Overclocking and Testing the Nepton 280L CPU Cooler

I decided to put my chip to the test by overclocking it and pushing its limits as far as possible. Since I wanted to see how this cooler would handle high temperatures, I thought that running a ton of voltage into a chip with thermal interface material issues straight from the factory would be the perfect scenario for testing this cooler. My chip was running at 4.4 GHz, but it was taking 1.29 volts to do it. This is a lot of voltage and can push temperatures up quickly.

Running 1.3 volts on the chip is definitely a lot of voltage and can cause temperatures to rise rapidly. In fact, if you plug in 1.3 volts manually, the font turns red, warning you that your CPU is about to melt. When it comes to temperatures, the cooler spends most of its time during these stress tests bouncing around the low 7s and upper 60s but can get up into the 80s depending on which algorithm it's using at that time. However, under general use, you're never going to leave the 50s or 60s.

Stress tests are designed to take your CPU and hammer it out of it, throwing redundant calculations at the CPU and maximizing every k capability at the same time. This is why these tests get really hot sometimes, making them perfect for testing coolers like this one. The Nepton 280L cooler is a fantastic product, and I've got one cooling my Apu build that I love. One thing I think would make it better is if the LED could change colors. Currently, it's red, but I think yellow or something else would look really great.

The Price Is Right

The Nepton 280L cooler has all the things I love in a CPU cooler: good cooling, fantastic functionality, and compatibility with both 140 and 120 mm fans. The radiator supports both sizes of fans, making it versatile enough to fit into any case. If you guys are looking for a way to keep your CPU from overheating this summer, the Nepton series should definitely be on your short list.

Availability

The Nepton 280L cooler is available in different sizes, including the standard version and the Compy Tex version, which may also feature new versions coming out soon. I'll make sure to check those out here on the channel. A huge thank you to Cooler Master for sending me this cooler to test and review for you guys.

Experimenting with New Video Settings

As part of testing the Nepton 280L cooler, I'm using YouTube's brand-new 60 frames per second function to see how well you guys like it. The video is currently available in 720p at 60 FPS, but I have a choice between this and 1080p at 30 FPS. Currently, my camera isn't capable of doing 1080p at 60 FPS, so I'm stuck with 720p for now.

However, if you guys prefer 1080p at 30 FPS, I'd love to hear from you. You can tell me on Twitter by using the hashtag #Nepton280L, and I'll make sure to see your comments. Head over to Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook to let me know what you think, and maybe one day, my camera will be able to handle 1080p at 60 FPS.

The future of video content is exciting, and I'm always open to trying new things. If you guys have any suggestions for me, feel free to share them on social media. Until next time, stay cool!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow somewhere along the line I kind of got the reputation of being a little bit of a water cooling snob I don't really think that's true at all all right maybe it's just a little true so to try and break out of that mold I'm going to go ahead and feature my test rig right here in a video where we're going to throw in an all-in-one water cooling unit The Cooler Master nepton 280l I'm not above this hell no you better not blow up my rig now Cooler Master obviously knows I'm a little bit of a cooling snob so they said why don't you go ahead and take our 280l and take it for a test spin so they sent this bad boy over and that's what we're going to do today now as you can see this is a factory sealed box so this isn't going to be one of those I've already taken it out and played with it I the the cooler that is we are going to find out together on camera for the first time exactly what my impressions are of this nepton 280l so let's go ahead and talk about the features real quick before we get inside now it is maintenance free so this is not like the 240 glacer where you can expand it open it up drain it all that stuff it is maintenance free you don't open it you open it up your Void your warranty it's got two times of surface area because it's well I guess two times the surface area of the 140 and it's got durable Fe tubing so it's kind of ribbed you know for your PCS pleasure and you can bend it around however you want so extreme cooling performance dual jet flow 140 fans and I've I've played around with the jet flows and oh my god do they move a lot of air like a lot now for CPU sockets it'll fit on pretty much any CPU on the market and then as you can see right here they've got some dimensions and some cooling graphs and stuff now I don't really care about their cooling graph I care about my experiences with it open it up here it is right here now I do like the way the package is I like the way that everything is you know kind of ready to go out of the box here's the radiator and my goodness it is a pretty good size if you ask me there we get that out of there here is that radiator this is a pretty good size radiator I like this now the pump in the block is one integrated unit make sure you take off that plastic piece before you put it on there I'm not embarrassed to say that I've done that before where I put it on with the plastic cooling on there probably way more times than I should have but here's our tubing it's nice and big and like I said it's nice and ribbed and the fittings on here do rotate that's the thing I really do like is they do rotate but you can rotate it off to the sides that way you can pretty much take as much torque off the tubing uh as possible you know you don't want to torque the tubing even though it is pretty durable so there's the radiator right there we are going to be mounting this into the top of my fractal Ark XL for this review here are those dual 140 mm jet flow fans right here the cable on here is sleeved it is a four pin pwm cable and these these fans do move an awful lot of air in fact these are rated to over 2,000 RPM so I definitely recommend you hook it up to a pwm signal that way you can control the speed of these fans cuz my goodness do these things sound like a jet when they're flowing do you see what I did there now that kind of brings me to the next Point Cooler Master does not have proprietary software for controlling their fans in their all-in-one units so compared to some other brands on the market that may be a little bit of a downside but I've yet to find a motherboard where I couldn't actually control a pwm fan so with that said that's not going to be an issue oh and also to the pump is pwm controlled so you can speed up and slow down the pump based on the load of your CPU so it's got a lot of automatic control in there so here's all your Hardware right here it does have everything for AMD and Intel all your old and new socket sets what I'm trying to get out of here if I can is the pwm fan splitter thank you for including this this is huge because I have even on my M Power Board here I have two CPU fan slots for pwm cpu1 cpu2 and if I got two fans and a pump I uh I kind of lose control over something so you can hook this up to like cpu2 it splits off to both your fans you can control it through your motherboard and then your cpu1 can control your pump or vice vers to however you want to set it up I this is all great talking about what's in the box and talking about specs and stuff but there's only one way you can really see how well this thing works and we are going to hook it up to the god awful horribly hot 4770k that's right we're going to see how well this thing cools the 4770k while overclocked because we all know 4770k have been known to bring a lot of all-in-one coolers right to their knees and not in a good way so The Cooler Master nepton 280l how does it do well first things first I just want to let you know that my 4770k was a perfect chip for this cooler because it is an absolute dud it does not like to overclock and if I want to push it anywhere at all above its Factory turbo spec I have to pump a lot of voltage into it so I thought that is the perfect scenario for testing this cooler let's just pump a ton of voltage into a chip that likes to get hot and has thermal interface material issues straight from the factory and let's see how this cooler can handle it now right now I'm running my chip at 4.4 GHz but it's taking 1.29 volts to do it now if you guys know anything about Intel overclocking at all you know that running 1.3 Vols on the chip is definitely a lot of voltage and it can really push your temperatures up to the ceiling really really fast in fact on the ow motherboard if you plug in 1.3 volts manually the font turns red to basically tell you hey buddy hope you've enjoyed your chip while it's lasted you're about to melt to the ground now when it comes to temperatures it pretty much spends most of its time during these stress test bounce around the low 7s and the upper 60s but it can get up into the 80s depending on which algorithm it's throwing at the CPU at that time but don't worry about those temperatures under General use you're never going to leave the 50s or the 60s these stress tests are designed to take your CPU and Hammer the out of them in fact the little animation when you turn on occt is a couple of guys taking sledgehammers to a CPU it's exactly what these things are doing they're throwing redundant calculations at the CPUs and absolutely positively maxing out every k capability of the CPU at the same time so that's why these tests get really hot sometimes and that's why they're perfect test for coolers like this so guys the nepton 280l it's a fantastic cooler in fact I've got a nepton that's cooling my Apu build and I love the white glow around the logo on the CPU the only thing I think would make that better was if it was an RGB maybe you could change the colors I would change it to Red currently for this build or maybe even yellow or something like that I think that's really the only criticism I have about this is that the LED should be able to change colors but that's just me you know some of the other brands do that I think maybe this one should as well but the Price Is Right the cooling is right the functionality is right it's got all the things I love in a CPU Cooler I'm a huge fan of the fact that the 280 mm radiator supports both 140 and 120 mm fans that way if you have 120 fans you prefer to use or maybe your case doesn't support to 140 Ms but you can fit the radiator in it you could use 120 mm fans to mount it so it just gives you a little a little bit extra compatibility and versatility so this summer if you guys are looking for a way to keep your CPU from Catching Fire you should definitely have the nepton series on your short list it's available in a couple of different sizes in fact a compy Tex they even talked about new versions of this cooler coming out soon we'll definitely be taking a look at that here on this channel got to give a huge thank you to Cooler Master for sending me this cooler to look at and test for you guys hopefully you guys have enjoyed the video and it helps you make a decision when it comes to buying cooler for your computer now one last thing I want to mention if you haven't noticed this video is only available in 720p that's because I'm trying out YouTube's brand new 60 frames per second function to see how well you guys like it would you guys rather have 1080p video at 30 frames per second or would you rather have 720p video at 60 frames per second unfortunately my camera is not capable of doing 1080p at 60 frames per second I am in the market for a new camera so maybe the future I'll be able to do 1080 at 60 frames but for now you guys have a choice which one do you like head over to Twitter to tell me I'm probably not going to be able to see all the comments here on YouTube head over to Twitter it's @ J2 cents pretty easy to find me it's the same for Instagram and Facebook and all that stuff and tell me if you guys want 720 at 60 or 1080 at 30 so guys I'm going to get the heck on out of here as always I'll see you in the next one at least I hope so unless you've unsubbed and then you're not watching this anyway so I guess I guess I will see you in the next one whatever nnow somewhere along the line I kind of got the reputation of being a little bit of a water cooling snob I don't really think that's true at all all right maybe it's just a little true so to try and break out of that mold I'm going to go ahead and feature my test rig right here in a video where we're going to throw in an all-in-one water cooling unit The Cooler Master nepton 280l I'm not above this hell no you better not blow up my rig now Cooler Master obviously knows I'm a little bit of a cooling snob so they said why don't you go ahead and take our 280l and take it for a test spin so they sent this bad boy over and that's what we're going to do today now as you can see this is a factory sealed box so this isn't going to be one of those I've already taken it out and played with it I the the cooler that is we are going to find out together on camera for the first time exactly what my impressions are of this nepton 280l so let's go ahead and talk about the features real quick before we get inside now it is maintenance free so this is not like the 240 glacer where you can expand it open it up drain it all that stuff it is maintenance free you don't open it you open it up your Void your warranty it's got two times of surface area because it's well I guess two times the surface area of the 140 and it's got durable Fe tubing so it's kind of ribbed you know for your PCS pleasure and you can bend it around however you want so extreme cooling performance dual jet flow 140 fans and I've I've played around with the jet flows and oh my god do they move a lot of air like a lot now for CPU sockets it'll fit on pretty much any CPU on the market and then as you can see right here they've got some dimensions and some cooling graphs and stuff now I don't really care about their cooling graph I care about my experiences with it open it up here it is right here now I do like the way the package is I like the way that everything is you know kind of ready to go out of the box here's the radiator and my goodness it is a pretty good size if you ask me there we get that out of there here is that radiator this is a pretty good size radiator I like this now the pump in the block is one integrated unit make sure you take off that plastic piece before you put it on there I'm not embarrassed to say that I've done that before where I put it on with the plastic cooling on there probably way more times than I should have but here's our tubing it's nice and big and like I said it's nice and ribbed and the fittings on here do rotate that's the thing I really do like is they do rotate but you can rotate it off to the sides that way you can pretty much take as much torque off the tubing uh as possible you know you don't want to torque the tubing even though it is pretty durable so there's the radiator right there we are going to be mounting this into the top of my fractal Ark XL for this review here are those dual 140 mm jet flow fans right here the cable on here is sleeved it is a four pin pwm cable and these these fans do move an awful lot of air in fact these are rated to over 2,000 RPM so I definitely recommend you hook it up to a pwm signal that way you can control the speed of these fans cuz my goodness do these things sound like a jet when they're flowing do you see what I did there now that kind of brings me to the next Point Cooler Master does not have proprietary software for controlling their fans in their all-in-one units so compared to some other brands on the market that may be a little bit of a downside but I've yet to find a motherboard where I couldn't actually control a pwm fan so with that said that's not going to be an issue oh and also to the pump is pwm controlled so you can speed up and slow down the pump based on the load of your CPU so it's got a lot of automatic control in there so here's all your Hardware right here it does have everything for AMD and Intel all your old and new socket sets what I'm trying to get out of here if I can is the pwm fan splitter thank you for including this this is huge because I have even on my M Power Board here I have two CPU fan slots for pwm cpu1 cpu2 and if I got two fans and a pump I uh I kind of lose control over something so you can hook this up to like cpu2 it splits off to both your fans you can control it through your motherboard and then your cpu1 can control your pump or vice vers to however you want to set it up I this is all great talking about what's in the box and talking about specs and stuff but there's only one way you can really see how well this thing works and we are going to hook it up to the god awful horribly hot 4770k that's right we're going to see how well this thing cools the 4770k while overclocked because we all know 4770k have been known to bring a lot of all-in-one coolers right to their knees and not in a good way so The Cooler Master nepton 280l how does it do well first things first I just want to let you know that my 4770k was a perfect chip for this cooler because it is an absolute dud it does not like to overclock and if I want to push it anywhere at all above its Factory turbo spec I have to pump a lot of voltage into it so I thought that is the perfect scenario for testing this cooler let's just pump a ton of voltage into a chip that likes to get hot and has thermal interface material issues straight from the factory and let's see how this cooler can handle it now right now I'm running my chip at 4.4 GHz but it's taking 1.29 volts to do it now if you guys know anything about Intel overclocking at all you know that running 1.3 Vols on the chip is definitely a lot of voltage and it can really push your temperatures up to the ceiling really really fast in fact on the ow motherboard if you plug in 1.3 volts manually the font turns red to basically tell you hey buddy hope you've enjoyed your chip while it's lasted you're about to melt to the ground now when it comes to temperatures it pretty much spends most of its time during these stress test bounce around the low 7s and the upper 60s but it can get up into the 80s depending on which algorithm it's throwing at the CPU at that time but don't worry about those temperatures under General use you're never going to leave the 50s or the 60s these stress tests are designed to take your CPU and Hammer the out of them in fact the little animation when you turn on occt is a couple of guys taking sledgehammers to a CPU it's exactly what these things are doing they're throwing redundant calculations at the CPUs and absolutely positively maxing out every k capability of the CPU at the same time so that's why these tests get really hot sometimes and that's why they're perfect test for coolers like this so guys the nepton 280l it's a fantastic cooler in fact I've got a nepton that's cooling my Apu build and I love the white glow around the logo on the CPU the only thing I think would make that better was if it was an RGB maybe you could change the colors I would change it to Red currently for this build or maybe even yellow or something like that I think that's really the only criticism I have about this is that the LED should be able to change colors but that's just me you know some of the other brands do that I think maybe this one should as well but the Price Is Right the cooling is right the functionality is right it's got all the things I love in a CPU Cooler I'm a huge fan of the fact that the 280 mm radiator supports both 140 and 120 mm fans that way if you have 120 fans you prefer to use or maybe your case doesn't support to 140 Ms but you can fit the radiator in it you could use 120 mm fans to mount it so it just gives you a little a little bit extra compatibility and versatility so this summer if you guys are looking for a way to keep your CPU from Catching Fire you should definitely have the nepton series on your short list it's available in a couple of different sizes in fact a compy Tex they even talked about new versions of this cooler coming out soon we'll definitely be taking a look at that here on this channel got to give a huge thank you to Cooler Master for sending me this cooler to look at and test for you guys hopefully you guys have enjoyed the video and it helps you make a decision when it comes to buying cooler for your computer now one last thing I want to mention if you haven't noticed this video is only available in 720p that's because I'm trying out YouTube's brand new 60 frames per second function to see how well you guys like it would you guys rather have 1080p video at 30 frames per second or would you rather have 720p video at 60 frames per second unfortunately my camera is not capable of doing 1080p at 60 frames per second I am in the market for a new camera so maybe the future I'll be able to do 1080 at 60 frames but for now you guys have a choice which one do you like head over to Twitter to tell me I'm probably not going to be able to see all the comments here on YouTube head over to Twitter it's @ J2 cents pretty easy to find me it's the same for Instagram and Facebook and all that stuff and tell me if you guys want 720 at 60 or 1080 at 30 so guys I'm going to get the heck on out of here as always I'll see you in the next one at least I hope so unless you've unsubbed and then you're not watching this anyway so I guess I guess I will see you in the next one whatever n\n"