For those of you who read our blog regularly, you would know that the products we usually get from ASUS are motherboard, graphics card and occasional notebooks. That all changed when we received the Triton 75 CPU cooler for this month’s review.
The Triton 75 has a fan-less design, meaning it’s 100% passive and has no third-party fan included in the bundle. This can be either good or bad. Why? Well, for instance, no matter how good the design of the passive cooler is, it will never be at par with a cooling fan. However, there will absolutely be no noise generated from it. So there are two ways you can go about at this. Install fans onto the casing’s chassis so that there is a well ventilated airflow from the front to the back. This way, the air will travel through the fins of the Triton 75 and absorb the heat as it goes out the back. The second option is to place a fan on top of the Triton 75, which is exactly what the ridges on the heatsink are for. A 120mm fan can be strapped on top to quickly dissipate the heat.
We had no trouble fitting the Triton 75 onto our testbed, though some caution should be taken as not all motherboards take large CPU coolers into consideration. Since our testbed is laid out in the open instead of a casing, we couldn’t judge if well ventilated airflow was sufficient enough to cool the CPU properly. When idle, the Triton 75 managed to keep the CPU temperature under 40°C, but shot up past 70°C when there was CPU load.
The Triton 75’s fan-less design is interesting however, without a proper airflow inside the casing, overheating will occur. We’d recommend getting a 120mm fan and installing it on top, though that would mean adding extra cost, which may then cause people to look elsewhere.
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