#Z53 rgb software#

You won’t see any difference between the two profiles under sustained heavy loads with most CPUs, but the Silent profile might make your system quieter at low to medium loads. The Performance profile will do the latter as well, but sits at higher speeds lower down the temperature range. The difference between the Silent and Performance profiles is down to the fan or pump speed at lower temperatures, with the Silent profile seeing lower speeds and noise before ramping up to 100 per cent speed at around 60☌. Its not as snazzy as the display on Corsair’s new coolers, such as the H150i Elite LCD we reviewed last month, but it’s certainly a step forwards compared with NZXT’s holographic displays.

You can also upload GIFs and customise the display’s text, background and detail sections separately. The highlight of the cooler is undoubtedly the 2.36in display on the pump/waterblock unit, which can cycle through various data inputs, such as CPU and GPU temperature, coolant temperature, clock speed and load. You should have no such issues fitting the Kraken Z53 to most micro-ATX and ATX motherboards though – just have a look at the room around the CPU socket before you buy it. These include the mini-ITX Asus ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WiFi, although the Kraken 120 RGB’s smaller pump did allow that cheaper cooler to fit on that board. Meanwhile, the large pump section has tubes protruding out of one side, which makes it too large to fit on some motherboards with restricted CPU socket areas. On this dual-fan cooler, and the larger triple-fan Kraken Z73 RGB, only one RGB cable is required to control the lighting of multiple fans. Thankfully, the situation is made a little easier by the RGB lighting control daisy-chaining between fans. Needless to say, you’ll need to spend some time tidying away all these cables and making sure none of them find their way into the fans. This does result in a mass of cable spaghetti, though, and it’s compounded further by a separate RGB cable connecting to the fans to control the lighting.

#Z53 rgb software#

A second cable connects the pump to a spare USB 2 header on your motherboard, enabling NZXT’s CAM software to control it all. There’s a splitter cable that provides power to all of the kit via a SATA connector on your PSU, but it then splits off to connect the pump to the fans. Radiator size with fans (mm) 275x123x30 (WxDxH)įirst off are the cooler’s two 120mm AER RGB fans, which have software-controlled lighting arrays, and the 7th-generation Asetek-derived pump has software control as well. Intel compatibility LGA1700, LGA115X, LGA1200, LGA2066, LGA2011ĪMD compatibility Socket AM4, AM3/+, TRX/4