The Pink Flow 240 CLC Review: A Balance of Performance and Noise Levels

In this review, we put the Pink Flow 240 to the test to see how it stacks up against other 240ml CLCs. Our first impression was that this cooler seems to be one of those situations where it's well worth buying if you want a pink and white cooler, as there aren't many options available in the market. However, we also had to consider its performance and noise levels.

One thing to note is that the Pink Flow 240 has a much lower fan speed than some other CLCs, such as the H100 IV 2 at 2500 rpm, which results in significantly lower noise levels. The cooler's fan speeds vary between 2130 rpm for the pink flow at full speed and 2200 rpm when running at 37 degrees Celsius over ambient temperature. This lower RPM also translates to a quieter experience.

We tested the Pink Flow 240 using various tools such as the Noise Chart, which provides a more accurate measurement of noise levels than just listening to it or relying on fan speeds alone. Our results showed that the cooler's noise level is around 47.4 dB(A) at 20 inches when tested acoustically out of 21 hundred rpm. This is comparable to other popular CLCs such as the NGC x42, which runs at 2100 rpm and reaches temperatures of 37 degrees Celsius.

However, we also noticed some fit and finish issues with the cooler, including scuffs and blemishes in the pink sticker on the top and bottom fan, as well as dings on the current orientation. These minor flaws are not necessarily deal-breakers but do reflect a potential issue with quality control.

Overall, our experience with the Pink Flow 240 suggests that it's a solid choice for those looking for a quiet and efficient cooler. While it may not excel in terms of performance compared to some other CLCs, its balance of cooling capabilities and noise levels make it a worthwhile option. Additionally, its aesthetics and limited availability in the market mean that there aren't many alternatives available.

As we discussed earlier, one benefit of this cooler is that it achieves what 240ml CLC's can while running significantly lower RPMs and thus lower noise levels. This makes it an excellent choice for those looking to balance cooling performance with noise reduction.

The Noise Levels Chart provides a clear comparison between the Pink Flow 240 and other popular CLCs, including the H100 IV 2 and the LG LCS. Our findings indicate that the cooler's noise level is significantly better than some of its competitors, particularly when running at lower RPMs.

In terms of performance, the Pink Flow 240's cooling capabilities are comparable to those of other popular CLCs in its class. The cooler is able to maintain a temperature of around 39 degrees Celsius over ambient during testing, which is not bad considering it runs at significantly lower RPMs than some of its competitors.

The manual fan profile recommended for this cooler can help optimize performance and noise levels, allowing users to customize the fan speeds to their liking. This feature is particularly useful for those who want more control over the cooling experience.

One thing to keep in mind when using this cooler is that it may require a bit more maintenance than some of its competitors due to its relatively complex design and limited availability of replacement parts. However, this shouldn't be a major concern for most users.

In conclusion, our review of the Pink Flow 240 suggests that it's a solid choice for those looking for a quiet and efficient cooler. Its balance of cooling capabilities and noise levels make it an excellent option, particularly when compared to other 240ml CLCs. While it may not excel in terms of performance, its unique combination of aesthetics and performance capabilities make it worth considering.

As we discussed earlier, the benefit of larger coolers such as the 280m LC LCS is clear. This cooler's ability to achieve what 240ml CLC's can while running significantly lower RPMs and thus lower noise levels makes it an excellent choice for those looking to balance cooling performance with noise reduction.

However, if you're not particular about aesthetics or don't mind a less premium design, there are other options available that may be worth considering. Our review of the Pink Flow 240 has provided valuable insights into its strengths and weaknesses, allowing users to make an informed decision when choosing a cooler for their build.

We've also taken note of some potential fit and finish issues with this cooler, including scuffs and blemishes in the pink sticker on the top and bottom fan. While these minor flaws are not necessarily deal-breakers, they do reflect a potential issue with quality control that users should be aware of when making their purchase decision.

In summary, our review of the Pink Flow 240 has provided valuable insights into its performance and noise levels, as well as its fit and finish issues. We've also discussed some benefits of larger coolers such as the 280m LC LCS, highlighting their unique combination of cooling capabilities and noise reduction. Our findings suggest that the Pink Flow 240 is a solid choice for those looking for a quiet and efficient cooler, but users should be aware of its potential fit and finish issues when making their purchase decision.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enafter our reviews on the RH 580 2048 cute pet peach tree and snowflake heavily and the 5700 XC waifu edition we thought it was probably time to venture outside of video cards from aliexpress and try some coolers we purchased the ID cooling pink flow a pink and white closed-loop liquid cooler that sells for around 100 bucks which is close to most of the other 240 CLC's on the market for price ID cooling is headquartered in Shenzhen where we've seen its products dominating shelves at hua Shan Bay s e-g and it even lists its factory as Shenzhen one Jane hua technology what we're uncertain of is if ID cooling owns the factory or just partners with it but we'd assume the latter ID cooling is a legitimate clean manufacture and it's pretty big in Asia often standing prominently alongside Coolermaster at the markets is one of the only cooling providers that we see in the stalls they don't have much Western reach though we bought the ID cooling pink flow to see how it does as we assume buyers of the cute pet or the waifu might want some other parts to match their built waifu's do need company after all before that this video is brought to you by thermal take stuff ram RGB memory available from 3000 Hertz up to 40 400 megahertz an 8 gigabyte by two configurations the Thermaltake tuff ram uses 10 addressable RGB leds for bright illumination and comes in both black and white kits of memory learn more at the link in the description below so this is what we're reviewing today this is the ID cooling 240 ml pink flow it's got the a name that sounds like euphemism for a biological function and the charm of being well just different and unique now although ID cooling hasn't made a pink flow cooler body pillow yet certainly that's on the list of products to make because the stuff we've been finding on Aliexpress lately really seems to have a specific theme and there's a lot of white and pink going on we thought it'd be a fun one to look at and we've seen it in some builds even online lately overall this cooler is pretty standard it's a 240 ml CLC it's got obviously two 120mm fans on it the radiator is familiar to anyone who's bought an ace attack made cooler in the past and aces heck does make most of them right now for the consumer market that would be a lot of corsair stuff EVGA is all of them and a lot of all of NZXT is currently so it's familiar hardware it's just that they've made it pink and white at 100 bucks it's pretty comparable to other two 40s the EVGA CLC 240 at time of writing was 104 dollars that's one of the more budget-friendly ones course here still has some of its H 100 series coolers out there for a bit over priced at 125 or so and then this comes in just below that so this thing we've got thermal tests on it of course we have noise test we've done noise normalize thermal testing we've added a new chart for the closed-loop liquid cooler reviews but we're also going to do something a bit different break rank and talk about the overall build quality and looks of the cooler outside of just the functional performance angle of things because it is so clearly looks focused for I mean that's why you buy it otherwise you just buy literally any other 240 CLC they're all mostly the same anyway so let's talk about the build quality and the appearances get into thermals and then figure out if this thing's worth buying although the pink flow has several blemishes it has managed to impress us overall we expected a lot worse but from a CLC standpoint this one's been pretty standard the radiator is painted white and the white on the radiator actually isn't that bad it's done all the way through so even the insides of the fins are white sometimes we see coolers that miss this and end up with black marks or maybe you see exposed copper or aluminum whatever the material may be in this case it's aluminum we'd assume that ID Cooling's partner factory is painting that before creating the crinkles in the fins does that make the most sense white is notoriously hard as a color to do for computer hardware and often has issues matching between materials on the same part the fan frames are probably the most obvious instance of this an area of trouble where we can clearly see the mold marks halfway down the fan and some of the underlying plastic coming up the fan frame coloring is more of an off-white and almost looks a little dusty not quite matching up with the powder white on the radiator the rest of the frame is comprised of a clear diffuser for the LEDs but the diffuser is partially covered by a simple paper pink sticker in the middle speaking of stickers the radiator also has a few large foil stickers on either side and ours was slightly peeling at the top when we got it but we pressed it back down firmly and it's stayed in place since but this area may be an that you have to keep an eye on and you might need to get the glue out for it in a year or so the tubes are also white and braided but ours have had black scuff marks on them since we got the unit the marks don't seem to come out easily so this could be a downside for pickier users you might be able to apply some cleaning product to scrub it off we didn't really try that hard the tubes though are a standard ASA textile rubber underneath for the tubing meaning that they bypassed the teman interlining that companies like Coolermaster use and instead stick to a simpler rubber Teflon lining is useful for reducing permeation of the tubes with age but it's also significantly less flexible and it has the downside that if you bend it too far it'll crack at which point you effectively have a leak or at least very bad permeation we generally prefer the rubber solution found on this one as it's more flexible and less prone to error despite a standard 5 to 6 year life expectancy prior to permeation really starting to matter as an upside though the pink fan blades are free of blemishes and look just like the pepto-bismol color that's advertised on the box we stuck a reflective sticker on them to validate the fan rpm with a laser tachometer just to make sure the fan wasn't lying to us and they do come back to about 2130 rpm plus or minus the usual ten percent one of them is about a hundred rpm slower the pump block housing is a cheaper feeling plastic that's finger print prone and coated with a chromed pink color not at all accurately represented by the box is more silver representation but the chrome tank is definitely way more appropriate for the cooler the mounting plate is a somewhat standard ACE textile plate that latches with good granularity so you can angle the cooler mount as desired and it should feel like every ace tech CLC on the market the pump plate isn't rotatable though so you only have one way to get that right side up without taking it apart and modifying it we're starting to see this change we have some footage from CES 2020 when we visited Lian Li where the company had its maybe second or third iteration of its galahad AIO or CLC and in that one there's a rotatable pump block so that you can change the logo orientation and this is something that companies are finally starting to catch on to but not on the pink flow a small annoyance is that the pump block has two cables jetting out of it the pump power obviously and then an RGB header with two active pins the RGB cable ends up sort of ugly but there are many other options for synchronization with RGB LEDs aside from cables protruding out of the block normally we don't really care about aesthetics for in general for products and typically I personally prefer to have the cables the actual color so I know which ones 12 volts or 5 volts or whatever may be and this instance the product is so focused on looks that we almost wonder if it looked better with white cabling instead or at least all black without the brown wire running down the RGB cable but normally we don't really care that much this cooler claims on the box to be compatible with aura sync MSI mystic light and gigabyte RGB fusion but we don't like intentionally installing malware on our test benches so we didn't try any of these applications with it there's not much reason it wouldn't work it's just a pass-through and this is fairly standard pinning installation is trivial it's often the case with liquid coolers and this one is just a matter of a few standoffs and a couple of screw caps on top of them desktop platforms use an additional backplate I'll include it in the box and Eydie cooling even includes some rubber bumpers that theoretically help with vibration damping for the fans but more realistically they're just there for the looks the biggest downside overall is that the fans look plasticky and cheap from the frame and that the white colors are slightly different between the tubes the radiator the barbs that the tubes connect to and the other embellishments once inside of a darker chassis you probably won't be able to tell that much though but it is kind of a nitpick we should get into the thermal noise data next for this we're using our standard CLC cooler testing methodology that we've used for years now we'll start with 40 DB a noise normalized thermals to establish a baseline for efficiency since any cooler can brute-force its way to the top of the charts just by running louder fans that's not impressive it's when they run the same conditions as each other and then still manage to win that we end up impressed so we'll start with 40 DB 8 noise normalized our upcoming chart is a new one for our closed-loop liquid cooler benchmark for which we've maintained a database for three years now we refactored all of our old results just for this review to create a new metric our original metric was a weighting that included the soak time of a cooler allowing us to analyze how efficiently a liquid cooler would perform when soaked in heat load fluctuations throughout the course of the test this new dataset use is some results for a torture only load at steady-state that's all at steady-state for the most part but the soak difference is that we're also looking at the dips when it goes down to a more medium load and then comes back up so how does it deal with that and the larger radiators are obviously benefited in those tests so this eliminates some of the medium load soak period and it looks only at torture it's somewhat minimizes the effects of radiator size compared to the other chart but it's easier to work with for a straight Dayna comparison under heavy load for this data set the ID cooling pink flow 240 ends up at about 45 point six degrees Celsius delta T over ambient for average CB core temperature has averaged across all the cores and across all the steady-state data in the spreadsheet so it's a lot of rows of data averaged the pink flow manages to roughly tie with the coarser h100 i-pro an older staple but still available at $125 online the pink flow comes in $20 cheaper it's pink and white and it's about the same level of performance wind noise normalized to 40 DBA at 20 inches differences though will emerge at 100% fans beats the pink flow has louder fans on average rpm for rpm than coursers H 100 I pro illustrated by the rpm Delta at the same noise level but there's also some pump noise there too it roughly matches in performance though the 280 mil be quiet silent loop runs at forty four point nine degrees Celsius over a meeting with his metric making it roughly with an error of the H 100 I Pro but we were never too impressed with a silent loop and it also can't legally be sold in the US anyway so it doesn't really matter that much the CLC 240 jumps further ahead at 44 degrees but it's still nearing error and test a test variance the pink flow only outperforms weird liquid coolers like the PC cooler which doesn't count and 120ml CLC is like the m22 which was garbage that said it's not doing poorly it's just not the best for the more standard chart that includes time to soak the thermal peaks temperatures are overall declined by a couple of degrees on average typically about two degrees Celsius but some coolers see wider swings the 120 M LC LC you see the biggest reduction as they don't have enough volume to adequately absorb the torture only load the pink flow to 40 ends up technically ahead of the H 100 I v2 and technically about tied with the H 100 I Pro but that doesn't mean that these are any different from each other the three coolers are within test variants run to run and so we can call them functionally equivalent the 41.8 degree pink flow results has it also near the h 159 pro at 37 DBA at 39 degrees over ambience but note that the H 115 I pros fans don't reach our 40 DB a noise normalized number and so it would perform better if it could be properly normalized the rest of the chart the pink flow cooler is reasonably competitive with its nearby 240ml peers if you specifically wanted a pink and white cooler and assuming this one has the look that you want its performance really isn't meaningfully impactful enough to negate the sale if that's what you want it's not like it's bad it's just you don't buy it for the performance clearly endurance of course we're uncertain about this time but the performance is fine this chart ignores noise levels and allows coolers to operate at their maximum fan rpm which can blow out the scale for some devices the EVGA CLC 360 for instance maybe a chart topper but it's also about 60 DBA at 20 inches away it's a jet engine and it's totally intolerable these speeds but it does technically have the best performance as a result well have kept Li 100% speed noise levels momentarily the pink flow 240 and it's 100% fan speed places overall worse when compared to the other 240 ml coolers like the NGC x 42 at 2100 rpm and 37 degrees or the H 100 IV 2 at 2500 rpm and 36 degrees Celsius over ambience the pink flow though is much quieter than the h1 IV too at 2130 rpm of course that's because the rpm is lower and it ranks at 39 degrees over ambient this puts it closer to a slowed down H 115 I Pro when you intentionally slow it down and this also illustrates that the benefit of those larger coolers is pretty clear the 280 m LC LCS can achieve what the 240 ml CLC's can while running significantly lower rpm and thus lower noise levels so that's your benefit to relay at the previous data back to noise levels here's a chart with the pink flow at full speed for noise the cooler matters at forty seven point four DBA at twenty inches when tested acoustically out of twenty one hundred ish rpm depend on which fan you're looking at the two fans have a variance of about 100 rpm between them and this is normal that puts the pink flow closer to the crack next sixty two and silently 280 and noise performance mostly because it's not running as fast as other 240 ml CLC's H 100 IV 2 for instance my is out at 53.9 DBA and 2500 rpm let's see LC 240 by EVGA runs at about 58 DBA the pink flow is much quieter than these but also has lower performance Headroom ultimately we'd recommend a manual fan profile for any of these coolers anyway so the noise out a hundred percent isn't all too relevant other than to illustrate where they can top out for performance as matched against noise but there's an obvious trade-off overall then how to do well it's actually not bad it seems mostly fine for thermals and noise this is very much a oh nice this it's got good stand-up ability too this is very much one of those situations where it's well buy it if that's what you want because there's nothing offensively bad in terms of performance and if you want a pink and white cooler as far as I'm aware there aren't any other ones at least that are CLC's if you know of them please link them below tweet at us whatever and we'll check them out but if you don't want pink and white don't buy it it's not like it does better for you and cooling and if you do want it then well it's fine so one thing I did just notice a second ago was a couple more blemishes on this thing that I wanted to point out so it seems like the company ID or it cooling has a lot of fit and finish issues overall we addressed a lot of those in the build section but there's some more here so first of all on the top of this fan there are scuffs and blemishes in the pink sticker it's just a paper sticker where you can see the paper underneath it so there's some off-white showing through same for the one on the bottom there's a big streak where it looks like screwdriver was dragged on it that wasn't us and then this lower fan and the current orientation I just noticed this has a couple of dings on it and that was one of the things I said in the script actually came out better but I was wrong this one does have some some grey marks in it along the pinked edge of the fan blades now all these things are pretty minor overall it's kind of nitpicky but that's what we do especially on the case reviews and I took some of that formatting for this one one thing I will say is that the peak flow 240 matches up with our other boxes quite well and now we've got a pretty full collection there's a couple more things I am aware of and I'm trying to get we've got a pretty full collection weird stuff from from aliexpress or tamal or actually being in Shenzhen and this can now join the ranks much like these it's fine it's a buy it if that's what you want that's more or less it so that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more if you want to support us in paying for things like this you can go to patreon.com/scishow gamers Nexus and I was out there for behind the scenes videos as well if you think that's stupid and you don't want to fund this you can instead go to store Dec here in Texas net and buy something for yourself and then we'll use that money to buy stuff like this so thanks for watching subscribe for more we'll see you all next timeafter our reviews on the RH 580 2048 cute pet peach tree and snowflake heavily and the 5700 XC waifu edition we thought it was probably time to venture outside of video cards from aliexpress and try some coolers we purchased the ID cooling pink flow a pink and white closed-loop liquid cooler that sells for around 100 bucks which is close to most of the other 240 CLC's on the market for price ID cooling is headquartered in Shenzhen where we've seen its products dominating shelves at hua Shan Bay s e-g and it even lists its factory as Shenzhen one Jane hua technology what we're uncertain of is if ID cooling owns the factory or just partners with it but we'd assume the latter ID cooling is a legitimate clean manufacture and it's pretty big in Asia often standing prominently alongside Coolermaster at the markets is one of the only cooling providers that we see in the stalls they don't have much Western reach though we bought the ID cooling pink flow to see how it does as we assume buyers of the cute pet or the waifu might want some other parts to match their built waifu's do need company after all before that this video is brought to you by thermal take stuff ram RGB memory available from 3000 Hertz up to 40 400 megahertz an 8 gigabyte by two configurations the Thermaltake tuff ram uses 10 addressable RGB leds for bright illumination and comes in both black and white kits of memory learn more at the link in the description below so this is what we're reviewing today this is the ID cooling 240 ml pink flow it's got the a name that sounds like euphemism for a biological function and the charm of being well just different and unique now although ID cooling hasn't made a pink flow cooler body pillow yet certainly that's on the list of products to make because the stuff we've been finding on Aliexpress lately really seems to have a specific theme and there's a lot of white and pink going on we thought it'd be a fun one to look at and we've seen it in some builds even online lately overall this cooler is pretty standard it's a 240 ml CLC it's got obviously two 120mm fans on it the radiator is familiar to anyone who's bought an ace attack made cooler in the past and aces heck does make most of them right now for the consumer market that would be a lot of corsair stuff EVGA is all of them and a lot of all of NZXT is currently so it's familiar hardware it's just that they've made it pink and white at 100 bucks it's pretty comparable to other two 40s the EVGA CLC 240 at time of writing was 104 dollars that's one of the more budget-friendly ones course here still has some of its H 100 series coolers out there for a bit over priced at 125 or so and then this comes in just below that so this thing we've got thermal tests on it of course we have noise test we've done noise normalize thermal testing we've added a new chart for the closed-loop liquid cooler reviews but we're also going to do something a bit different break rank and talk about the overall build quality and looks of the cooler outside of just the functional performance angle of things because it is so clearly looks focused for I mean that's why you buy it otherwise you just buy literally any other 240 CLC they're all mostly the same anyway so let's talk about the build quality and the appearances get into thermals and then figure out if this thing's worth buying although the pink flow has several blemishes it has managed to impress us overall we expected a lot worse but from a CLC standpoint this one's been pretty standard the radiator is painted white and the white on the radiator actually isn't that bad it's done all the way through so even the insides of the fins are white sometimes we see coolers that miss this and end up with black marks or maybe you see exposed copper or aluminum whatever the material may be in this case it's aluminum we'd assume that ID Cooling's partner factory is painting that before creating the crinkles in the fins does that make the most sense white is notoriously hard as a color to do for computer hardware and often has issues matching between materials on the same part the fan frames are probably the most obvious instance of this an area of trouble where we can clearly see the mold marks halfway down the fan and some of the underlying plastic coming up the fan frame coloring is more of an off-white and almost looks a little dusty not quite matching up with the powder white on the radiator the rest of the frame is comprised of a clear diffuser for the LEDs but the diffuser is partially covered by a simple paper pink sticker in the middle speaking of stickers the radiator also has a few large foil stickers on either side and ours was slightly peeling at the top when we got it but we pressed it back down firmly and it's stayed in place since but this area may be an that you have to keep an eye on and you might need to get the glue out for it in a year or so the tubes are also white and braided but ours have had black scuff marks on them since we got the unit the marks don't seem to come out easily so this could be a downside for pickier users you might be able to apply some cleaning product to scrub it off we didn't really try that hard the tubes though are a standard ASA textile rubber underneath for the tubing meaning that they bypassed the teman interlining that companies like Coolermaster use and instead stick to a simpler rubber Teflon lining is useful for reducing permeation of the tubes with age but it's also significantly less flexible and it has the downside that if you bend it too far it'll crack at which point you effectively have a leak or at least very bad permeation we generally prefer the rubber solution found on this one as it's more flexible and less prone to error despite a standard 5 to 6 year life expectancy prior to permeation really starting to matter as an upside though the pink fan blades are free of blemishes and look just like the pepto-bismol color that's advertised on the box we stuck a reflective sticker on them to validate the fan rpm with a laser tachometer just to make sure the fan wasn't lying to us and they do come back to about 2130 rpm plus or minus the usual ten percent one of them is about a hundred rpm slower the pump block housing is a cheaper feeling plastic that's finger print prone and coated with a chromed pink color not at all accurately represented by the box is more silver representation but the chrome tank is definitely way more appropriate for the cooler the mounting plate is a somewhat standard ACE textile plate that latches with good granularity so you can angle the cooler mount as desired and it should feel like every ace tech CLC on the market the pump plate isn't rotatable though so you only have one way to get that right side up without taking it apart and modifying it we're starting to see this change we have some footage from CES 2020 when we visited Lian Li where the company had its maybe second or third iteration of its galahad AIO or CLC and in that one there's a rotatable pump block so that you can change the logo orientation and this is something that companies are finally starting to catch on to but not on the pink flow a small annoyance is that the pump block has two cables jetting out of it the pump power obviously and then an RGB header with two active pins the RGB cable ends up sort of ugly but there are many other options for synchronization with RGB LEDs aside from cables protruding out of the block normally we don't really care about aesthetics for in general for products and typically I personally prefer to have the cables the actual color so I know which ones 12 volts or 5 volts or whatever may be and this instance the product is so focused on looks that we almost wonder if it looked better with white cabling instead or at least all black without the brown wire running down the RGB cable but normally we don't really care that much this cooler claims on the box to be compatible with aura sync MSI mystic light and gigabyte RGB fusion but we don't like intentionally installing malware on our test benches so we didn't try any of these applications with it there's not much reason it wouldn't work it's just a pass-through and this is fairly standard pinning installation is trivial it's often the case with liquid coolers and this one is just a matter of a few standoffs and a couple of screw caps on top of them desktop platforms use an additional backplate I'll include it in the box and Eydie cooling even includes some rubber bumpers that theoretically help with vibration damping for the fans but more realistically they're just there for the looks the biggest downside overall is that the fans look plasticky and cheap from the frame and that the white colors are slightly different between the tubes the radiator the barbs that the tubes connect to and the other embellishments once inside of a darker chassis you probably won't be able to tell that much though but it is kind of a nitpick we should get into the thermal noise data next for this we're using our standard CLC cooler testing methodology that we've used for years now we'll start with 40 DB a noise normalized thermals to establish a baseline for efficiency since any cooler can brute-force its way to the top of the charts just by running louder fans that's not impressive it's when they run the same conditions as each other and then still manage to win that we end up impressed so we'll start with 40 DB 8 noise normalized our upcoming chart is a new one for our closed-loop liquid cooler benchmark for which we've maintained a database for three years now we refactored all of our old results just for this review to create a new metric our original metric was a weighting that included the soak time of a cooler allowing us to analyze how efficiently a liquid cooler would perform when soaked in heat load fluctuations throughout the course of the test this new dataset use is some results for a torture only load at steady-state that's all at steady-state for the most part but the soak difference is that we're also looking at the dips when it goes down to a more medium load and then comes back up so how does it deal with that and the larger radiators are obviously benefited in those tests so this eliminates some of the medium load soak period and it looks only at torture it's somewhat minimizes the effects of radiator size compared to the other chart but it's easier to work with for a straight Dayna comparison under heavy load for this data set the ID cooling pink flow 240 ends up at about 45 point six degrees Celsius delta T over ambient for average CB core temperature has averaged across all the cores and across all the steady-state data in the spreadsheet so it's a lot of rows of data averaged the pink flow manages to roughly tie with the coarser h100 i-pro an older staple but still available at $125 online the pink flow comes in $20 cheaper it's pink and white and it's about the same level of performance wind noise normalized to 40 DBA at 20 inches differences though will emerge at 100% fans beats the pink flow has louder fans on average rpm for rpm than coursers H 100 I pro illustrated by the rpm Delta at the same noise level but there's also some pump noise there too it roughly matches in performance though the 280 mil be quiet silent loop runs at forty four point nine degrees Celsius over a meeting with his metric making it roughly with an error of the H 100 I Pro but we were never too impressed with a silent loop and it also can't legally be sold in the US anyway so it doesn't really matter that much the CLC 240 jumps further ahead at 44 degrees but it's still nearing error and test a test variance the pink flow only outperforms weird liquid coolers like the PC cooler which doesn't count and 120ml CLC is like the m22 which was garbage that said it's not doing poorly it's just not the best for the more standard chart that includes time to soak the thermal peaks temperatures are overall declined by a couple of degrees on average typically about two degrees Celsius but some coolers see wider swings the 120 M LC LC you see the biggest reduction as they don't have enough volume to adequately absorb the torture only load the pink flow to 40 ends up technically ahead of the H 100 I v2 and technically about tied with the H 100 I Pro but that doesn't mean that these are any different from each other the three coolers are within test variants run to run and so we can call them functionally equivalent the 41.8 degree pink flow results has it also near the h 159 pro at 37 DBA at 39 degrees over ambience but note that the H 115 I pros fans don't reach our 40 DB a noise normalized number and so it would perform better if it could be properly normalized the rest of the chart the pink flow cooler is reasonably competitive with its nearby 240ml peers if you specifically wanted a pink and white cooler and assuming this one has the look that you want its performance really isn't meaningfully impactful enough to negate the sale if that's what you want it's not like it's bad it's just you don't buy it for the performance clearly endurance of course we're uncertain about this time but the performance is fine this chart ignores noise levels and allows coolers to operate at their maximum fan rpm which can blow out the scale for some devices the EVGA CLC 360 for instance maybe a chart topper but it's also about 60 DBA at 20 inches away it's a jet engine and it's totally intolerable these speeds but it does technically have the best performance as a result well have kept Li 100% speed noise levels momentarily the pink flow 240 and it's 100% fan speed places overall worse when compared to the other 240 ml coolers like the NGC x 42 at 2100 rpm and 37 degrees or the H 100 IV 2 at 2500 rpm and 36 degrees Celsius over ambience the pink flow though is much quieter than the h1 IV too at 2130 rpm of course that's because the rpm is lower and it ranks at 39 degrees over ambient this puts it closer to a slowed down H 115 I Pro when you intentionally slow it down and this also illustrates that the benefit of those larger coolers is pretty clear the 280 m LC LCS can achieve what the 240 ml CLC's can while running significantly lower rpm and thus lower noise levels so that's your benefit to relay at the previous data back to noise levels here's a chart with the pink flow at full speed for noise the cooler matters at forty seven point four DBA at twenty inches when tested acoustically out of twenty one hundred ish rpm depend on which fan you're looking at the two fans have a variance of about 100 rpm between them and this is normal that puts the pink flow closer to the crack next sixty two and silently 280 and noise performance mostly because it's not running as fast as other 240 ml CLC's H 100 IV 2 for instance my is out at 53.9 DBA and 2500 rpm let's see LC 240 by EVGA runs at about 58 DBA the pink flow is much quieter than these but also has lower performance Headroom ultimately we'd recommend a manual fan profile for any of these coolers anyway so the noise out a hundred percent isn't all too relevant other than to illustrate where they can top out for performance as matched against noise but there's an obvious trade-off overall then how to do well it's actually not bad it seems mostly fine for thermals and noise this is very much a oh nice this it's got good stand-up ability too this is very much one of those situations where it's well buy it if that's what you want because there's nothing offensively bad in terms of performance and if you want a pink and white cooler as far as I'm aware there aren't any other ones at least that are CLC's if you know of them please link them below tweet at us whatever and we'll check them out but if you don't want pink and white don't buy it it's not like it does better for you and cooling and if you do want it then well it's fine so one thing I did just notice a second ago was a couple more blemishes on this thing that I wanted to point out so it seems like the company ID or it cooling has a lot of fit and finish issues overall we addressed a lot of those in the build section but there's some more here so first of all on the top of this fan there are scuffs and blemishes in the pink sticker it's just a paper sticker where you can see the paper underneath it so there's some off-white showing through same for the one on the bottom there's a big streak where it looks like screwdriver was dragged on it that wasn't us and then this lower fan and the current orientation I just noticed this has a couple of dings on it and that was one of the things I said in the script actually came out better but I was wrong this one does have some some grey marks in it along the pinked edge of the fan blades now all these things are pretty minor overall it's kind of nitpicky but that's what we do especially on the case reviews and I took some of that formatting for this one one thing I will say is that the peak flow 240 matches up with our other boxes quite well and now we've got a pretty full collection there's a couple more things I am aware of and I'm trying to get we've got a pretty full collection weird stuff from from aliexpress or tamal or actually being in Shenzhen and this can now join the ranks much like these it's fine it's a buy it if that's what you want that's more or less it so that's it for this one thanks for watching as always subscribe for more if you want to support us in paying for things like this you can go to patreon.com/scishow gamers Nexus and I was out there for behind the scenes videos as well if you think that's stupid and you don't want to fund this you can instead go to store Dec here in Texas net and buy something for yourself and then we'll use that money to buy stuff like this so thanks for watching subscribe for more we'll see you all next time\n"