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With regards to cooling your gaming PC’s CPU, there is not any scarcity of choices on the market. From large 420 mm liquid AIO setups to low-profile, whisper-quiet blocks, there’s one thing for each price range and warmth demand. Generally, although, all you need is a cooler that is appropriate for many processors however is not too giant or too flashy. If that is you, then the Aerocool Apnx AP1-V would possibly simply be what you want.
At first look, it does look a bit like Aerocool’s engineers took an Nvidia Founders Version graphics card and ran it by a bandsaw, slicing all of it right down to dimension. However there’s additionally a bit of little bit of the DeepCool Murderer IV to it, with that aluminium shell surrounding the cooling fins.
Nonetheless the seems had been determined upon, I’ve to say that I reasonably just like the clear, nearly scientific look of Aerocool’s AP1-V, particularly the white model. Nowadays I’ve actually toned down how a lot RGB lighting I exploit, however I would be completely happy to make use of with what’s on supply right here.
There once more, there’s not a lot use having a CPU cooler that appears nice, if it does not truly do job of issues. The spec sheet states that it is good for 245 W of warmth, which is ok for probably the most power-hungry AMD Ryzen chip however much less so for the utmost energy of Intel’s greatest Core i7 and i9 processors (which is 253 W).
If you happen to flick thru the photographs above, you may spot it inside an Aerocool Apnx V1 case. In comparison with the Klevv RAM sticks, that are 137 mm in size, you may simply inform that it is utilizing a 120 mm fan for cooling and given that there is simply one in all them, I do not assume it’ll be a very quiet cooler below full load.
The AP1-V was truly launched final 12 months and I do not assume Aerocool have up to date it for Computex. There have been comparatively few impartial opinions of it to substantiate whether or not it’s truly noisy. I want utilizing 140 mm followers all through all of my PCs as they spin at a decrease charge than 120 mm, for a similar quantity of airflow. That makes them quieter and fewer ‘pitchy’ in noise.
A minimum of it isn’t an particularly costly cooler. Each colors promote for round $50 on Amazon, though at that value sector, you would possibly as properly get the Thermalright Peerless Murderer 120 SE, which is simply $34 on Amazon for the RGB model. That is a extra succesful cooler, due to its twin followers and bigger fin stack, although it does not look fairly as good nor as compact.
Whereas I would not decide the Aerocool Apnx AP1-V for a top-end Intel gaming PC, I would most likely be keen to provide it a go in a compact Ryzen system, due to the decrease energy consumption of AMD’s chips. Match an AMD Radeon graphics card in there too and you could possibly then declare you had been getting one over Nvidia by chopping up one in all its graphics playing cards to make use of it as a CPU cooler.
