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Arctic Liquid Freezer III 280 ARGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler - White $129 + Shipping ($0 MEL C&C) @ PC Case Gear

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Amazing deal on both black and white 280mm ARGB versions of this AIO. Even cheaper than Liquid Freezer II 280 and LF III 240 versions.

GamersNexus review:
https://youtu.be/zfffNRTOZCc?si=hXoCVX9-LFNB_naM

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  • +1

    nice price! always wanted one of these arctic cooler aio.. but ended up going NH-D15 chromax.black due to one of these not being on sale/available at the time

    • +2

      Nice, I'm replacing a Phantom Spirit 120SE which is not cooling a 13600k as much as I would like.

      • +1

        Could it be the rig just needs better airflow, fan curves, repasting, or cleaning?

      • Nice nice, RGB will make it 'faster'.

    • -4

      Cool story

  • +1

    why the normal none rgb black one isnt on sale :(

    • Buy the black ARGB and turn the RGB off haha. I have a 240 black non RGB in a murdered out build, it looks sick!

  • Now need the 420 variant to go on sale

  • Generally speaking, is fan cooler still better?

    • In general people only go water cooling for the aesthetics

      • I see. Some fan coolers also look good nowadays unlike a few years back

    • How general are you speaking? AIOs tend to be quieter under load and with some CPUs they allow longer duration boost clocks.

    • No, thermal density issues on modern cpus make the largest fan coolers (DRP4, NH-D15) worse than modern 240mm aios nowadays.

      Towers can only effectively do ~200w on lga1700 and am5, 240mm aios (mystique, atmos, LT etc) can do 300w+.

      Coldplate + Waterblock are just far more effective than Coldplate + Heatpipes at trasnsferring the heat out of the CPU
      even if the radiator's cooling ability is about is equiv to a large finstack.

      That advice only applied before AM4, where chiplets + non monolitic design became mainstream.

      On some edge cases like 5800x and 7700x, which are single chiplet (double heat density), good 120mm aios now outclass the dual-tower air coolers that were previously competitive with 240mm aios.

  • The fan on mine (the detachable fan above the pump) is starting to make a weird noise randomly, I've unplugged and plug it back in and it goes away for a while, if it happens again I'll contact support. It's only a couple of months old.

  • If anyone needs a 360, three fans, the Thermaltake TH360 V2 ARGB is on sale too for $139.

    Edit:
    In saying that, the Thermalright Frozen Warframe 360 is what I bought and is also on sale for $139.

  • How big of an upgrade this would be over a NZXT Kraken x53 ?

    • +1

      Unless your current AIO is faulty, i wouldnt bother.

  • Anything else of note (EOFY sale) at PC Case Gear?

  • RGB for performance.

  • be aware these v3 arctic coolers dont support older cpu sockets such as 15xx

  • Good price but IMO not worth getting this over something like the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE which is like $50…

  • black available for $125 @ scorptec

  • Got this cooler a couple months. Overall, very happy with it. Although you should double-check ram height clearance with case size as these come with quite a thick radiator compared with other AIO's and coupled with the 140mm fan size, you may have issues top-mounting the radiator with standard size memory kits or motherboards with large VRM heat sinks.

    • How does one double check this?

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