Thermalright AXP90-X53 Low Profile ITX CPU Air Cooler, 53mm Height Cooling, TL-9015 Slim PWM Fan, AGHP Technology, for AM4 /AM5/Intel lga1700/1150/1151/1200/1851, ITX PC Cooler(AXP90 X53)

I bought this to cool an i5 8400 in an older HP Pavilion case with awful airflow (a self-inflicted sleeper build wound), and for such a low-wattage CPU in an otherwise obnoxiously warm case it does a pretty solid job and solidifies its position as one of the best budget coolers on the market. With a very lazy fan curve it's able to keep things plenty cool while being significantly quieter than the Intel stock cooler. The grey color scheme fits well in a build like mine, but in a normal build you may want to spring for the more expensive black or white variants. Installation isn't too bad once you read the instructions and figure out you were doing it incorrectly, though if it's your first time installing a cooler like this you may struggle a little bit.

MittenMan420 · 2026-01-05 · via amazon

Works very well

Ali · 2026-02-09 · via amazon

Love it aside from the Bottom Mount Bolts In order to remove the cooler if you dont have access to the back of the board you have to completely remove the board to remove the cooler

mgriste · 2022-10-10 · via amazon

Great cpu cooler. Very easy to install, the noise level is not noticeable when wearing headphones and also when you’re not wearing them. Comes with all the mounting hardware you need. Overall great for the price.

Junior · 2025-06-30 · via amazon

The instructions are terrible. They don't give you all the parts you need. If you install it, you can't change CPUs or thermal paste without access to the back of the motherboard. And it looks like it would hit the filter capacitors on my MB. I would NOT recommend this product line. I tried installing it on an ASUS MB with an AM4 socket. I'm mechanically inclined so I ignored the reviews about difficulty of installation. Boy was I wrong! The directions were incomprehensible. (Get a native speaker to fix the English at least.) Most coolers mount to brackets on top the MB which are permanently to a backplate. This one doesn't. It is bolted from the cooler straight through the MB to the backing plate with nuts on the back and nearly inaccessible "thumbscrew" locations between the MB and heatsink. (Which are partly under the heatsink!) This means you cannot put the cooler on without access to the backside of the motherboard to tighten the nuts underneath. A service nightmare. They also do tell you to use an insulating plate under their backing plate, but did not include one. You are supposed to peel the old one off your OEM backing plate? But the killer was that edge of the heatsink came down on top of the finter capacitors on the motherboard. This happened on two different model ASUS boards. (To be fair, I did this test fit without a CPU in place so there may have actually been some tiny vertical clearance, but it looked too close to call.) So the question about whether it really fit and the service nightmare it would leave me in a tight build caused me to send it back. I'd have taken off two stars for the horrible instructions and the poor design, but the fit questions and the missing insulator plate cost another one.

Meredith Standiford · 2024-12-05 · via amazon

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