Cooler Master Nepton 280L Water Cooler
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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The Cooler Master neptun 280l continues
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a happy Trend that we've seen developing recently it takes the status quo that is
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radiators designed for 120 mm fans and
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amps it up a notch it uses two 14mm
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Cooler Master jet flow fans to cover the massive surface area of its 280 mm long
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radiator speaking of status quo instead of rebranding a design from Acer coolit
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Cooler Master uses their own pump and an ultra fine microchannel water block
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design giving them full control over the performance and quality of these
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components but does it translate into the real world I guess we'll find
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out with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so I'm going to
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start this off with a couple of things that I actually don't really like about
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this they're jet flow fans have great specs but and this goes for all liquid
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cooling manufacturers why do they have rounded
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frames see this Gap see this Gap right
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here we did a test on another liquid cooler that uses pressure optimized
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round frame fans where we use duct tape to cover the gaps and guess what we got
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a couple degrees lower temperatures for our effort because duct tape for sealing
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gaps to achieve optimal air flow please no gaps please Cooler Master and
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everyone else for that matter square frame fans for radiators that is lonus
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law number 347 anyway there's another one use of an
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all aluminum radiator is something that hardcore liquid cooling purists might
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not like but the system is completely sealed and uses extra thick Fe tubing 38
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inch tubing by the way to prevent the slow evaporation that can occur with
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porous tubing so since you'll never open it and there's an appropriate
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anti-corrosive coolant inside it won't be a problem because the metals aren't
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actually in contact with each other while it isn't a problem however it does
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mean that some of the performance of the system is left on the table compared to
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if it had the surface area it does and used a copper and brass design like
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cooler Master's own Glacier 240l which performs similarly and also happens to
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be fully expandable I apologize in advance for not having it in our
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performance charts though I stole it from Luke's testing stable because I
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wanted it for my liquid cooling video card test bench sometime ago anyway
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about the aluminum rad I'll say this though at least Cooler Master doesn't
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hide it I couldn't find the radiator material of the h110 anywhere in
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Corsair's official literature and had to go hunting to see what they were using
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installing the 280l in my standard case the C70 was actually a little bit tricky
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The Fill Point sticks out on the bottom if you don't put the fans on the bottom
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and that makes it so that you're probably going to hit your 8 Pin power we actually split that into a four pin
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and allowed it to dodge the fill Port which helped a lot but then again in
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their recommended configuration with the fans on the bottom not the fans on the
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top like we do it it fits a lot better we also had problems with the radiator
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hitting other different parts of the case but again if you put the fans on
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the bottom like they recommend you don't have that problem although we do prefer
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putting it on top we do this with every single radiator that comes in here and
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we find that it standardizes the whole process in terms of performance we found
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that the cooler performs within margin of error of an h110 and considering the
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the the margin of error that comes with our thermal test bench as we don't have a thermally controlled room it's fairly
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realistic as these radiators are quite similar so in conclusion if you're
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looking for a liquid cooling unit that's got good looks with its wi LED lighting
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FX comes with a fantastic 5-year warranty and features compatibility for
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both 140 mm and 120 mm fans although the
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120 mm fans will seal even less against
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the radiator then the nepton 280l is a solid Choice compared to the more
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traditional dual 120 mm radiator designs
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on the market just make sure that your case has room for it guys like this
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you missed it before yes that is the difference in size between dual 140 mil
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and dual 120 mil it doesn't sound like that much it sounds like 20
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mil which could be volume 20
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ml he