This next award is for “Most Serviceable,” and is assigned for being the easiest cooler to take apart and maintain over a long service life. Most Serviceable: Enermax Liqtech TR4 360įind the Enermax Liqtech TR4 review here. Fortunately, other nearby coolers, including 360mm units, can compete in price and performance with the Kraken X62. The Kraken X62 also happens to be one of the most expensive coolers on the market, and is sometimes difficult to get ahold of outside of the NZXT store. We haven’t tested as many coolers with this newer method, but so far, the stack-up of popular coolers puts NZXT’s RGB-happy cooler up top. Strictly looking at out-of-the-box fan configurations, because aftermarket fans would basically equalize all of these, the crown for peak noise-normalized performance thus far goes to the NZXT Kraken X62. Best Noise-to-Performance: NZXT Kraken X62
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Both units have RGB LEDs behind the logo plates, and both have their own software solution that you can hook into. Internally, they’re mostly the same in this case, it’s the outside that counts. Regardless of the sale prices, EVGA and Corsair seem to constantly match one another, so the choice will primarily come down to what you think of the pump block design. As for the highest raw performance, though, the Corsair and EVGA 280mm solutions both take half of the crown.Įach unit uses an Asetek Gen5 pump, with the two tying for price at $110 on sale this week, or typically around $130. In most cases, 280mm coolers are an extra $10-$20 over their 240mm counterparts, and the additional thermal headroom means that fans can be slowed down in turn, achieving similar thermal performance to 240 solutions, but with lower noise levels. These are 280mm solutions, which we think provide an ideal mix of compatibility and noise-to-thermal performance, when min-maxed for each metric. Both the Corsair H115i and EVGA CLC 280 rank within margin of error from one another, functionally tying for the top of the chart.
For this one, we’re ignoring the noise argument and just looking at a baseline of raw thermal performance when maxed-out.
You might call this an award for the best “out-of-the-box” thermals. Note: You’ll want to pull our most recent cooler review to get an updated table with all performance metrics, though individual reviews are good for non-performance discussion.īest Flat-Out Thermals: Corsair H115i & EVGA CLC 280īuy the Corsair H115i here or EVGA CLC 280 here. For specific items, we rounded-up our top Black Friday sales choices here, our top gaming monitor picks, and the best CPU sales. This is part of our end-of-year round-ups, which can all be found here. This guide looks at the best closed-loop liquid coolers (“AIOs”) for 2017, but also includes a few of the worst – the leak-prone and the weak-fanned.Īs usual with these round-ups, we’ll be including links to the individual reviews for the applicable coolers, with purchasing links also included for each line item. We’ll soon be rounding-up several of the high-end air coolers available on the market, and before jumping into that, we’re going to lay the groundwork with a round-up of our liquid cooler reviews for the year. Liquid is only half of the argument, but it’s an important half.
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