Professional Special CPU Water Cooling Block for Intel Water Cool System Computer Black

Designed my Cooling System around an old AIO 240 rad I first bought which I out grew and 280 rad with a 800L pump. I opened this block up after reading others reviews and it did need a little cleaning. Seems illogical to not check it, would anyone expect a $15 tire to go 180mph? I like the minimalist design. There is a good enough well for the gasket in there that a high quality gasket maker could be used in the future instead of trying to find an exact replacement. Only down side is I think the fins in my AIO $50 pump/plate were a little taller helping with heat transfer, none others in this price range differ. Benefit, likely nothing will get stuck in them unlike the fins in my AIO pump.

There's no backplate, no installation instructions, small manufacturing defects like some of the plastic from the tapped holes being left inside the block, and pretty low fin density on the hot side of the plate, but you'd be hard pressed to find another (functional) copper water block at this price. It works, but don't expect to be shattering any overclocking records with it. I bought this to finish a custom loop while still using an older CPU that will be replaced soon anyway so I didn't want to drop a lot $$$ on a proper block that would only get a few months of use.

It's not built like a tank, but mine didn't leak. The G1/4 threads are tapped correctly, although they erred on the small side. Bare copper cold plate could use a little elbow grease and polish on the CPU IHS contact side before installation. Comes apart easily for maintenance and cleaning, which it definitely needed out of the box. Mounting is a bit of a pain, but it holds in place if the spring doesn't decide to collapse in weird directions. It works, it's cheap, and it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as their universal block. It isn’t the prettiest thing, but it’s like $20.

Took a gamble on this after my ek supremacy mx block cracked. Block cracked cause if some bad luck with extreme temps on a chiller and the perfect ammount of tq. on the barbs it cracked 3 weeks into use. Anyways I needed a quick replacement to keep,my rig running and actully it really suprised me how good it was. The temps are pretty good. Set it up on just a 360 EX from xspc and this block and my 6 core xeon with a 1.75 ghz oc wont see much above 50 C with 60 to 65 deg F ambient temps. The block worked out so well for me Im actully goona keep it on that rig. Your luck may vary and I recommend pressure testing the block befoure you stick it on your cpu but for me it really worked out well.

I slapped one of these on my old 9900k and was consistently hitting 90c, running it through a 240mm and a very thick 280mm radiator. I do not think this item could cool a celeron.

Not very good support for mB connection

The screws to hold the block is not high quality at all, other than that, it works flawless.Be aware that there is no direction notice, when most cpu water blocks have flow directions. I used to install it vertically, and mistook the lower one as inlet, upper one as outlet, and noticed the temps of cores differ more than 10 degrees. Then I rotate it by 90 degrees, and now temps between cores are only 5-6 degrees C. So I agree, as long as you install it smart, you will get a good temp on the cores.

Quality looks and feels good. Install was simple. Beware there are no instructions included with this!!! Will update once I’ve run coolant through it and tested temps.