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Hardware components in the computer generate a lot of heat, and excessive heat can cause significant damage. A CPU fan, heatsink and case fan usually keep a computer cool. But for power users, gamers and users who run a lot of resource-heavy programs over extended times, water liquid cooling is a better option.

CPUs require a lot of power for their functionality, and this power converts to heat after use. Sometimes CPUs generate excessive heat, and the heat can be hazardous to the CPUs themselves. CPU fans and heatsinks help counter this effect, but a liquid CPU cooler can keep CPU temperatures down because water is more efficient at transferring heat than air. Liquid cooling also makes a computer quieter, as the fans don’t have to run at high RPMs.

Just like other components, hard drives generate heat. The heatsinks and the fans attached to the CPU may not dissipate heat away from both the CPU and the hard drive. Instead, hard drive cooling components find their application in this area. Hard drive liquid CPU coolers absorb the heat away from the component. The water liquid cooling technique can drive heat away from remote components of the hard drive that may not be accessible by fans. This allows the user to enjoy demanding activities such as gaming with minimal heat production.

Computers have a fan or fans in their casing. The fans ensure air circulates to move heat out and draw cooler air in to keep the computer’s interior cool. Case fans play a crucial role, even if components such as CPUs and GPUs have incorporated water cooling devices in their systems. Typical components found on the motherboard don"t come with water cooling kits. Case fans will prolong the life of an unprotected component by preventing it from overheating.

Many water cooling kits and individual liquid cooling components feature LED lighting that can turn a regular computer into an art piece. Many models include control hubs or remote controls that allow users to change the colors, and choose from a single static color to multicolor, flashing or pulsing in a number of configurations. Whatever type of liquid cooling you need, Newegg has a wide variety of fans and coolers to choose from.

FeaturesA premium all-in-one CPU cooler that combines powerful, low-noise cooling and vibrant RGB lighting with a personalized LCD display, offering custom graphics to accent your system"s aesthetics and track its real-time performance at a glance.

Showcase your live CPU temperature, favorite animated GIF, funniest meme, your team"s logo, or anything you like on a custom 2.1" IPS LCD screen with 480x480 resolution, ultra-bright 600cd/m2 backlight, 24-bit true color depth, and over 16.7 million colors.

CORSAIR iCUE software enables you to switch between a variety of display options such as fan speeds, CPU temps, images and GIFs, and more, adjust fan and pump speeds, and control and synchronize RGB lighting with all iCUE-compatible devices.

This All-in-One (AIO) liquid cooler is designed for full and mid-tower cases with support for 360mm radiator mounting, this AIO delivers the highest cooling potential of any NZXT Kraken.Rotatable top accommodates logo re-orientation*

The CORSAIR iCUE H170i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler delivers powerful, customized cooling for the most ambitious PC builds, with a personalized LCD screen and three cutting-edge CORSAIR ML140 RGB ELITE PWM fans.

The best performing coolers from one of the biggest names in cooling, ELITE LCD all-in-one liquid CPU coolers offer a unique window into both your PC’s performance and your own style and personality.

Upload your own animated GIFs and images or choose from numerous pre-installed screens and lighting profiles for groundbreaking system lighting and customization options. Showcase your favorite animated GIF, funniest meme, your team’s logo, or anything you like on a custom 2.1″ IPS LCD screen with 480×480 resolution and ultra-bright 600cd/m² backlight.

Each Elite LCD Cooler comes with an iCUE COMMANDER CORE that can control lighting and fan speeds of not only the included fans, but up to a total of six. Turn any case into a smart case.

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A CPU cooler is a vital component of any PC build, and the market has a vast amount of brands and types to choose from. But this begs the question, which CPU cooler should you choose? Should you grab a cheap cooler to leave more cash for a better CPU, or instead get an expensive option with as many features as possible?

To learn more about what exactly a cooler is, check out our dedicated piece below. Here we’ll be looking specifically at the differences between the different cooler types, and what makes them cheap or expensive.

The most well known way to cool your CPU is through air cooling. Before liquid coolers were ever introduced, fans were the only way to provide cooling for your processor. Air coolers tend to sit at the cheapest end of the market, as there is a lot less involved in terms of R&D and materials. The standard design of most CPU coolers involves a heat sink fitted with heat pipes and one or two fans attached to either side.

There are a few factors that can affect the cost of an air cooler, making them more or less expensive. One of these factors is the included fans. Fans that can run silently at a high RPMs, and ones that provide optimal cooling, are expensive to manufacture, thus driving the price up significantly. For example, many of Corsair‘s fans use magnetic levitation technology which allows them to spin faster, without having a huge impact on the noise level.

Other factors that can drive up the price include the size of the heatsink, and the type of heatsink used. Heatsinks consist of 10s or 100s or thin metal fins. The bigger the heatsink, the more fins there are, driving up the manufacturing cost (and also the performance levels!). RGB is also another area to point out. Many modern fans utilise RGB to add some additional aesthetic to a build, and this will add to the price too dependent on how much RGB there is. Generally an air cooler will be much cheaper than an AIO or custom loop, but you can still find expensive air coolers out there.

Liquid CPU coolers or AIOs (standing for all in ones) tend to be situated at the higher-end of the CPU cooler market. Here you’ll find a wide range of coolers featuring different radiator sizes, varying designs of fans and extra features like RGB, LCD displays and more. Although these types of coolers tend to offer plenty of choice with concerns to budget, there are definitely some expensive options.

Liquid AIOs tend to be the coolers that have best options in terms of features. You’re less limited than with an air cooler, where there is not much a manufacture can really tweak, allowing for more custom designs. Recently, the market has seen widespread adaption of LCD screens on AIO coolers, offering further customisation and system monitoring.

The number of features on an air cooler has a direct impact on cost, with certain extras costing more than others. Features like a screen or RGB aren’t going to thermally improve your system, and neither will an LCD. The factors which will make a tangible difference to performance are the number, and size, of included fans, the quality of the pump, as well as the size and density of the included radiator.

We’ve spoken about custom liquid cooling before, and we’ve established that custom water cooling is definitely extreme. However, there are reasons why you might want to go the extra mile to make your thermals better.

With any component there are multiple features that will ultimately determine the price. With coolers this remains a similar situation, whereby manufacturers are providing coolers that can be configured in certain ways to include these extra features.

We all love RGB, and one of the biggest features to be aware of that will make your CPU cooler price tag higher is aesthetic. If you have an AIO that utilises RGB lighting on both the pump AIO and comes with RGB fans this may not be cheap. The same goes for air coolers. An air cooler that has extra RGB will add some great aesthetic, but the caveat is ultimately the cost.

LCD Displays being integrated into coolers is a more recent addition to the market. Brands such as Corsair and NZXT pioneered the technology initially, with others in the space following suit. These screens can be useful for monitoring thermals, fan speeds and other stats, but are a waste if your PC is situated under a desk or out of sight.

Manufacturers are constantly releasing new air and liquid coolers to coincide with new CPU releases from Intel and AMD. Generally speaking, new CPUs will work with older coolers, but it is not a given.

On the AMD side you shouldn’t have an issue, with their long standing AM4 socket a constant design throughout their entire Ryzen lineup. As a bonus, their new AM5 socket for Ryzen 7000 CPUs is set to retain cooler support for AM4 brackets. However, Intel CPUs don’t always follow the same design philosophy. This means every couple of years we tend to get a new socket, and this means new brackets are needed to fit CPU coolers.

Double check that your cooler has support for your desired CPU and CPU socket before buying. Keep current with your cooler choice and you should’t have any issues!

When overclocking your CPU, a good CPU cooler is unfortunately a must have. Because your CPU is maintaining higher voltages to be able to boost its clock speeds, this means higher temperatures. The better the cooler, the more overclocking headroom.

If you plan on overclocking your build, you’ll need grab yourself a substantial CPU cooler. In realty this means a modern 240mm cooler or larger. We find 360mm coolers to be the sweet spot for high performing processors. Air coolers are a little more tricky to recommend, but a beefy two-fan unit will be a must for high power configs.

If you’ve got a smaller form factor build making the jump to liquid cooling, with either an AIO or a custom loop, might be better than a low-profile air cooler. This is because the use of liquid can allow you to efficiently move heat away from your processor and other hot components. This not only allows for better CPU cooling, but also cooler components across the board.

One of the final factors to pay attention to is pure aesthetic and looks. If you have a specific design for your build, then you might need to shop around to find a CPU cooler that fits the aesthetic. If you’re not bothered about RGB and you’re settling for a dark colour scheme, a stealthy cooler, like options from Noctua, might be a worthy shout.

Before recommending some of our favourite coolers, I’d like to make a point about expense vs quality. You might think that the more expensive components are the best, and in some cases this is true. For example Nvidia’s RTX 3090Ti is the best consumer gaming GPU that you can currently buy, but is it required for a good gaming experience? Definitely not. It’s something which we see particularly prevalent with coolers – there are lots of expensive options which aren’t necessarilyoptimal on the price to performance front.

The best way to find out if an expensive cooler is worth the extra cost is by comparing it to other cooler benchmarks within the market. You may find that a $200 CPU cooler which boasts an LCD screen, RGB and a refillable loop actually provides similar thermals to another liquid cooler that is half the price.

With the theme in mind of ‘expensive VS good’ we’ve provided some expensive CPU cooler options that we recommend to use. Both of the choices we provided are on the pricier end, but you’re definitely getting what you pay for.

Noctua’s NH-D15 is one of the most expensive air coolers that you can pick up currently. You would think this CPU cooler is more of a recent addition to the market, but in fact this cooler has been around for over 8 years. Because Noctua made such an incredible cooler in the first place, it is a design that has received many updates in a bid to keep it modern with new processors. If you’re looking to overclock or you want a particularly silent system, this cooler is a great choice.

Corsair’s line-up of liquid AIOs are very good, but the H150i Elite Capellix takes the cake when it comes to performance. In terms of thermals this cooler is virtually unmatched when compared to every other liquid cooler available on the market. (With the exception of some very expensive or 420mm AIO options). If you’re looking to overclock your CPU, this cooler is definitely a great shout. In terms of aesthetic, this cooler leverages Corsair’s iCUE software, and their ‘Capellix’ technology, creating vibrant and bright LED effect that shine throughout your build.

It’s IPS, it’s 600cd/m², and its 2.1” diagonal measurement gets us 480×480 pixels. We’re talking about the LCD screen of Corsair’s iCue H100i Elite LCD, and we’d might as well put it right out front that the worst we can say about this $260 complete kit is that its nominal price is $110 greater than Corsair’s iCue H100i Elite Capellix cooler-only kit, and $10 greater than the combination of the Elite Capellix cooler ($150) and CPU Cooler LCD Display Upgrade Kit ($100).

That $260 nominal price gets iCue H100i Elite LCD buyers a 2x120mm-fan radiator, a factory-attached water block with integrated pump and programmable LCD cover, two 120mm ARGB fans, mounting hardware for Intel’s LGA1700, 1200/115x and 2066/2011, additional mounting hardware for AMD’s AM4 and sTRX4/sTR4, a Corsair Commander Core with additional USB internal header splitter cable, and mounting hardware for the radiator/fans and pump.

As described above, the iCue H100i Elite LCD combines its pump and CPU water block into a single component, and caps that component with an LCD-faced cover. The CPU interface at the base of the unit is called a “cold plate”, and Corsair’s copper design uses split pathways with 128 fins per inch in contact with the water above. Corsair adds a blotch of silver thermal paste to the center of the cold plate’s bottom, thereby easing installation for builders who may not have a tube of thermal paste at hand.

Powered by an SATA header, the Commander Core is responsible for controlling up to six fans and six ARGB devices in addition to linking the pump unit and its LCD display.

We thought that the best way to show off a liquid cooler with a built in status display would be to pair it with a power supply that also has a status display. We recently tested such a machine, and replacing its cooler would be easy.

The point of having a programmable display on the top of the water block is that it allows users to put whatever image they want there, and for that you’ll need software. Corsair’s iCue software provides both lighting and fan control, with RGB configurable for both the fans and the lighted ring around its 480×480 IPS display.

While the default coolant temperature display isn’t very useful for system monitoring, users are welcomed to swap out the coolant temperature for something more urgent. We found “Dual Bar” to be the most useful of factory configurations, as it reads CPU temperature from the motherboard as well as coolant temperature from the pump.

The pump’s display is also able to show both static images and GIF animations. We added our own static image, and set the pump and fan speeds to their highest settings to produce the lowest possible temperatures.

This reviewer picked the Celsius S24 years ago as a top-performing, easily-installed option for testing cases. The iCue H100i Elite LCD sacrifices installation ease for configurability, but that shouldn’t have any impact on performance. Both are installed above our motherboard’s passive voltage regulator to aid in motherboard cooling.

The short story is the that iCue H100i Elite LCD cools our CPU slightly better than the Celsius S24, but did a slightly lesser job of cooling our voltage regulator. The longer story is that we had to do extended testing to get these results, as Prime95 small-FFTs are not ideal for load testing the 3700X.

The iCue H100i Elite LCD may cool our CPU a couple degrees better, but it does so with a couple decibels more noise. Note that these are not noise levels for the complete system, but only for each cooler.

With tiny improvements in CPU temperature offsetting tiny increases in noise, most buyers won’t be choosing the iCue H100i Elite LCD for performance alone. That’s OK, because it offers a few features that we’re sure high-end builders are willing to pay for:

Corsair’s iCue H100i Elite LCD combines the features of its H100i Elite Capellix and Elite LCD upgrade kit, for $10 to $20 more than the contributed parts. For ease of installation, it might just be worth the difference.

When faced with the pricing conundrum that this LCD-inclusive model costs more than the combination of the base model and LCD upgrade, we went out on the web and found users whose weren’t able to complete the installation of the LCD upgrade to the cheaper non-LCD model. Given that little hiccup, it’s probably worthwhile for most builders to buy this entire configuration as a factory-completed kit, even if it does cost a little more.

The math is simple: People who own the $150 version of this cooler were already finding value in the $100 LCD upgrade. By nudging the price down to $250 or less, Corsair qualified the combined product for the same award. For those who want even more value, Corsair is offering free shipping through the end of July.