I had concerns that the PWM fan splitter had two different connectors, one 4 pin and one 3 pin. After much research, I found that this is done to not confuse system by sending two signals to it. I thought the fourth pin told fan what to do, but it tells system what the fan is doing and the system adjusts voltage to control what it does. Maybe everybody else already knew this but if they didn't, I hope this helped.
I can get ambient temps of up to 37 degrees C. Is this cooler good enough for my i5-13400f? Getting 100 degrees on stock cooler when rendering in blender.
@@ALKtechHow’s the mounting experience for LGA 1700 mounts? I initially tried with a Thermaltake air cooler but it was faulty so had to go with stock cooler. Thanks for the reply!
@@skyhylands no worries! I don't have a spare LGA1700 board with me at the moment, but looking at the mounting hardware, I'd say it'd be a much more secure fit versus the push-pins of the stock Intel cooler, and isn't that difficult to get set up. You'll need to remove your motherboard from the case though, as you'd need to install the mounting bracket which goes on the rear of the motherboard!
@@allstars9915 some nzxt like z73, but there no 1700 socket, but have am5 socket. 7800x3d will be so good for games. For 1700 socket i recommended ASUS ROG RYUO III 360 ARGB, also depends on the case
I have been using this on my i7 13700k and yeah the idle temp is around 35-40 degrees. While gaming like halo infinite, the last of us it reaches around 65-85 degrees and under load like cine bench test it easily reaches 100 degrees so yeah! Good but u might wanna go for a better option for the new gen processors.
Thanks for sharing your thermal results with a 13700K - not too shabby considering that the ML240L V2 ARGB isn't really a high-end AIO CPU cooler. I guess it'll be better suited for folks that intend to use their PCs for gaming primarily, rather than productivity workloads that may cause the CPU to boost frequently to higher clock speeds!
@@jinsakai6969I use it with my 5800x which is known to be a very hot cpu out of box, I undervolted and the highest temp I hit underload is 75°C at 4.6ghz, undervolting is key
Its omw im runnin a i5 13500 on stock cooler running at 94celcius under heavy load will this be enough? And is the stock thermal paste good enough? I also got some extra higher rpm 2500+ fans laying around the ones included with this are 1800rpm max right? Will it run good in your opinion?
The ML240L V2 ARGB should tame your 13500's temps, it'll be a huge step up from the stock cooler for sure. In any case, yes, the included MasterGel thermal paste will do just fine! Fans wise, are the 2500 RPM fans that you have "branded" ones from like say, Cooler Master, Noctua etc?
I haven't had the chance to get my hands on a 7900X3D, but looking at some of the other review videos out there, the 7900X3D doesn't seem to be that power hungry. I'd think you may do just fine with the ML240L V2 and 7900X3D...
While I haven't tested such a combo before, I'd think it should handle a 14600KF fine for most gaming scenarios, though it may run on the toastier side of things if you're looking at sustained productivity workloads. My two cents!
I compared the price differences of a Sim Lim retailer's 18 Nov 2022 pricelist vs their 10 Dec 2022 pricelist, it appears that the bundle prices for a 7700X+mobo fell by around $50. Similar price cuts were observed too for bundles with 7600X, 7900X and so on!
@@BravoSixGoingDark referencing the same Nov vs Dec pricelist, not that much actually. I only saw that prices for Corsair DDR5s fell by around $20 - prices for G.SKILL and Kingston remain unchanged! That's the thing about the SG PC hardware market - prices change pretty slowly as compared to say, the US or Europe..
While I haven't personally used the older variants of the ML240, I'd think that there should be some performance improvements, given that this newest model uses a different pump and uses SickleFlow fans compared to its predecessor!
Hey, this is a bit odd, i have MasterLiquid ML240L V2 ARGB, but i got kinda stock temps on it. my ambient room probably just normal 29 to 34 celcius in a day ~ i live in Indonesia My Processor is i7-12700F and my motherboard is MSI B660M PRO-G (M-ATX) i got like 59 celcius to 78 celcius on 1080p Custom Mid-High settings on Apex Legends 1~2 hours gameplay averaging at around 63~66 what i see, and in a blink of few seconds it reaches 76 celcius then goes 65 celcius What i see here, many benchmarkers have 40 ~ 50 celcius, do you have a solution?
Have you tried doing a CPU benchmark like Cinebench R23 to see how the thermal performance is like? You might wanna try manually configuring the AIO's fan curves to see if you can improve thermal performance a little. No harm also checking if the cooler mount is secured properly, and whether or not you've used enough thermal paste...
That's odd, I used RGB Fusion as well and not a third party RGB app! What Gigabyte board are you using, have you tried connecting the fans to a different RGB header if your board has another one?
@@ALKtech my motherboard is the gigabyte b760m ds3h ax ddr4. I didn't build this pc but there is the controller for the fans of the aio that came with the box which is plugged and my case fans are connected to the argb header (I think) and my motherboard only has 1 argb header and 1 rgb header i think (says in the website) Do you think I need to get like a hub to connect all the fans for it to be detected and synced?
@@Aczz oh I see. Are you confident of trying to figure out how the case fans and AIO fans are wired by your system builder? If you are, that would help in establishing whether or not you'd need to get a hub in order to sync all your fans (case fans+AIO fans); hopefully your PC already comes with a RGB hub and all that's needed is to swap the connectors around...
@@Aczz you'll need to get a fan hub that's specific for ARGB. Such hubs also come with fan connectors too, so you can better manage your case fans and have them all terminate in one single header on your motherboard!
@@ALKtech hello. i bought this product. 39-40c when pc is idle. in the range of 65-77c in games that do not put too much load on the processor. 80-85c in heavy games. For example bf 2042 ultra settings 1440p 128 person maps. it rarely peaks at 87-88c and cools down again. Do you think these temperature values are sufficient in terms of processor health? Very thanks your help.
@@murattamer4488 Did you use the stock power limit settings for the CPU? If so, I'd think the temps that you're getting seem about right...how about thermal paste? Are you using the stock thermal paste that was included with the ML240L V2? Would be cool to run Cinebench R23 and see what kinds of scores you're getting, and temperature performance as well!
@@ALKtech hello, thank you for your answer. I didn't change any settings on cpu. I tried using MX-4 paste before. Then I tried applying its own paste and got the same values. Are these values enough for me or should I still do the cinebench test? Thanks.
@@ALKtech Well, I had an i7 12700K along with this cool master, decided to upgrade to an i9 13th wanted to make sure it will be fine with this cool master but it doesn't look like so. So yea I will be also upgrading the cooler master! thanks tho.
@@XX-gb6qr I see! Given that I've tested the 13900K with a premium 360mm AIO cooler (the ASUS ROG RYUO III - review video's on my channel in case you're interested), and the 13900K still clocks in at 90-odd degrees Celsius under load with such a cooler, a 240mm AIO such as the ML240L V2 would very likely struggle with a 13900K and cap the CPU's performance..
I haven't had the chance to try this AIO CPU cooler on AM5, but I'd think the ML240L V2 ARGB should work well with a 7600X given that it's a mid-range processor after all!
I haven't personally tried this AIO with a 5950X, but I think it might just get by with proper ventilation in your PC case! Have seen a couple of Reddit threads around where there are folks using 5950Xs and 5900Xs with the ML240L...