Thermaltake TOUGHAIR 710 Black CPU Cooler Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Thermaltake TOUGHAIR 710 Dual Tower CPU Intel/AMD CPU Air Cooler Black is available now from Scan Computers for a reasonable price of £59.99, which is not bad given the overall quality of the construction, mid-level cooling performance, and at the time of writing, it even comes with a free tube of Thermal Grizzly paste (worth £8 on its own).

Overview

Thermaltake has hit a nice sweet spot with this cooler, largely due to its price, and coming in at just £59.99 it’s a good mid-budget option for those wanting a competent and surprisingly quiet air cooler. While not ideal for massive overclocking, keep in mind, that the CPU we use for testing is one of the most notoriously hot-running CPUs on the market and would go above 100c using the stock Intel cooler, and that’s still OK for this CPU. Keep in just above 80c, the TOUGHAIR was more than capable of keeping this monster CPU from even getting near any throttling issues. If you put this CPU on a more modern and efficient CPU, it’ll make light work of it.

While there are better-performing air coolers on the market from other big-name brands, you can expect to pay around £100-120 for those models, and at nearly half the price the TOUGHAIR delivers more than enough cooling performance for most users, but still delivers acoustic performance on par with the likes of be quiet! Cooler Master, DeepCool and Noctua. The fans are so quiet that turning their RPM up to improve cooling performance is perfectly within their capabilities.

The overall design is great, this is a very attractive cooler and looks a lot more expensive than it is thanks to the all-black design, premium fan design, and those brushed aluminium finish top plates on each of the cooling towers. There’s also a good-quality mounting kit, that is pretty easy to work with, and the fans use simple retention clips that allow for height adjustment to clear any RAM compatibility issues, and they can be mounted on either side of the cooling towers, further improving their compatibility.

Should I Buy One?

Honestly, this is a pretty simple cooler, in that it delivers good cooling performance and very good acoustics, but its biggest strength has to be its price, at £59.99, it’s a far cry from the £100+ flagship air coolers on the market, and can handle up to 250TDP, so it’s pretty much set to handle any of the top CPUs of current-gen CPUs easily enough. Overall though, it’s a very good-looking cooler too, and would make a nice visual compliment to any modern system build.