The new Kraken AIOs are very high tech! Check this out! 

I just bought an (old) Kraken. Well this feels like a slap to the face.

good performance Not Out of this world, good tech Not revolutionary, STILL DAMN EXPENSIVE.

I just returned a Corsair Elite Capellix 240 for my new system because the pump is really noisy (it's whiny; not an air-bubble issue). I had a Kraken 240 in my old system, which made no noise in comparison. This AIO is going to be the perfect replacement for the Corsair one! Great timing. 640x640 resolution is a whole TV in the CRT days.

they should make a little plug on their motherboard, that you can plug the usb from the cooler pump into, and use it for both diagnostics (like a motherboard error readout) and of course, the info it's capable of displaying now. That would be cool. (And useful) most motherboards dont have a proper error code readout these days, on the motherboard.

I'd love to see this type of lovely display on custom loop waterblocks.

What I like the most about this mounting design is that it works in ANY orientation so you can place the tubes on any side of the CPU you want, even a corner!

RU-vidrs: over hype expensive useless "features". Also RU-vidrs: Why parts are getting expensive for everyday people????

22:30 all Z series LCDs have 15 degree rotations now, it is just a software end thing

NZXt Kraken's is all I use in my builds. Either Z73 or 63. Dual infographic CPU/GPU temps

Finally the cables are on the oposite side of the pump so you can mount it without the tubes obstructing the RAM

I used to dislike NZXT for some reason. But now, case and cooler come from them. In my opinion they have really improved their products (H5/7 for example) and I would definetily buy from them in the future

Dude's AIO has more pixels than my screen💀

Actually just got the 240 base, its a super nice AiO, ive used a few different setups and like them the most. Definitely loved the harness update, helps with management. The LCD screen was the selling point and for 130$ it was a easy choice. Threw it in a h210i itx build, keeps my i5 cool, radiator has plenty of airflow 💪🏼

Dammit Jay, your 'Reviewer' version of CAM has Dual Infographic + GIF. The Beta doesn't have that but I hope it does soon.

Can you test it in the 13900k? Because Not every AIO can cool it down. Please can you make a video testing all best or rated as the best, to see witch one we should go for for the 13900k. Please thank you ❤

The rotation is on a 30 degree - 12 positions in total.

Being able to rotate the LCD in CAM more than just 90 degrees was a CAM update and works with the older Kraken models. I have a 240 Kraken with the LCD and can confirm that you can rotate the LCD in 12 degree increments also.

you can also splice the 2 usb 2.0s into one if ever needed. If you look carefully theres 9 pins and only 4 wires/4 pins that are used in one device.

I'm more interested ( probably like anyone else) in a review - comparison with older versions and or other brands of AIO in case you are allowed to do that yet.

Its hilarious to me that jay complains about how motherboards are getting too expensive and then talks super positively about aios that are gonna cost like 250$ for the cheapest 240mm

The pump cables should have been white. Other than that this is looking really nice.

When huff and puff goes into adding pretty gizmos and software to support pretty gizmos

Ik Corsair also released their new gen cooler earlier this year as well, would be cool to see a vid on what changes were made there

I actually really Like cam. Mainly cuz it lets you set your fans to monitor the gpu and not cpu as well as adjust the curves

This is pretty cool but the biggest complaints I've had with NZXT coolers. I had the X73 and now the Z73 LCD is that 1. Cam is awful, end of story. and 2. These coolers have no memory. What that means is if I put a graphic of spongebob putting a fire out and then I restart my PC, that graphic will no longer be there unless I start cam, and I don't want cam to auto start on my PC. On the Corsair line of AIO coolers, they do have memory so when you restart your PC, that graphic will still be there without the need to start iCUE. I'm not positive if this new line from NZXT has it, you may have mentioned it in this video and I missed it but if they don't, that's a huge let down and not even worth an upgrade. I'm probably switching to a Corsair AIO soon just because I want to have one ecosystem, that's assuming Corsair can come out with daisy chained fans, waiting on Corsair or NZXT whoever does it first.

Isnt this you common call a "gimmick" we have seen that aircooling is as effective as watercooling. Check the new noctuas..

Very neat upgrades they made for their new models, eventually (being very generous with that eventually because I like my z3 right now, keeps my 12900K at a nice and comfy 30C on average when running something like Warframe or Cyberpunk on max) I might consider getting the 360 elite with the dual infographic with gif function. Honestly I have always enjoyed how CAM functions, I don't see many people going to NZXT for their pumps, mainly for the software that comes with it

21:29 you can see the square if you look at the image at my timestamp. You actually could see it several times before. You're welcome

I have a screen in my pc, so I don't necessarily need another, but a web option is cool. I could put the weather outside on it I'm sure, and know how hot the sun is that I never see because I'm inside gaming lol

Do wish all AIO's the cables would go along within one of the tubes and come out by the radiator side, it's just neater for hiding cables.

Fun Fact: The 7th Gen Kraken lineup actually performs noticeably worse than the DeepCool LT720 that retails at $139 MSRP

Waiting for a follow up video with recommendations what games to play on the AIO screens

I still love that Arctic AIO’s have one cable to manage - 2 if you get the RGB version - idk how you guys deal with all these cables!

I wish water blocks like this were available for open loops

The one thing I liked most about Kraken was its AER 2 fans with the ring shape rgb. It looks too standard now for my liking. Guess you'll need to spend more money to get those fans

I can’t pay 300$ on a cooler for a 270$ processor

IMO, NZXT AIOs looked cooler with the infinity mirrors. The infinity mirror was the *only* reason I wanted an NZXT over another brand. Kinda a letdown that it might not (won't?) be an option with my next upgrade.

I still have the cam tester shirt they gave me when I beta tested the software.

Quite disappointing that Nzxt didn’t utilize the asetek gen 8 pump, a refresh after two entire years just for a fan change and higher res screen

The Kraken has a better resolution than my ZX Spectrum 128k Output

You guys should make “Because of the fact” merch at this point.

It is nice when A company listens to their customers there are many companies that could take notes from NZXT Really nice to see they have solved most problems we been moaning about

What's wrong with the video? White is too intense and focus is quite bad in most of the video.

This is actually pretty amazing. I’m planning a new build and I will have to keep this in mind.

at this point, most companies hit a performance roadblock (i mean without raising their cost, i think here a 45mm thick copper radiator) so they put in fancy gimmicks, they can implement with the lowest cost possible, and raise the damn price every time they do some shiny thing, despite the fact that the cooling performance is around the same.. it is just about selling shit for even more money with more profit margin...

btw NZXT has a major issue with their software, it blocks updates on some devices including the Valve index it nearly bricked my index,

Wow the amount of people complaining about them being expensive LMAO, the standard new Kraken 280 can be bought for like 130 which is the cheapest 280mm AIO I have found with an LCD display and thats a fantastic job from NZXT!!

I have the first version elite (then labeled Z73) 360mm AIO from NZXT with the screen. Throwing gifs up on the pump block is epic! 2 years running and no issues so far!

Hey jay you don't have to say "LCD Display", the D already stands for display. You wanna say "LC Display".

Nzxts USB 2.0 hub is really nice, I tried a cheap one at first and half the stuff wasn't even recognized by the computer, getting the Nzxt one made everything start working properly, plus it uses sata so it's not pulling too much power from the header

People hate CAM without knowing why they hate CAM these days lmao.

Jay, I only have a couple of questions. If you can use the AIO without CAM does it still set the default mode to Slient and can you control the AIO and Fan speed through the motherboard?

Why is it circular? Don’t they know cpus are square 😂

Hey Jay, great vid, really interesting that NZXT GPU bracket for an AIO conversion. Could you do a video on how to implement that? 🖖

bring back the NZXT bracket to hook a CPU AIO to RTX 3000 or RTX 4000-seies GPUs and offer a simple design to effectively cool the VRAM and other important bits. I had the original NZXT + 140mm AIO for my RTX2070Super worked great, ran GPU in low 50s and quiet

Transfer to your case Transfer to your desk Transfer to your brain and you won't be happy got me laughing 😂😂😂😂😂 Jay how do you come up with those funny stuff

I saw Jayz kracken, pull up your pants guy! Good video thanks.

I love my Kraken Z73 but I seriously hate the CAM software... there's always CPU temp discrepancies between Ryzen Master and CAM and evertime they roll a new update (like today) something new breaks (not showing CPU and Liquid temps in the AIO screen)

I still like Evga's new ones most! But, the flipping price!!

If you make it white, you should make the wires white, the main pump wires are black, and the refresh rate of the screen could be better.

Kraken was existing in white before too. would be happy if the other cable would be white too

Right around 21:20, the Kraken standard is at an angle that you can get a decent visual of the "box" of the screen inside the circle.

Not enough for me to upgrade. Looking for a major performance boost. But all I see is some minor bracket updates and a bigger screen/higher resolution. I’m happy with my first generation 360 kraken

$300 for a 360mm aio is a bit much.

NZXT Cam software has a huge memory leak. It's been reported but they are making no effort to fix it. Over course of 2 days the app will continue to spawn hundreds of wmic.exe processes and eventually use all of my 64GB of RAM. If I close NZXT cam after about 5 minutes the wmic process close. They told me it was a known bug about a year ago. Still no update.

Looks a lot like my Kraken Z3 which has a full large circle display etc, The one thin USB cable and fan harnes was never an issue for me. What's nice is HWInfo picks up the Kraken Pump Fan Speed, and Liquid Temp So I am building a Rainmeter / HWinfo based info panel with my Kraken info showing. Yes there were white Kraken. I key the pump speed off CPU temp so it ramps up quickly. The radiator Fan I key off the liquid temp. I would probably get an adapter and use an MSI controller or generic ARGB hub for fans. The problem is that only RGBSignal can run well with CAM running when trying to get 2+ ARGB systems to talk. Too often too many apps on the SMBus? caused Vengence Pro Ram RGB to lock. I only run it to rotate images on Pump screen and make sure my cooling profile is running. What I would want to ever buy another AIO with a screen is OLED, because the LCD is on mine has poor blacks in my darker case lighting. Alot of the features you showed except for single cable have been in the Z73 and siblings for over a year and the updated sofware they just released gave me all new features. I have been very happy with mine for almost a year, and consider the screen AIO as my guiltly pleasure of the build.

Puting screen on those AIO is the most idiotic thing the industry ever came with. What an insane waste to throw a still working screen when the pump inevitably dies in 3-5 years… I would be ashamed to shill for such a garbage product.

Out of all the different AIOs I've had, I actually liked the Kraken the most. I'm using a Corsair one now though.

what's the difference between this and an aio half the price? is it just the LCD display?

The most appreciated feature in the box for me has to be the fact that there were labels on the accessory bags. Manufacturers, please, if you are reading this start labelling the bags directly so it is obvious for the end user which parts they should use for their platform rather than having to dig through manuals and web sites.

At this point image quality is more limited by the GIF color format than the pixel density.

If only they didn't cost like 500 bucks, borderline custom water cooling money. Looks cool tho

But are these AIO's gonna be compatible with Lian Li Fans? I think the many people including me would like to know this.

I just put a NZXT Kraken Z73 RGB in my unit - it replaced a 4 year old Kraken X53. I mainly upgraded because of a case swap and needed a 360mm radiator, but I LOVE THE LCD display. Its really fun to find different GIF's online and changing the display every couple days. Its also confirmed to give you all of the scene points of your friends

All these CPUs pulling a lot of power are usually just a waste of heat; like you get only 2% more performance out of a 5800X compared to a 5700X, yet the 5800X is so much harder to cool. Slammed a big Bequiet on it and yet it managed to come very close to 90° on 100% Load. With the 5700X on the other hand, even a 15$ cooler can keep it around 70° on Full Load. intel is even worse with their PL2 limit, designed to just make intel look not all too bad compared to AMD. Many motherboards ignore these limits and let your so called 65W TDP CPU pull 150W and beyond. Piece of garbage -.-

I wish nzxt have onboard memory to store lighting and fanprofiles.

I'd still take the Artic Freezer II, better performance over a gimmicky screen on the block. Not everyone has their computer on their desk.

My first Kraken X62 broke after about 5 years. Pump died and took a while to get them to let me send it in for their 6 year warranty. They sent me a new one because the pump did in fact die. Well then just over 5 years later the replacement Kraken X62 pump and fans died. I was doing a virus scan and the fans sped up and then just stopped (I could hear them) it had me worried so I stopped the scan and restarted the computer only to be met with CPU cooling fans malfunctioned or something like that error in the bios. I went to the desktop and CAM opened up and saw my CPU getting hotter. The Kraken was turning red (color scheme for temp) so I quickly shut off my computer. I contacted NZXT again with the same problem as before and they claimed they wont do anything because I guess the warranty only covers the first one. But this is the second one that has died after 5 years (within the 6 year warranty window). So now I am looking at going to a different AIO since it's clear the NZXT Krakens pumps keep dying (a recurring problem I see in other reviews as well) and they only warranty it sometimes I guess?

Never expected any thing less then a bad dad joke by Jay 😂

That gif of you on that aio is worth doing an entire themed build around. Make it happen Jay.

AIOs prices have been insane for a while now.

I just wish you could control the RGB lights without NZXTs crappy CAM software like all my other hardware which works with OpenRGB

I wonder if you can modify the firmware on the old krakens to act like these new krakens with the new features of what can be displayed on the LCD? It would be nice because us Linux users can't use the cam software.

I dead ass just bought the z73

stop with 2 ads in the video!

Where do you guys buy the parts from? Amazon? Official websites? In person like Best Buy?

I think I’ll still go with the Deepcool LT720 for my next cooler. Amazing visuals, great quiet performance, and decent price at $140. The white version is really close to $200 on several websites, so that’s probably being scalped.

Allways on the floor here, Lian Li evo with 3 360 a water pump great build wonder where the video card is.. since there is NONE :P Build one with a d5 pump mister Jay...

And now for something unreasonable expensive and completely useless : aka "pcmasterrace" in a nutshell.

Do they plan to keep dual infographic + g8f background exclusive to new cooler ? Because a CAM update dropped but my Z73 Kraken still does not have this option (but the web URL gif option is now available)

I find this really interesting, I would love to see the performance differences between the white and black models of the same model. There is a difference in the way heat is dissipated between white and black. Black being more efficient at removing heat in an intercooler (I believe, its been a while), interesting to see if thanslates into these small radiator units used in PC watercooling.

Still kinda wondering why their CAM software doesn't throw up warning messages or something to let you know "hey your AIO's pump isn't working anymore!" or "Hey one of (or both) your AIO's fans stopped running!). I shouldn't have to wait on my computer shutting down when the CPU gets to hot because the Kraken's pump and/or fans broke and it fails to mention that.

That’s really important in a cooler.

I just got the now old z73: lucky me!

These Aio's cost like a good power supply today or a Ram kit , cost wayy too much.

I want to get the elite so bad because it’s the only brand that offers exactly what I want for my build. Then I read the one star reviews which is 6% on a new product which is high if you ask me. So many DOA and it’s said the software is garbage.

NZXT’s AIOs are pretty much doa for me now that the software requires to control it logs you out every 2 weeks (and therefore stops controlling it)

GF: What song is that? Me: I dunno. Check out my CPU AIO pump. GF: I'm leaving you. Me: I don't think that's the name of this song. GF: No, I am literally leaving you.

4-500 usd AIO? what does it do? besides cooling your cpu? i think this is crazy. They can keep their 10-20usd display that hey've added, no cooler is worth that much period!! unless ofcourse it's doing something else, apart from cooling, like cleaning the floor washging dishes, something...

I went to an open loop which I love, but I got to say I really miss CAM, and the NZXT controller for the fans and pump.