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first look at the LQ315 from Zulman.
This is an all-in-one liquid cooler with a built-in pump with a slim water block,
a copper base, and micro fins to maximize cooling performance. And I'm
going to turn it into like a like a song.
Welcome to an unboxing where we do lots of cool things like opening things with
knives and we Okay, that was about as far as I got with that. So, let's just
go ahead and open this bad boy up. So, this is a single 120 mm radiator liquid
cooler. It's based on an asetch design, which means that there shouldn't be any
huge surprises in terms of the mounting mechanism or the overall build quality.
I think these LCLC sort of generation 1,
two, three, what are we up to like four generations now? designs have been out
there in the wild enough that if there were any kinds of mass failures, we'd
know about them already. Uses durable and long-asting tubes. An additional 120
mm fan can be installed and uses an environmentally friendly anti-corrosion
coolant. Oh, that's kind of good to know. There's also a blue LED included
in the water block itself, which is not true of the 310, which is the lower-end
version of this particular cooler. And the other thing that's not true of the
310 is the fact that the 315 uses a
thicker style radiator. So, one of the things that Zulman's done to set their
cooler apart from the other sort of asetch based designs out there is
they've added like a faux aluminum finish to the side here. That's kind of
that brushed plastic finish that I always talk about because I think it's
freaking awesome because it doesn't attract fingerprints and stains the way
that aluminum does, but it actually looks kind of like aluminum and it has
sort of a premium look to it that you don't get with other more different um
with other more different radiators. They've also changed the way the
threading is done on the shroud itself. So, if you look at that, they've
actually got brass inlaid threads rather than using just a simple
um tapped thread through a metal piece
here. So, this is partly because this is a plastic shroud. So, you wouldn't want
to thread plastic in order to mount a a fan to something, but I think this
should actually be more durable overall anyway, and it'll be less of a problem
if you accidentally screw something up and strip it. So, that's uh that's a
nice little touch to see as well. The pre-attached tubes are one quarter inch
and they run to again a very sharp looking. So, it's a better looking
pre-lquid uh pre-done liquid cooler than what we've seen in the past. So, it's a
better looking CPU block unit there with a nice shiny Z on top and there is a
blue LED inside there that illuminates. The block pump unit is powered by a
three pin uh by a three pin fan connector that uses black wires so it's
not going to look out of place in your well done little build. And last but not
least, well second last, also not least, we have the mounting hardware. So this
is the standard fair that you see for these asetch units. It's got the updated
one that allows you to use one piece as a hold down, another piece to hold the
hold down hold held in place, and then you actually use little plastic clips,
stick them through here, stick the screws through there, and you can mount it to pretty much any socket you want,
including LGA 2011. Now, another thing that they've changed that they've
included is almond fans. Belman fans have been, in my experience, some of the
better ones out there as far as the overall build quality goes. They undervolt very well. This one right here
calls itself an ultra quiet CPU cooler. So, I'd probably believe it. This one
has a bit of a unique design because you can see that only one side actually has
a square fan mount on it and the other side is just rounded here. So, the only
challenge that I would foresee with a product like this is it limits your
options in terms of fan mounting a little bit. So, you're going to either be able to use it in push at the back of
your case, mounting the radiator directly to the back of the case, or if
you don't have clearance at the back of the case because of the tank, you're going to have to mount it in push, which
is the other option you have. So, there's push from one direction or push from the other direction. And no, wait,
no, you won't be able to do that. Oh, yeah. That won't work at all because
you'll have to use a Oh, no. They do have they do have what
you'd need, but it'd be a bit of a weird orientation because um like you'd have
this against the case, then you'd have to go through the case, through here
into the radiator in order to get it mounted. So, I would have preferred if
they'd included a fan that does have both sides, but it's probably not the
end of the world. And usually I replace the fans on these things anyway with
something like a uh with something like a Noctua fan, for example. Don't forget
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