120mm Asetek based watercooler for 39$

[Syntaxvgm]

The cooling performance probably isn't the greatest thing in the word, but they are nice for small form factor builds or just a painless building experience in a normal system. 

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Liquid-Cooler-Cooling-400-HY-CL11-V1/dp/B07D9Z6XXG

This comes with brackets that allow you to direct the tubing, and costs the same as the one without the tuner brackets. 

According to the price history, the one without the bracket dipped to 29 once! 
With bracket 

Without 

Not like a limited time thing or anything, but I thought I'd point this out since it seems to be about 20$ cheaper than other asetek 120mm coolers. 

[Radium_Angel]

9 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Not like a limited time thing or anything, but I thought I'd point this out since it seems to be about 20$ cheaper than other asetek 120mm coolers

Very nice price, now if I could just get it in the proper form factor for my E5430 dual Xeons...I'd be all set!

[Syntaxvgm]

9 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Very nice price, now if I could just get it in the proper form factor for my E5430 dual Xeons...I'd be all set!

unfortunately not for this style of puck, but if narrow ilm is what you need the regular ones have extra brackets you can buy. I used to have a link where asetek sold them on ebay, but idk if they make them anymore. Here's their current store. 

https://store.asetek.com/
Basically these are compatible with any one that has the nubs on the puck, like the corsair h55 for example.  
Pretty much all server sockets were made by them though, since these pucks were the same for their server solutions. If you need a socket size they dont have there reaching out to them and seeing if they can help is an option. 

[Radium_Angel]

7 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

unfortunately not for this style of puck, but if narrow ilm is what you need the regular ones have extra brackets you can buy. I used to have a link where asetek sold them on ebay, but idk if they make them anymore. Here's their current store. 

https://store.asetek.com/
Basically these are compatible with any one that has the nubs on the puck, like the corsair h55 for example.  
Pretty much all server sockets were made by them though, since these pucks were the same for their server solutions. If you need a socket size they dont have there reaching out to them and seeing if they can help is an option. 

Cool. I've been wanting to play around with an AIO and see what it does to core temps over the passive heatsink tower and fan blowing across it attached to the motherboard (as servers are wont to do) but I don't really want to sacrifice a nice server in case something goes sideways.

Fortunately I'm getting a feww sever (poweredge t605) that I can experiment with 1st, before I tear into my good server

[Zando_]

Oooo nice, I have one of those cooling an R5 1600 rn (and the 280mm CLC on my R7 2700X) and they're pretty dope. Mainly got the 120mm one to keep hot air directly at the exhaust so the 980 Ti in this rig won't overheat as much (It's stuffed in an Enthoo Evolv ITX so airflow isn't the bestest thing ever). 

[Syntaxvgm]

4 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Oooo nice, I have one of those cooling an R5 1600 rn (and the 280mm CLC on my R7 2700X) and they're pretty dope. Mainly got the 120mm one to keep hot air directly at the exhaust so the 980 Ti in this rig won't overheat as much (It's stuffed in an Enthoo Evolv ITX so airflow isn't the bestest thing ever). 

that is another thing that's nice about these. They are freaking amazing on gpus (though this one is probably not compatible with the brackets since it's missing nibs) and they directly extract air from the case. 

[Syntaxvgm]

9 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Cool. I've been wanting to play around with an AIO and see what it does to core temps over the passive heatsink tower and fan blowing across it attached to the motherboard (as servers are wont to do) but I don't really want to sacrifice a nice server in case something goes sideways.

Fortunately I'm getting a feww sever (poweredge t605) that I can experiment with 1st, before I tear into my good server

guess this one does have nibs and is the regular bracket type! 

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

that is another thing that's nice about these. They are freaking amazing on gpus (though this one is probably not compatible with the brackets since it's missing nibs) and they directly extract air from the case. 

Ooooooo... doubt I could fit it in though, there's about 1/2-3/4" of clearance from the bottom of the stock MSI Frozr cooler to the top of the PSU shroud, and most AIOs (this included) have the tubes stick out the top. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Ooooooo... doubt I could fit it in though, there's about 1/2-3/4" of clearance from the bottom of the stock MSI Frozr cooler to the top of the PSU shroud, and most AIOs (this included) have the tubes stick out the top. 

so yea I updated I noticed the nubs on on this one just hidden for style. 

[slightlyjaded]

Reliability has been a problem for me. I ran corsair 240 AIO's for 3 years ... 3 coolers. They pretty much died on their aniversary each year. (asetek pumps, pretty much standard in AIO's) Currently running a pure rock with a noctua ip 67 fan. totally solid 2 years later when all the corsair fans have died.

 

Corsair warranty is wortless unless you have a mail in address that is going to cost you less than the cost of the product, and even then, you need to convince them that their 5 year warranty product dying in one year might have been a manufacturing defect.

[Syntaxvgm]

1 hour ago, slightlyjaded said:

Reliability has been a problem for me. I ran corsair 240 AIO's for 3 years ... 3 coolers. They pretty much died on their aniversary each year. (asetek pumps, pretty much standard in AIO's) Currently running a pure rock with a noctua ip 67 fan. totally solid 2 years later when all the corsair fans have died.

 

Corsair warranty is wortless unless you have a mail in address that is going to cost you less than the cost of the product, and even then, you need to convince them that their 5 year warranty product dying in one year might have been a manufacturing defect.

Really? My experience with corsair rma has been great. Since their cases are overpriced cheap garbage, they've sent me parts for my 380t and 750d and some other experiences with keyboards. 
With the coolers, that's so unfortunate, as I've had more asetek aios than I can hold at once and not one has failed on me. One has been running 24/7 for 6 years at this point I think. But the reality is there air coolers are simply more reliable and have 0 chance of ruining an expensive system, so I can't disagree with your decision there. Not to mention some good one (ones that cost almost as much though) outperform a lot of these aios. 

[slightlyjaded]

4 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Really? My experience with corsair rma has been great. Since their cases are overpriced cheap garbage, they've sent me parts for my 380t and 750d and some other experiences with keyboards. 
With the coolers, that's so unfortunate, as I've had more asetek aios than I can hold at once and not one has failed on me. One has been running 24/7 for 6 years at this point I think. But the reality is there air coolers are simply more reliable and have 0 chance of ruining an expensive system, so I can't disagree with your decision there. Not to mention some good one (ones that cost almost as much though) outperform a lot of these aios. 

The response to a RMA was please mail it back to the closest RMA site (taiwan, I'm australian, and the cheapest option from a courier they would accept was 240 dollars) I am perfectly content bagging corsair out to any australian customer thinking of buying their products. I have universally found their products expensive, cheap build quality, and prone to failure. The only product that I've brought from corsair that I was happy with was their domi ram. Of a half dozen products totalling a few grand, it is the only product I haven't had a problem with. I'd say that's a pretty good baseline to form an opinion of corsair's quality assurance.

[Syntaxvgm]

2 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

The response to a RMA was please mail it back to the closest RMA site (taiwan, I'm australian, and the cheapest option from a courier they would accept was 240 dollars) I am perfectly content bagging corsair out to any australian customer thinking of buying their products. I have universally found their products expensive, cheap build quality, and prone to failure. The only product that I've brought from corsair that I was happy with was their domi ram. Of a half dozen products totalling a few grand, it is the only product I haven't had a problem with. I'd say that's a pretty good baseline to form an opinion of corsair's quality assurance.

well in in the US so that explains a lot. I mailed to cali if I had to mail, but 99 of the time they didn't have me do that. 

And yes their cases are so cheap and overrated and so are some of their other products I've had. Too bad I like the looks.

I've just had such good luck with asetek personally and for servers, so I just get whichever brand is cheap. I even have a thermaltake asetek one. 

[slightlyjaded]

2 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

well in in the US so that explains a lot. I mailed to cali if I had to mail, but 99 of the time they didn't have me do that. 

And yes their cases are so cheap and overrated. Too bad I like the looks. 

Same, I have a 900D that I was planning on building 2 SLi rig in, never needed the extra room. lots of room for extra ssd's for gaming though.

 

Ali bends if you breath on it.