Thermalright Unveils the Royal Pretor 130 Ultra Dual Fin-Stack CPU Cooler

[btarunr]

Thermalright today unveiled the Royal Pretor 130 Ultra premium dual fin-stack CPU cooler. It comes in white and black color models. It features a traditional aluminium dual fin-stack (D-type) heatsink, with seven 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes passing through a C1100 copper baseplate to pull heat from the CPU and spreading it across the two fin-stacks, which are ventilated by a pair of fans in push-pull configuration.

The outer "push" fan is a Thermalright TL-K12 120 mm spinner, while the inner conveyor fan is the 130 mm TL-HD13-X28. Both fans come with fluid dynamic bearings. The TL-K12 turns at speeds of up to 2,150 RPM, pushing up to 69 CFM of airflow at 27 dBA of noise output and 2.87 mm H₂O static pressure; while the TL-HD13-X28 turns at up to 1,750 RPM, pushing up to 81.88 CFM of airflow at 2.38 mm H₂O static pressure, and 28.3 dBA maximum noise output. The cooler measures 130 mm x 135 mm x 158 mm (LxWxH) with the fans in place. The company didn't reveal weight.



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[wNotyarD]

Yet another day, yet another Thermalright cooler.

Is there anyone here able to keep count of how many they make?

 

[Chaitanya]

Yet another day, yet another Thermalright cooler.

Is there anyone here able to keep count of how many they make?

They have a half dozen or so models with led displays listed on their website but we havent seen PR coverage for.

 

[Space Lynx]

@freeagent how is this any different than the original Royal Praetor?

 

[Chomiq]

@freeagent how is this any different than the original Royal Praetor?

One more heatpipe, different fin layout, 7 blade fan vs 9 blade fan.

 

[Space Lynx]

One more heatpipe, different fin layout, 7 blade fan vs 9 blade fan.

interesting, I wanta review @crazyeyesreaper

 

[Onasi]

…so where exactly is this supposed to fit in the model hierarchy again? I constantly forget what TR even considers to be the flagship air cooler.

 

[Operandi]

Good &^$%ing lord these names are terrible. Drop the comic book villain naming scheme and go back to your roots simple and clean model numbers.

 

[wNotyarD]

…so where exactly is this supposed to fit in the model hierarchy again? I constantly forget what TR even considers to be the flagship air cooler.

Heatsink and smaller fan look the same as the PA120EVO. Were I to guess what is TR's flagship, it should be one of their 140mm models, so maybe either the FC140 or the PA140 Digital?

EDIT: Forgot about differing heatpipes count. And I certainly won't go searching for the info on what model has how many and of what thickness.

 

[Chomiq]

…so where exactly is this supposed to fit in the model hierarchy again? I constantly forget what TR even considers to be the flagship air cooler.

Yes.

 

[freeagent]

PS120 EVO is what I consider to be their flagship, so this would take that over.

 

[Onasi]

PS120 EVO is what I consider to be their flagship, so this would take that over.

Wasn’t FC140 tested to be a better performer?

Yes.

That about sums up the levels of TR product line coherence, yeah.

 

[freeagent]

Wasn’t FC140 tested to be a better performer?


That about sums up the levels of TR product line coherence, yeah.

I guess it depends, for me it was better on AMD than FC140. But only by like 1-2c

 

[Onasi]

@freeagent
I guess the real Thermalright flagship was the friends we made along the way.

 

[Darthgrey]

There are so many different Thermalright models nowadays and I assume there is about 3-4 degrees Celsius between the worst and the best among dual towers)

I wonder if/when it will be released new Silver Arrow with 8 heatpipes and I wonder what's the difference between new best Thelmalright model and old Silver Arrow Ivy Bridge-E.

 

[freeagent]

and I wonder what's the difference between new best Thelmalright model and old Silver Arrow Ivy Bridge-E.

I have Le Grand Macho RT, and True Spirit 140 Power, and neither do well on modern AM4. I havent bothered trying with AM5. With 12nm AMD LGMRT was "ok"

I have a different mount, maybe I will try those old coolers with the new mount. But their new gen coolers did way better for me.

Edit:

I also have a TY-143.

 

[LabRat 891]

I have Le Grand Macho RT, and True Spirit 140 Power, and neither do well on modern AM4. I havent bothered trying with AM5. With 12nm AMD LGMRT was "ok"

I have a different mount, maybe I will try those old coolers with the new mount. But their new gen coolers did way better for me.

Edit:

I also have a TY-143.

IIRC, sometime in the AM4 era, Thermalright started purposefully making their coldplates very slightly convex. (Also, there's been changes in heatpipe bonding/arrangement)
'Might help explain some of the performance differences for otherwise similar mass and configuration TR coolers, over the years.

 

[freeagent]

IIRC, sometime in the AM4 era, Thermalright started purposefully making their coldplates very slightly convex.
'Might help explain some of the performance differences for otherwise similar mass and configuration TR coolers, over the years.

They have been doing that since the beginning, it fits Intel perfectly. I think its a combination of too much convexity being the main, and mounting pressure second. But.. there are for sure two different AM4 sockets on AM4, but I could swear that my B550 boards have a slightly shorter Z height. I know for sure those two release my CPU with the cooler, but my X570 does not.. I have not tried my old TR coolers on my X570 board because I was playing with their other coolers, and then moved on to their AIOs..

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

I might get to it maybe but got plenty of samples on hand as is.

 

[Steamroller]

As always, nice 3D renders.