Introduction

From the LEPA website:

In 2010, LEPA heralded the birth of a whole new rising star, shinning in the global computer hardware arena. LEPA was founded by a group of enthusiastic IT engineers with zeal about technological innovations. LEPA embodies the high standards of quality, performance and stability, and strives to provide consumers with more reliable, creative high-tech solutions.

LEPA- The Pioneer of Spiral LED Fans

With abundant research and development capabilities, LEPA introduced the spiral LED fans to the world, which has ignited the entire fan industry and sparked new lighting trends. The innovative LED fans with the multi-pattern control put fun in functionality, delivering both practical performance and aesthetic experience.

LEPA- Shinning Star of the 80+ Gold Pack

To meet up with the latest energy-saving regulations, LEPA continuously introduces series of PSUs with the 80PLUS certification. In 2012, we launched the G1600-MA as the world's first 1600W PSU with 80PLUS Gold certification. This demonstrates our outstanding and excellent R&D capability.

LEPA- Fun Technology that Goes Beyond the Boundaries

The mission of LEPA indicates - "to bring about top-quality, safe and reliable, and reasonably-priced high-tech products to global users", we will keep staying at the forefront of technology and continue our innovation. We strive to introduce more state of the art, exciting and chic high-tech products to you.

LEPA, having formed in 2010, is a relative newcomer in the PC market when compared to the likes of Cooler Master or Thermaltake. Being new, however, means little in a market that sees regular change. While LEPA may not have the pedigree of other brands like Corsair, that hasn't stopped their popularity from rising, them having expanded into power supplies, cases, CPU coolers, fans and even cooling pads and Bluetooth speakers. They have rapidly expanded in a very short time and have, as such, managed to gather a great deal of fanfare.

Which brings us to today's review of the LEPA NEOllusion: a small tower cooler that is riding on the RGB craze. Instead of RGB fans with colored rings or other such novelties, LEPA took a unique approach. Here, the heatsink itself has the RGB aspect built in. Unique design aside, if performance is as good as its looks, it might prove to be an interesting option in an increasingly crowded market.

Packaging

The LEPA NEOllusion is in a box that measures in at roughly 22.4 cm long, 17.8 cm wide, and 13 cm high. On top, we are greeted with a color image of the NEOllusion in all its stunning RGB glory. Supported CPU sockets are also listed on top. Moving to the left side, we find the product name and corporate logo, but not much else. The back is similar to the top in that it has a full color image of the NEOllusion with its LEDs set to blue.


On the back is where the juicy bits of information regarding its features and specifications are to be found. Meanwhile, the right side is again just the company logo and product name.

Contents

The NEOllusion comes packaged in a thin layer of cardboard and foam. Honestly, while the materials are a bit thin, they do offer above average protection for the product when compared to packaging I have seen in the past. It would have been nice to see a bit more foam, but overall, the packaging is still better than average, which means consumers can expect the NEOllusion CPU cooler to arrive in one piece and without any bent fins.


The NEOllusion has all the hardware needed for modern sockets. Even AM4 is supported. While older stock does lack the AM4 mounting hardware, users can contact LEPA to arrange for a free AM4 bracket. They also made sure to include a second fan mount for dual-fan configurations.

Common parts supplied for mounting include:

• 8x mounting plate screws
• 4x Backplate screws
• 4x Stand offs
• 4x LGA2011 screws
• 4x Spring screws
• 4x Backplate washers
• 4x Fan screws
• 2x AMD mounting arms
• 2x Intel mounting arms
• 2x fan mounts
• 1x Backplate
• 1x Mounting plate
• 1x Installation manual
• 1x LGA775 spacer
• 1x Tube of thermal compound
• 1x Speed reduction adapter
• 1x Molex adapter
• 1x Heatsink
• 1x Fan
• 1x LED controller