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Il manquait encore quelques constructeurs dans le monde croissant des AIO. Rappelez-vous, les petits refroidisseurs à eau qui souhaitent petit à petit conquérir le monde… Du refroidissement. Laissons le vrai monde aux vrais conquérants… Nous !! En attendant d’y arriver, contentons nous pour aujourd’hui de vous présenter un des derniers AIO arrivés à la Ferme. Ici, il sera question de celui de Cooler Master, le prénommé Eisberg 120L Prestige. Nous l’avions découvert au CeBIT, il est maintenant passé au stade de produit définitif. Il avance de beaux arguments en termes de compatibilités ; mais de fait, il s’éloigne un peu de la facilité du vrai AIO.
Avec le H220, Swiftech entend bien renouveler le marché du watercooling AiO, en proposant un kit abordable, avec une pompe maison, mais aussi la possibilité d'ajouter des éléments. Un petit plus qui devrait faire pencher la balance en sa faveur auprès de nombreuses personnes. Mais est-il performant ?
Une fois n’est pas coutume, nous allons commencer par le plus gros de la série des AIO de Corsair. Pas forcément, peut-être, plus gros par la performance, mais en tous les cas, plus gros par la taille. En effet, ce refroidisseur liquide tout prêt est de belle taille avec son rad de 240. Comme vous avez pu le voir, les AIO refroidissent de manière générale plutôt bien, mais finalement pas beaucoup mieux qu’un très bon aircooling. Cela dit, la montée et la descente en charge est plus rapidement maîtrisée. De plus, ces AIO permettent quand même de mettre le doigt sur le watercooling sans en avoir pour autant les inconvénients. Ici, pas de fuite, pas de montage fastidieux, tout est déjà connecté, il n’y a plus qu’à placer le tout dans le boitier et c’est parti ensuite.
Intro : « Après le Seidon 120M, c'est au tour du Seidon 240M de passer entre nos mains. Un kit watercooling AiO en 240mm qui a pour mission de relever le niveau de son petit frère en overclocking. Verdict ? »
When we heard that NZXT was coming out with a low-cost water cooling kit for video cards we were ecstatic and couldn’t wait to get one to try out. At first we thought NZXT was coming out with a product that included a water cooler, but the end result is basically a $29.99 mounting kit for a water cooler. The Kraken G10 from NZXT allows you to install ANY Asetek based All-In-One (AIO) water cooler to your video card. Read on to see what happens when we install the NZXT Kraken X40 to a Radeon R9 290X video card with the NZXT Kraken G10 mounting bracket!
Digging into our bag of tricks, we can bring forth some results of the NZXT Kraken G10 bracket and fan system working with an AIO to cool your video card.
NZXT has been making CPU coolers, computer cases, and other PC enthusiast related products for quite some time now. On the CPU cooler side of things, they have more recently created their Kraken series sealed liquid CPU coolers. This cooler is one that allows NZXT to tout as being the world’s first manufacturer to have a 140mm and 280mm radiator on a sealed water cooling system. These slightly larger radiator sizes, 36% larger to be more precise, are sizes that they’re hoping will give them the edge over other similar popular products that are already doing really well...
NZXT finally delivers its 140mm AIOs to our lab for testing. It's time now to check out the Kraken X40.
Let’s test the NZXT Kraken X40, a sealed liquid cooling system for processors, with a 140 mm radiator and a USB interface. Check it out!
NZXT's Kraken series is something we have been aware of at eTeknix for a while. We have been expecting these to hit the market for an absolute age and since we heard rumours that NZXT's Kraken series was supposed to demolish the competition, we just couldn't wait to take a look.
As much as everyone probably wanted us to start with the flagship Kraken X60, we are opting to review the Kraken X40 first since it is the most affordable of the two.
You may be wondering - "what is so special about the NZXT Kraken series?". Well that is an easy one to answer. NZXT's Kraken is using a 140mm design, compared to nearly every other all-in-one liquid cooler on the market which uses a 120mm design.
What we mean by this is that the NZXT Kraken X40 comes with a 140mm fan and 140mm radiator (the NZXT Kraken X60 comes with two 140mm fans and a 280mm radiator). This is in comparison to the rest of the market that is still predominantly using 120/240mm radiators and 120mm fans. NZXT are saying that due to this increased size there is more surface area to the radiator which means more cooling performance and better acoustics - but obviously this is going to come at an increased price. As always, we want to know if this increased price still makes this product good value for money.
Increased fan and radiator size aside, the NZXT Kraken appears to be more or less identical to every other current generation Asetek all-in-one liquid cooler I have seen. The pump is the same, the mounting kit is the same, the radiator is the same and the tubing is the same.
You can check out the specifications of the NZXT Kraken X40 here, but without any further ado, lets move on to the review.
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