Review on 🌈 AORUS RGB AIO Liquid Cooler 280mm Radiator, Dual 140mm Windforce PWM Fans, Full Color LCD Display, Advanced RGB Lighting and Control, Intel 115X/2066, AMD AM4, TR4 by Richard Rob

This is my first AIO purchase. I've always been too nervous about their bugs to ever try to install and use them every day. This is kind of a first impression as I installed it in a day. The heatsink is thinner. So if you have a thick Arctic II or EVGA CLC, you will most likely see a reduction in thermal performance. I installed this AIO in a Segotep Argus case and was planning to mount it on the back of the case as it looked like a 280mm AIO would fit, but it's too big and had to be on the front of the case be mounted, perhaps best . . (My GPU temp didn't seem to change or improve with the kit due to the quality of the fans.) For my first AIO install, this was a little tricky just because I've never done it before. The most difficult thing is to install a heatsink, the easiest is to install a pump on the processor. The fans are of a very high quality and while a bit noisy, they are serious fans. Thanks to those 2 140mm fans (they replaced the 3 unnamed 120mm fans in the case) you can definitely feel more air than before it flowed through the case. For me, the pump runs almost silently, whether with or without a side wall. I cranked it up a bit for testing purposes and couldn't hear it while it read that it was running at 2700rpm, it wasn't noticeable and didn't have any appreciable effect on temperatures, so I left it on the "Balanced" default setting ". It brings The most negative thing about buying this cooler is the clunky software that needs to be running to get extra FPS from RGB. You need 2 software packages for this AIO to work properly. I was already using RGB Fusion 2.0 because I have a gigabyte mobo, but you also need to install and run the Aorus Engine. RGB Fusion isn't all that bad. I've been using it for a few weeks now and haven't had any major problems. On the other hand, the Aorus Engine is really, really bad. It freezes, crashes, makes my graphics unstable because it's technically their GRAPHICS CARD ENGINE, but I suspect trying to overclock the MSI card is crashing the display driver. Had to reset my windows because of this problem lol. The only other real downside I have with this cooler is that the wires coming from the fan pump are pretty short. I had to do some professional modifications to the case and route cables to allow the LED wires to reach the fans mounted on the front of the case. I drove several benches and loads and the maximum recorded temperature after 3 hours in AIDA64 was 61 ° C. The minimum idle temperature is around 33 degrees. This is all a huge improvement over my huge air cooler (Cooler Master MA620M) which maxed out at around 80 degrees and idled at around 40 degrees. Since my case isn't a working air-cooled case, it's made for liquid-cooled AIO CLCs like this one! Maybe I wouldn't consider that much RGB for my next AIO if I need one. All in all, apart from the clunky software they all suffer from, I love this cooler!