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the Coolermaster Neptune to ATL continues a happy trend that we've seen developing recently it takes the status quo that is radiators designed for 120 millimeter fans and amps it up a notch it uses two 140 millimeter Coolermaster jet flow fans to cover the massive surface area of its 280 millimeter long radiator speaking of status quo instead of rebranding a design from ASA Tucker kulit Coolermaster uses their own pump and ultrafine micro channel water block design giving them full control over the performance and quality of these components but does it translate into the real world I guess we'll find out with its factory tuning and data center DNA and Intel 730 series SSD is an amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so I'm going to start this off with a couple of things that I actually don't really like about this their jet flow fans have great specs but and this goes for all liquid cooling manufacturers why do they have rounded frames see this gap see this gap right here we did a test on another liquid cooler that uses pressure optimized round frame fins where we use duct tape to cover the gaps and guess what we've got a couple degrees lower temperatures for our effort because duct tape for sealing gaps to achieve optimal air flow please no gaps please Coolermaster and everyone else for that matter square frame fans for radiators that is Linus law number 347 anyways there's another one use of an all aluminum radiator is something that hardcore liquid cooling purists might not like but the system is completely sealed and uses extra thick fep tubing 3/8 inch tubing by the way to prevent the slow evaporation that can occur with porous tubing so since you'll never open it and there's an appropriate anti corrosive coolant inside it won't be a problem because metals aren't actually in contact with each other while it isn't a problem however it does mean some of the performance of the system is left on the table compared to if it had the surface area does and used a copper and brass design like Coolermaster zone glacier 240 L which performed similarly and also happens to be fully expandable I apologize in advance for not having it in our performance charts though I stole it from Luke's testing stable because I wanted it for my liquid cooling video card test bench sometime ago anyway about the aluminum rad I'll say this though at least coolermaster doesn't hide it I couldn't find the radiator material of the H 110 anywhere in Corsairs official literature and had to go hunting to see what they were using installing the two ad l in my standard case the c 70 was actually a little bit tricky the fill port sticks out on the bottom if you don't put the fans on the bottom and that makes it so that you're probably going to hit your 8 pin power we actually split that into a four pin and allowed it to dodge the fill port which helped a lot but then again in their recommended configuration with the fans on the bottom not the fans on the top like we do it fits a lot better we also had problems with the radiator hitting other different parts of the case but again if you put the fans on the bottom like they recommend you don't have that problem although we do prefer putting it on top we do this with every single radio that comes in here and we find that it standardizes the whole process in terms of performance we found that the cooler performs within margin of error of an H 110 and considering the the margin area that comes with our thermal test mentions we don't have a thermally controlled room that's fairly realistic as these radiators are quite similar so in conclusion if you're looking for a liquid cooling unit that's got good looks with its white LED lighting FX comes with a fantastic five year warranty and features compatibility for both 140 millimeter and 120 millimeter fans although the 120 millimeter fans will seal even less against the radiator then the Neptune 280 L is a solid choice compared to the more traditional dual 120 millimeter radiator designs on the market just make sure that your case has room for it guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment for us in the Linus tech tips forum which is linked in the video description to let us know if you you know have something to say about this product or something to say about our methods of making videos whether that's a positive or a negative thing we're always open to you know helpful suggestions or even unhelpful suggestions like - 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