A Closer Look
The cooler itself looks pretty familiar, and I think it’s fair to say if you’ve seen one AIO, you’ve seen them all these days. Radiator designs have been pretty much standardised, as have the tubing and many of the fan components these days. There are two sizes available, 240mm and 360mm, so you can easily find something that best suits your needs or your PC case.
The fans are nice enough, and feature a set of white frosted blades to allow for the built-in ARGB lighting. The lighting is located around the motor housing, so it shines through the blades from the middle.
On the corners, you’ll find anti-vibration rubber mounts on both sides of the fan, with a nice grey colour that gives a nice contrast with the black frame of the fan.
The pump looks very familiar, especially on the bottom. It’s a round copper contact plate with pre-applied thermal paste. The Intel bracket is pre-installed, but it’s easily swapped out for the AMD bracket that’s included in the box. Of course, we’ve seen this design on other brands that use ASETEK pumps, such as NZXT, so we know it is decent.
The top of the pump is where things start to differ the most. If anything it looks pretty bland, it’s just a moulded black block with a sort of “X” shape in it. Of course, this is where the AMOLED display will be mounted, and the X-shape allows the display to be mounted in multiple orientations to suit your style.
The actual display is basically a standalone unit that connects to a spare motherboard USB header, which is pretty common, as we’ve seen pumps with displays before, so it’s not like this kind of technology is unheard of.
However, where this one differs is the sheer size and shape of the display on offer. It’s a wrap-around screen, which is very unique for a cooler. Of course, wrap-around AMOLED displays are nothing new in themselves, the technology of bendy displays is common on folding smartphones these days too.
The overall design is nice, when it is installed in the system, it’s going to look pretty fantastic.
However, the build quality is good, there are signs that this isn’t overly refined, and we can see some joins and even a little exposed glue on the sides/rear housing. There are maybe a few hints of it being handmade or 3D printed or some such, but keeping in mind this is a unique product and not quite the mass-produced stuff we see from more established brands, this is literally their second cooler, so perhaps this will improve with time. But again, once installed, this isn’t something you would really notice, we’re being pretty picky here.
The display mounts on top of the pump easily enough, and you can rotate it to have it in a vertical or horizontal orientation, with the curve going over, under, left or right to suit your build.
