Installation

Installation of the Thermolab Bada 2010 is quite simple and easy. The thermal compound is not pre-applied, meaning you'll have to to that part of the job yourself and you're going to be rewarded for that, since the thermal compount is rather decent. On the cooler is in place overall pressure is good and Thermolab made sure, all sockets with significant marketshare are supported.

Since the Thermolab Bada 2010 is an overall small tower cooler there won't be any compatibility issues with memory that features large heatspreaders, whereas we can add that we tested compatibility with ATX and Mini ITX motherboards.

Test Setup
Mainboard	ASUS Z87-Deluxe (BIOS 1602)
CPU	Intel Core i7-4770K Stock (Turbo On / HT On)
Memory	ADATA XPG V2 2x4GB DDR3-2800 CL12 1.65V
Video	Intel HD Graphics 4600
Software	Windows 7 x64 wPrime Benchmark v2.10 CPUID HWMonitor 1.24.0
PSU	Seasonic Platinum SS-660XP2
Fan Controller	Lamptron FC5 V3
Thermal Compound	Thermolab Tube

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Page 1 - Presentation / Specifications

Page 2 - Photo Gallery

Page 3 - Installation & Test Setup

Page 4 - Absolute Performance

Page 5 - PWM Performance

Page 6 - Conclusion