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The company doesn’t say how it arrived at this impressive noise figure, but the cheaper Seidon 120V has a vaguer “less than 23 dBA” noise rating, so the Nepton pump should be noticeably quieter than its sibling. Cooler Master says it can move 120 liters of coolant per hour while producing only 11 dBA of noise. The pump inside the Nepton 240M isn’t a run-of-the-mill unit, either. Instead, it’s ever-so-slightly grooved, perhaps to ensure that thermal paste can be squished into contact with as much of the plate as possible. The copper mating surface on the water block isn’t polished to a mirror sheen.
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According to Cooler Master, the water block in the Nepton series features “ultra-fine micro channel” technology, which makes for an internal surface area that’s four times larger than water blocks from “the competition.” While I can’t tear into the Nepton 240M to verify this claim, more surface area in the water block should make for better heat dissipation, so long as the ultra-fine fins don’t impede coolant flow. Let’s start with a look at the pump and water block on the Nepton. While the general principles remain the same from one to the next-an integrated pump and water block unit circulates coolant through a sealed radiator loop-there’s still plenty of room for manufacturers to put their own spins on the concept. Let’s take a look at the goodies Cooler Master has packaged with the Nepton 240M, and then we’ll put it in the hot seat.Īt first glance, it’s easy to dismiss CLCs as a “seen one, seen ’em all” deal, but that would be a mistake. With a 240-mm radiator, the Nepton 240M should have enough thermal capacity to handle even the hottest-running of today’s processors. These offerings include larger-diameter flexible tubing, higher-quality fans, and a more advanced water block design than the company’s less expensive Seidon CLCs.
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The Neptons represent the high end of Cooler Master’s CLC lineup. That brings me to the cooler I’m looking at today, Cooler Master’s $130 Nepton 240M. CLCs do away with the complexity of fully custom loops in favor of plug-and-play designs.
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There’s a dizzying array of closed-loop liquid coolers, or CLCs, available to the PC builder. Those mad scientists are still out there, but liquid cooling has become much more egalitarian of late. It was the mark of the most dedicated enthusiast, a mad-scientist-y whirl of custom water blocks, home-brewed tubing setups, and radiators pressed into Frankensteinian service from wherever they could be found. When I started building my own computers about a decade ago, liquid cooling had an exotic mystique. I’ve always been fascinated by liquid-cooling setups for PCs.