I ordered this because I had a defective Arctic Liquid Freezer III 240mm AIO. I don't return broken products. I let the company keep the money so they can maybe one day fix their stupidity.... on that note I wont continue to complain about the Arctic Cooler!
This unit was extremely simple to install. One thing I noticed in terms of design was that you rotate the cooler 90 degrees for AMD where the tubes are either left/right of the CPU socket where as Intel will have the tubes top/bottom. Wont knock a star for aesthetics, I bought something that needs to cool my PC and its doing it swimmingly (ha, water joke).
I skipped out on using the MSI paste. I never trust paste that comes with manufacturer parts. Not knocking MSI, the paste is probably decent. But I want the highest quality paste possible. KINGPIN KPx is known to be insane especially for overclocking, which means it will remain cool. I usually buy Arctic Silver 5 (different "arctic" company than the AIO company) but lately on Amazon they are sold by 3rd party and shipped by Amazon. For all I know those pastes have been sitting for so long they "separated" by now. Not gonna risk it. The KPx I got was sold and shipped my Amazon. Hashtag winning (haha). So far my temps have been great and there is no weird noises. Double winning. I have my fans in push pull as per image. With rear fan as exhaust and PSU as exhaust. I know weird right? Most people would want their PSU to get fresh air.... WELL, this improves airflow so that air moves bottom to top of case. It works.
Many will notice the slim fans at the bottom. This is a jonsbo d32pro case. And you can also notice the motherboard is a back connect b650m project zero board. All connectors are on the back! making it super sleek and once again improving airflow. So if you are curious if you can fit the 7900xtx Red Devil from PowerColor utilizing this motherboard (top slot is x16 as apposed to many m-atx boards where its second slot) then you CAN fit two slim fans down there. I think I could have wedged in some full size fans, but I like having the air gap to help with any turbulence that might occur between the two. So far my temps are insanely low. But that's to be expected since all sides of the case are perforated except for the glass side cover that is frosted black (not installed in picture).
Obviously I didn't use the MSI fans... I dont care for RGB. And sure enough the only light from my pc comes from the GPU which is always red because "designed that way." I could plug in some color matching cables into the gpu but im lazy and that's also extra cables on the front section which I dont want. I like it clean.... So I cant comment on fan brightness/quality, or even the AIO pump section lighting. Its all disabled.
Value for money? I mean its a 240mm AIO and its not the cheapest but also not the most expensive. Its working. I dont have hard testing data to say if its good or not, maybe one of the youtuber reviewers will get to this unit eventually.... for now, its working, and that's all that matters.
The tubes are VERY easy to move around, which I like. The Arctic tubes are so hard to bend that manhandling them makes you cringe. These, they have a bit of flop but retain some stiffness. IMO the perfect "in-between."
SADLY, I ruined my silver/black aesthetic I was originally going for. I already own like 12 noctua NF-A12x25 fans so reusing them after having to rebuild my system after a failed Arctic AIO, I said EFF it. Performance is more important. No, I am not spending $100's of dollars to buy all the fans I have in black flavor.... waste of money when I have perfectly functional fans I can use. And this is only 5 of them. I have more in storage.... This build was a consolidation of size. I wanted something smaller and sleeker. I had a huge case that was super large prior which had all the fans installed including push/pull on a 360mm aio. But 360mm aio on a 7800x3d is overkill, so far my temps look the same as my 360mm setup previously. So winning.
namco · 2025-02-17 · via amazon
★★★★★Does its job well
Nice and Quiet, keeps temps down on an i7-14700kf (not over-clocking)
Gage A Stone · 2026-03-05 · via amazon
★★★★★Great AIO, would recommend!
Works amazingly. Got it for my brother's build in a compact case. Keeps his 7800x3d cool under 65 degrees with no audible sound, no fan or pump sound so plenty of overhead if he wants to overclock the CPU. Love the sleek look of the AIO pump and the RGB on the fans. Would recommend again for MSI!
Michael E. · 2025-11-23 · via amazon
★★★★★Worth the money for your budget build.
Great result. Went from 50⁰c+ in idle and 60⁰c+ under load. To 39⁰c idle to under 60⁰c under load. Quite. Rgb lights work as they should. Mounted quick and the rest was plug and play. No noise so far.
Amazon Customer · 2026-04-23 · via amazon
★★★★★Good cooler
Sure am glad I bought this cooler it made a difference running cooler now.
