I think people in this thread are being too quick to dismiss the cooler as insufficient and in need of replacement. You may think that AMD's Threadripper CPUs are harder to cool than most mainstream CPUs, because of their extra cores, but in fact their larger surface area makes up for those as long as the cooler is designed to utilize it. Before going any further, if you're a PC-building beginner, you'll want to read our deep-dive PC Cooling 101 guide to learn everything you need to know about CPU coolers. Its job is to push air directly onto the heat collector, spreading airflow over other important components nearby including the motherboard's VRMs. Take on today's most popular and challenging titles with smooth, tear-free gameplay or stream your favourite movies with high cinematic-quality.

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Built for the enthusiasts, our expert technicians combine world renowned components with high-grade water cooling technology, allowing you to experience maximum computing performance whilst keeping cool and quiet. Radiators marketed as "360mm" may sound better than "280mm," but this naming scheme only takes into account the combined length of the fans, and ignores their width. Three of these are Noctua IndustrialPPC fans, which are mounted on the radiator portion as you'd expect.Cooler Master's Hyper 212 series of coolers have been around for a long time and established a reputation as well-known value options. If you have a Mini-ITX case such as the Cooler Master Elite 130, where space and airflow around the CPU are severely limited, a 120mm radiator may be your only sensible choice. Setting up a custom curve and keeping things below 40% fan engagement under 60° means I'm not getting annoying noise when I'm just meandering around Windows - this was the use case where I felt it was unacceptable to be kicking out so much racket. Capable of cooling multiple GPUs and with multiple radiators, you can be confident that your Liquid Series® temperatures will remain low whilst keeping your frames high. For quick work or gaming sessions with long breaks in-between, water coolers are better, but for prolonged workloads air coolers offer a better value.

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Of course, at full speed these will be very noisy, but I can’t imagine many scenarios where the CPU will be bombing at 100% constantly other than rendering, in some poorly coded games and when benchmarking/using LINX. This adds a bit of surreal flair to your system, but the fans included with this cooler are more earthbound: just two standard 120mm fans without any LED illumination. At the time of writing there are no other colour variations available, so it’s an all-black unit, with red LED fan, or nothing. For as long as I can remember, I've had love of all things tech, spurred on, in part, by a love of gaming.The Lian Li O11 kit combines EK® Water Blocks' custom waterblock - The EKWB O11 Distro-Plate G1 - with the spacious and eye-catching Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL case to showcase the internals of your PC, making it a perfect centrepiece to any gaming battlestation. But I mainly wanted to know if I can get away with the 360 pc frost cooler or do I get the Corsair 150? The included fans look fairly basic in build quality, with white blades contrasting against the black casing, and have a speed range of 800 to 1600 rpm. To test each cooler at idle, the minimum temperature is taken after leaving the PC with only start-up programs on Windows 10 being allowed to run for 5 minutes.