kakiharaFRS:

do you have super strict stability tests to run 1.35V ? I ran mine @ 1.26V and it was fine for gaming, handbrake or streaming (using nvenc) which is the intended use of the cpu anyway I say this because obviously then you'll get lower Watts and temperatures, maybe I just got lucky with my 9900k...or simply got a stabler memory (memory no1 cause of failure when overclocking, just downclock yours to 2133Mhz or whatever and you'll see your system is suddenly very stable) I own the H115 rgb platinum (older model) and it works great my only minus would be the pump that vibrated more than other aio and thus was hearable (maybe a defect ?) also that pump in the older H115i made Aida64 and other monitoring apps completely crash icue commander pros (when it worked fine with a H150 360mm) I hope they fixed that in this version other than that I also ran my amd 3960x on older H115i rgb platinum thing for 1 month (until I received the parts for a custom loop) and it worked "okay" but using the cpu 100% in cinebench and the like would give me 90°C (stock settings) if you have one already you can use it on threadripper (pretty much the hottest cpu you can get 250-280W only for the cpu !) but it won't be "great"

I too use the H115 rgb platinum and find the pump very noticeable even on quiet setting but on balanced the sound doesnt seem as bad, coming from the H110i gt which had slightly better acoustics im still happy with my H115 rgb platinum........it has rgb....thats a plus right, i just hope they do a white platinum ML-RGB 280mm edition.

Icanium:

Did you mean to say something other than "if Corsair made keyboards

LOL thanks i just noticed it was my comment you refered to, must have been a long day when i posted my comment. 🙂

Ville:

Why the article does not include the fan speeds or pump speed they have used when testing?

If you look at the photo`s on page 8 you`ll see balanced setting was used as opposed to quiet or extreme, balanced only seems to differ at very high water temps and extreme just has a more aggressive pump speed and fan curve, if a custom profile is used then the cpu temp can be used for monitoring but could completely change the results of the test and water temp seems to be locked for the three presets, on my h115 platinum quiet setting run at 450rpm for the fans around 1900 for the pump, balanced setting are 650/2300 and extreme are 1800+/-50(after a few minutes drops to 1600) /2750, all tested on idle, i find my pump gives a rattling noise which seems to settle after a few minutes on quiet setting but balanced is just a quiet hum, i find no difference is cooling performance between the 3 different pump settings. Being a tinnitus sufferer i find balanced setting the best compromise as the pump has no custom setting so can not be fine tuned, although Corsair Link used to have an option for the custom pump settings....it was removed before the introduction of Icue.

kakiharaFRS:

my comments come from real life testing not watching/reading the internet and I actually bought used and tested toroughly the previous H115i "version" with both Intel and AMD so my comments are very relevant to people interested in this product especially since I test all the products I buy for several days/months/years before making statements I prefer "reality" rather than someone else's "point of view" about products but that's me

A custom loop will always give better temps and maybe a quieter system...not to mention more maintenance....higher costs and more time to get the look your going for but in a world where people are happy with a cooling solution that does the job with no maintenance....pretty low cost and nice aesthetics that`s good enough, not to mention the warranty...1 warranty covers the unit as a whole, ive done the whole custom loop for cpu and gpu on several builds...yeah it was cool but now i just want a system that when i get home from work i can just turn on and play a game or watch a movie before i have to go back to bed to get up for work and do it all again.

most of corsairs (and almost every aio) are running fixed power/rpm and only the fan speed is changed with profiles. one reason i like the arctic/alphacool units, as they use ither own designs for pumps and have less tolerance on parts, so usually the pumps can be throttled by 50-70% for low load stuff. and no, custom loop are NOT always lower on temps. especially with ryzen cpus the heat transfer from cpu is the prob, so with anbaio on the gpu as well, and using LM, i have temps that are same/close. or i wouldn't stay below 75C for 3700 and 55C for the 2080S when under 100% load (p95/fur mark)