Paint and plastic color along with a little injection mold adjustment can turn one brand's product into another brand's product. Then we can argue amongst ourselves about which mechanically identical product is the best based on logo loyalty. 2020 is a great year for everyone!
To be fair, Asetek owns so many water cooling patents that it's very difficult for companies to make their own products from scratch. When they do decide to do that, they often have to resort to strange workarounds that hurt their effectiveness, like putting the pump in the middle of the rad.
Lol, yeah true. But Asetek owns the patents so most of these coolers are their technology only. Except 2 brands, Arctic. Their latest AIO Arctic Liquid Freezer II is best in performance. There's EK's new AIO also which is good as well, EK AIO 360/240.
I would always prefer the Air coolers, Noctua DH15S is perfect and best, no issues with any leak or whatever, I just wish they do some update to that.
Amazing everybody is jumping on the bandwagon in fabricating AIO's. Even companies that have no business to be in the cooler business because of their previous offerings (capabilities) not even being close to this specialized technology. This must be a "BIG" profit or markup item for everybody by just simply branding any big profit hardware which comes along. In turn the Corsair series H150i PRO RGB 360mm AIO on Amazon is priced at $318. Some enthusiasts (puriests)may even replace the Corsair fans with Nuctua's which can drive the total AIO price then up to near $500. Then I hear that overclocking is about to become history! Will therefore the liquid cooling market loose its luster? Even at a cool Corsair $318 I surely have to hold my breath. However the AIO market to date has done a fantastic job in convincing or having "scared" the masses that liquid cooling is the only way to go. I truly wonder now where the AIO market is about to go or wind-up?
I added the 240 model to my new build with the Core i7-10700K, and am most happy with the results. At stock CPU freqs and typical office work loads, I'm seeing mid 40 degree C temps. Running Prime95 to stress the 8 core CPU to the max, this cooler kept CPU temps to below 65 C. Yep - I'm a happy camper with this unit.
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YB1064 - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Are you guys going to test this? Looks like another Astek based unit. Surprising that it is competitively priced.Powerocker - Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - link
It’s not Asetek...PeachNCream - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Paint and plastic color along with a little injection mold adjustment can turn one brand's product into another brand's product. Then we can argue amongst ourselves about which mechanically identical product is the best based on logo loyalty. 2020 is a great year for everyone!Guspaz - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
To be fair, Asetek owns so many water cooling patents that it's very difficult for companies to make their own products from scratch. When they do decide to do that, they often have to resort to strange workarounds that hurt their effectiveness, like putting the pump in the middle of the rad.Quantumz0d - Thursday, August 6, 2020 - link
Lol, yeah true. But Asetek owns the patents so most of these coolers are their technology only. Except 2 brands, Arctic. Their latest AIO Arctic Liquid Freezer II is best in performance. There's EK's new AIO also which is good as well, EK AIO 360/240.I would always prefer the Air coolers, Noctua DH15S is perfect and best, no issues with any leak or whatever, I just wish they do some update to that.
cyberguyz - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Another "me too" asetek-based cooler. Yawn!Operandi - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Nah... Get back to making sexy AF all aluminum cases please and thanks.Tom Sunday - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - link
Amazing everybody is jumping on the bandwagon in fabricating AIO's. Even companies that have no business to be in the cooler business because of their previous offerings (capabilities) not even being close to this specialized technology. This must be a "BIG" profit or markup item for everybody by just simply branding any big profit hardware which comes along. In turn the Corsair series H150i PRO RGB 360mm AIO on Amazon is priced at $318. Some enthusiasts (puriests)may even replace the Corsair fans with Nuctua's which can drive the total AIO price then up to near $500. Then I hear that overclocking is about to become history! Will therefore the liquid cooling market loose its luster? Even at a cool Corsair $318 I surely have to hold my breath. However the AIO market to date has done a fantastic job in convincing or having "scared" the masses that liquid cooling is the only way to go. I truly wonder now where the AIO market is about to go or wind-up?JerseySailor - Friday, May 28, 2021 - link
I added the 240 model to my new build with the Core i7-10700K, and am most happy with the results.At stock CPU freqs and typical office work loads, I'm seeing mid 40 degree C temps. Running Prime95 to stress the 8 core CPU to the max, this cooler kept CPU temps to below 65 C.
Yep - I'm a happy camper with this unit.