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Overall we are fairly impressed with what the Raijintek Triton all-in-one liquid CPU cooler has to offer. While we imagine the bulk of users will purchase the cooler and install it as is, it offers users the flexibility to customise the water cooling loop and add in other components if required – or simply to add colour to the coolant.
In terms of raw performance, the Triton is impressive on paper. The included fans feature a variable speed controller which allows the user to set up the thermal acoustic balance of the cooler to suit specific needs. Even at the lowest fan setting, the Triton coped with a hot running, overclocked i7-3930K – albeit at high temperatures. While temperatures were significantly lower with the fans at maximum speed, this generated more noise hat we could put up with on a permanent basis.
While the mounting mechanism is not quite as simple as Corsair's, the installation process is fairly simple. A word of warning to less experienced users – the installation guide is pretty poor and does not offer much help.
Perhaps the only disappointing aspect of this cooler is the lack of attention to detail when it comes to design and build quality. The radiator hoses and fan cables feel very cheap indeed and the standard fans are pretty ugly. We would have preferred to see Raijintek using black compression fittings which would better compliment the black CPU block top and the black radiator and fan chassis.
The Raijintek Triton is available for £70 from Overclockers UK. At this price we feel that it offers excellent value for money, coming in cheaper than every 240mm all-in-one water cooling unit we have tested previously. Even though the build quality of the Triton is not particularly impressive, we imagine that most users will be willing to forgive this considering the fantastic performance.
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Pros:
- Impressive cooling performance.
- Excellent value for money.
- Dye included for loop.
- Customisable loop.
- Speed controlled fans included.
Cons:
- Suspect build quality.
- Included fans are not ideal.
KitGuru says: An affordable 240mm water cooler which offers great value for money.
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Looks like a decent bit of kit for an entry into WC as it is customisable. Only thing that has stopped me buying an AiO Cooler is that they have dull black hoses. Add in the great perfomance and this looks like a no brainer.
Could this cooler keep my 4690k at 4.6 ghz cool… or i shoulg go air
it actually keeps my i5 4690K cool at 4.6ghz.
i’m doubting you’ll get to 4.6 on air tbh… but who knows, anything is possible.
I’ve been waiting for a while for a review of this cooler to come out, and it’s good to see that it’s a positive one! I’ve been considering this vs the H100i for my next build. The ability to customise it thanks to industry-standard fittings is what’s making me want it.
Would be better to buy the “Core” edition and buy better fans?
I’ve read some discussion on finnish forum that it wouldnt fit Asus Z97-A because of the capacitors on the board are so close to CPU. Anyone got better knowledge of this? I was about to test is as I got mine for Christmas but it was broken when I opened the packaged, and it seems I have to wait until February for a replacement since the store it was bought from was out of stock.
Why would you want that? The stock fans have 4.8 mmH2O static pressure according to its specs, although I have no idea if it’s accurate.
Such a fail review, in every other site i’ve seen the NHD14 only 1 degree c behind the NHD15 which cools better than the H100i at max settings which is loud.
Here you have the H100i beating the NHD14 by almost 5 degrees.. these results are very suspicious. Plus it shows the AIO’S are literally barely any better than large HSF’s and much louder.
I was thinking on installing it push-pull with 4 gentle typhoon.
Heh, I run a i7 4790K at 4.7 GHz, Noctua NH-D14
see that shit…. anything is possible.
what’s your temps Ben?
the stock fans are crap… at least they were for me.
at least the triton is so cheap you don’t have to care too much about just throwing away the fans.
Around 76C Max while playing battlefield hard line. I can hit 90C with Aida 64 / Intel xtu or prime95 stress test. This is probably one of the best overclocking CPU I’ve gotten in the silicon lottery. CPU voltage is 1.30v.
yeah, there’s the difference… Maxed out I don’t go over 56/57c
Great chips tho… I couldn’t get my old 3750K over 4.2ghz. I felt like Intel owed me something better this time. Lol
That’s bad so you couldn’t go past 4.2 and have a stable overclock I guess I got lucky with my three Intel CPUs. I5 3570k i5 4690k and i7 4790k all between 4.5 to 4.7. I could run 4.8 but its not Intel xtu stable on my I7.
Which fans did you install?
i’m using deepcool dead silence fans.. you can see one in my picture in the comments below… i only picked the fans because they matched my build… and it turns out they’re pretty quiet as their name implies.
“AIO’S are literally barely any better than large HSF’s and much louder”
There is this thing called ‘RAM clearance’.
i just bought one for my z97-a asus so i sincerely hope it fits. have you figured out wether it will or not?
Yes I have. It does not fit unless you grind it from the bottom a little. Guaranteed warranty void if installing on z97-a. I put some of the thermal grease on top of the capacitors and installed the pump on cpu. The bottom of the pump was contacting by maybe 1/3 on cpu from the other side and on the other side it was hitting the capacitors. Used a rotary tool to grind maybe 2-3mm away from the side of the bottom of the pump to get it in full contact with cpu.
Does yours have notches on the side of the block like pictured? I’ve been in contact with raijintek and they said it’d be close but they made a new block with notched sides. Wondering if that will make the difference
Not quite sure but I doubt the one I have has bottom like that. From the picture I would say it makes the difference since the notches are deeper than the ones I made myself.
Excellent, thanks for the info. I’ll be posting my results after I receive my cooler (hopefully friday)
Yes you do that please. I can then curse myself for being too hasty.
so far I’m having a great experience with this cooler. It does fit on my asus z97-a motherboard with no modification needed
it fits in there just fine. I found some old pictures and they did indeed change the block design
Have a look on the Raijintek site at just the fans section. Their only 12025 fan has nowhere near that pressure so not sure where they get that from, maybe they’ve doubled it because there’s two of them 🙂
Can i insert it in the Zalman z11 plus?
Hi Phil i just bought this from Overclockers uk and i am really hoping it’s the same unit as you have with the cut outs on the cpu block! I have an Asus Z97-AR MoBo.. as far as i can make out the product codes for the new units are OR100023 (the same as the one i just bought) rather than OR100018.. a lot of the sites selling them show the product code as OS100018/OS100023, which I’m assuming means it’s the OS100018 with updated block! is there anyway some one can confirm this for me only every review I’ve read mentions nothing about there being two different blocks and every picture used on all retailers sites are of the block with out any cut outs, but I’m hoping that’s just because they are old pictures. thanks in advance..
Anyone know if you can possibly use this block in a custom (hardline) water cooling loop? Love the design and I would like to use it for my loop with an additional pump to cool my pc together with a ek gpu block and hard pipes.