I was using a Corsair 240 AIO but eventually got fed up with one of the fans RGB being duff and the awful ICUE software. I changed to a Thermalright Assassin 120 for my next build which was a 5800X3D and now use it with my my 9800x3d.
Has anyone else given up on AIO's
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I've tried AIO/CLC a couple of times. Ran a be quiet! Silent Loop 360 for awhile. Even expanded it with additional 280 radiator. Cooling was a little better at same noise level but temps started rising after about 1 year. I tried flushing and refilling, but pump didn't seem to be flowing like it should. Changed pump to Alphacool DC-LT 3600 and temps improved. Used it for about a year,, then went back to air cooling on everything. Air cooling maintenance only requires keeping intake air filters clean. Hoover them every month or 2 and job done. It's so much easier. And cheaper too.
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I actually went for an AIO this time, but the reasoning had nothing to do with cooling ability. I was just tired of the absolute hassle, being unable to access the pcie retention latch, under my previous giant deepcool heatsink.
It's the main positive about them these days.
It's the main positive about them these days.
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Noctua are expensive but they do provide an upgrade path, with conversion kits. So my expensive DC14 would have been unusable but thanks to Am5 kit (which was free) I can now re use it so it was used on a old 1366 system now modern AM5
Thermelright? may be better value for money but if they don't provide adapter kits for future chipsets then you'll have to rebuy £40 coolers everytime.
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I did look at noctua, but quite a steep price! Before my AIO I tired a Peerless Assasin but found the fan clips useless as they didn’t hold the fans tight enough so they sagged down and weren’t tight up against the heat sink.
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yeah like I said noctua provided upgrade kit,
If they offer Am7/Am8 for my dc14...could get decades out of one cooler.
Is the NH-D14 the one to go for?
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D15 is the new version, there's variants of them depending Intel, AMD or generic to do with offset and also whether the plate is concave, convex or flat.
Not cheap so you'll have to decide whether it's worth the extra.
Looks like they’re quite a premium for similar noise / cooling performance when you look at Thermalright / ID cooling. Will probably go for one of the cheaper options, I don’t think I’ll be upgrading my AM4 for a while.
Noctua are just too expensive! Yeah, they are a little better than others but at 3-4 times more money it's just not worth it to me.
Thermaltake are a brand I will not use, ever. they have a long history of copying others, selling extremely poor quality product and extremely poor customer support.
Thermalright is one of the very first CPU cooler companies opening it's doors in 2001, long before most others. They were first with heatpipes and I think their
Silver Arrow was not their first big twin tower. Thermalright's IFX-14 twin tower 4x 8mm heatpipe cooler came out in July of 2007 (with HR-10 CPU back-board cooler). IFX-14 has flame shaped fins. Their Cogage line released Cogage Arrow in cc2010 with squared fins, Silver Arrow with same squarish fins shortly after. (NH-D14 released Nov 2009)
Thermaltake are a brand I will not use, ever. they have a long history of copying others, selling extremely poor quality product and extremely poor customer support.
Thermalright is one of the very first CPU cooler companies opening it's doors in 2001, long before most others. They were first with heatpipes and I think their
Silver Arrow was not their first big twin tower. Thermalright's IFX-14 twin tower 4x 8mm heatpipe cooler came out in July of 2007 (with HR-10 CPU back-board cooler). IFX-14 has flame shaped fins. Their Cogage line released Cogage Arrow in cc2010 with squared fins, Silver Arrow with same squarish fins shortly after. (NH-D14 released Nov 2009)
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Yeah a bit expensive but because of the free upgrade kit.. made that purchase ok.
I've bought two other cooler towers they never made any upgrade kits... So that is £80 now unusable on new systems. They're basically now a paperweight.
Here on OcUK Thermalrigh are £17.99 - £39.99 (incl. VAT) with only a couple £44/99 and a couple pre-orders at £52.99. In other words, Thermalright coolers priced at £80 are 2 to 3 times more than MSRP.
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1st time going to a AIO im very nervous hehe
Mines a Thermalright Hyper vision 360 ArGB black
Mines a Thermalright Hyper vision 360 ArGB black
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Please let us know what you think of it's once you get it installed. Then tell us again in about a year.
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Used a few of them, they've always done well and a number of them lasted me many years. Maybe I made a good choice going for the more price performance over 'name brand' ones (like Corsair). I actually regretted going for a Deepcool AK500 on my last build over an Arctic AIO, as feel like I'd have got more out of the CPU OC if I'd had more thermal headroom.
Either way, still got a very old one I inherited running in my server, and a few other rigs around the place.
Either way, still got a very old one I inherited running in my server, and a few other rigs around the place.
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Will do. OCUK installing it in a new build.
Tell me about it, but the good thing is that a number of modern motherboards have an easily accessible button you can press to release that latch.
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Haha same here, and its just the 120mm h80i then h80iv2. Upgraded my 3800X to a 5900X and its struggling a bit, thought about switching back to air (Noctua or PE) but I can't be bothered to take the MB out to swap the baseplate out. So I'm stuck. I need to bite the bullet and just upgrade everything. The only thing i'd keep would be the RTX4080. So next time maybe i'll get OCUK to build it. This Antec P180 case owes me nothing but its time for the skip!