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today we're going to take a look at the deep cool captain 240 like a boss ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with a review of the deep cool captain 240 which is their flagship all-in-one liquid CPU cooler now today I'll be taking a look at what's in the box the features of this unit then I'll be doing a noise test for you guys and then running some benchmarks for you guys and then lastly giving you my subjective opinion on whether I think this unit is worth the money so soon as you open the box it comes packaged very well you get two fans included there they're 120 millimeters by 120 millimeters their PWM controlled they also come with braided cabling and you also get a fan hub in there as well which will allow you to extend one four pin CPU connector to an extra four CPU fan connectors there which is actually needed in this case since you will need three CPU fan headers to off the fans and one off the block itself now also included is the mounting kits and the installation manual and the installation manual I will say is very well written installation was a breeze it was simple and even a dummy could do it also on the mounting kits it has support all the way back to a m2 on the AMD side of things and LGA 1366 on the intel side of things looking at the main unit itself the block and the pump deep cool this time around have gone with a unique in-house design so that's right they're not using any ace tech pumps or coolers in this unit which is a good thing in my opinion and the union itself is a bit chunky which measures at 56 by 56 millimeters by 65 millimeters there and you've also got a clear hose coming out the top of the unit indicating that they're using a custom red liquid solution in this unit now printed on the side of the unit is gamer Storm logo they're also on the bottom of the unit they've got pre-applied thermal paste on a copper base plate and then coming out of the unit there you've got two hoses one for intake one for out take and they measure up to 310 millimeters long and they're also made of a ribbed plastic which I'm not a big fan of though that goes all the way up to the radio which is a 240 millimeter radiator in a black theme it's also got mounting options there to mount it in either a push or pull configuration or a push and pull configuration if you have the extra fans also the total dimensions of the unit measures in at 273 millimeters by 120 millimeters by 28 millimeters thick so now we'll do a noise test however before we do that I'll quickly talk about the pump which made no noise in practice which is a great thing and upon turning it on for the first time I noticed that it had a decent amount of strength to it as well you can hear it flushing through that liquid and another good thing is that this pump is rated at 120 thousand hours mean time before failure which is a good thing considering a lot of other El all-in-one coolers out there are only rated at 50,000 hours now we'll just do a noise test for you guys at the moment and I'm sitting about an arm's length away from my computer which is indicative in my opinion of a real-world scenario so I'll be quiet for a few seconds and then I'll actually move up now with the microphone and you guys can see the noise so now let's take a quick look at the benchmarks and we'll start with the 6600 case skylake rig that I have up here and honestly when I tested this at 22 degrees ambient temperatures in a controlled room environment this thing only went up to 58 degrees after 10 minutes in I 264 full load and honestly at these temperatures it made no noise at all this thing was pretty whisper quiet which is a great thing and also you can see that it was beating out the other air coolers there by a comfortable margin as well so this unit does perform really well especially on the four cores so now we get onto my six core 5820k benchmarks and this is where things start to get into the realm of serious business so four point three gigahertz at one point to five volt you can see here that the deep cool captain 240 was beating the competition by even more of a margin than it was on the four core we have their 70 degrees versus the next best competitor at 676 degrees however one thing to mention though if you have a fan tuning profile in your bias like my asrock you can actually lower the speeds of your fans to come in at a higher temperature and this will mean that you'll be sacrificing a few degrees in temperature for much lower noise so in practice when I did this man the fans were just quiet or a lot quieter than they were on the stock profile and I only dropped five degrees which was still performing better than all the air coolers I tested so all in all I'm going to be giving this unit four and a half stars out of five I was very impressed with what deep cool have done this time overall the build quality is great the unit feels solid and also they've clearly included a strong pump in this unit now of course I will be knocking off half a star for those fans they do get a little bit noisy and also the tubing as well I wasn't a big fan of the ribbed plastic I would prefer to see some rubber tubing there which is a little bit more flexible and durable in my opinion and if they could I would love to see some transparent black tubing to bring out that red and make this unit overall an absolute winner though let's look at the good points strong performance you saw the performance figures there in the benchmarks this thing kicked ass I mean it beat all the air coolers have around here by a comfortable margin as well as making low noise on the fork or and even on the six core I could sacrifice some temperature there to keep the noise under control now this brings me to that final important question of is this unit worth it when I check the price on the in it you could currently get this unit for $100 I think on Newegg it's got a $20 mail-in rebate at the moment which makes this unit $80 and honestly at this price it is fantastic value for money and I can highly recommend it for someone looking for something to keep the four core under control or even their 6 for under control and do it while having a pretty good looking solution and well so that's about it for me guys if you have any questions or comments about the deep cool kappa 240 then drop a comment in the comment section below and i'll get back to you as soon as I can and if you haven't already hit that like button and subscribe to tech ya city for more tech news and reviews peace out for now bye