Thermolab LP53 Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 21.03.14Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Overall, the Thermolab LP53 is a very pleasant surprise. It is an affordable cooler aimed at mid-range market and comes with an impressive level of manufacturing quality and performance. While some coolers might be cheaper, they are also much "cheaper" in terms of design, simplicity and manufacturing quality. The overall performance is good and noise levels are decent as well. They could be a little bit lower but as we said, for a mainstream cooler, the LP53 has a great cooling performance. The cooler is bundled with a 4-pin round 92mm PWM fan, which is a little noisy at 12 Volt. Apart from that we did not like the lack of AMD socket compatibility. |
- Low Profile Cooler Performance
- Quality - PWM |
- Socket compatibility | |
| Installation | + | - | |
| Mounting is quite easy and practical. The fan is already pre-mounted using four rubber grommets and it fits nicely and also prevents any vibration noise. The mounting mechanism parts are solid, thermal paste comes in pre-applied and ready to mount and the installation of the whole cooler took less than 2 minutes. |
- Basic mounting easy and practical
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- Not compatible to AMD sockets | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Cooling performance of the Thermolab LP53 is definitely very good for its size. It does a way better job than most, if not all low-profile coolers, at least when it comes to coolers that we had a chance to test. It even does a better job than some more expensive and bigger coolers. The dimensions are a little bigger when compared to the Thermolab ITX30 and tests showed us that these acutally helps a lot in terms of performance and tempratures. So far, Thermolab's LP53 is one of the best performing low-profile-cooler we had in our lab. | - Cooling performances | ||
| Noise Levels | + | - | |
| The overall noise levels are good and the Thermolab LP53 is silent, except at 12V. It is still one of the best low-profile coolers we have seen so far but, as always, there is still some room for improvement. Luckily, this cooler is powerful enough to even keep a quad-core CPU at adequate temperatures, even when the fan is driven at 7V, meaning noise levels will not be an issue. | - Silent | ||
| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| We can definitely recommend this cooler as it is a very good alternative to box- and other mainstream and low-end coolers. The Thermolab LP53 is a high quality cooler. Unfortunately, we could not find any price for the LP53 cooler in Europe but a quick look at Ebay shows it priced at 53 USD witch is a little bit on the high side. |
- HTPC -Stream Box - Mini-ITX Gaming |
- Price | |
| Rating | |||
| We gave the LP53 from Thermolab 4 out of 5 stars. | |||
| Page 1 - Presentation / Specifications |
| Page 2 - Photo Gallery |
| Page 3 - Installation & Test Setup |
| Page 4 - Absolute Performance |
| Page 5 - PWM Performance |
| Page 6 - Conclusion |
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