Question about radiator quality

givegomezthegun · February 29, 2016

I was curious if anyone had any experience with the dark side radiators? They look to me like they could just be rebranded alphacool rads or something. They are a good bit cheaper than their alphacool or ek counterparts, and the colours match what I'm going for. I will be using 2 360's.. Is it worth it to grab these cheaper ones? Or is there a quality or performance issue that I don't want to have to deal with here...

Necrodead · February 29, 2016

Darkside is made in china specially for Dazmode.com. He asked them to make a rad where the fins fill the whole area of the rad, example, the 39mm rad from EK is only 25mm thick, but the frame is 39, where as with the darkside ones they are 30mm thick with a 28-30mm thick core.

Also the channels are placed so that you can't over tighten a screw and damage anything, you just hit fins.

Personally I don't think rads are very different from one another, so I buy the darkside rads, and I've used them in most of my builds with great results.