Asus Axe Square

Another Asus heatsink passes the revue, the Axe Square is a top-down CPU Cooler much like the Royal Knight with 5 heat pipes, 120mm fan, but with aluminum fins.

ASUS comes from the last four letters of Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology that represents the inspiration of art and learning. ASUS embodies the strength, creative spirit and purity symbolized by this regal and agile mythical creature, soaring to new heights of quality and innovation with each product it introduces to the market.

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Asus Axe Square

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Asus Axe Square
- Intel S775/ AMD AM2/939
- Heatsink : 654 gram
- 120mm PWM fan rated at 1400rpm
- ~€60

The Axe Square comes in very fancy packaging with all the mounting gear separately ordered in a compact storage box. The heatsink design is quasi the same as the Royal Knight, 5 copper heat pipes all nickel plated merged into one very nicely finished copper base. The main difference between the two are the aluminum fins (vs copper on the Royal Knight) and the design of the plastic shroud, which is slightly less fancy on the Axe Square.

The included 120mm fan runs at 1375rpm@12v and 483rpm@5v, while it looks to be removable, it’s far from easy to get the plastic shroud to come off, afraid of breaking it, we left the stock fan in place, so it’s definitely not easily removable.




Installation is plug and play using the standard Intel push-pin method.



Let’s compare this cooler to the full copper Asus Royal Knight as well as the Thermalright SI-128SE:



The stock fan at full speed proves worthy, keeping the CPU temperature in check, compared to the Royal Knight we also see a noticeable difference of ~3°C; another example or AlCu HSF proving to be better than full copper. The gap with the SI-128SE is smaller and the Axe Square comes close performance/noise wise. When we undervolt the stock fan to 5v the CPU temperature rises by ~14°C, while the fan is very quiet, the performance is not stellar.

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In summary here are the strong/weak points of the Asus Axe Square:



+ Good performance/noise ratio
+ Easy installation

- High Price