Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120L RGB Close-Loop CPU Liquid Cooler, 120mm Radiator, Dual Chamber RGB Pump, Dual MF120R RGB Fans, RGB Lighting for AMD Ryzen/Intel LGA1200/1151 LGA 1700 Compatible

Pros: -Offers good performance for the price point – capable of cooling moderately overclocked 4-core processors. Expect idle temps around 31C, and 1-hour load around 62C. -Offers RGB illumination from the fans and pump for a flashy PC build -Broad socket support for AMD & Intel desktops from the last 10+ years -Dual 4-pin PWM fans can be connected directly to motherboard for BIOS or software control. (Each is a rifle-bearing 9-blade fan rated for a moderate 0.37A of power draw). Also, I believe some motherboards have native control for the 4-pin RGB connectors, allowing you to bypass the RGB controller included in the kit.

Cons: -Over-complicated wiring process for LEDs -Excess amount of wiring to hide and tuck for a clean install -The LED controller has to be located inside your PC case due to wiring length constraints -RGB color presets only – no full spectrum customization possible -Somewhat noisy fans when ¾ to full power (1500rpm-2000rpm).

Overall Review: -The included fans are MasterFan 120AB (DF1202512RFMN), which shares a model number with other CM fans of different blade configurations, so it could be difficult to find an exact replacement if needed. These appear to match most closely to the MasterFan MF120R RGB listed on the Cooler Master website as R4-C1DS-20PC-R1. -2year manufacturer warranty Thanks to Newegg.com and Cooler Master for providing the review sample! If you found my product review helpful in your search, please check Yes below. Thanks!

Pros: 1. Compact 2. Does a great job 3. Fits a lot of design 4. Different color lights if you want them 5. Easy to install My sons game computer is Red. The motherboard is black with red lights. The case fans give off red light. Changing this to red was easy and a perfect match. His is quite happy. So how does it work? Great. The CPU is over clocked and the thermal are very good. I cannot complain. It comes with a decent thermal paste. It is easy to install. The manual is just pictures. It can fit a lot of different processors. All products should work as well. The radiator is not bigger than than the cooling fan, so it can be put in a lot of different places. Flexibility in installation gives you options to cool your computer.

Cons: 1. I would like to see swivel connections at both ends. 2. You will need a molex connector The radiator could use swivel connectors, it would make it easier to install. A molex connection - really, in this day an age. Larger power supplies have plenty of connections, but many are modular. Having to put in a special connector or attaching a molex cable just did not make sense. I understand the need for power, but changing it to take 1 or 2 SATA power connectors would make sense.

Overall Review: I would highly recommend this for computers where moderate overclocking is being done to the CPU. If you want extreme overclocking buy a better cooling system. For a normal gaming rig it is a great upgrade and will allow you to cool the CPU with a moderate overclock. I also see this for video and photo rigs or other processor intensive activities. Though the lights on the cooler really do not fit these applications. It give the advantage of having liquid cooling without the expense of buy a lot of equipment and having to run custom pipes. It can also run with very low fan speed without overclocking. Not quite a silent PC, but one that stays cool and does not make a lot of noise if you are not looking for extra performance. At $60.00 it is a good deal.

Pros: First rule when installing a water cooling unit is to liquid test it. To do this simply open up your existing computer case and plug the unit in it and allow it to hang outside the case. Leave it running for a few hours and put toilet paper under it so you can see if anything leaks. First thing I noticed when pulling everything out of the box is that the fans appear to be cheaply made. The radiator itself seems to be solid. I am a bit concerned with the liquid lines that run from the radiator to the CPU block. They also seem to be cheaply made, I suggest not to make to many (unnatural) turns with the tubes. It is designed to do one flip with a twist. Anything outside of that is not natural for the tubes and considering the quality you may run the risk of a leak with usage (over time). Ironically the block itself seems to be well made and the fact it DOES NOT use a back plate when installing on AMD systems is a plus. It uses the existing backplate that comes with your motherboard and the standard AMD clamps. The only down side is that while installing it the CPU block may slide a bit as you are trying to get it clamped down and tight. Even with that, the fact you DO NOT need to take your motherboard out of the case as long as it has the standard clamps that it came with is a big plus for people who are not super tech savvy. Once I had this mounted I ran an Intel Burn on Medium and then High with 10 passes. It worked great and kept the temps way below TJ Max. My fear with the fans started to show at this point. They made LOTS of noise and I could hear them down the hall if the door was open to the bedroom. I replaced the fans with ones that I had, and the noise ratio went down significantly and they worked just as good. My PC is an AMD FX 8 core running at 4.5Ghz with 16 Gb of memory. I used a Cooler Master HAF 922 Case and mounted the radiator/fans at the top of the case.

Cons: The two fans appear to be cheaply made and make A LOT of noise.

Overall Review: For the current listed sales price you get a great deal, I suggest you spend a few dollars and get better fans.

Pros: This cools about as well as the Noctua NH-D15, and it’s cheaper. Not as quiet, but it’s not bad @ idle. Very low, about 30dB to my microphone inside my case. It’s within a few degrees of the big boys, at half the price. Tech must have really improved. Some people prefer the looks of a watercooler vs a big huge metal fin block. I get it.

Cons: At full speed this is loud. But when the CPU is going full tilt, that’s usually in gaming when you don’t care if it’s loud. The game is louder. But if you are getting this to use while overclocking while encoding or something, you may want to get a different cooler, because it’s about 70dB @ full tilt, which is noticeable for sure. Even with headphones on.

Overall Review: Low profile is handy for some I am sure. It’s easy to mount on the top, sides or rear. Cables are flexible but strong. They can’t I’m really impressed that kind of performance can come from such a “economical” water cooler. If you are not hyper sound sensitive, and want to do water cooling, because you just wanna, this wouldn’t be a bad one to try. But if you want top notch cooling at a fraction of the noise, I’d go with the THERMALRIGHT TRUE Spirit/Power 140, if your case has the height that is. You’ll get better performance at a lower sound level for the same price.

Pros: Closed loop coolers are eye candy for desktops. These things look great and most can offer good performance while not covering your motherboard with a bulky tower cooler allowing you to go in and plug stuff in even after you installed them! Coolermasters ML fan is very good, pumps air through the radiator quietly and has RGB lighting, making it a good value as well The pump is quiet, and the documentation is well laid out and it has a nice mounting system that makes sense and isn't very hard to install. Tubing is that flex tubing with sleeving, very bendable to suit your needs while not risking kinking even on tight bends. Controlling the RGB lighting is a switch that has different modes for color, brightness and lightning modes and is can also sync with other RGB fans and different lighting found on motherboards, definitely awesome to have

Cons: For the price, it just doesn't perform as well as cheaper alternatives but at least it will look great in your case! The need for the molex connector! Just make it a sata power like corsair does, having to dig out an old molex to sata adapter so i didn't have to run another power cable is a little silly especially when sata should be able to power it

Overall Review: Compared to coolermasters hyper 212x which is a single tower air cooler and comes in at a cheaper price, the difference is pretty substantial Tests were done on a i5 4690k overclocked to 4.7 ghz running intel burn test for the absolute maximum loads hyper 212x min: 32c max: 74c ML120L min: 28c max: 80c Intel burn test is worst case as it maxes your cpu in a way that most games and stuff won't do, however it does give you a more accurate representation of the cooling capactity, and as you can see, a cheaper 40 dollar cooler keeps the overclock temps down more than this thing. HOWEVER all of the closed loop coolers that i have ever used have been outpreformed by coolermasters hyper 212x or the previous variants 212 and 212 evo(there is a reason why its probably the best cooler under $80 Overall i decided to leave in the ML120L for now dealing with a little higher temps but inside my case looks great and i'm ok with the loss of performance. If you value looks over a little bit of efficiency this thing is definitely for you, in my case it's a reasonable difference.

Pros: The Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 120 All-in-one CPU Liquid Cooler fits pretty much every socket CPU (except TR4, but even for that an adapter is available). The specification list up to 180W TDP, more than the 150 on the air based TDP HSF. It is compact and that makes installation a breeze. The flexible tubes are of appropriate length, making installation simple. Remove the motherboard and put the backing plate on the back side of the motherboard. It is low depth and fit readily with no case modification, even with an older case that does not have a cutout behind the CPU area. The instructions are mostly visual and simple enough to follow. The pump and fan connections to the motherboard are straightforward. The entire installation process replacing a conventional air HSF took less than an hour. It is quiet, with the pump listed at < 8 dBA and the fan 6-30 dBA. The pump is described as a dual dissipation pump and the entire thing should be maintenance free. The specs for the pump list 70,000 hours MTTF, which works out to about 8 years, and the fan is listed as more than double that. The fan appears to be high quality and has a high density sine fin design, and qualitatively it was quieter than my case fans. Performance was great, even better than I expected. It had no issue taking a 6600k to 4.6 GHz and in stability testing it stayed below 60 degrees C. That is something I can easily live with and have no concerns.

Cons: The copper block had clear machining marks, as shown in gallery images, and was not particularly smooth or polished. I considered polishing it and then testing again to see if there is any improvement in cooling performance, but given the above performance it did not seem like it would be worth the time.

Overall Review: This is my second CPU liquid cooler, with the other cooling a 4770k. I may obtain another one of these to use with a currently air cooled 5820k.

Pros: Cooler Master is a name I trust. They have never sold me junk Two Year Warranty Fits a wide array of CPU sockets from both AMD and Intel Affordable 17,000 Posts in the Cooler Master CPU Cooling Forum...means help is there if you need it Very Attractive in my Windowed Case. I like the white light lit CM logo Did not need to remove the mobo to install None of the system interferes with any other system part

Cons: The radiator needed a small, gentle bend where the screw holes lined up to accept the fan screws. They were out of line Fan, while not a cheapo, is hardly premium and makes noise. A rather common problem based on reviews. I know it is the fan because if I stop it running the noise stops too Pictograph based instructions. Pictograph displays huge blob of thermal paste be applied...some don't know not to do that. Pictograph shows CPU cooler plastic cover removed first..I waited a few steps until just before attachment, no reason to maybe scratch it. Tubing quite stiff but easy enough to manipulate, just pay attention to the way it wants to bend. Tubing really isn't long thus it might be an issue with large cases. Misleading Sticker on box. Sticker states for socket 1151 which might lead someone to pass it by if that's not what they have. Further inspection reveals actual wide ranging socket compatibility on box side.

Overall Review: I installed (took about an hour and was not hard despite the directions) the 120 in a Zalman ZM-Z9 U3 mid tower windowed case running a i3 4130 on an micro ATX board with 8 GB DDR3-1600 mem. This is my backup system. I play older games on it. I tested the cooling by playing Dead Space 2. During a particularly hectic, lots of monster kill fest I would alt-tab out to HWINFO and read CPU temps. Previous to the 120 I had a Hyper 212 EVO doing the cooling chores. The 120 gave me 3 or 4 degree lower temps every time I checked so it is a better cooler in my setup then air. That speaks well for the 120. The 120 is an all in one cooling solution and is the least expensive option Cooler Master sells which means it is for folk on a budget that desire an AIO solution. Budget is the keyword. If you had a i7 in a premium game system this might not be your choice Looks cooler in my case then the Hyper 212 Evo that I was using. If you are going to have a clear panel to view your systems guts you will see more guts and less CPU cooler with the 120. I find that a plus. When working in your case, since the 120 takes up considerably less space, you will have more room. As mentioned in cons the fan made noise and it was not moving air noise I heard it as a lower pitched whine/hum that I could not tolerate. The power to the fan is supplied from a four pin PWM. I have three pin resistors from an old Zalman purchase. I prefer a hardware solution to decreasing fan speed. I also have several fans in the closet. The supplied fan is 120.00 x 120.00 x 25.00mm and I had a couple of those. They are three pin so I swapped the 120 fan for my premium closet fan, added the inline resistor and the 120 is now silent and cools just as well at a lower speed according to my test bench data. If Cooler Master could get the fan right this would be a great option for an intro AIO solution. The fan issues I and many others found while not killing the deal makes me hesitant to fully recommend the 120. What evaluating the 120 has taught me is that for guys that like looking in and displaying their case innards an AIO or self-built liquid cooling system is definitely the way to go. They look cool, allow for more room to work and cool as well as if not better then a large bulky air cooler.

Pros: I'm quite impressed with the Cooler Master MasterLiquid LIte 240 AIO CPU watercooler. I have past experience working with liquid cooling back when your only option was to buy all the parts and pieces individually, hook up your own pluming and then cross your fingers that it didn't leak. This system is far nicer to set up. I just happened to have a Cooler Master tower to try this in which was another big plus as there were already mounts built into the case for it. Install was a breeze. My CPU temps on a Ryzen 7 processor went from 50-53 c idle with air cooling to 32-33 c idle with the Master Liquid Lite 240. Under load it hardly breaks a sweat. I have yet to see it climb over 40 c. Included in the box is the reservoir (already connected to the heat sync/pump. Mounting brackets and screws for various AMD and Intel chipsets, a CPU fan power splitter (not needed if you have 2 CPU fan headers and a pump header on your motherboard), a very poorly designed installation book, and a warranty guide. The system is pre-filled with liquid and doesn’t appear to have a way to change the fluid out. When running it is quiet, I wouldn’t go as far as saying silent but it is much quieter than most air cooled CPU heat syncs.

Cons: The installation manual isn’t the greatest. A possible con is if you don’t have a tower that is pre-configured to mount the radiator you may run into trouble. There isn’t a lot of extra slack in the coolant tubes.

Overall Review: If you have an Intel CPU be sure to change out the mounting brackets before you mount the motherboard to the case.