Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT

crazyeyesreaper · Sep 12, 2016

Thermalright's Le Grand Macho RT is massive in size, weighing in at 1060g with the fan. Capable of being used passively, it offers users a near-silent operation and top-tier performance when paired with the TY-147B fan. The competition should take note as Thermalright looks to steal the air-cooling crown.

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Yukikaze · Sep 12, 2016

Looks to be solid, but holy heck, who came up with the name?!

jabbadap · Sep 12, 2016

Yukikaze said:
Looks to be solid, but holy heck, who came up with the name?!

Yeah, apart from the name the cooler is brilliant.

Hiryougan · Sep 12, 2016

Damn. I definitely wasn't expecting that. Who would thought that there would be a cooler to dethronize NH-D15, while being cheaper and having better ram compatibility. Imo the name is hillarious.
The only thing that bothers me is that absolutely ugly as hell top.

xkm1948 · Sep 12, 2016

WOW this is great! Finally something that beats down D15!. Considering the gigantic size and dual fan of D15 I am very tempted to buy this to free up some space. I am truly impressed by Thermalright.

dj-electric · Sep 12, 2016

Is this it? The NH-D15 beater?

Well.... hard to tell tbh. It is as quiet and as cool, but... the size is just not ignoreable.

aldo5 · Sep 12, 2016

wow -the NH-D15 is down... this wins not by much but in all categories: 1) temps; 2) noise; 3) size and 4) price... what you gonna do now Noctua ?

Joss · Sep 12, 2016

Now that's what I call a cooler

Macho indeed, not one of those sissy AIOs :laugh:

Just one thing, the graphics card is installed in the first (3.0 x1) slot, right?

Smanci · Sep 12, 2016

You reeeeally need to start testing coolers at a certain noise level. Running fans at 100% is in any case unbearable for most users.

Hiryougan · Sep 12, 2016

Dj-ElectriC said:
Is this it? The NH-D15 beater?

Well.... hard to tell tbh. It is as quiet and as cool, but... the size is just not ignoreable.

Wat. NH-D15 is much bigger, it even covers ALL ram slots, compare to NONE by Macho.

NightOfChrist · Sep 12, 2016

I noticed one H7 Universal in the test list.
Is this supposed to be H5 Universal, or H7?
Perhaps a typo and it was supposed to be H5 Universal?

natr0n · Sep 12, 2016

Use 2 fans and this will shine like no other.

dj-electric · Sep 12, 2016

Hiryougan said:
Wat. NH-D15 is much bigger, it even covers ALL ram slots, compare to NONE by Macho.

I can use all of my 8 RAM slots, both sides with the D15 in my system. The macho will not find my secondary slots friendly

Hiryougan · Sep 12, 2016

Dj-ElectriC said:
I can use all of my 8 RAM slots, both sides with the D15 in my system. The macho will not find my secondary slots friendly

Ah, the X99, didn't notice that before. Are you sure they will get blocked?

Sasqui · Sep 12, 2016

Yukikaze said:
Looks to be solid, but holy heck, who came up with the name?!

gasolina · Sep 12, 2016

used to have one and happy with it

crazyeyesreaper · Sep 12, 2016

NightOfChrist said:
I noticed one H7 Universal in the test list.
Is this supposed to be H5 Universal, or H7?
Perhaps a typo and it was supposed to be H5 Universal?

what do you think H7 Universal in the charts means? its the H7 and its the universal aka thin fan model.

Only Cryorig models in the review are the C7 which is mini-ITX cooler the R1 Universal and the H7 Universal. The H5 is not in the test data.

Supercrit · Sep 12, 2016

aldo5 said:
wow -the NH-D15 is down... this wins not by much but in all categories: 1) temps; 2) noise; 3) size and 4) price... what you gonna do now Noctua ?

5) no ugly brown

crazyeyesreaper · Sep 12, 2016

Keep in mind at typical daily OC loads aka Wprime and Aida64 The D15 and D15S performance pretty much on par with the Grand Macho RT.

typically the D15 is ahead by 1'C while the single fan D15S trails by 1'C

But typically the Noctua and Thermalright options are on par however what little wins one has over the other is a bit of a wash as thermalpaste I use is pretty crap aka cheapest of cheap. Using High end pastes may see the performance change. Stranger things have happened but still. For non x99 systems this is a solid air cooler. It might be big but its also silent.

Joss said:
Now that's what I call a cooler
Macho indeed, not one of those sissy AIOs

Just one thing, the graphics card is installed in the first (3.0 x1) slot, right?

Yes i test with clearance in the first slot for users that go Micro ATX and Mini-ITX we all know most typical ATX boards are fine since the first expansion slot is usually PCI / PCIe x1 or x4 etc. I use a dead GPU which i cut away some of the PCIe fingers on in order to use it for clearance testing. In this way any cooler that clears this test is 95% likely to clear the PCIe slot on Mini-ITX or Micro ATX builds.

dwade · Sep 12, 2016

The king is back. No more reason buying overpriced Noctua's.

xkm1948 · Sep 12, 2016

I can't find any MoBo compatibility report for this. Would love to get a smaller yet better air cooler. But I need to figure out whether it will fit on my X99 first.

xkm1948 · Sep 12, 2016

Can you do a size comparison between this and the D15, like right next to each other?

msimax · Sep 12, 2016

that is a nice cooler

NightOfChrist · Sep 13, 2016

crazyeyesreaper said:
what do you think H7 Universal in the charts means? its the H7 and its the universal aka thin fan model.

Only Cryorig models in the review are the C7 which is mini-ITX cooler the R1 Universal and the H7 Universal. The H5 is not in the test data.

Sorry I had to ask.
I never heard of H7 Universal before and because there is no H7 Universal in Cryorig site so I thought it was a typo.
I did not know it was H7 with custom fan.

Caring1 · Sep 13, 2016

Forum is playing up for me and it wont let me read the review.
Works now *thumbs up*
Can it be mounted so the fan is facing the GPU side?
Being offset, it should allow it to blow from bottom to top of case.

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