Lian Li Hydroshift II-S LCD 360 Liquid CPU Cooler - 3.4" IPS LCD Square Screen - Daisy-Chain - Low-Noise - Intel LGA 1851/1700, AMD AM5/AM4 - Fits Most PC Fans - White (HS2LCDS36NW)

Not as clean looking as the circle variant, but love the design of the removable screen hardware. I tend to build rigs often, and if the owner of said system has trouble with the screen, makes my life super easy if they need to do a warranty replacement makes it super easy. Can just take off the screen, AIO still cools the system, and can ship out the display for a swap, so absolutely perfect for ease and less hassle. Can't say much for reliability considering these units are new to the market....So will update if my buddies or clients have issues with these AIO's. Unfortunately Lian-Li has been having a lot of issues lately with their Hydroshift line, but so far over the past few months, been working fine and no complaints from people I know personally using them.

Kamran · 2026-04-02 · via amazon

I have built a few PCs using AIO coolers from different brands and this was easily the best looking and easiest to setup. The Tubes look great due to the brackets that mostly hide them. The cooling is fantastic and keeps the CPU (Ryzen 7 7800x3d) very cool. The LCD screen is also great an my wife loves the ability to customize!

Eli F. · 2026-01-16 · via amazon

An AIO with a beautiful LCD screen and smart tubing design, but inconsistent cooling, pump noise, and LCD connectivity issues on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Pros: - LCD screen is absolutely beautiful, and it abstracts so much of the clutter on a typical motherboard. - The tubing hidden behind the radiator is a genuinely clever design. I’m surprised more companies haven’t attempted something like this before. Visually, it looks excellent—and after using this AIO, traditional exposed tubing in a PC starts to look awkward by comparison. Cons: - CPU temperatures ran hot with inconsistent cooling behavior. - The pump made noticeable noises on startup and would occasionally do so at random afterward (see attached video). - The LCD screen would intermittently lose connection with L-Connect. Resolving this required a full PC reboot. When this happened, the screen would revert to the default out-of-box display, which still looked fine—but the main appeal of the LCD is being able to reliably run a custom display. - The mounting mechanism felt a bit awkward. Sliding the unit in from right to left while working around the standoffs made installation slightly annoying. This isn’t a dealbreaker by itself, but it’s worth noting. My Experience: I initially replaced my Cooler Master AIO (which was using Lian Li P28 fans) with this fanless HS2 pump and installed the same P28 fans onto the radiator. Right away, CPU temperatures were extremely spiky. I would see jumps from ~45 °C to ~62 °C just from opening a browser tab. Running Cinebench pushed temperatures straight to 95 °C. While troubleshooting, I checked the thermal paste application and noticed it appeared slightly uneven (see attached photo). After reapplying the paste, the temperature spikes became noticeably calmer. I also adjusted the fan step-up and step-down timers in the BIOS to reduce constant fan ramping caused by erratic CPU temperature behavior. These changes helped stabilize temperatures, though they still ran somewhat high. Cinebench would now peak around 91–92 °C. At that point, I considered the results acceptable and continued using the system. For a couple of days, everything seemed fine. However, on the third day, while playing Marvel Rivals, CPU temperatures suddenly jumped from the usual ~60 °C range straight to 95 °C. At the same time, my frame rate dropped from ~240 FPS down to 20–25 FPS. Even after closing the game, CPU temperatures remained elevated and did not recover as expected. After all that, decided to put back my Cooler Master AIO back on, and live without the pretty LCD screen (unfortunate). I do miss it, but I can play my games with the peace of mind that my temperatures are in normal operating ranges, no massive spikes, no throttling. See video of noise, picture of the initial "bad" paste application, and the picture of it on my PC. UPDATE: Lian Li did reach out to me to apologize for my experience and offered either a replacement or a refund. I appreciate the attentiveness from them and will definitely try a different product in the future.

Mario · 2026-01-09 · via amazon

Purchased hydroshift 1 few months before this was available on the market. Upgraded and couldn’t be happier. On paper it doesn’t look by measurements that it is bigger but actually in person way bigger!!!

Scott Legg · 2026-04-10 · via amazon

Aio works fine but pump is really loud have to turn it down to 70 percent to not hear it for 150 bucks thought it would have been better

josh hein · 2026-05-12 · via amazon

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