Visual inspection
The Akasa Soho H4 is a standard single tower RGB CPU cooler that is aimed towards the gaming crowd. The design of this CPU cooler is good, with addressable RGB LEDs installed on both the included fan and the top plastic cover. The heatsink is covered by an all-black coating that has a matte finish. While from the factory, the Soho H4 is using a single 120mm fan, its heatsink will accept two fans for a push-pull configuration.
The Soho H4 has a height of 157mm which makes it easy to install in most systems that use a regular ATX or M-ATX case.
The Soho H4 has a single tower heatsink, with 45 aluminum made cooling fins. As is the case with many air CPU coolers, the sides of the cooling fins are bent downwards. This design is useful as it creates a channel inside the heatsink and prevents air leakage, in addition, having each cooling fin supported by the one below will increase the structural integrity of the heatsink.
The weight of the heatsink without the fan installed is 730g.
The CPU cooler has a total of four copper made heatpipes, each with an outer diameter of 6mm. In addition to having the standard U shape, these heatpipes are part of the baseplate of the CPU cooler. This is called a direct touch design.
The baseplate in the case of the Soho H4 is even and smooth. As previously stated, this baseplate has as its contact surface the hetapipes of the cooler.
The endings of the heatpipes are not visible at all in the case of the Soho H4. Instead, the top part of the heatsink is covered by a plastic made cover. This cover not only hides the heatpipe endings but also houses the main addressable RGB LEDs of the cooler. Fortunately, all these RGB LEDs are powered and controlled through a single cable, which is long and easy to route.
The Akasa Soho H4 uses a single 120mm fan included. This fan is called the SOHO AR and has the model number: DFS122512L.
The SOHO AR uses a Hydro Dynamic Bearing and has a minimum speed of 500RPM and a maximum speed of 2000RPM.
Fortunately, this fan is fully PWM compatible and has a 4-Pin connector for power. Unfortunately, the cable is not covered by any sleeving. However, the lack of sleeving can be a good thing as sleeved cables are harder to route in tight spaces.
Another feature that this fan has is in the shape of rubber pads on both sides of each of the corner. These pads will dampen the vibration caused by the rotational movement of the fan and prevent the heatsink from scratches.
