DeepCool LT520 AIO Liquid Cooler Review

A Closer Look

Out of the box, the DeepCool LT520 presents itself well with a nice sleek (predominantly black) design with a highly distinctive and certainly intriguing CPU block design. – Given that this is an AIO liquid cooler, however, there are clearly many individual components that make up the overall design. Let us, therefore, take a closer look at them and see what we think!

CPU Block

We should start by noting that the radiator fans do not offer any kind of ARGB or lighting compatibility. As such, all of those effects purely take place on the CPU block. While we will, of course, take a look at them later in the review, the first thing that arguably grabs your attention is that the overall size of the CPU block is rather large. – This would make you think that installation is going to be challenging, but thankfully this has a little trick that makes this a lot easier than you might initially think!

Despite its overall chunky nature, however, the DeepCool LT520 shouldn’t give consumers any issues in regards to RAM compatibility and with its silver design, it certainly contrasts well against the mostly black design of the radiator and hoses.

Contact Plate

The contact plate is coated in copper which should, at least in theory, provide some excellent heat dissipation when fitted to the processor. – In terms of its size, it’s fantastically huge meaning that this shouldn’t have any problems on all supported sockets and particularly so the notably larger AMD AM5 and Intel LGA1700 platforms.

We should note that this does come with thermal paste pre-applied which we remove prior to testing as per our methodology. Upon doing this, however, we did find a pretty significant number of light surface scratches to the copper suggesting that the overall production quality of this particular component isn’t to the extreme highest of standards, but at the same time, they are so exceptionally light that this shouldn’t offer any kind of notable performance issues.

Radiator

At a glance, the radiator is fairly standard stuff as it’s basically a black rectangle (as per 98% of all AIO liquid cooler radiators). With that being said though, DeepCool has still managed to throw a few nice little aesthetic and practical touches to it.

The top of the radiator features their logo on the corner which, although a small touch, does at least allow this to distinguish itself from the predominantly generic pack. – The other side also features a refill port for liquid coolant which is always a nice option for those perhaps planning to keep this radiator going for many, many, years to come!

Additionally, a nice added touch is that DeepCool provides you with a branded support clip for the radiator hoses. This perhaps offers more in the way of overall aesthetics and cable management than any kind of practical solution, but it’s a nice touch that they didn’t have to make (and the vast majority of its competition does not!).

The radiator hoses themselves are of an excellent length meaning that wherever you install this inside your case, you should have plenty of room to easily accommodate the piping without finding your space cramped or the length of the tubing overly excessive. – And in terms of its braiding, this is of excellent quality ensuring that the risk of leaks should be absolutely minimal if not remotely negligible from this component.

Fans

As this is a 240mm AIO liquid cooling solution, it clearly comes as no surprise to find that you are provided with 2 120mm fans. – The fans themselves are DeepCool’s own FK120 design and we’ve seen these utilised within practically all of their recent cooling products to excellent effect.

Aesthetically, they look really nice with their black colouring and thick padding to the corners to prevent (or minimise) any vibration. – The key factor of these fan’s design, however, is to provide high airflow but also minimal noise wherever possible. As noted above, we’ve seen these utilised to excellent effect within both the DeepCool AK400 and AK500 and see no reason why their application in the LT520 should provide us with any less than equally impressive results!

No, there’s no ARGB lighting here and that will please some and disappoint others. What we can say though is that in terms of outright performance, these are some excellent fans to utilise.

Overall

From a strictly visual standpoint, the DeepCool LT520 looks to be an impressive AIO liquid cooler. – I think it would be fair to say that this isn’t exactly a premium-level design, but what DeepCool has achieved here still undoubtedly looks like an excellent product, if, admittedly, one that has perhaps been geared towards meeting a certain retail price requirement.

How easy is it to live with though? Well, let’s get this installed onto our tech bench and find out!