Well. I found it was cheaper recently and just purchased one.
If you need a cpu cooler, there is an option to get it.
CamelCamelCamel.
Youngins are all about the aesthetics nowadays.
Source: am one.
RGB ALL THE THINGS!
Not probably.
Always wondered what the use case is for a single fan radiator. Is it enough to really cool a CPU that needs liquid cooling properly?
Good for small cases where a fan won’t fit?
My Alienware Aurora also comes with a 120 liquid cooler. It actually works well with 9700k oc 5.0ghz. The fan noise is berely noticable when gaming.
As you said, I think that's the best reason for it….
Unless you just really hate air coolers I guess.
I wanted to like AIOs but pump noise annoyed me on 2 I tried.
It actually performs pretty similarly to high-end air coolers like the Noctua NH-D15. I got it to put in my InWin 301 Case which unfortunately is just under the clearance for most big air coolers like the D15, does a pretty decent job at keeping the Ryzen 7 3700x cool and quiet.
It actually performs pretty similarly
Not what Gamers Nexus or LTT have found.
Gamers Nexus would definitely be the one I'd check for temperatures. Their case testing is second to none as well.
Another benefit is that you can pump CPU generated heat straight out of the case. With air coolers the heat gets circulated into the case.
Not really a benefit, it's a compromise between CPU and GPU temp.
With tower air cooler, you can direct hot air to your exhaust just as easily. So really only use AIO as the last resorts.
I'm no AIO advocate, but how is either of those worse than typical HSF air cooling? With air cooling you're still cooling the CPU with GPU heated air and, unless you have extremely efficient airflow, also cooling the GPU with air that has been heated, to at least some degree, by the CPU-HSF?
With an AIO you can direct the CPU heat straight out of the case so the GPU gets the coolest air the case can provide and rely on the case airflow to exhaust it. If you're more concerned with CPU temps, then you can mount rad as intake but this will indeed heat the other components including the GPU so it really depends on the workload the build is optimised for.
@Evil-Elmo: With HSF I guess it's all come down to intelligent case design, and you almost always have to compromise somewhere depends on work load. I love those tiny cases that split into 2 separate compartments for CPU and GPU, and they usually have mesh directly over where CPU and GPU cooler would be so you have the freedom of cooler choices.
Also depends on how the board VRMs is designed it could be beneficial to have a down-draft cooler blowing air over (even if it's CPU hot air). In cases like in win a1 the VRMs area becomes a dead-zone if an AIO is used for CPU.
A decent review for anyone interested. Pretty decent perfomer, unless you're attempting to run a 3950x it'll do the job well enough. Perfect for cases which don't fit the traditional big ass air coolers.
There's two flaws in the test results they publish.
1. They don't mention what case they use and if it's the same case each time or if it's openbench.
2. They don't mention how long they run each test for, so we don't know whether the AIOs tested are heat soaked or not.
Pretty much all reviews do this with either an open bench or with side panel removed to eliminate case air flow out of the equation and in 15-20C room with air con. So yeah in actual usage, either the GPU will take a hit if AIO is setup as intake (hot air blowing into the case) or the AIO will perform subpar if setup as exhaust (sucking GPU hot air). 5-10C higher than reviews are to be expected in actual builds in long gaming sessions.
I have one of these, performs reasonably well but the white ring around the logo on the heastsink is BRIGHT and can't be turned off. My case has a big window and I've had to stick a sheet of cardboard in there to stop it from illuminating the room at night.
ohhh… could make it a fake RGB one AND dim the light at the same time by using a few different nailpolish colours over the white ring area I bet!
this works well, but is noisy. not terribly so but definitely audible. great aesthetics though.
I had this on a spare PC running folding@home full time for a week or so (not for benchmarking reasons) - and i5 8400 never went above 55 degrees at 100% load.
It's not a hot CPU but still..
Any deals on the double radiator
Is there much point in a single cooler like this, I'm doing a Ryzen 7 3700x build and it comes with the Wraith Prism Cooler, should be good enough to start with?
The Corsair Hydro Series H100x Liquid CPU Cooler is out of stock at umart ($150), but a mate swears by his Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R Addressable RGB ($139).
I'm thinking I could add one as the case seems to require liquid cooling (Lian li PC-O11DX Dynamic Tempered Glass Mid Tower)
Thanks
Is this enough for a 3950X?
You'd probably get better cooling going with something like this https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/540797 if your case allows it.
Edit: spelling