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Going into this review, before I had the different Lian Li Galahad II Trinity coolers here in the office. Just going off of the base information I had on them I thought that all three designs would be using the exact same pump and radiator designs with just the fans being the change from model to model. That is the case between the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF and the Galahad II Trinity. I expected the Performance model to just utilize the P28 fans but was very surprised to see when I started to dive into things that the Galahad II Trinity Performance has other changes as well even though it does share a lot with the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF. With that, even though both coolers that Lian Li sent over are 360 models I have a TON of pictures so be prepared, there is a lot to go through here.
Starting with looking at the Galahad II Trinity pump designs the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF and Galahad II Trinity Performance have the same top design which is how they can have the same Trinity branding but below that the pump design is different, so much so that they don’t even have the same shape. Let's start with the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF pump. It has a 67mm total height and a round design like a lot of AIO pumps have these days. Its contact area is slightly squared off but has large radiused corners on the copper contact surface. It doesn’t have a mirrored finish as you can see but is machined and the pump comes with the Intel brackets installed which are black steel. The pump itself has two lines that are right-angled and go direction up but pivot to help best fit in your build. The pump housing is black plastic and has two plugs in it where you can hook up additional RGB lighting. It also has a set of wires heading out right in between the two sleeved water lines. There is a white translucent RGB right around the outside then it comes with a metal housing at the top which has the Lian Li logo in the center and a mirrored infinity finish that lights up. This cap is removable and you can replace it with a translucent ring on the outside with the option to still have an infinity mirror in the middle or a matching white translucent center. Under the cap is a white PCB with 19 surface-mounted individually addressable RGB LEDs on it facing up to light up the top cover. The wiring going out the side has a USB plug, SATA plug, and a PWM fan header which together power the lighting, lets your PC know you have RPM, and can use your motherboard fan settings to power the pump if you want and the USB connection to link the pump with the L-Connect software.
The Galahad II Trinity Performance cooler has the exact same top housing with the swappable covers that get you the translucent ring and mirror or translucent center sections which is where the Galahad II Trinity gets the Trinity in the name. But all of that is attached to a squared-off pump design for this model. The water lines still run off of the side with pivotable right-angled connections and those lines are the same size. But the pump for the Galahad II Trinity Performance has been upgraded. You can also see that on the bottom contact surface which has a little more thickness to it and the corners while still rounded are closer to being squared off where the other design had a bigger radius. The pump has the same small RGb connections on it but they are hidden slightly on the corners which looks a little better if you ask me. This design also comes with the Intel bracket pre-installed but this bracket also has the spring-loaded screws already attached as well. It is the same 67mm in overall height and the wires come out in between the two water lines just like on the other pump design with a SATA power, USB, and fan header all with black flat wiring. The squared-off pump design allows for a larger 36mm pump impeller compared to the 31.4 mm impeller on the other Galahad II Trinity coolers. They also have a larger fin spacing on the waterblock as well.
I touched on the water lines when talking about the pump design. Both of the Galahad II Trinity coolers have the same black-sleeved hose design. That goes all the way to include the 45-degree fittings on the radiator side as well which is different than the traditional AIO design. The idea here was to help remove some strain that connection sees when your lines are pulling that direction but this will depend a lot on the layout of your case, not every case is going to benefit from having the lines pre-angled in that direction. It is a good thing that both kits come with the fans preinstalled because with the angle the lines would make installing the fans a little harder.
Just about every AIO design uses the same basic radiator designs with the ends being rounded off or square being the main change you see or maybe having the brand's logo printed or stamped into the side of the radiator. So going in I figured both Galahad II Trinity coolers would use the same triple 120mm fan 360 design but I was wrong there. The Galahad II Trinity SL-INF design has a traditional radiator design with squared off more modern-looking end caps and is 27mm thick. But the Galahad II Trinity Performance on the other hand has changed everything. The Galahad II Trinity Performance radiator is 32mm thick so it is slightly thicker than normal and it is wider as well with the inner edges of the radiator housing being closer to the 120mm fan width to be sure to take advantage of all of the airflow from the three 120mm fans. They also have a double wave fin design to get more surface area while also spacing the fins out more to get good airflow through the radiator. You can see the differences in the pictures near the bottom below here with both radiators next to each other. It is easy to miss the changes when you don’t have them next to each other. Beyond that the radiators do have stickers on the end for the serial number and barcode and they both did get the Lian Li branding stamped into the sides.
Of course, the fans between the two coolers are different and both are upgraded compared to the standard Galahad II Trinity as well. The base Trinity has ARGB fans but they are non-unifans. The Galahad II Trinity SL-INF has as the name implies has Uni Fan SL Infinity fans. These have two RGB lighting bars across the front on each side, translucent fan blades that light up, and also mirrored sides that have lighting in them with an infinity mirror design. This matches really well with the infinity mirror design on the pump. The SL-INF fans also have a mirrored center cap that matches everything. The three 120mm fans come preinstalled and are lined together as well with the slide-on cable connection at the end. This also have a flip-out cover where you can change the wiring direction depending on what works best with your build. The wire has a PWM fan connection and one RGB connection which is the big benefit of the Uni Fan design, in addition to linking together they cut down on the wiring, in this case from three sets of wires down to just one set. The SL-INF fans run at up to 2100 RPM at max speed and have a fluid dynamic bearing design. Lian Li has them rated at 29 decibels and at max speed they can push 61.3 CFM and 2.66 mm H2O for pressure.
The Galahad II Trinity Performance has a different fan design to go with its performance focus. They look a lot like the Lian Li Uni Fan P28s but they aren’t Uni Fans. They do have the same liquid crystal polymer construction and the sides have the same grove in the side but interestingly those are covers. The covers hide the daisy chain wiring that comes preinstalled and wired because these aren’t Uni-Fans that link together handling the wiring. Speaking of wiring out of the end of the end fan they have oen 4-pin PWM fan connection as well as a small box with a switch in it, this has full-speed and medium-speed fan settings. These fans run at 3000 RPM at high speed and 2300 RPM at medium speed. Where things get interesting are the other stats with them pushing 108.29 CFM at the full speed and 81.54 CFM on the medium setting with 6.99 mm H2O at max speed and 4.08 mm H2O at the medium speed. Lian Li has them rated at 39.9 decibels at full speed and 32.1 for the medium setting. They do have a fluid dynamic bearing design and because there isn’t a center cap at all you can see the metal cap on the fan. They do have the same rubber vibration pads as a uni-fan and like with the radiator these are a little bigger at 28mm for thickness.
