expiredTattyBear | Staff posted Apr 13, 2022 04:28 PM
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expiredTattyBear | Staff posted Apr 13, 2022 04:28 PM
EVGA CLC 280mm Liquid RGB LED CPU Cooler $70 + Free Shipping
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One other annoying thing I wanted to point out is the pump requires a USB header if you want to be able to control the speed. Some low cost motherboards don't have extra USB headers. If you don't hook up the USB cord to the pump, it runs at 100% all the time.
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I have had four of these. The pump failed on one, and I figured it out when my computer started randomly shutting down, and running the fans at 100% all the time.
AIOs are great because they can be quieter than a fan cooler. But when it fails, its catastrophic. If the fan fails on your air cooler, it will still work well enough for your computer to keep running.
but the high rpm fans they include are part of the reason they cool well...as per GN, they can brute force the cooling iwth them. I actually took the fans from that, and swapped them on the the arctic liquid 280 to try and max out my cooling performance
either way,the fans can be swapped out with quieter ones or rgp ones, if you want that.
as to addition future proofing, I think they now sell for $10 a kit to use on the new 12th gen intel socket, so you'll probably be fine.
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