Antec Kuhler 920 quick review.

Id rather leave it lol. No chance I'm reinstalling windows. System runs perfectly other than that and I can cope without the controlling of fan speed etc. Temps are fine as they are.

The fans seem to default at around 50%

I'll keep you posted.

Cheers Stulid
 
If you look at your Usb ports on your mobo you will see they are arranged like this

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You want the cable from the antec kuhler plugged into the top row of pins, with the black cable of the connector on the far right.

I had the same problem til I seated it correctly

Then Windows will pickup you "antec cc" device and your good to go.

Incidentally, are people using the stock "silent" profile, or do people have a custom profile setup?

If custom what kinda settings do you have? I have mine set to start damping fans around 37c with full bore set for 60c I think? Not infront of my pc atm, but I've noticed once my liquid temp reaches 37 or so I don't really hear the fans ramping up, but the pc does start cooling better, but as the temp starts to get into the 50's then the fans do start to gain more noise as they increase, so I know they are doing their job.

Overall I'm impressed with how quiet they are, and I will apply some other paste to them rather than the stock paste due to me lifting the cooler block off the CPU to check the paste spread, which looked fairly good but a little thin in a couple of areas and has resulted in a slight increase in idle temps as a result.

One thing that worries me though, Asrock BIOS at bootup shows the CPU temps around 59c, once its loaded into windows, the antec software shows the temps around low 30's for the liquid, core temp shows the temps all around low to mid 30's for idle, and the Asrock Windows front end for the BIOS reflects this same temps for the CPU.

Just puzzled why the BIOS at startup shows it so high?

Overall like I say tho I'm impressed, my brother has one on an almost identical setup to mine in a Shinobi case but with xfire 6950's , and his temps match mine in a much colder room
 
The problem is likely that you have the chiller in the device manager, it just hasn't recognised which one it needs to install the driver against. You need to go into the device manager, and manually select to install it if you are having that issue (It's under a REALLY non-descript name like "LCAS" or something like that in device manager.
 
Well I have built up this system with another Kuhler 920, installed the Antec driver on a fresh OS installation, restarted the PC and the Chilcontrol is working fine just as before.
 
Used one of these in my 2500k build back in September and it's running brilliantly - although I've not really tested it yet by overclocking but am tempted to whack it up to 4Ghz and see how I go :)

I was also hitting my head against a wall with regard to clipping the cooler head to the retention clip - wasn't anything like as straight forward as the manual had me believe!

Highly recommended and am really glad I opted for this over another huge cooler like my previous Noctua!
 
hi on my 920, how do u adjust fan speed to what u want? i can only have silent mode or extreme, and on the fan ramp up speed it doesnt increase if it goes above the temp :/
 
Hi all, i'm hesitating between a Antec KÜHLER H2O 920, and air cooling : maybe the NH-D14, but this is not the subject here.

I've looked into several reviews for this Antec KÜHLER H2O 920 water cooler.
These two are the most interesting, as they also compare it to air-coolers :
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cooling/31078-antec-kuhler-hsub2subo-920-cpu-cooler-review/?page=5
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/antec_kuehler_hamp8322o_920_cpu_cooler_review,15.html

What i like about this water cooler :
- it's definitely cooler than an air cooler !
- easy to mount, and NO maintenance !
- it takes less space than an air cooler
- it's less heavy on the motherboard, which could important when i'll move my computer from place to place

What i don't like about it :
- apparently it's a lot more noisy than a cheaper high end air cooler (for example the NH-D14)
- if you use it in "silent mode", then it doesn't cool more than a good air cooler
- but... maybe that you can get both low noise and good cooling, if you change the fans with silent ones (that's extra cost, but could be worth it)
- if i read well, it cools the CPU more, but it cools the motherboard less. Air coolers will cool both. So, you might have to add an additional fan for the motherboard too.
- the price, especially if you also have to get additional silent fans
- there's water inside, which still makes me a bit scared (^c^) I'm aware that this is maybe stupid. It's maybe a bit like people who are afraid to take the plane, it's hard to get over it
- i am scared that with this "no maintenance" system, it gets clogged over the years : i wouldn't want to have to change it every 1 or 2 years because it's clogged and you can't clean it

In another post
(here : http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21945211&posted=1#post21945211)
someone said that its main advantage over air cooling is the space it takes.

I'm looking for other people's views.
Tell me if i wrote anything wrong.
I hope that people who used these water cooling systems will give us insight about how they behave on the long term.
 
Like I said in the other thread, the only good reason to get one is if you are tight on space. If your mATX case can't accommodate large heatsinks, then yeah go for the 920. Otherwise, air cooling all the way.

I wouldn't worry too much about their long term behaviour (I haven't heard of any major problems so at least that's a good point of the Antec units...). Afterall, if you're restricted in space and the 920 might be your only viable solution for good cooling.
 
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The Antec 920 just looks so awesome, it cools superbly and can be very quite on extreme settings if you get better fans. I got two Akasa Apache blacks to replace the stock fans and the difference in noise levels on the extreme setting was very noticeable, infact it is so quite now I just leave mine on the extreme setting.
Temps with overclock in sig are amazing, it stays in the 60'sc under prime and 50'sc when gaming.

Air coolers are great too especially the high end ones, I guess it's down to personal choice really.
 
spankingtexan said:
The Antec 920 just looks so awesome, it cools superbly and can be very quite on extreme settings if you get better fans. I got two Akasa Apache blacks to replace the stock fans and the difference in noise levels on the extreme setting was very noticeable, infact it is so quite now I just leave mine on the extreme setting.
Temps with overclock in sig are amazing, it stays in the 60'sc under prime and 50'sc when gaming.

Air coolers are great too especially the high end ones, I guess it's down to personal choice really.
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I got the 920 after reading stulids review and am so so impressed with it.
 
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