ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition AIO Cooler Review

Mike Sanders / 4 years ago

How Much Does it Cost?

At the time of writing, we were unable to find any retail examples of the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition for sale online. ID-Cooling has, however, indicated that a price of around $94.99 should be expected. – Now, while this admittedly isn’t an outright bargain in terms of 240mm AIO coolers, you do have to take into consideration a number of factors.

Firstly, the IceFan 240 fan block provided with this cooler is a design, available to purchase separately, that costs around $34.99. So, when you take that into consideration with the overall price tag, while not exactly making it significantly better, it does explain why this is perhaps a little more expensive than you might have expected.

More so, however, and with respect to ID-Cooling, this is not one of their standard entry-level products. The ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition is a premium design and, as such, that has been reflected a little in the MSRP.

Overview

Offering exceptionally solid results in our testing, the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition really does manage to tick a lot of the right boxes. Even if you were to put the results out of the equation, in terms of 240mm AIO cooler designs, this is undoubtedly one of the most eye-catching products currently available on the market.

We will admit, however, that there are a number of concerns we have surrounding the design. As we noted in our review, the radiator is a particular worry in terms of quality control as a number of the fins were slightly bent and, quite frankly, something didn’t seem quite 100% right with the white plastic covering to the top allowing some of the under-area to be clearly visible. – That being said though, none of those ‘issues’ seemed to play any significant issue in what was, on the whole, exceptionally positive test results.

Should I Buy One?

If you’re currently in the market for a brand new 240mm AIO liquid cooler, it only takes a quick glance at any online retailer to see that, in terms of choice, you’re pretty spoiled. So, is the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition worth picking from that bunch? Well, in terms of test results, and based on the price this retails for, what we can say is that for temperature control it’s at least as good as most of it’s competition while it’s low-acoustic output certainly puts another feather in it’s cap. Without a doubt, however, the key highlight of the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition is its amazing aesthetics. Not only in terms of it’s ARGB lighting (which we feel many manufacturers have become overly reliant upon) but also with it’s bright white design.

Put simply, there are many coolers that can perform as well as the ID-Cooling Iceflow 240 ARGB Snow Edition for a similar price tag, there are very few, however, that managed to pull off that performance which such a high-volume of style!

Pros

Amazing aesthetics – With or without the ARGB lighting turned on
Strong temperature control performance
An entirely viable option for moderate overclocking
Manual connector provided for those of your without sync ARGB compatible motherboards