Cooling

ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition AIO Cooler Review

Performance

It should be noted that comparatively speaking, the Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition AIO liquid cooler is not an overly expensive product and as such, and as usual, by proxy, we shouldn’t expect to this be one of the best performers we’ve ever encountered. Generally speaking, you do tend to get what you pay for. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition gives performance figures well in excess of its reasonably humble price tag.

Starting with the temperature control, while not the best results we’ve ever seen, it still manages to easily compete (and sometimes beat) with some of the best AIO cooler designs we have ever encountered. Even when overclocked, the Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition AIO liquid cooler is still more than capable of providing more than acceptable results.

In terms of acoustic performance, however, while the results do look generally decent, there is a caveat we need to mention. Technically speaking, they should be lower. Throughout our testing process, however, we noted a pretty significant ‘gurgle’ from the pump and given that this is located within the radiator rather than the CPU block, it very likely made the results 1-2dBa higher (by proxy of more noise sources being closer to our acoustic volume measurer) than had it been not been located there. And yes, pump gurgle is a bit of a notable issue here, or at the very least, with the particular sample we tested.

Overall, however, what we’ve seen here, regardless of whether our system was at overclocked or stock performance, was nicely low temperatures combined with a decently quiet acoustic performance.