CorsairICUE H100i ELITE LCD Display Liquid CPU Cooler (Custom IPS LCD Screen, 40 Dynamic RGB LEDs, 120mm Fans, 240mm Radiator, Corsair Commander Core Smart Lighting Controller Included) Black

With most Corsair stuff, you get what you pay for. You pay for the name and its reputation of being one of the top brands (ASUS, Corsair, NZXT etc)It aint cheap, but then again items like this are usually part of a decent build, with a decent chip to cool, in a decent case . Scrimping on cooling is just stupid and in the long term more expensive.The fancy LED screen is of course cool, but that doesnt contribute to what this product is mainly bought for, which is cooling.And it does this brilliantly.I have a 5800x - with a beefy 5Gz OC on it, and as the pic shows.. idles with about 10% load in the mid 30s.Under max load, Ive not seen it hit 70... Thats bloody impressive!Its premium, well built and manages hot chips with ease.Quiet too with little hum from the pump.Installation isnt super easy, but most AIOs require a bit of experience to get it right 1st time.Just Youtube it and you will get a good idea of how to set it all up.It has a Corsair Commander hub for the fans, but its super simple to do.If you manged to put square pegs in square holes at school, then you will be fine with this too.I found the swapping of brackets (It has intel as standard) to AMD was super easy compared to the last H150 I had.iCue gets better with each update too - making the customising and management of the block a lot easier tooI'd score this a solid 9/10.Is it worth almost £250? No.... but it looks good doesnt it? :)

The media could not be loaded. Great cooler and easy to install despite the lack of instructions, I really like the iQue software to configure the lighting and screen and will now be getting some Corsair fans for my case. Whilst it looks great it would be no use without good cooling performance and it doesn't disappoint, as I type this my Ryzen 7 5700G CPU is 31 degrees and that's with the fans barely audible about a foot away from my head, playing Cyberpunk I got it up to around 50 with the fans still pretty quiet. Running an all core torture test I got it up to the low 60's and ramping up my fans brought it back down to the 50's.So it looks great and does what it's meant to

Really easy to install and use with icue. Love the screen and being able to change the picture to anything, static or a gif. Highly recommend, had for a year and no issues

Installed this cooler to replace a failed Fractal Lumen S24 and overall I am happy with the purchase. I using an i7 11700k with an all core overclock of 5.0Ghz and CPU stays in the mid 60's celsius during benchmarking and stress testing. Liquid temp is between 30c and 40c for the most part.I was surprised to see that instructions were not included in the box. You have to go online and view them which while not a deal breaker is kind of annoying. Especially if this was your only computer and you had to just view them on your phone when you are building. A printed copy should have been included.Fitting of the radiator and cooler went smoothly. I was installing this into a Fractal Mesh Compact which is a small case, but everything fitted ok. You just need to be aware of ram height clearance if you are in a small case. Otherwise you might not have room for the fans. The cooler comes with mounting plates for Intel and AMD chips and can support the 12th Gen (and probably 13th Gen) Intel chips.Once the system is up and running, you get that nice LED screen display showing your temps. There are plenty of options to change this in the iCUE software between liquid temp, core temp, CPU utilisation, etc - as well as a custom logo if you prefer that instead.You can select between different pump and fan profiles to either have max cooling, max quietness, or a balance in between. You can also set you own custom curves. I've been able to run everything on silent mode (which isn't silent in reality but still pretty quiet) and still keep the CPU in the 60's celsius when running at 5Ghz on all cores.The RGB effects on the cooler and the fans look good with smooth colour transitions. The pump is a little louder than I hoped for. My son had a regular H100i which is quieter than this. His was barely audible at all, but this unit definitely can be heard. However, he is also running an i5 and generating far less watts of heat overall. Fan noise is similar to my last cooler. They can go loud, but as long as I set the voltage up to keep the CPU from getting too hot, then overall they are fairly quiet.

Bought this as part of a build I put together for my other half. Its not cheap, but frankly if you're picking this up you're not exactly budget building. Its incredibly quiet while running, to the point I can't hear it unless Im putting my ear next to the case.Not super simple to install as there are a lot of wires and a fan hub to mount somewhere, but the actual mounting to the CPU is incredibly simple. Also comes with thermal paste ready in place if you dont want to use your own.Probably will be picking a second one up when I make another build for myself as its keeping a 5800x very cool and barely needs to ramp the fans up.Also you know.... cat GIFs on your cooler. Yay.

Ok first the bad software problems at first now sortedThe fans are load at 1500rpm or above but in gaming who cares as you should have headphones on .The goodTemps are low at low rpm and fans are not load under 1499rpm I have 3080ti and 5900x in battlefield 2042 I get temps of upto 70c but my fans are running 1200rpm or under and have pump on balanced so not pushing to hard for best temps as well under and keeping pc running like a monster .The screen on the cooler is amazing and they changed the bracket to 4 thumb screws for AMD not that rubbish 2 thumb screws . So nice upgrade on the mounting side all in all its a high price but I'd you can get 5 years out of it worth it .