Best Corsair Miscellaneous Computer Accessories

Love this case – This case is a show piece for your build, there are so many benefits and little negs to it. You can do a custom water cooling loop, however enough… Read more

room for a 360mm/240mm/140mm/280mm AIO, having 8 fans capable, tempered glass, rubber inserts for threading chords.3x3.5" HDD 5x2.5" HDD/SSD caddies, 2 sectional, tool less design - manufacturers web site will show you more in regards to what I can write.

I just completed a build in it, wow big job with the amount of wires, cord management was good but could have been better. It comes with a Corsair Lightening Node Core and Pro and wish they actually had these not installed prior hand so I could have changed the layout to them. I am currently running the PC now, full set up with 360mm AIO 3 140mm fans and 5 120mm fans (note to mention, it would be better not to get a 360mm AIO and run all 140mm fans with a 280mm AIO)

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Good Cooling, But Does It Need To Be So Complex? – This is an All-In-One CPU water cooler which does a perfectly acceptable job of keeping temperatures under control, but it's a pig to install. The… Read more

problem is neither the pump (which has multiple CPU compatibility) nor is it the radiator (easy mounting into standard case holes), the problem is with the wiring.

Why has Corsair decided to make the wiring so complex? Usually, the pump is just connected to SATA or MOLEX and it simply pumps at full speed, circulating the coolant around the system. In addition to this, usually the fan/s (which are attached to the radiator) are connected to the CPU fan pins on the motherboard - when the CPU temperature increases, the fans speed up to pull the temperature back down. It's as simple as that.

This AIO needs a SATA connector to the pump, as well as a 4-pin connector to the motherboard. In addition to this, the fans need another 4 pin connector to the motherboard. Because this particular model is RGB, the fans require an additional connection to the RGB controller (whether it be onboard or stand-alone). After making all of the connections, you then need to configure it correctly. The pump 4 pin connector needs to be connected to the CPU fan pins and the radiator fans need to be connected to a different set of pins. Ideally, you could connect the pump and fans all to the CPU fan pins and everything would speed up / slow down at the same time, but the required connectors are not supplied to do this.

The reason that you don't want your fans running at full speed is because they make a lot of noise, but this is not the case with the coolant pump - there's no real difference in noise whether at minimum or maximum speed. I don't get the benefit of this configuration.

Overall, it cools the CPU just fine, it is just a mess to set up. I'll stick to Thermaltake next time.