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AIO Watercooler Challenge – 6 Way Round-up

Dominic Moass July 8, 2016 Component, Cooling, Featured Announcement, Reviews

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Following on from our round-up of SilentiumPC air coolers – which you can read HERE – we decided to take the next logical step and do the same for some AIO watercoolers on the market. We were sent 6 different AIOs from 5 different companies – which one comes on top when it comes to performance and value for money?

The specific coolers we have today were chosen as they are some of most popular mainstream AIOs on the market. In other words, if you went to an online retailer and searched only ‘watercooler', you would find most of these units pretty quickly. Popularity is not always an indicator of a good product, though, so let us dive right in.

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As you can see, we have the following coolers proceeding alphabetically. Each cooler has its own dedicated page in this review while there is a big picture overview at the end for direct comparison.

  • Antec Kuhler H1200 Pro
  • Arctic Liquid Freezer 120
  • Corsair H80i V2
  • Corsair H100i V2
  • Deepcool Captain 240 EX
  • Thermaltake Water 3.0 240 Riing RGB Edition

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4 comments

  1. SaiBork
    July 8, 2016 at 9:51 am

    Sadly missing the NZXT ones (and EKWB, but these barely ever get tested) and the main thing I’m missing is a table with the actual noise data. The Deepcool is very quiet and performs less good than the Corsair when the CPU is overclocked, but how much more noise does the H100i make in comparison to keep the temp lower?
    Would also be nice to have it tested based on dB, so we can see if we set the other cooler to a quieter mode/noisier mode and see if it then performs equally to the others.

  2. Roman Cruz
    July 8, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    I have an H105 which I had to replace thanks to space issues. It was pretty damned quiet. And yes, I can attest to them being ridiculously cool, even at low fan speeds.

    This is the older model, mind you.

  3. Velibor Vrhovac
    July 10, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    You do that now go away from here and take your web money with you!

  4. Xaveus
    August 21, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    I am trying to decide between the Corsair h100i v2 and Alphacool Eisbaer 240. I wish that the Eisbaer 240, Kraken x52, and Fractal Design S24 were tested against them too

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