I have a ryujin 2 360 and I can't wait to get rid of the ugly soft lines and the weak pump. Can't wait to do the hard lines with the screen and a decent pump with multiple radiators. Right now it struggles to do 300 watts worth of cooling. Even with a 15 waterblock with a good pump and multiple radiators it can do 350 400 watts worth of cooling no problem. Z690 Maximus motherboard with a 13900kf with optimized defaults attempts to do 320 to 330 Watts and immediately thermo throttles to 290ish watts... in game with a 4090 every now and then it will thermal throttle at 200ish watts. I cant wait.
Ummm, the AIO version can NOT do water temperature by itself (built in). If you have a water temperature sensors plugged into the motherboard the AIO can display that information on the screen, but it doesn't display its own water temperature or flow information. (Even though Asus claims it does.) Seeing a different comment you made, it seems like you have some builds planned, maybe keep this information in mind for that. Asus took over 6 months to admit this is the case, to me. They tried to make it sound as if this (an AIO for the CPU, used with another custom loop in the same machine, while that separate loop's water temperature and flow information is displayed on their AIO's screen) was the intended (and obvious) use case for which thier claims of "instantly monitoring temperature and flow information" valid. Anyhow, the WB will display the information same as the AIO, with sensors fed to the motherboard, and in turn read by Amory Crate and displayed on the screen. While it's a disappointment the WB dosen't have a temperature (or flow) sensor built in, at least that makes more sense than not having them in their AIO.
The aio does have water temp. The temp sensor is built into the pump mechanism, this is the same setup for most of the asetek based aios. I spefiically spoke to the Asetek guys at computex to ask them to add it back for the ROG 2 waterblock as they were at the ROG booth showing off the 3d printed cold plates.
@JCustom The AIO can NOT display water temp without 3rd party hardware. If it has a built-in water temp sensor, that information can NOT be displayed on the AIO's screen, not even with their AIDA 64 integration. Again, the AIO with the latest firmware and software will not display its own water temp, or things like flow rate, even though the software allows you to select for these options to be displayed. Asus (privately, not publicly) says it's designed to display the information from a custom loop installed in they same machine (like that's a normal thing). I would LOVE to be wrong about this, but I'm not. I would love it if you were able to take Asus at their word. Unfortunately, you can't; not about this, at least. Tell you what, if you can get the AIO to display it own water temp (with the currently available software and firmware) , and can prove it or maybe make a comprehensive guide as to how you accomplished it, I will make a $500 donation to your channel. In the meantime, it'd be great if you considered this situation and if there's any opportunities for you to impact it for the better. Thank you for asking Asus to incorporate a temp sensor in the ROG 2 waterblock! I think that AND a flow meter would be appreciated by most anyone who'd build with it. I also think it'd be great if their product pages for their AIOs weren't misleading and saying things like they can "instantly display flow rate," when they can't unless it's for a custome loop with a flow sensor hooked up to the same motherboard as the AIO. I'm not mad at you, but I am mad at Asus. Thar said, it would be great if you find a way to impact this situation, or let me know what, exactly, you discover when you actually build something with one of these AIOs.
Firstly, great video! Second, have you installed this water block before? If you have, would the temperatures with a custom water cooling loop justify the cost compared to an AIO, considering they have similar build quality? Especially in comparison to the ASUS AIO. My question arises because the price of this water block might be more affordable, especially if it's a replica of the AIO version.
You would achieve similar temps to the aio. While I focus on watercooled builds, it’s hard to recommend an open loop system to most folks vs an aio and air cooled gpu (consider how good the air coolers are now)
I have a couple coming up. The red will go to an eva hyperion im working on, the black will converted to tubless for rog btf, and then a standard unmodified version will be coming with another rog case
