In the top part of the cooler you can see the soldered ends of the heat pipes and the plastic corset of the fan.

The fan is fixed with pins and two latches at the top and bottom of the frame.

The Auras LPT-700 employs a 92mm fan with seven translucent blades. It is manufactured by Y. S. Tech, too.

Running on two sleeve bearings, this fan is marked as “FD129225LB”. It is specified to have a variable speed from 700 to 2100rpm at 43CMF airflow and 22dBA noise. The fan lacks highlighting, but its motor rattles just like that of the previous model.

The cooler’s base is protected with film:

Its base is finished better than the base of the inexpensive SLC-747:

It is not polished off but there are no traces of the milling machine at least. The base is flat as I verified by looking at the trace of thermal grease on a piece of glass.

Our version of the Auras LPT-700 cooler is meant only for LGA775 mainboards. It is fastened to the mainboard with four screws along the perimeter of the aluminum frame in the bottom part of the cooler. The screws go into a robust back-plate so you have to take the mainboard out of the system case to perform this procedure. The springs in the screws produce a very strong pressure but the back-plate prevents the mainboard from bending. The fan has to be installed only after the cooler is secured on the mainboard. Otherwise the fan would only be a nuisance while you are tightening the screws.

There are no problems with the orientation of the cooler on the CPU socket because the mounting holes around LGA775 are symmetrical. No components on the mainboard will get in the cooler’s way because the bottom plate of the heatsink is about 40mm above the mainboard, and the fastening aluminum plate is rather compact.

The Auras LPT-700 has a recommended price of $33, i.e. only $1.5 less than the price of the SLC-747.