Best 360mm rad that's 45mm wide or less?

[Airdragonz]

Title says it all basically. Max my case can hold is a 45mm thick rad. I'm planning to be using it in a push configuration, located in the front of my case. I've been looking at two in particular, the EK Coolstream PE360 and the Alphacool Nexxxos XT45. Both seem to yield similar performance results. Any suggestions as to which is better? Or should I go with a different radiator entirely?

[bellabichon]

As a rule of thumb, I would personally go with EK. They have a great reputation of good, well-made products and from what I hear, their customer support is really good. 

[1234vietnam]

http://www.xtremerigs.net/2015/02/11/radiator-round-2015/5/ this is always a good reference for performance.

 

imo ek pe360 seems like the best option

[Damascus]

PE360

[Tam3n]

Comparing EKWB PE (45) and Alphacool XT45:

- PE is rated for 1 bar and uses aluminium casing, has only two ports.

- Alphacool is rated for 2 bar uses steel casing and has 6 ports in different directions + extra drain port. (only UT60 +)

[SolarNova]

Depends on how much fin density you want. Higher fin density, the faster ur fans should be (louder), but you'll get slightly better cooling.

lower fin density, u can use a slower speed fan(quieter), but slightly less cooling.

 

The Ek looks to be a 30mm core with 19FPI

The Alphacool looks to be a 40mm core at 12FPI

 

So, imo, i would go with the alphacool, slightly bigger core but lower FPI, could be quieter.

 

TBH i think from their specs they would perform very similar to each other if u ran fans at the same speed on each.

[Mick Naughty]

alphacool, ek or xspc. Like them all in that range. Prefer acool's finishes as they match the blocks in the loop but the flat black from ek and xspc matches my case.

[Dreaper]

On 2/9/2018 at 10:31 PM, Airdragonz said:

Title says it all basically. Max my case can hold is a 45mm thick rad. I'm planning to be using it in a push configuration, located in the front of my case. I've been looking at two in particular, the EK Coolstream PE360 and the Alphacool Nexxxos XT45. Both seem to yield similar performance results. Any suggestions as to which is better? Or should I go with a different radiator entirely?

Hardware labs  they have had way cleaner rads then EK did 

[Revan654]

On 2/9/2018 at 10:31 PM, Airdragonz said:

Title says it all basically. Max my case can hold is a 45mm thick rad. I'm planning to be using it in a push configuration, located in the front of my case. I've been looking at two in particular, the EK Coolstream PE360 and the Alphacool Nexxxos XT45. Both seem to yield similar performance results. Any suggestions as to which is better? Or should I go with a different radiator entirely?

 

HardWare Labs, Since it's has to be less then 45mm that would be the GTS.