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first look at the Zulman LQ 320 Ultimate
Liquid Cooler. This is a 120 mm liquid
cooler. Uses a lowprofile block design, quarterinch tubing. Um, it's an
asetchbased design. So, what that means is you've got a very mature retention
mechanism based on their ring mounting. So, we've seen this before. We're pretty
familiar with it. The difference between this one and the 315 is the fact that
the radiator is thicker. It comes with instructions for how to install the
entire thing. But other than that, it is very similar to what we found with the
315. So, what Zelman's done to differentiate this particular cooler
from the other ones that are out there is a couple of things. So, number one,
they're still using quarterinch tubing, which has advantages, such as the very
tight bend radiuses that are possible. Radi radiuses radius. You know what? It
doesn't matter. Um, they've added a blue LED to the block itself. So, it's got a
plastic cover on it now, which we're actually just going to remove there.
There we go. All right. So, it's an illuminated Z logo like that. And this,
I think, is a pretty nice touch. So, they've added a faux brushed aluminum
finish to the side of the radiator on both sides. So, that's using plastic,
which is just I mean, honestly, it looks just as good as the actual aluminum
finishes that you see, but it's not fingerprint and it's much easier to
clean and all of that kind of good stuff. It also means that they've added
these brass threads instead of just threading the actual shroud on the
radiator itself. So, these should be a little bit easier to find the right
threads and avoid stripping compared to just the uh the regular designs that
we've seen in the past where it's just the uh the tank um the tank shroud
itself that is just tapped with a uh with a tap. So, other than that, I mean,
more thickness is more better in general. So, the thicker the radiator
is, the more cooling performance you're going to get out of it. But, you need to
have a pressure optimized fan. So, Zelman includes their ultra quiet fan
here, which only mounts one way on the radiator. It should be noted because on
the other side you don't actually have mounting holes. So you can see I'll hold
it up this way just for a change of pace. You can see that it's here on this
side and it's missing on this other side. So while you actually can go both
ways on it if you don't have a seal
around the frame of the radiator. So if you had it mounted this way, you're
going to lose some of that performance. So, you're going to be drawing air
through the fan this way, and some of it's going to come in from here and not
actually be forced to pass through the fins themselves. So, that can affect
your cooling performance. Uh, mounting hardware, as I
said before, is included. Easy. 775,
1155, 1156, 1366,
2011, AM2, AM3, AM3 Plus, AM2 Plus, FM1,
FM2. Pretty much whatever you want to mount it to, you can. The bottom of the
block has a high quality thermal compound pre-applied to it. I would
definitely recommend using this for your first application because it's good.
It's not until you take the block off and then you need to reapply it that you
have to replace it with some other thermal paste. So, thank you for
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