msiMAG Series CORELIQUID 280R, aRGB CPU Liquid Cooler (AIO): Rotatable Blockhead Design, 280mm Radiator, Dual 140mm aRGB PWM Fans

Pro's: - Temps with TVB on and MCE off are very good topping out at 67C under AIDA64 FPU tests for 1 hour - Temps with MCE Enabled under same test are a decent 82C with 5GHZ on all cores, not bad for a 240mm rad - Mounting hardware is not difficult to work with and MSI has thought through the layout very well, also used spring tension screws to simplify proper mounting pressure. - Mounting position is in line with other AIO's, side tanks are not too big to fit in normal 240mm mounting positions. - Cold plate is very large compared to Asetek products, would presumably be well suited to processors with large IHS'sCons:- Screws and other items are in one baggy together, so you will have to dig and pay close attention to the manual to be sure you have everything and are using the correct items. Initially I thought some items were missing, but just had to really double check.-The pump is radiator mounted, this has the negative effect of transferring some vibration from pump operation to your metal case, its not a noisy pump though, and I was able to use some .04mm thick sound absorbing foam to reduce the vibration to unnoticeable.Overall a very good product that performs well, nice job MSI

I have about 20 years experience give or take building and repairing my own PCs. This is the first water cooler I have ever used, and might just be the most irritating build I've had in a long time. Every single screw hole on both sides of the rad were either not drilled and tapped correctly, or maybe were gunked up by the paint they used on it. Either way the result was having to manually re-thread everyone of them by hand just so I could use it (on both sides of the rad!). That is unacceptable in my opinion. With that being said, once I actually was able to install and use it, it works well. The LEDs look good, and more importantly I'm running about 10-15 degrees cooler compared to stock wraith cooler on a Ryzen chip. Maybe I just got unlucky with the QC, but it was a pain to fix the issue and very irritating. If I could do it over again I would have maybe waited until more reviews came out or went with another cooler altogether.

EDIT: I learned after my install, that I did something incorrectly. If you notice my last photo, the hoses are now at the bottom of the radiator. Please note, this will prevent air bubbles from reaching the cpu block that could cause heat issues. I didn't have any issues, but I have heard others have with all brands.Honestly a great deal. I didn't even need this but for the price I thought...why not? It was white simple to install, the cpu hovers around 34° to 40° under use. To be fair I don't over clock and I don't abuse my system.My only disappointment is the hoses goin in a huge loop over my RAM. It blocks the view a little bit. My next pc will probably have some kind of custom set up... unless I can figure out a cleaner routing.*EDIT: I have seen posts about radiator not drilled or tapped for mounting screws or fan screws. I will say I had 2 that seemed to want to cross-thread. With a little caution, and lightly turning them in, then back out, and again... it seems to have cleaned the threads out. I assumed it was just paint.

Cooler is very big, the MSI picture does not show the size very well. Is a lot louder than my h100i on my 7700k which was a similar power wattage. One thing to take notice of is the cooler has a ton of adjustment when it comes to the am4 mounting hardware. You won't be able to notice the issue until it's fully installed and you put the magnetic cap on the cooler. Mine ended up being 1 click off so the cooler is not perfectly parallel to the ram. Wires come out of both sides of the cooler so my setup was a bit difficult because I had to wrap the wires around the cooler and out the top of the motherboard through the case because of the GPU blocking the mini itx MSI mpg b550i that I'm using. Cooler keeps temps low but is louder than the competition. I'm using a push only configuration. You cannot change the color of the numbers on the screen but you can upload you're own photos or icons. Screen is not as vivid or bright as the advertising suggests.Update: After some reconfiguration the cover is now parallel with the ram. I also decided to change out the paste for some mx-4 thermal paste Temps under full load are 77C after 15 min of stress testing. The stock thermal paste would regularly reach 85+C even under short full loads. The AIO is still loud at 100% but the new paste makes it perform way better.

Fans cant get noisy, but tuning smart phone mode helped a ton, after keeping fans idle at about 50% I can keep my temps consistent at 32-34 Celsius. under minium game load it stays at about 45 Celsius. Under Red dead redemption load and fallout it runs at about 52-55 Celsius. Very happy overall with purchase, I have fans as an exhaust for my AIO as my case is smaller. Could probably have lower temps, but the inside of my case basically has no heat now :D FANS NOISY AT LOW SPEEDS> they make wobbling sounds under 50% usage of fans :(

For my first AIO, it’s great! No problems functioning, however when you install it, put the fans on the radiator before you put it in the case, as for me the screws didn’t align with the holes sometimes. Noise level is good, it’s a fair bit louder than my other MSI case fans when gaming and such, but nothing that bothers me. Temps are also really good, even in my apparently bad airflow case, 30-45c under regular loads and 50-65 under high.As far as looks go, I love this thing. Always have been a fan of the MSI logo, and the cpu cooler head looks great when lit up. Fans also look great, really good white, and plenty of customization in MSI Dragon Centre. Overall amazing cooler, would buy again for my next build.

DO NOT BUY MSI if you expect customer service or support. I've never been so disappointed with customer support. I've had terrible squeaky/ticking fans since the day I installed the cooler. I've tired to call, support, email, and do online RMA as well as online chat. Every time I get through to someone they tell me to contact someone else VIA some other form of communication. When I try to do the online RMA form, it says the Serial number is invalid. Round and round in circles with no help. DO NOT BUY MSI if you expect ANY sort of after sale support. Will never buy MSI products again in the future.

it was a big risk going with this cooler, on one hand the RGB Dragon on the block fit so PERFECT with my Spyro the dragon build, but on the other, its a new product, it doesn't have many reviews, it uses a fairly new technology with the pump in the radiator and the direction of flow (outside of radiator then returns through the inside where fan centers are likely to be... this is a cool thing but untested) and i cant find any in-depth review on it, so I bought it anyway... and it works, i mean my system is so quiet with 8 fans already... im sure any cooler even a stock RYZEN one would be fine.... so... i dont know it works it looks beautiful im happy with it... ya

While this will do great at say gaming loads, it completely fails when system is truly taxed.At this price point 84c is just unacceptable when running stock speeds, even in the extreme use scenario of Prime 95.This is a ryzen 5 3600, every setting default, pbo on.Now in gaming, sat at around 55 average, which is not bad, but again the abysmal performance when truly taxed puts this in the range of 90$ cooler.My wraith stealth that came with the 3600 only hits 88 in prime 95 with the same stock settings and gaming hits 63-70.So is a 150$(Price range of nzxt, corsair) worth it, no, it really is not.If it is on sale for a 110$, sure maybe pick it up but don’t expect much ocing headroom even on intel.You can of course set voltage to keep temps down, but that isn’t something an average user is going to do.This cooler is adequate, but to be value at this price point it needs to be more than adequate.*Edit: have redid thermal paste three times now(twice by me, and for the third had an SI friend do an application. Temps bounce all over the place, terrible fans, an hour of gaming hitting 65, perhaps it’s hit in miss, but did a direct comparison with a wraith prism + 3600 and this cooler + 3600 and in the end even the tests where this cooler one, were talking 2-3 degrees. This is both at stock. Terrible cooler, doubly so at this price point. I have an old coolermaster 120 that beats this in a temp battle, contacted msi and they are less than helpful.As for cases I have Msi gungnir 110r and a lian li 011dx, so its not airflow issue, and the comparisons with wraith prism were done on open air test benches.If you don’t pay attention to temps, have money to burn and want something pretty but ineffective this will do, if you want a 240 aio that performs well, this is not it.

I'm using this with an MSI MPG Z390 Gaming EDGE AC motherboard with an Intel i5 9600K CPU, no overclocking (yet!). It keeps the CPU very cool, it's quiet, even when I'm playing some heavy duty games (Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Avengers). The only gripe I had was when I was installing it, the tubing is pretty rigid and it didn't leave a lot of placement orientation options for part that goes on the CPU, but at least the logo part can be rotated to fit the placement. I have it synced with Razer Chroma and it works great for the games that support it (Diablo III, Doom).