Antec Neptune 240 AIO Liquid Cooler Review
Mike Sanders / 5 years ago
Exterior Packaging
The front of the packaging goes big and bold with a nice clear image of the cooler front and center. Also providing you with a number of the key features (albeit, in rather small writing/icons) it does quickly tell you at a glance everything you would want to know.
Perhaps surprisingly, the rear packaging isn’t overly heavy on details either, but it does at least provide you with plenty of images of the various aspects of this AIO cooler design. If anything, unlike many manufacturers that go overload on small print worthy of a credit card application, you could argue that the Antec Neptune 240 could use a little bit more here! That is, however, perhaps to keep localization (in terms of various languages for various markets) an easier factor.
Accessories!
As this is a 240mm AIO liquid cooler, you are clearly provided with a fair few parts and accessories in the packaging. Fortunately, this is generally well organized, and, as such, you shouldn’t have any difficulties finding the right bits you need to get started.
Although we shall look at this further in the ‘installation’ section of the review, despite the seemingly clear aspect of the packaging, there are still parts of it that can get a little confusing. If you take your time, however, you should avoid any obvious mistakes. The labeling (as well as the manual), however, could be better!
One of the nicest added bonuses to the Antec Neptune 240 is that you are supplied with a hub that can power both the RGB features as well as the fans. In addition, you are also provided with necessary cabling for ARGB compatible motherboards as well as 2 velcro straps which you can use to attach the hub within your chassis.
The hub controller is of excellent quality which is always a pleasant surprise as often (in many other alternative AIO models) these can be quite cheap. Worse, some manufacturers don’t provide them at all giving those without ARGB motherboards problems in getting the full potential out of their cooler. The hub model provided by Antec, however, is excellent both in terms of aesthetics and ‘feel’. As above though, check the ‘installation’ part of this review for more information on how this works.
