FINALLY an AIO from Fractal Design SOLD IN AMERICA! Worth the wait

Fractal Design's latest addition to the AIO cooler market is a 360mm liquid cooling solution that has been making waves among enthusiasts and reviewers alike. With its sleek design and impressive features, it's clear why this cooler is generating so much buzz.

One of the standout features of this cooler is the built-in PWM fan splitter straight onto the radiator. This is a great idea, as it allows for easy cable management and keeps the setup looking tidy. The two Dynamic X2 fans that come with this cooler are also noteworthy, as they're in-house fans from Fractal Design's own stable. While not quite on par with the Venturi series, they still deliver impressive performance.

The installation process is remarkably straightforward, making it a breeze to set up even for those new to liquid cooling. The mounting accessories are similar to those used by the popular H100i cooler, which makes it easy to swap out and adapt for different cases. Additionally, this AIO cooler supports Ryzen, which is always a plus for enthusiasts.

One potential drawback of this cooler is the inability to remove the tubing from one end. While not a major issue, it does make maintenance slightly more difficult. Another quirk is the stiff locking mechanism around the water block for the PWM and auto settings. However, these minor flaws are largely outweighed by the cooler's many strengths.

In terms of performance, this AIO cooler has proven itself to be more than capable of keeping a Core i5 7600K at bay, even with some headroom to spare. When pushing it to its limits and aiming for that elusive 5 GHz mark, this cooler delivers admirably while staying eerily quiet.

The radiator itself is a standard 240mm design with a thickness of 30mm and decent fin density. While not particularly noteworthy in terms of aesthetics, the finish looks solid, and the model number is clearly marked. The overall build quality is reassuring, giving users confidence that this cooler will last for years to come.

In conclusion, Fractal Design's latest AIO cooler has made a strong impression with its design, features, and performance. While it may not be perfect – particularly when it comes to cable management and maintenance access – it's clear that the company is serious about making high-quality liquid cooling solutions. With its price point remaining competitive in the market, this AIO cooler is definitely worth considering for anyone looking to upgrade their system's cooling capabilities.

Installation was super easy again. I keep comparing this to the H100i because it is sort of a direct competitor pretty much the exact same installation process as the H100i in fact you could even use the mounting accessories from the H100i with this and it would still work perfectly fine. It's like the same OEM acch and all that jazz so installation is really a breeze.

Speaking of installation, I didn't mention this at the beginning of the video but this AIO cooler also offers Rising support straight out of the box. That's nice to know.

Overall, I'm 95% sure that I like this cooler. Granted, it's got some weird quirks don't get me wrong like you know not being able to remove the tubing on this end and the sort of stiff locking or the stiff mechanism that goes around around the the water block for for PWM and auto that's a little bit weird but for the most part this does a fine job of cooling my core I 5 7600k with even some additional Headroom there thermally uh to push it a bit further if I wanted to hit that nice 5 GHz Mark I'm pretty confident that this thing could do it and uh and it does so while while staying very quiet especially on the specifically on the auto setting just Auto it and it is super quiet super good.

The only thing that might scare some people or concern them is can that one CPU fan header on the motherboard actually power and control all of these various elements? I think it can, uh. The fans honestly even the pump do not take much power, uh. The CPU fan header I'm sure any of those fan headers can handle um the amount of voltage required to run these effectively so I don't think that's an issue until further testing shows otherwise.

I probably wouldn't worry about it guys but let's move on to the other thing uh let's talk a little bit about the radiator itself again 240 mm it is 30 mm thick and it looks to have some pretty decent fin density. It's more or less standard, it looks kind of like the H100i which is not a bad thing at all. And it's kind of just got a nice little finish there's some like lettering here like a model number just kind of looks I don't know looks very industrial it looks good man.

This is a cool little AIO and honestly literally uh we don't I don't I don't have much else to say I think installation installation was super easy again I keep comparing this to the H100i because it is sort of a direct competitor pretty much the exact same installation process as the H100i in fact you could even use the mounting accessories from the H100i with this and it would still work perfectly fine. It's like the same OEM acch and all that jazz so installation is really a breeze.

Speaking of installation, I didn't mention this at the beginning of the video but this AIO cooler also offers Rising support straight out of the box. That's nice to know.

This is a cool little AIO and honestly literally uh we don't I don't I don't have much else to say

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I'm taking a look at fractal designs very first liquid cooled AIO here in the United States this is the Celsius s24 there's the Celsius s36 which is the triple1 120 version and I'm dealing today with the s24 again the 240 mm variant so very exciting stuff here um this is more or less an acch uh design when you're talking internally so there's nothing too Innovative going on under the hood here um you are dealing with a DC pump pretty standard and a ceramic bearing and there's also a bit of a sound dampening material under the hood here which theoretically should make the pump quieter I have tested this already I've already plugged it in and and ran the tests it is very quiet we'll take a look at the fans in just a moment and how those sound from an aesthetic standpoint fractal hasn't taken too many risks here it's it's fairly basic and straightforward you might call it a little boring but I actually don't mind it I like some of my components to be boring uh like the AO for instance this is a personal preference of mine but this also sort of ties in with fractal Scandinavian minimalistic design or whatever you want to call it uh so if you look at the water Block it's kind of the circular thing and it's it's glossy it's black and glossy which I don't know I prefer matte with everything this just a personal preference of course but you get this the snowflake you get the nice little fractal snowflake just peeking out on the side there and then look at there's two words there's two words around the edges here Auto and pwm the hell is that so there's no software that comes included or is available for download on fractal's website there's no software at all when it's when it comes to tuning or controlling this thing so it's all Hardware based and basically this circular ring this sort of soft touch circular ring that goes around the water block is adjustable you can move it switching it from Auto to pwm you switch it between those two settings Auto basically makes the fans run at anywhere from 1,00 to 2,000 RPM is what I was seeing in hardware monitor which at that speed these fans are are silent not really quiet they're like I mean like I can't hear them from 10 in away on an open air test bed they're that quiet so when I was running it at Auto initially I was like oh my God temperatures are going to be awful it's just it's it's too quiet it's too quiet actually not uh 77 no 7600k our Core i5 which I had overclocked to 4.8 GHz we fired up GTA 5 at 1440p uh 2560 X 1440p 16x9 and 72 no 73° celsi celsius uh 73° C on a fairly heavily overclocked 7600k which I am pretty happy about uh with an ambient in my room of 26° C give or take a degree uh that's actually not too bad at all um and then we uh I switched over to pwm especially at just how quiet at that at that noise level I was just sort of Blown Away uh pun intended um then pwm when you switch it over to pwm the fans crank up to around 3,000 RPM so they're uh at that point they're Audible and you can definitely hear them even through a case especially if your your case isn't tailored for silence to begin with it's got a lot of open mesh and things like that uh then you can hear it but it's not obtrusive and it's not annoying espe especially if you've got any sort of in-game audio coming through your headphones or your speakers it's not going to bother you um at least it didn't bother me at all so it's not too bad however uh temperatures when you look at The Thermals running the same test in GTA 5 after about 20 minutes only decreased thermals on our CPU by one degree we went from 73c with the auto setting to 72 on the pwm setting so um really not worth it to go pwm in my opinion at least from my testing on the s24 I would just leave it at Auto and never change it again just stick it in install it it's good to go uh but that's a that's that's a good that's a good sign this thing definitely can cool a fairly um highly overclocked CPU which is honestly the most important part of any AIO IMO now the fairly thick tubing which is rubberized is not kinky which in this case is a good thing and uh I I really like the way it looks they've sleeved it with some nice sort of nylon or you know cloth material sleeving uh much better than the metal spiral crap that was on the Kelvin that was just that was special um but this looks really nice I I will say and of course it's nice to be even if you're in a cramped case uh and you got to like squish things together like in the M case M1 or something like that uh there is not going to be too much Kink with this rubber material uh now also if we look at the ends of the tubing we see that there are these like fittings on either side going from to the water block and to the radiator but only the the fittings only the G and a/4 inch fittings on the radiator are removable so this is an expandable Loop however you're limited in that you can only remove this end of the tubes you're pretty much stuck that means with this tubing which also means if you were to expand this and add in like a reservoir and additional radiators or GPU you might have some clashing tubing you'd be stuck with this one and you might have some just other tubing that doesn't look anything like this unless you can find this exact tubing which if you don't care about what your custom water cooled system looks like then by all means but most of us who are going to spend the premium on custom watercooled parts probably want it to look all matchy matchy and stuff so it's just a little confusing to me why fractal would allow this side to be removed but fix the other end I just I'm a little a little per perplexed by that now that being said fractal gets huge points for adding on this built-in pwm fan s splitter straight onto the radiator it's is a great idea you got these two Dynamic X2 fans these are fractals in-house fans they're not quite Ventures but they do a killer job anyway um two of these fans that are black and white of course and they route straight onto that fan s splitter Thea pwm connection and then you got a third cable that actually sneakily and invisibly routes underneath the sleeving of one of these tubes straight to the water block and then all of those connections get boiled down to this one single black CPU pwm 4 pin connector that was a mouthful uh which plugs straight into the CPU fan header on your motherboard so really this is a a very nice sort of elegant solution to clean up cable management this is all wired up good to go guys all you do is install it you just screw this to the top or the front of your case or whatever you bolt this down to your CPU all the cables all the wirings done all you got to do is plug this one cable in fans pump everything's good to go uh the only thing that that might scare some people or or might concern them is can that one CPU fan header on the motherboard actually power and control all of these various elements yes I think it can uh the fans honestly even the pump does not take much power uh the CPU fan header I'm sure any of those fan headers can handle um the amount of voltage required to run these effectively so I don't think that's an issue until further testing shows otherwise I probably wouldn't worry about it guys but um on that note let's move on to the other thing uh let's talk a little bit about the radiator itself again 240 mm it is 30 mm thick and it looks to have some pretty decent fin density it's more or less standard it looks kind of like the h100i which is not a bad thing at all and it's kind of just got a nice little finish there's some like lettering here like a model number just kind of looks I don't know looks very industrial it looks good man this is a cool little AIO and honestly literally uh we don't I don't I don't have much else to say I think installation installation was super easy again I keep comparing this to the h100i because it is sort of a direct competitor pretty much the exact same installation process as the h100i in fact you could even use the mounting accessories from the h100i with this and it would still work perfectly fine it's like the same OEM acch and all that jazzz so uh installation is really a breeze speaking of installation I didn't mention this at the beginning of the video but this is also uh offering Rising support straight out of the box so that's nice um I probably already included a b-roll shot of that at the beginning but just to mention it for validation yes it does support ryzen so that's that's cool too overall I'm 95% sure that I like this cooler uh granted it's got some weird quirks don't get me wrong like you know not being able to remove the tubing on this end and the sort of stiff locking or the stiff mechanism that goes around around the the water block for for Justin pwm and auto that's a little bit weird but for the most part this does a fine job of cooling my core I 5 7600k with even some additional Headroom there thermally uh to push it a bit further if I wanted to hit that nice 5 GHz Mark I'm pretty confident that this thing could do it and uh and it does so while while staying very quiet especially on the specifically on the auto setting just Auto it and it it is super quiet super good it's super cool and good in the end I would say this is a successful debut on on fractal designs part uh delivering their first AO to the US and it stays fairly competitive with other offerings at its current price point but that's going to do it for now guys let me know what you think of this thing in the comments below also feel free to toss me a like on the video If you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel for more Tech stuff if you haven't already also check out bitw Ultra my ad free Early Access Channel you thought I was going to forget didn't you I did not um check that out it's uh first two weeks are completely free and it's a bck 50 a month very cheap and all that jazz have a good one guys I'll see you all in the next video bye going to go edit this video now I hate my life no I have a great life I got this for free yeahwhat's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I'm taking a look at fractal designs very first liquid cooled AIO here in the United States this is the Celsius s24 there's the Celsius s36 which is the triple1 120 version and I'm dealing today with the s24 again the 240 mm variant so very exciting stuff here um this is more or less an acch uh design when you're talking internally so there's nothing too Innovative going on under the hood here um you are dealing with a DC pump pretty standard and a ceramic bearing and there's also a bit of a sound dampening material under the hood here which theoretically should make the pump quieter I have tested this already I've already plugged it in and and ran the tests it is very quiet we'll take a look at the fans in just a moment and how those sound from an aesthetic standpoint fractal hasn't taken too many risks here it's it's fairly basic and straightforward you might call it a little boring but I actually don't mind it I like some of my components to be boring uh like the AO for instance this is a personal preference of mine but this also sort of ties in with fractal Scandinavian minimalistic design or whatever you want to call it uh so if you look at the water Block it's kind of the circular thing and it's it's glossy it's black and glossy which I don't know I prefer matte with everything this just a personal preference of course but you get this the snowflake you get the nice little fractal snowflake just peeking out on the side there and then look at there's two words there's two words around the edges here Auto and pwm the hell is that so there's no software that comes included or is available for download on fractal's website there's no software at all when it's when it comes to tuning or controlling this thing so it's all Hardware based and basically this circular ring this sort of soft touch circular ring that goes around the water block is adjustable you can move it switching it from Auto to pwm you switch it between those two settings Auto basically makes the fans run at anywhere from 1,00 to 2,000 RPM is what I was seeing in hardware monitor which at that speed these fans are are silent not really quiet they're like I mean like I can't hear them from 10 in away on an open air test bed they're that quiet so when I was running it at Auto initially I was like oh my God temperatures are going to be awful it's just it's it's too quiet it's too quiet actually not uh 77 no 7600k our Core i5 which I had overclocked to 4.8 GHz we fired up GTA 5 at 1440p uh 2560 X 1440p 16x9 and 72 no 73° celsi celsius uh 73° C on a fairly heavily overclocked 7600k which I am pretty happy about uh with an ambient in my room of 26° C give or take a degree uh that's actually not too bad at all um and then we uh I switched over to pwm especially at just how quiet at that at that noise level I was just sort of Blown Away uh pun intended um then pwm when you switch it over to pwm the fans crank up to around 3,000 RPM so they're uh at that point they're Audible and you can definitely hear them even through a case especially if your your case isn't tailored for silence to begin with it's got a lot of open mesh and things like that uh then you can hear it but it's not obtrusive and it's not annoying espe especially if you've got any sort of in-game audio coming through your headphones or your speakers it's not going to bother you um at least it didn't bother me at all so it's not too bad however uh temperatures when you look at The Thermals running the same test in GTA 5 after about 20 minutes only decreased thermals on our CPU by one degree we went from 73c with the auto setting to 72 on the pwm setting so um really not worth it to go pwm in my opinion at least from my testing on the s24 I would just leave it at Auto and never change it again just stick it in install it it's good to go uh but that's a that's that's a good that's a good sign this thing definitely can cool a fairly um highly overclocked CPU which is honestly the most important part of any AIO IMO now the fairly thick tubing which is rubberized is not kinky which in this case is a good thing and uh I I really like the way it looks they've sleeved it with some nice sort of nylon or you know cloth material sleeving uh much better than the metal spiral crap that was on the Kelvin that was just that was special um but this looks really nice I I will say and of course it's nice to be even if you're in a cramped case uh and you got to like squish things together like in the M case M1 or something like that uh there is not going to be too much Kink with this rubber material uh now also if we look at the ends of the tubing we see that there are these like fittings on either side going from to the water block and to the radiator but only the the fittings only the G and a/4 inch fittings on the radiator are removable so this is an expandable Loop however you're limited in that you can only remove this end of the tubes you're pretty much stuck that means with this tubing which also means if you were to expand this and add in like a reservoir and additional radiators or GPU you might have some clashing tubing you'd be stuck with this one and you might have some just other tubing that doesn't look anything like this unless you can find this exact tubing which if you don't care about what your custom water cooled system looks like then by all means but most of us who are going to spend the premium on custom watercooled parts probably want it to look all matchy matchy and stuff so it's just a little confusing to me why fractal would allow this side to be removed but fix the other end I just I'm a little a little per perplexed by that now that being said fractal gets huge points for adding on this built-in pwm fan s splitter straight onto the radiator it's is a great idea you got these two Dynamic X2 fans these are fractals in-house fans they're not quite Ventures but they do a killer job anyway um two of these fans that are black and white of course and they route straight onto that fan s splitter Thea pwm connection and then you got a third cable that actually sneakily and invisibly routes underneath the sleeving of one of these tubes straight to the water block and then all of those connections get boiled down to this one single black CPU pwm 4 pin connector that was a mouthful uh which plugs straight into the CPU fan header on your motherboard so really this is a a very nice sort of elegant solution to clean up cable management this is all wired up good to go guys all you do is install it you just screw this to the top or the front of your case or whatever you bolt this down to your CPU all the cables all the wirings done all you got to do is plug this one cable in fans pump everything's good to go uh the only thing that that might scare some people or or might concern them is can that one CPU fan header on the motherboard actually power and control all of these various elements yes I think it can uh the fans honestly even the pump does not take much power uh the CPU fan header I'm sure any of those fan headers can handle um the amount of voltage required to run these effectively so I don't think that's an issue until further testing shows otherwise I probably wouldn't worry about it guys but um on that note let's move on to the other thing uh let's talk a little bit about the radiator itself again 240 mm it is 30 mm thick and it looks to have some pretty decent fin density it's more or less standard it looks kind of like the h100i which is not a bad thing at all and it's kind of just got a nice little finish there's some like lettering here like a model number just kind of looks I don't know looks very industrial it looks good man this is a cool little AIO and honestly literally uh we don't I don't I don't have much else to say I think installation installation was super easy again I keep comparing this to the h100i because it is sort of a direct competitor pretty much the exact same installation process as the h100i in fact you could even use the mounting accessories from the h100i with this and it would still work perfectly fine it's like the same OEM acch and all that jazzz so uh installation is really a breeze speaking of installation I didn't mention this at the beginning of the video but this is also uh offering Rising support straight out of the box so that's nice um I probably already included a b-roll shot of that at the beginning but just to mention it for validation yes it does support ryzen so that's that's cool too overall I'm 95% sure that I like this cooler uh granted it's got some weird quirks don't get me wrong like you know not being able to remove the tubing on this end and the sort of stiff locking or the stiff mechanism that goes around around the the water block for for Justin pwm and auto that's a little bit weird but for the most part this does a fine job of cooling my core I 5 7600k with even some additional Headroom there thermally uh to push it a bit further if I wanted to hit that nice 5 GHz Mark I'm pretty confident that this thing could do it and uh and it does so while while staying very quiet especially on the specifically on the auto setting just Auto it and it it is super quiet super good it's super cool and good in the end I would say this is a successful debut on on fractal designs part uh delivering their first AO to the US and it stays fairly competitive with other offerings at its current price point but that's going to do it for now guys let me know what you think of this thing in the comments below also feel free to toss me a like on the video If you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel for more Tech stuff if you haven't already also check out bitw Ultra my ad free Early Access Channel you thought I was going to forget didn't you I did not um check that out it's uh first two weeks are completely free and it's a bck 50 a month very cheap and all that jazz have a good one guys I'll see you all in the next video bye going to go edit this video now I hate my life no I have a great life I got this for free yeah\n"

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