EVGA CLC 120 Liquid/Water CPU Cooler, RGB LED Cooling

I really love this cooler, sad to see EVGA slimming down on products but it's understandable. This cooler is fantastic for a good albeit fairly basic AIO liquid cooler. My i7 920 used to hit 70s and even from time to time hit low 80s which is close to thermal shutdown range, with this cooler it is designed to keep temps below 70 using the stock fan. It has a connector for a secondary fan which I mounted on the side to pull more inside the case. They do get loud at 100% fan speed but you already know. The EVGA logo has a nice led, sadly my entire system is fairly .... not very new, so I can't change the color spectrum to anything other than default random color. It's bright but not too bright, the cooler runs great at stock 2.67ghz and keeps things just as chilly when I oc my chip to 3.4ghz.Wish I could buy a new EVGA graphics card whenever I get a chance to upgrade/replace this system but sadly..... not possible any more. If you need a good AIO cooler this is definitely a fantastic option, just be sure to follow the install instructions even though they look wrong. The backplate is designed to go side-to-side even though it looks like it needs to be vertical, don't put it in vertical or you'll short the board and won't boot. Turn it horizontal and things work perfect, default stock thermal paste is plenty good on the block, pump isn't loud at all.I love EVGA products, highly recommend them. Top tier quality at affordable pricing

I am rather new to the concepts of PC gaming and so forth, but knew that my cpu was getting too hot up into the 70-75 C range. I read some review and decided to give this aio a shot. I am happy to report at ultra settings, that my temps sit right at 50-55 C under load. Well worth the small investment to get this up and running.A few things to take into consideration if you want the LED system to work well is whether your mother board supports the usb connection directly on the board or not. I didn't have that on my omen system, so I actually ran a cord out the back and into the usb ports on the back of the tower. You WILL have to also pull the board to attach the appropriate backplate mounting bracket. The cooling pump is already equipped with thermal paste, just make sure to clean off the excess from your cpu if you're replacing an old fan/heatsink set up.

Firstly, the build quality is excellent and chances of a leak is slim to none.Secondly, the software is buggy at best and will not read most cpu temps correctly.Thirdly, the led evga logo looks great but if you are doing heavy overclocking, Evga logo defaults to red the moment you hit certain temps.(60c+).{when the temps are not read properly}Lastly, the cooler is worth ever cent but evga needs to fix their buggy software and allow users.The ability disable hardware monitoring, so it will stop overriding the LEDs at certain temps.Final Thought. Evga should release the software source code to the public. So, the bugs can be resolved quickly. I would fix the bugs in a matter of days.I will give an update only if the pump dies in under 5 years!!!

I have an AMD FX6300 Vishera overclocked to 4.52GHz (sometimes it hits 4.6 lol). I originally wanted to buy this AIO because I recently found out my CPU Overclock wasn't stable, meaning I had to increase voltage, which obviously leads to higher temperatures. I used to have a Thermaltake SpinQ VT, which I think is THE best Air Cooler that was ever made. Yeah the Hyper212 Evo has a great rep and whatnot, but the SpinQ is really light, VERY quiet, and a lot easier to install on AMD motherboards.So, I ended up buying this AIO to replace my air cooler. The product is top notch quality, and installing it wasn't extremely hard. It does require you take out your components and fiddle with the CPU bracket, so best to buy this around the time when changing components/rebuilding PC, as you will have to take everything apart anyway.In terms of temperatures, I have noticed a huge difference in how fast my temperatures climb. They are much slower than before with my air cooler. Unfortunately, and the reason why I can't give it 5 stars, is because it's still not quite enough for my particular application. Upon taking my air cooler off, I noticed that my thermal grease wasn't spread evenly. Furthermore, this AIO still hits max temps similar to my Thermaltake SpinQ VT, and reapplication of thermal grease on my SpinQ would have probably matched this particular AIO's performance. Obviously if I change the radiator fan and pump to work at maximum capacity, they will definitely keep my CPU considerably cooler, but running at 100% fan speed and pump speed everytime I play a game isn't the greatest thing for life expectancy out of these products. As for numerical data, I was slowly reaching a cap of 65-66C during Prime95 Heat testing, and I see on average 50-55C during CPU intensive games like Black Desert. As I mentioned before, my CPU is overclocked and running on 1.418V, so my temps will be higher than your average stock clocking CPU.That being said, this cooler is still great. EVGA Flow Control software needs quite a lot of tweaking and fixing, as many features don't work properly. I feel like I should have gotten the 240mm rad version of this cooler for better cooling, but whatever. What's done is done.