Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme S 240mm AIO Liquid Cooling System CPU Cooler

I have a 7700K and have been using a Hyper 212 Evo for the last 2 years. My CPU and GPU always ran at no more than 67C while gaming. Over the past few months my CPU started getting as high as 80C. I decided to delid and add this cooler. I am currently overclocked at 5.0Ghz at 1.330 volts and my idle temps are around 28 to 30C and my highest spikes while gaming are at 68C.The product seems to be good quality. It was pretty easy to install. I have a Corsair 780T case so I was able to mount the fans directly under the mesh cover at the top of the case. I mounted the radiator under the metal frame below the fans. I was able to use the supplied screws to go through the fans, through the metal frame and into the radiator. The fans are in a pull/exhaust configuration out the top of the case.The instruction sheet is terrible. The one I received looked nothing like the instructions I pulled up online. One side was for Intel and the other side was for AMD. According to the picture it told me I should be using the backplate that was more of an oblong shape. It did not match up to the water block at all, not even close. I emailed Thermaltake asking about this. To this day they have not even bothered to respond to my inquiry! I disregarded their inadequate instructions and went off a youtube video instead. I should deduct a star for this but the cooler works really well so I won't.This does not have any RGB lighting at all. I looked at the other models that have lighting but they all require plugging in a cable to a USB port on the motherboard. I don't have an extra one so when I saw this model of cooler I liked that it was straightforward with just the plugs for the fans and the pump.I have read many ways to make these connections for proper operation. I ended up plugging in the fans (with the included 3 way splitter) to the CPU fan header. I plugged in the pump to the AIO pump header. The AIO pump header will supply full power to the pump so it runs at maximum speed all the time. Apparently monitoring software will only report half the actual pump rpm so you have to multiply by 2. Mine reads around 1750 which means I am getting 3500 rpm which is within the rated speed. I am controlling the fan speeds through BIOS and set a custom curve. The fans run at a minimum of 40% and ramp up to 100% at 75C. They never spin much higher than the 40% while gaming and I am surprised this works so well with the fans at such a low speed. I did turn them up to around 75% speed to see how loud they would be and they are very loud. If you need to run the fans at a high rpm to keep your system cool you might not like the amount of fan noise.The hose were long enough to reach the top of my case with room to spare. I do worry about springing a leak which would destroy my 1080ti but that is a risk everyone takes when using water cooling. The pump is silent. I can't hear it at all. I can feel a vibration when I touch the hoses. You can definitely feel the heat being exhausted through the top of the case. I also noticed my GPU runs a little bit cooler since the heat from the CPU is now being exhausted out of the case instead of the Hyper 212 Evo blowing hot air around inside the case.I did notice the fan cfm rating is in the 90's. Other coolers from different manufacturer's rated the cfm at less than 50.Overall if you are ok with no RGB lighting and have the room for a 360mm radiator this is a good choice. It got excellent reviews from the few you can find online.

A great cooler with the ability to display information or jif files on the small screen on the pump. That of course is just a "toy" as the primary reason to install any cooler is to keep your processor in its optimum operating range. That is all you can ask of any cooler whether it be air-cooling or water-cooling.Lately, with the improvement in air coolers, as well as better temps from Intel's 13 series processors, we have found better temps can be had with a quality air cooler and replacing the area where a radiator would be bolted. Just install 2-3 120mm or 140mm fans in either blowing or exhaust direction and the temps have been recorded about 10-15% lower than a 240/280 water cooler. Obviously, this is not true in all cases, but a case with good circulation seems to benefit from this configuration. The cost comparison is very close so that can be discounted as a consideration. This cools the whole unit as opposed to just the CPU that a water cooler is designed for.We also found great improvement in temps by adding fans to the radiator water cooling. Having a push/pull setup of fans is also a great way to improve your cooling.

After renewing my pc at the beginning of February this year, I decided to buy the Thermaltake TOUGHLIQUID 240 ARGB for my Intel Core i7-12700KF.At the beginning I had no problems with the product, easy to install, good performance. But after 9 months of use the cpu started to report temperatures above 80° until the pc would shut down for safety. After carefully analyzing what was going wrong I realized that the problem was the Thermaltake TOUGHLIQUID 240 ARGB which was not working.I have several Thermaltake products, among those fans, a toughpower and the chassis which I consider excellent products and would recommend without hesitation. This was the reason for purchasing the Thermaltake TOUGHLIQUID 240 ARGB, but it failed after less than a year of use.Conclusion. Terrible performance and quality, definitely disappointed. I would not recommend this product at all.