NZXT Kraken X53 240mm, AIO RGB CPU Liquid Cooler with Rotating Infinity Mirror Design, and Powered By CAM V4 RGB Connector Aer P 120mm Radiator Fans (2 Included)

Easy to install: if you can install any cpu cooler you can install this. Unsure if you can install a cooler? Can you screw in 4 screws without jamming the screwdriver into whatever you are mounting too? If yes congrats! You can install this!Cooling (Warmth): This cooler works great at cooling. My temps have never been lower on a cpu. Truly impressive how far cooking has come this last decade.Noise: Right out of the box this cooler is very quite. But after a few hours of use when the water becomes a little heat soaked the pump will ramp up and sound like you have a very loud fish tank on your desk.Easy fix: if you download the NZXT cam app you can set both fab and PUMP curves. I recommend a constant pump speed of just under 50% personally this is the fastest it can be that I do not hear the pump (even 1% faster annoys me BAD) changing to this constant speed from the performance preset on my OC’ed 3800x (all core 4.3Ghz) I increased my max temp after 20 minutes of cinebench by 1 degree so now my max temp is 76 instead of 75. (I also use a very low fan curve because I hate fan noise)I would recommend this for anyone! I would also recommend you set a custom fan and pump curve.

Went from stock AMD cooler that comes with the Ryzen 5 3600 to this beast and wow. Immediately brought temps down 20°C at idle and while gaming for extended periods of time consistently.Pre-applied thermal paste works fine and I was too lazy to clean it off and add my own noctua thermal paste.The fans on the radiator look so nice that I’m taking all of my old rgb fans out and installing 4 new NZXT fans (non RGB)*Only con is the installation process*Even with a YouTube tutorial it was a difficult installation for me. It very well could’ve been user error but I followed the instructions to a “t” and it took 2.5 hours whereas my entire computer only took 2 hours to build from CPU, mobo, RAM, cooler, fans, GPU, HDD, SSD, PSU, cable management. Etc, etc.I installed this in my computer 3 months ago and still have nightmares about the installation.Was the nightmarish installation worth the result? Hands down, no doubt in my mind it was worth it. Just buy the dang thing.

Not too hard to install, obviously a hair more to deal with than an air cooler. Just be sure to get your radiator placement right before you judge it for noise especially if you front mount like I did. I cannot hear it without pressing my ear to my case and not at all when the chassis exhaust fan and radiator fans is going. I get around 60Db of sound inside the case though probably less escaping the case to my ears, its barely noticeable if your using speakers or headphones. This is considering I have 6 fans in my case not including my graphics card, 4 push pull on the radiator and 2 exhausting the top and back so I would say its pretty doable to get it under 40 if you have a good case for that purpose as my case is not ideal for a silent build. My temps are almost never much above 60 Celsius and this is running things like Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

First off, we all bought it cause it looks amazing, every product will have bad reviews. this was pretty easy to install, granted I am very meticulous with things like this and take my sweet time. But once installed it looks pretty amazing honestly, my temps are about 10 degrees less than the stock cooler master that came with my 7 3700xt. I am recently reading cooler master is kinda a bad company lol...none the less this will do the trick, I am returning this unit for the Z53 model to have the digital display on the pump, should have gotten that one first but I will anxiously await its arrival. The fans can ramp up but seeing as how its motherboard control, use your motherboard to control the fans, do not use NZXT cam software, didnt really seem like that software controlled the fans, only the lighting. This cooler on silent was pretty likable.