Cooler Master Nepton 240M CPU Liquid Cooler
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,216 words · ~6 min read
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now nothing here is a totally new and radical concept water coolers aren't new
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pre-filled water coolers aren't new and ones from Cooler Master aren't even new
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but they're still pretty proud of the nepton 240m they're all like yeah it's
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got high quality included fans it's got a completely Cooler Master designed and
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manufactured pump with great quality we put a 5year warranty on it and all that
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stuff so let's find out then if it's as
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good as it sounds on paper by the way speaking of things that sound our
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intro Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature Precision cherrymx RGB key
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the surface there's not much to differentiate nepton 240m from other
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premium dual 120 mm fan liquid coolers
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the CPU block and pump combo unit features a flat machined copper base
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plate on the bottom with a white LED lit Cooler Master logo on top and two side
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mounted swivel fittings that connect to the pre-attached fluorinated ethylene
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propylene tubing that appears to be closer to 38 in internal diameter than
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a/4 in but manages this wider flow path
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without any extra susceptibility to kinking very nice the radiator it's
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connected to is a fairly standard aluminum finned 27 mm thick dual 120 mm
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air with what I would describe as moderate fin density so for the quiet
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freaks out there it should be suitable for use with low RPM fans as long as
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they deliver High static pressure even at low RPM which leads us to the fans
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these things are actually a fantastic upgrade over the fans that Cooler Master
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used to buy bundle with their neptun coolers they run it anywhere from 800 to
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2400 RPM they were extremely quiet at
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1100 RPM the setting that we standardize on for our performance testing and on
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top of having Square frames which allows them to seal better against the radiator
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for improved static pressure they have this included rubber gasket in the box
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that further reduces vibration and air leakage I'd say my only complaint about
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their new silencio fans is that you don't seem to be able to buy them
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Standalone you can only get them with the cooler cuz they're pretty darn good
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installation was a breeze on LGA 2011 the pump is efficient enough to be
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powered by a fan header on your motherboard which makes life a little bit easier and the mounting hardware is
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both solid you
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know and easy to use so if I had to make
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one criticism here I guess it would be that the tubing runs felt a little bit
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long for me but users with larger cases
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may be very thankful that the tubing is a a little bit on the longer side so
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your mileage may vary which leads us to
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Performance yes performance was actually very good the neptun 240m is competitive
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with pretty much anything else on the playing field including even Swift tax
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h220x expandable aiio but at a lower
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price and with more flexible mounting options like Swift tax one because the
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pump and Reservoir are on the radiator can only be mounted like this way and
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this way only whereas the nepon kind of be positioned however you want it's just
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it comes inherently with the pump being on the CPU and not having a reservoir it
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should be noted though that it does all this without the expandability that
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Swift Tech solution affords where you can start throwing in graphics card
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blocks and stuff like that one thing of note here is that upgrading to Noctua
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n12 fans does as it always seems to
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improve the performance but not so
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dramatically this time that we'd consider them a necessary upgrade for
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potential buyers the ones in the Box are a very solid option with nice sleeved
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four pin pwm connectors and all that good stuff so overall the neptun 240m is
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a winner which is a relief for me because we've been running ads for it on
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our videos for a little while now and it's always refreshing to know that the
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stuff we're advertising even if we're not specifically endorsing it also
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happens to kick butt I mean I hate it when you guys buy stuff that isn't as
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good as it could possibly be speaking of things we advertise that kick butt man
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that was a great segue it's BlizzCon time again and Intel has some pretty
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Booth is located near the Hearthstone stage and they're going to be showcasing
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the latest and greatest Tech from Intel so you guys might remember the last year
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Hearthstone with touch launched at BlizzCon and Intel was showing off
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tablets with Hearthstone touch running so that's probably also going to be
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there it's a pretty safe beted especially with their new corm processors available they're going to of
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course have gaming rigs with an emphasis
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on like you know high res gaming high performance gaming and they just
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launched Haswell e back around the PS prime time frame so they're going to
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