Thermaltake TH120 ARGB Sync AIO Liquid Cooler Review

A Closer Look

Having recently predominantly checked out larger 240-360mm coolers, it was a pleasure to finally have something a little more compact in my hands. While size is, of course, relative, the Thermaltake TH120 is surprisingly compact and, in addition, feels much lighter than you might expect for an AIO. In fact, this feels lighter in the hand than many air coolers.

As with any AIO liquid cooler, however, there are a lot of individual components that make up the overall design. Let us, therefore, take a closer look at some of them and see what makes this thing tick!

Pump Head

A closer look at the pump head shows the Thermaltake logo to the center with more than a few hints as to what might happen when you turn on the RGB lighting. The design is a fairly straight forward square which is pretty standard for most pump heads. However, this one does have a pretty sleek aesthetic with the slightly angled corners.

In a more practical sense, the length of the hose from the pump head to the radiator is decent, but not exactly generous. As such, depending on how you install this (and given that the logo can not be rotated) this would make the radiator best suited to being mounted on the exhaust area (rear) of the chassis.

Contact Plate

In terms of size, the contact plate is pretty much the exact same size as the pump head itself which should give you a solid indication that, regardless of the processor, this should provide more than enough coverage. In addition, and although this will be covered at greater length during the installation portion of this review, the simplistic design easily allows you to quickly swap out of the mounting bracket without the need for any screws.

Radiator

Of all the aspects of this AIO cooler, the radiator represents probably the most bland aspect. It’s a design set to hold a 120mm fan, it’s black, and it’s a rectangle. At the risk of that sounding glib, that does pretty much cover it.

While you do have ‘top-up’ access at the top (not that it should really be needed), there is no branding, no logos, and, as such, it’s pretty hard to distinguish this from any other standard 120mm AIO cooler radiator.

Fan

As you might have guessed by this point, the fan provided with this AIO cooler is a Thermaltake 120mm design. Coming with RGB lighting effects, while it isn’t particularly remarkable in terms of its aesthetics, things get taken to a whole new level when the light show begins!

In terms of specifics, the fan used is a Thermaltake TT-1225. A design we have seen them use on many of their cooling products and that is no criticism either as we’ve always found this to be a very strong and surprisingly quiet performer.

RGB in Action – Video

In terms of RGB lighting effects, while we can attempt to describe them, we always like to try and give you a video of them in ‘real-world’ action. You know that expression about a picture painting a thousand words right?…

As you can clearly see below, the lighting effects to both the radiator/fan and pump head are nice, bright, vivid, and come with a wide enough color pallet to suit any needs or wishes a user might have.

Overall

So, in terms of the design and our overall thoughts on it, we are more than impressed with the Thermaltake TH120. Yes, things are taken to a new level when the lights are turned on, but even with them off, it still carries a strong sleek aesthetic that we doubt many would take offence at.

The overall look and individual components, however, are only one part of this review. There is still the matter of how easy this is to work with, and, of course, how it performs in our tests. So, let’s start by fitting this to our test bench and telling you our thoughts on that process!