Construction and design

Construction

If we had to define the type of cooler the Macho 120 is, then we would say it is a single tower cooler. This type of cooler comes with the advantage that manufacturers can realise a huge cooling area. The disadvantage over down-draft coolers is that no air is directed towards the motherboard directly, therefore non of the onboard components receive direct cooling. Thermalright builds their Macho 120 from aluminium and copper. You can find a copper base plate which leads the dissipation power to five heatpipes which all have a diameter of six millimeters. Altogether there are 30 fins soldered to the heatpipes for perfect heat transfer.

Design

We did not see any manufacturing mistakes on our sample, and it seems that it has been very well made which means that build quality is on an good level. The heatpipes do have different bending radius, which results in additional vortex. Furhtermore this cooler comes with a total of 30 fins. Thermalright chose a to go for straight fins. There is no such thing as for example a saw tooth design on one side of the fins.