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now somewhere along the line I kind of got the reputation of being a little bit of a water-cooling snob I don't really think that's true at all all right maybe it's just a little true so to try and break out of that mold I'm gonna go ahead and feature my test rig right here in a video we're gonna throw in an all-in-one water cooling unit the cooler master Neptune 280 L I'm not above this hell no you better not blow up my rig now coolermaster obviously knows I'm a little bit of a cooling snob so they said why don't you go ahead and take our 280 L and take it for a test spin so they sent this bad boy over and that's what we're gonna do today now as you can see this is a factory sealed box so this isn't gonna be one of those I've already taken it out and played with it I look cooler that is we are gonna find out together on camera for the first time exactly what my impressions are of this NEFT on 280 L so let's go ahead and talk about the features real quick before we get inside now it is maintenance-free so this is not like the 240 glacier where you can expand it open it up drain it all that stuff it is maintenance-free you don't open it you open it up your void your warranty got two times the surface area because it's well I guess two times the surface area of the 140 and it's got durable fep tubing so it's kind of ribbed you know for your PC's pleasure and you can bend it around however you want so extreme cooling performance dual jet flow 140 fans and I've I've played around the jet flows and oh my god do they move a lot of air like a lot now for CPU sockets it'll fit on pretty much any CPU on the market and as you can see right here they've got some dimensions and some cooling graphs and stuff now I don't really care about their cooling graph I care about my experiences with open it up here it is right here now I do like the way the packaging is I like the way that everything is you know kind of ready to go out of the box here's the radiator and my goodness it is a pretty good size if you ask me there here is that radiator this is a pretty good sized radiator I like this now the pump in the block is one integrated unit make sure you take off that plastic piece before you put it on there I'm not embarrassed to say that I've done that before where I put it on with the plastic cooling on there probably way more times than I should have but here's our tubing it's nice and big and like I said it's nice and ribbed and the fittings on here do rotate that's the thing I really do like is they do rotate but you can rotate it off to the sides that way you can pretty much take as much torque off the tubing as possible you know you don't want to torque the tubing even though it is pretty durable so there's the radiator right there we are going to be mounting this into the top of my fractal arc XL for this review here are those dual 140 millimeter jet flow fans right here the cable on here is sleeve this is a 4 pin pwm cable and these these fins to move an awful lot of air in fact these are rated to over 2,000 rpm so I definitely recommend you hook it up to a PWM signal that way you can control the speed of these fans cuz my goodness do these things sound like a jet when they're flowing do you see what I did there now that kind of brings me to the next point coolermaster does not have proprietary software for controlling their fans and their all-in-one units so compared to some other brands on the market that may be a little bit of a downside but I've yet to find a motherboard where I couldn't actually control a PWM fan so with that said that's not going to be an issue oh and also to the pump is PWM controlled so you can speed up and slow down the pump based on the load of your CPU so it's got a lot of automatic control in there so here's all your hardware right here it does have everything for AMD and Intel all your old and new socket sets or I'm trying to get out of here if I can is the PWM fan splitter thank you for including this this is huge because I have even on my end power board here I have two CPU fan slots for PWM CPU one CPU two and I've got two fans and a pump I kind of lose control over something so you can hook this up to like CPU - it splits off to both your fans you can control it through your motherboard and then your CPU one can control your pump or first I however you want to set it up oh this is all great talking about what's in the box i'm talking about specs and stuff but there's only one way you can really see how well this thing works and we are gonna hook it up to the god-awful horribly hot 4770k that's right we're gonna see how well this thing cools the 4770k while overclocked because we all know 4770k is have been known to bring a lot of all-in-one coolers right to their knees and not in a good way so the Coolermaster neptune 280 l how does it do well first things first I just want to let you know that my 4770k was a perfect chip for this cooler because it is an absolute king dud it does not like to overclock and if I want to push it anywhere at all above its factory turbo spec I have to pump a lot of voltage into it so I thought that is the perfect scenario for testing this cooler let's just pump a ton of voltage into a chip that likes to get hot and has thermal interface material issues straight from the factory and let's see how this cooler can handle it now right now I'm running my chip at 4.4 gigahertz but it's taking 1.2 9 volts to do it now if you guys know anything about Intel overclocking at all you know that running 1.3 volts on the chip is definitely a lot of voltage and it can really push your temperatures up to the ceiling really really fast in fact on the empower motherboard if you plug in one point three volts manually the font turns red to basically tell you hey buddy hope you've enjoyed your chip while it's lasted you're about to melt it to the ground now when it comes to temperatures it pretty much spends most of its time during these stress tests bouncing around the low 70s in the upper 60s but it can get up into the 80s depending on which algorithm it's throwing at the CPU at that time but don't worry about those temperatures under general use you're never gonna leave the 50s over the 60s these stress tests are designed to take your CPU and hammer the out of them in fact the little animation when you turn on OCC T is a couple of guys taking sledgehammers - with CPU it's exactly what these things are doing they're throwing redundant calculations at the CPUs and absolutely positively maxing out every capability of the CPU at the same time so that's why these tests get really hot sometimes and that's why they're perfect test for coolers like this so guys in depth on 280 L it's a fantastic cooler in fact I've got an F ton that's cooling the APU build and I love the white glow around the logo on the CPU the only thing I think would make that better was if it was an RGB maybe you could change the colors I would change it to red currently for this build or maybe even yellow or something like that I think that's really the only criticism I have about this is that the LED should be able to colors but that's just me you know some of the other brands do that I think maybe this one should as well but the price is right the cooling is right the functionality is right it's got all the things I love in a CPU cooler I'm a huge fan of the fact that the 280 millimeter radiator supports both 140 and 120 millimeter fans that way if you have 120 fans you prefer to use or maybe your case doesn't support to 140 mils but you can fit the radiator in it you could use 120 millimeter fans to mount it so it just gives you a little bit extra compatibility and versatility so this summer if you guys are looking for a way to keep your CPU from catching fire you should definitely have the Neptune series on your shortlist it's available on a couple of different sizes in fact a Computex they even talked about new versions of this cooler coming out soon we'll definitely be taking a look at that here on this channel gotta give a huge thank you to Coolermaster for sending me this cooler to look at and test for you guys hopefully you guys have enjoyed the video and it helps you make a decision when it comes to buying cooler for your computer now one last thing I want to mention if you haven't noticed this video is only available in 720p that's because I'm trying out YouTube's brand new 60 frames per second function to see how well you guys like it would you guys rather have 1080p video at 30 frames per second or would you rather have 720p video at 60 frames per second unfortunately my camera's not capable of doing 1080p at 60 frames per second I am in the market for a new camera so maybe the future I'll be able to do 1080 at 60 frames for now you guys have a choice which one do you like head over to Twitter to tell me I'm probably not gonna be able to see all the comments here on youtube head over to Twitter it's at Jay's 2 cents pretty easy to find me it's the same for Instagram and Facebook and all that stuff and tell me if you guys want 720 at 60 or 1080 at 30 so guys I'm gonna get the heck on out of here as always I'll see you in the next one at least I hope so unless you've been subbed and then you're not watching this anyway so I guess I guess I will see you in the next one whatever