14 DAY TRIAL // Tower CPU coolers are the ones with the potential to become the largest of their kind, but Lepa didn't go for the absolute largest form factor it could fine when it made the latest model. Instead, it chose color. Or, rather, color variety.
The new cooler from Lepa is roughly based on the design of the Enermax ETS-T40, but should appeal to more users.
Or maybe it will appeal to a smaller consumer base, since the color options look like they were made for very specific tastes.
After all, blue is nice enough, but red might be a bit out there, unless you buy a motherboard with a similar color scheme.
Moreover, olive-green isn't likely to fit the color designs of many other hardware products in the world.
Sure, none of this will matter if you don't have a side window, but color-coded coolers usually mean that their maker was banking on buyers having cases with such a thing.
Anyway, the Lepa cooler (not quite yet named apparently) is made of anodized aluminum, or at least the heatsink is.
A 120 mm disco fan is strapped to the side of the fin tower, always colored black but with a LED matching the heatsink in color.
All in all, it measures 139 x 70 x 160 mm / 5.47 x 2.75 x 6.29 inches (LxWxH) and weighs about 610 grams / 1.34 pounds.
That's about as much as the TechReport was able to get on the product. That means that the price and ETA (estimated time of arrival) are also a mystery.
Now it'll be fun to see if users buy them because of the new colors or if they use said colors as a reason to avoid them. We've already run into those who have decided to look elsewhere, because they feel that adding “bling” only says you've “run out of actual, useful features for your product.”