Thermalright AXP120-X67 Review

Thermalright’s AXP120-X67 is low profile CPU cooler which comes included with 120x15mm fan with 1900 max.rpm. It has a height of 67mm when equipped with 15mm think fan or 77mm with 25mm thick fan.

SPECIFICATIONS

MODELAXP120-X67
DIMENSIONS123.5×120×67mm (L×W×H)
COMPATIBILITYIntel: 115X/1200/1700
AMD: AM4/AM5
MATERIALS6x 6mm nickel coated copper heat-pipes, copper base (nickel coated), aluminium cooling fins
WEIGHT363g (heatsink)
FANS1x 120×120×15mm
S-FDB Bearing Fan
TL-C12015 (1900RPM +10%)
RAM CLEARANCE40mm

TEST SYSTEM

Testing is carried out on BC1 Mini v2 (open testbench), using the following hardware, in 20°C ambient room temperature. We noise normalised the cooler fan speed to 35dBA at distance of 50cm. This helps eliminate brute force cooling from higher RPM fans.

CASEBC1 Mini v2 (Open Testbench)
MOTHERBOARDRog Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (paid link)
CPUR5 7600X / R7 7700X (paid links)
CPU COOLERThermalright AXP120-X67 (paid link)
PSU Extreme 850R (paid link)
RAM32GB Gskill DDR5, 6000MHz, CL30 (paid link)

BENCHMARKS

We use Cinebench R23 multicore (stability test), for period of 30 minutes. This provides worse case scenario for a given CPU. CPU coolers are tested across range of CPU’s for data validation and to reduce risk of errors in testing. This also helps account for variables between CPU platforms.

CONCLUSIONS

Thermalright’s AXP120-X67 has reasonable build quality and effective mounting solution. The stock fan reached around 40dB at full load (1900RPM). Thermalright’s AXP120-X67 is an excellent alternative to Noctua’s NH-L12S and offers better performance than the L12 Ghost Edition. The AXP120-X67 is also available in black.