Cheapest AIO on Amazon vs High-end AIO (NZXT vs Uphere)

**All-In-One Liquid Cooler Comparison: NZXT Kraken X53 vs Up Here Design**

In this video, we will be comparing two all-in-one liquid coolers, the NZXT Kraken X53 and the Up Here Design cooler, to see how they perform in their stock configurations. We'll also be testing them with EK Vardar fans to see how well they scale.

The test parameters include running Prime95 for 20 minutes per test on each configuration, using the TDI temperature measurement in HWiNFO64 as the final temperature measurement, and keeping the ambient air temperature at 22 degrees Celsius. We'll be measuring this right where the fans intake air into the radiator.

We found that the Up Here Design cooler was quieter than the NZXT Kraken X53 due to its lower fan RPM. However, when we added EK Vardar fans to the Up Here Design cooler, it performed way better compared to its stock configuration. On the other hand, the performance of the NZXT Kraken X53 remained pretty much the same with and without the EK Vardar fans.

This shows that the stock fans on the NZXT Kraken X53 are optimized quite well for this radiator layout. Even with the help of the more powerful EK Vardar fans, which cost almost as much as the Up Here Design cooler itself, it still couldn't match the performance of the NZXT Kraken X53.

Another important factor to consider when buying an all-in-one liquid cooler is the warranty offered by the manufacturer. The NZXT Kraken X53 comes with a six-year warranty, whereas the Up Here Design cooler has a 12-month warranty.

In terms of aesthetics, the NZXT Kraken X53 looks better than the Up Here Design cooler. Additionally, the mounting mechanism on the NZXT Kraken X53 is easier to use due to its flexible tubes, making it simpler to get the cooler where you need it to be.

Finally, there are other small details that make a difference in the overall quality of the product. For example, under the screw holes of the actual mounting on the radiator, the NZXT Kraken X53 has these little metal pads which protect the radiator fins from the screws going down into them. This is not the case with the Up Here Design cooler.

In conclusion, our tests show that a more expensive all-in-one liquid cooler can perform better than a cheaper one, and there are other factors to consider when making a decision such as warranty, aesthetics, and mounting mechanism.

**References:**

* NZXT Kraken X53: A six-year warranty is offered by the manufacturer.

* Up Here Design Cooler: Has a 12-month warranty.

* HWiNFO64: Used for temperature measurement.

* Prime95: Used for stress testing.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna compare a fancy all-in-one liquid cooler with all of the bells and whistles to something a little bit more basic but before we get into that we've got a sponsor for today's video today's sponsor is world of warships a free-to-play game or you can command a selection of over 300 accurately modeled Second World War battleships these ships are divided into several classes so that you can fight the way you want to if you want something small and nimble so that you can talk in and out of battle a cruiser is probably for you but if you like something bigger manlier and more heavy-hitting I'd probably go for a battleship hmm look at that ship destruction here's another shot of some ships being destroyed look at that one tank a whole lot of damage and all of this destruction is free to play use the link in my description to download the game and if you use the promo code ready for battle 2020 you'll get three 700 our balloons 1 million credits seven days premium account premium ship USS Charleston with stars and stripes camouflage and the Japanese premium ship ishizuchi and this will be more than enough to get you started on the route down battleship destruction look at that fire so let's compare the cheapest 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler that I could find on Amazon - one of the best options in this size of cooler in my opinion let's get straight into the peasant cooler the up here 240 millimeter radiator they really spend hours thinking of that name this cooler new on amazon costs $60 which is really not very much considering what it is although at this price you do have to make some sacrifices in fact you have to choose the color of the lights on the cooler when you buy it which is pretty savage the cooler comes reasonably well packaged in a fairly soft foam there's nothing really to complain about here now the first thing that I noticed when taking it out of the box is that the tubes aren't very malleable they're they're pretty rigid although the actual radiator seems like it's a decent quality and there are only a couple of small Nick's on the radiator straight out of the box the cooler also doesn't come with any thermal paste pre applied but it does come with some in the box and then it comes with mounting options for everything that you'd want to mount it to in 2020 everything looks fine out of the box except for the fact that the radiator fans seem like they're a very questionable design because you can see here they don't really seal around the radiator properly now let's move over to the fancy boy the NZXT Kraken x53 which costs a hundred and thirty dollars on Amazon making it just over double the price of the up here cooler so let's see what it is that you're paying almost double for the packaging does have nicer graphics on it but functionally it's kind of the same thing when it comes to the tubing of the Kraken it is way more malleable than the up here tubing and it's also got this kind of soft touch paracord material on it which feels really nice the NZXT cooler does come with thermal paste pre applied which does make installation a little bit quicker but honestly how much time are you really going to be saving with that the actual pump housing design looks really nice it's got that infinity mirror thing that NZXT is known for a really nice upgrade with this new generation of crack and cooler is that this thing is actually rotatable so it means regardless of what orientation the actual pump housing goes on your cpu you can still have the NZXT oriented properly which is a really nice touch and then of course it's got all the the RGB action well the one downside about the RGB is that it means you've got a lot of different connectors on the actual pump block here which makes it more difficult to cable manage than the up here design cooler which just has the PWM pump connector when it comes to the fans of the kraken x53 they don't have any fancy lighting like the up here cooler and I use the word fancy very lightly here but they do seem to be designed significantly better for radiator views as you can see they kind of seal properly over the radiator now that we've done a very basic physical comparison let's get into the test system and then see how these coolers stack up against each other as far as test configuration cards I wanted to use my Intel test system with a 9700 K in it for this video that CPU is mounted in an NZXT n7 motherboard and I don't know if there was like nepotism going on or if the cooler just can't handle that CPU at 5.1 gigahertz which now that I think about it that one seems more likely but whenever any load was put on the CPU it would immediately go straight to like a hundred degrees Celsius and then thermal throttling would happen so I ended up changing it to my AMD test system with horizon 7 1700 X in it that's also an eighth core CPU but with hyper-threading so 16 threads and then it'll be overclocked to 3.9 gigahertz at about one point three five volts and the test system will be on my test bed ie just on a motherboard box on the table I'm gonna use the same thermal paste for both the coolers I'm using nock to our nth - I'm gonna test both the coolers in two configurations the first one is in the stock configuration with its stock fans at 100% fan speed and then I'm gonna slap some ek Vardar f4 fans on there I love that name it sounds a bit like the Canon on an a-10 war hagh and those will also be running at 100% fan speed for the entire I de 64 run and for both the configurations I'm gonna be running the pump at a hundred percent speed as well so we're gonna see what max power looks like on these two coolers in regards to the ambient air temperature I'm gonna be keeping it at 22 degrees Celsius and I'm gonna be measuring that right where the fans intake air into the radiator and then finally I know there are a lot of test parameters here but I'm gonna use either 64 running for 20 minutes per test on each configuration and then I'll be using the TDI temperature measurement in hardware info 64 as the final temperature measurement and with that let's see how these two coolers compare in their stock configurations now a lot of this has to do with the fans on the two coolers I think because the up here design fans only go up to 1,700 rpm and they go up to 2,000 rpm on the NZXT cooler and they're not only that but their design just doesn't seem optimal for radiator use as far as noise levels go that's quite difficult to meet a test because I live on a highway next to three active building sites so it's really difficult to get like a baseline noise reading but I think because of the lower rpm of the fans the up here design cooler was a little bit quieter so now that we've seen how the stock configurations compare these two coolers let's strap some ek Vora doors to them and see how well they scale with some real badass radiator fans this is a really interesting result because as you can see the up here design cooler performs way better with the Vardar fans on compared to the stock configuration whereas with the kraken x53 the performance is pretty much the same going from the stock fans to the EK Vardar badass fans which is actually very impressive showing that the stock fans are optimized quite well for this radiator layout on on the crack and x53 and even with the help of the more badass fans that the two of those fans cost almost as much as the up here cooler itself it's still far behind the kraken x53 showing that that new design of a Sutekh pump is really putting in some work here so after looking at the performance we've established that the more expensive cooler performs better than the cheaper one big surprise there but there are a couple of other things that also come into play when buying something like an all-in-one liquid cooler the first one is with the NZXT kraken x53 it actually has a six year warranty which is crazy I mean six years is a lot for a warranty on a power supply let alone something like an a IO which is pushing liquid through your PC so that's very comforting whereas with the up here design cooler it says it has a 12 month warranty but I can't really find a manufacturer website so I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about dealing with that process I really would not trust this cooler in my system and then there are a couple of other stuff like aesthetics I think the Kraken looks better although that's very subjective and when it comes to the mounting mechanisms the Kraken x53 also mounts nicely because of those really malleable tubes it's easy to just kind of get the cooler where you need it to be whereas with the up here design you really have to fight the pipes to get it to line up with the socket properly if you're mounting it in a case and then there are other pretty small details like if you look under the screw holes of the actual mounting on the radiator you can see the Kraken x53 has these little metal pads which protects the radiator fins from the screws going down into them whereas with the up here cooler you are Conor on your own there so for today's video we have a pretty massive bombshell apparently a hundred and thirty dollar all in one liquid cooler is better than a $60 one and with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this video like share and subscribe with your friends check out my twitch stream which will be later today I'll have it linked in the description below while you're down there follow me on whatever social media you're interested in and until the next video bye byetoday we're gonna compare a fancy all-in-one liquid cooler with all of the bells and whistles to something a little bit more basic but before we get into that we've got a sponsor for today's video today's sponsor is world of warships a free-to-play game or you can command a selection of over 300 accurately modeled Second World War battleships these ships are divided into several classes so that you can fight the way you want to if you want something small and nimble so that you can talk in and out of battle a cruiser is probably for you but if you like something bigger manlier and more heavy-hitting I'd probably go for a battleship hmm look at that ship destruction here's another shot of some ships being destroyed look at that one tank a whole lot of damage and all of this destruction is free to play use the link in my description to download the game and if you use the promo code ready for battle 2020 you'll get three 700 our balloons 1 million credits seven days premium account premium ship USS Charleston with stars and stripes camouflage and the Japanese premium ship ishizuchi and this will be more than enough to get you started on the route down battleship destruction look at that fire so let's compare the cheapest 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler that I could find on Amazon - one of the best options in this size of cooler in my opinion let's get straight into the peasant cooler the up here 240 millimeter radiator they really spend hours thinking of that name this cooler new on amazon costs $60 which is really not very much considering what it is although at this price you do have to make some sacrifices in fact you have to choose the color of the lights on the cooler when you buy it which is pretty savage the cooler comes reasonably well packaged in a fairly soft foam there's nothing really to complain about here now the first thing that I noticed when taking it out of the box is that the tubes aren't very malleable they're they're pretty rigid although the actual radiator seems like it's a decent quality and there are only a couple of small Nick's on the radiator straight out of the box the cooler also doesn't come with any thermal paste pre applied but it does come with some in the box and then it comes with mounting options for everything that you'd want to mount it to in 2020 everything looks fine out of the box except for the fact that the radiator fans seem like they're a very questionable design because you can see here they don't really seal around the radiator properly now let's move over to the fancy boy the NZXT Kraken x53 which costs a hundred and thirty dollars on Amazon making it just over double the price of the up here cooler so let's see what it is that you're paying almost double for the packaging does have nicer graphics on it but functionally it's kind of the same thing when it comes to the tubing of the Kraken it is way more malleable than the up here tubing and it's also got this kind of soft touch paracord material on it which feels really nice the NZXT cooler does come with thermal paste pre applied which does make installation a little bit quicker but honestly how much time are you really going to be saving with that the actual pump housing design looks really nice it's got that infinity mirror thing that NZXT is known for a really nice upgrade with this new generation of crack and cooler is that this thing is actually rotatable so it means regardless of what orientation the actual pump housing goes on your cpu you can still have the NZXT oriented properly which is a really nice touch and then of course it's got all the the RGB action well the one downside about the RGB is that it means you've got a lot of different connectors on the actual pump block here which makes it more difficult to cable manage than the up here design cooler which just has the PWM pump connector when it comes to the fans of the kraken x53 they don't have any fancy lighting like the up here cooler and I use the word fancy very lightly here but they do seem to be designed significantly better for radiator views as you can see they kind of seal properly over the radiator now that we've done a very basic physical comparison let's get into the test system and then see how these coolers stack up against each other as far as test configuration cards I wanted to use my Intel test system with a 9700 K in it for this video that CPU is mounted in an NZXT n7 motherboard and I don't know if there was like nepotism going on or if the cooler just can't handle that CPU at 5.1 gigahertz which now that I think about it that one seems more likely but whenever any load was put on the CPU it would immediately go straight to like a hundred degrees Celsius and then thermal throttling would happen so I ended up changing it to my AMD test system with horizon 7 1700 X in it that's also an eighth core CPU but with hyper-threading so 16 threads and then it'll be overclocked to 3.9 gigahertz at about one point three five volts and the test system will be on my test bed ie just on a motherboard box on the table I'm gonna use the same thermal paste for both the coolers I'm using nock to our nth - I'm gonna test both the coolers in two configurations the first one is in the stock configuration with its stock fans at 100% fan speed and then I'm gonna slap some ek Vardar f4 fans on there I love that name it sounds a bit like the Canon on an a-10 war hagh and those will also be running at 100% fan speed for the entire I de 64 run and for both the configurations I'm gonna be running the pump at a hundred percent speed as well so we're gonna see what max power looks like on these two coolers in regards to the ambient air temperature I'm gonna be keeping it at 22 degrees Celsius and I'm gonna be measuring that right where the fans intake air into the radiator and then finally I know there are a lot of test parameters here but I'm gonna use either 64 running for 20 minutes per test on each configuration and then I'll be using the TDI temperature measurement in hardware info 64 as the final temperature measurement and with that let's see how these two coolers compare in their stock configurations now a lot of this has to do with the fans on the two coolers I think because the up here design fans only go up to 1,700 rpm and they go up to 2,000 rpm on the NZXT cooler and they're not only that but their design just doesn't seem optimal for radiator use as far as noise levels go that's quite difficult to meet a test because I live on a highway next to three active building sites so it's really difficult to get like a baseline noise reading but I think because of the lower rpm of the fans the up here design cooler was a little bit quieter so now that we've seen how the stock configurations compare these two coolers let's strap some ek Vora doors to them and see how well they scale with some real badass radiator fans this is a really interesting result because as you can see the up here design cooler performs way better with the Vardar fans on compared to the stock configuration whereas with the kraken x53 the performance is pretty much the same going from the stock fans to the EK Vardar badass fans which is actually very impressive showing that the stock fans are optimized quite well for this radiator layout on on the crack and x53 and even with the help of the more badass fans that the two of those fans cost almost as much as the up here cooler itself it's still far behind the kraken x53 showing that that new design of a Sutekh pump is really putting in some work here so after looking at the performance we've established that the more expensive cooler performs better than the cheaper one big surprise there but there are a couple of other things that also come into play when buying something like an all-in-one liquid cooler the first one is with the NZXT kraken x53 it actually has a six year warranty which is crazy I mean six years is a lot for a warranty on a power supply let alone something like an a IO which is pushing liquid through your PC so that's very comforting whereas with the up here design cooler it says it has a 12 month warranty but I can't really find a manufacturer website so I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about dealing with that process I really would not trust this cooler in my system and then there are a couple of other stuff like aesthetics I think the Kraken looks better although that's very subjective and when it comes to the mounting mechanisms the Kraken x53 also mounts nicely because of those really malleable tubes it's easy to just kind of get the cooler where you need it to be whereas with the up here design you really have to fight the pipes to get it to line up with the socket properly if you're mounting it in a case and then there are other pretty small details like if you look under the screw holes of the actual mounting on the radiator you can see the Kraken x53 has these little metal pads which protects the radiator fins from the screws going down into them whereas with the up here cooler you are Conor on your own there so for today's video we have a pretty massive bombshell apparently a hundred and thirty dollar all in one liquid cooler is better than a $60 one and with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this video like share and subscribe with your friends check out my twitch stream which will be later today I'll have it linked in the description below while you're down there follow me on whatever social media you're interested in and until the next video bye bye