better clearance and the folded over sides of the fins to force air through the entirety of the heatsink.


The heatsink itself consists of 53 aluminium fins which receive heat via five heat pipes. Around each heat pipe are small punchouts with raised fin sections, which cause air turbulence near the heat pipes for added cooling as part of Enermax's patented "VGF" Vortex Generation Flow design.


The top plate is a regular fin, the same as all the others used for the heatsink, so there is nothing special about it since it doesn't cover the heat pipes or add ARGB lighting to the tower. That said, due to the white design, it does look nice and clean and, best yet, didn't end up with a bunch of nasty fingerprints. As for the base, it is an HDT design with offset heat pipes for better memory clearance. When it comes to the base itself, it is smooth to the touch with no major gaps between the base or heat pipes, which is nice. While machining marks are visible, they are only barely so as the sanding of the base smoothed them out quite a bit.


The 120 mm ARGB fan supplied with the ETS-T50 AXE ARGB is your standard 25 mm thick offering with model number UCTBP12P-ARGB-W. It is a PWM model and has an RPM range of 500–1600.