NZXT Kraken 2023 Series

NZXT erweitert seine Kraken-Serie um neue AiO-Kühlungen. Mit der Kraken 280 RGB haben wir das 280-mm-Modell zum Test erhalten. Die elegant gestaltete AiO-Kühlung gibt es wahlweise in Schwarz oder Weiß. Unabhängig davon fällt sie immer mit ihren RGB-Lüftern und einem Display auf dem Pumpendeckel auf.

NZXT has hit it right out of the park with this one, I’ve been testing, retesting and retesting some more to really get to grips with cooling reviewing again, but it doesn’t take much experience in doing this to see that NZXT is cutting ahead of the competition. This isn’t the most expensive cooler (pointing fingers at the £300 ASUS AIO we reviewed recently), or the biggest given it’s only 240mm, or the most complicated or innovative design, given it was made by Asatek and is largely off-the-shelf components. However, despite the somewhat industry-standard hardware that’s being used here, NZXT has delivered something that works really well. The fans are utterly superb, able to deliver high airflow and low noise, and obviously, the cooler is capable of taming our i9-12900K. With a good voltage, locking in a stable all-core ratio, and leaving the fans on their standard profile, there was only a slight bump in acoustics, but temperatures dropped drastically, while Cinebench scores improved.