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well well well it's about time and zxt is made of three hundred sixty millimeter cooler to join their crackin family a lot of people have been asking for this because other companies coarser even fractal out of nowhere kind of have been adding three hundred sixty millimeter coolers to their lineup it's a popular size it's definitely getting popular right now and it complements 280 well for people who can't fit the width of 140 millimeter fan so today we're reviewing the kraken x 72 liquid cooler from NZXT using the same base products as the X 62 and 52 just with extra length 360 millimeters so it's got 320 millimeter fans on it that's what we're looking at today before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 these coolers are pretty straightforward we previously tore down one of the Kraken series coolers I think it was an ex 42 but it's all the same parts so the pump internally it's an ASA tech pump it's a gentle and NZXT had a really heavy hand in designing actually they custom-made a PCB that ended up going in there for RGB LED control that's something that NZXT did before the 6th generation which is now being used for the corsair h 100 i pro season 50 i pro h 115 i pro those have a new RGB LED PCB in it that AC tax made and they're offering to all their partners who by 6 generation pumps as a product itself the sixth generation pump is not better in any way than the 5th generation problem the difference is almost literally just the LEDs there are some changes in hot spots and some changes and how the liquid is pumped around the the actual pump the impeller is definitely better in 6 gen but as far as cooling performance they're roughly the same and six Jen is even slightly behind in all tests that we've done and according to all of the thermal engineers we've spoken with so in terms of performance fifth and six Jen not so far apart that means that the x70 to here which is a $200 cooler that competes with the H 150 I Pro from Corsair a $170 cooler both 360 millimeters that means that in terms of the pump quality alone there's not a big difference between them the primary changes are things like Coursera has specified a slightly smaller cold plate on their Pro Series and they've also got the six generation changes which obviously boil down to LEDs and a better impeller so ultimately what we're looking at with these products like always with something made by a supplier like gaze attack is the fans it's who has better fans who has better noise normalize performance we tested all of that and price is here just to give you an idea the X 70 to 200 bucks 3:103 120 millimeter fans it's 360 radiator $200 that X 62 is significantly cheaper $160 EVGA CLC 280 another 280 cooler is between 120 and 150 depending on the day the H 150 I Pro 170 flow 360 184 so the X 72 is definitely at the high end it is still cheaper than something like an ek MLC Phoenix which is a semi modular semi open loop design so kind of riding the line between entering it's a beginner open or semi open loop territory which is a dangerous place to be but if it works well and you're definitely not going to expand your loop that's not a bad product for you so let's get into this the main test we're doing 100% fans being 100% pump speed so basically it's just the flat-out test everything maxed out how well does it perform with no constraints whatsoever test after that hundred percent fan silent pump which is a preset and cam and then 63 percent fan speed to get a 40 DB eight and always normalize test for all the testing methodology and information the bench we use all of that click the link in the description below it'll go to the article you can read more about it they're tested at flat-out speeds the crowd connects 72 cooler maintains a steady-state load temperature of 35 degrees Celsius over ambient or there abouts roughly equivalent to the corsair h 150 i pro at mac speeds of 1600 RPM measuring at thirty five point eight degrees over ambience the difference is within margin of error the ek Phoenix 360 is an expandable loop with more open loop tendencies than closed loop tendencies and benefits from additional Headroom at higher rpms of 2150 ek Phoenix does about thirty-two point six degrees at peak performance using fans with 150 rpm higher speed and an overall bigger cooler and block compared more fairly versus other three hundred sixty millimeter coolers the crack connects 72 is right around the H 150 I Pro and the fractal s 36 at 1900 rpm which is about 100 rpm slower than X 72 s fans running with the X 72 at 100% fan speeds and a silent pump setting we land at 36 point four degrees over ambience this marks it as roughly tied with the H 150 I Pro at 40 DBA and H 100 IV two at max fan RPMs a significantly louder cooler but one which performs equivalently when slowing the X 72 pump noise normalize testing is done to equal the playing field of the coolers setting all of them to the same total system noise level of 40 DBA this allows us to test overall efficiency and efficacy of cooler and fan design for noise normalized cooling performance at 40 DB a total system noise the Krakken x 72 at 63% fan speeds measured at thirty seven point one degree Celsius over ambient this plant says right between the h1 50 I pro 360 cooler and the fractal s 36 360 cooler these three numbers are all within margin of error of one another there is no significant difference between the coolers within one degree of each other and the X 62 is also functionally equivalent when noise normalized keep in mind that pump speeds are somewhat variable with a 10% variance plus or minus contributing to some units unit differences and also the fan size of these coolers is different depending on we're looking at 280 or 360 NZXT Zacks 72 performance is about in line with other high-end coolers it's outdone at noise normalize performance by the ek MLC Phoenix 360 but that's a very expensive cooling solution with a semi open-loop abilities for noise levels the stock crackin X 72 with full fan and pump speeds measures at 50 DBA the same as the X 52 a 240 cooler with max fan speeds and also not far from the s 36 63% fan speeds hits 40 DBA for this one and the silent pump setting doesn't do much to reduce noise but that's because we had no issues with this pump making noise to begin with some of these tech pumps can be whiny but this particular unit performed well and did not have any meaningful pump whine the cooler does perfectly fine in terms of all the thermal and noise testing thermally it's competitive it's not significantly better or a significantly disadvantaged than any of the things we tested it including the ek Phoenix LLC which is a different class of cooler it's a higher class of cooler to be frank but it's more expensive it's expandable and it carries the whole ek theme of being sort of open-loop ish before you get into that really high end open-loop stuff so that's not a fair comparison but even when you do compare it to that product they're not terribly different in terms of flat-out performance for cooling one device the CPU that means ultimately you're left with trying to figure out why you would buy one cooler over the other so if they're all the same price and you're talking about cracking X 62 H 150 I Pro H 115 I Pro H 115 cracking X 72 evj 280 all that stuff you're talking those coolers it more or less comes down to pick the one with the noise levels that you want and the one with the look that you want pretty straightforward NZXT focus is pretty hard on the look they definitely have the most advanced RGB LED options in terms of current coolers they're miles ahead of Corsair still who are playing catch-up with the sixth-generation pump and if that's your thing then NZXT is the way to go but you still have to ask yourself if you need a 360 versus a 280 because functionally in terms of performance they're basically the same take the one that's cheaper that be the X 62 in this case which is 160 bucks or if you don't care about the LEDs go even lower list you have something like an EVGA CLC 280 or the old courser h 159 on pro for much cheaper than any of these that's if you're looking at just the performance angle though they're close enough to be completely irrelevant and you could save a bunch of money by going that way but again if you can't fit it to a tee or you really want a 360 for one reason or another it makes your build look better whatever X 72 is perfectly fine as a product there's nothing significantly wrong with it nothing really wrong with it at all just that price and wise it's it's up there it's higher than the flow 360 it's higher than the H 150 I Pro that it competes with and as higher than the fractal last 36 and basically everything else it's lower than the Phoenix I guess but that's not a big victory so it comes down to do you want the crackin next 72 specifically and it's RGB LEDs but performance wise you have absolutely nothing to worry about you can pick any of these colors that we just talked about 70 to 60 to 150 i 115 flow 360 CLC 280 any of them would be perfectly fine in terms of performance you pick based on the price and the looks we'll leave that to you but as a product nothing wrong with it at all really it's just as I said price so look into that see what you want to buy let us know otherwise go to store dye cameras nexus dotnet to pick up one of our new GN crystals like this one the mod matte or go to patreon.com slash gamers and access to helps out directly subscribe for more and I will see you 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