Cooler Master Eisberg 120L Prestige Liquid Cooler Review

Currently you will find the Cooler Master Eisberg 120L Prestige listed in the UK for £119.99 and in the USA for $159.99. There is no other way to put this other than that the Eisberg 120L is totally over priced. Considering you can pick up a Corsair H100i, Corsair H110, Corsair H80i, NZXT Kraken X60, Thermaltake Water 2.0/3.0 Pro, Swiftech H220, Thermaltake Water 2.0/3.0 Extreme, Cooler Master Seidon 240M and Cooler Master Seidon 120XL all for less money you can’t help but feel short changed with the Eisberg 120L Prestige. All the aforementioned cheaper equivalents perform equal if not better and some cost as low as £80 (Corsair H80i), up to around £115 (NZXT Kraken X60).

Let me make this explicitly clear – the Cooler Master Eisberg 120L is by no means a bad product. In fact it is generally a good product, though it does have some minor drawbacks in an overly complex and not very intuitive mounting system, a pump that can get very loud over 5 volts and beyond and a lack of PWM support on the fans.

Yet everything else about the design is good, the performance for the form factor is good, the noise levels are pretty good at 5 volts on the pump, the build quality is exemplary, the opportunity for expansion is great to have, the quality of components used is very good, the tubing is excellent and flexible, all the cables are sleeved nicely and fully blackened and the provided fans perform very well.

Pros

• Full copper radiator
• Strong pump/reservoir unit
• Fans have a good noise/performance ratio
• Relatively quiet at 5 volts pump
• High quality components
• Flexible anti-kink tubing
• Expandable

Cons

• Very loud pump above 5 volts, varying levels of pump whine at all voltages
• Mounting system is too complex, not intuitive and poorly designed
• Price is too high relative to the competition
• Performance doesn’t match the price
• Availability is still lacking
• Relatively short 2 year warranty
• Rubber sound dampening pads are too thick
• Fans lack PWM support

eTeknix says: Cooler Master’s Eisberg 120L is a solid product that has good performance, uses high quality parts and offers expandability for the 120mm AIO. However, the product has a major flaw that needs to be addressed with its price, it is way too high for it to be competitive in the current marketplace. We simply cannot recommend the Cooler Master Eisberg 120L Prestige at its current price when there are so many equally as good and better products out there for much less money. Let’s hope the Cooler Master Eisberg 240L Prestige can offer up something better, stay tuned for that review.

Thank you to Cooler Master for providing this review sample.