Review: Be Quiet! Silent Loop 280 Liquid Cooling Review
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Koniakki
Thank you for the review! The cooler looks good although a bit underperforming if I may say.
Getting beaten by a H80i GT? I wonder if it might be the fans fault for its low-ish performance?
jura11
Koniakki
jura11
ubercake
In my lowly experience, I've found just about every self-contained liquid cooler including the H80i, H110i GT and Kraken X41 (the loudest thing I've ever had in a PC aside from a failing HDD) to be leaps and bounds louder than an NH-D15 (dual fan) at load.
Koniakki
jura11
scoter man1
I still don't really get why AIOs are a thing. They're marginally better than high end air coolers, equally as loud or louder, and more expensive. Why not just have the guaranteed reliability of a big metal heat spreader? No pumps to break there...
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
scoter man1
Ridiric
Hilbert,
Got a question, at the start of the review you mentioned it had a fill port? and from the product pictures it looks like it has screw on compression fittings as well.
Can you confirm this, as if its upgradable that's a decent plus in its favor.
Thanks
Dazz
Pass, i have had 3 AIO watercooling including the Corsair H110 and they have all been total junk they provide around the same cooling performance as my TR silver arrow but are 3x louder i even disconnected fans and it's the pumps that are damn loud won't touch anything with Asetek inside.
I did have a swiftech 220 which was good a little louder than my SA but slightly better performance but then had a leak in the block that i had to send the block to the States to get replaced which took 2 months to get back at which point i got an enthusiast Apogee and a res with pump from XSPC which had 2 leaks and a pump fail won't touch XSPC anymore they are crap made in china and ended up going back to my SA, fans run at 400-500rpms typically and get around the same performance as these AIO. Fell for it 3 times now with people saying they are real quiet are they not they are more like a jet engine to me got rid of them after 2 days cause they where completely unbareble. I have sensitive hearing and could hear the pump from the computer room to the bed room.
I want to get back into watercooling again but the products on the market are just rebranded garbage. Guess i will have to go back to a custom loop again maybe a tripple rad this time round but i need to really look into a good pump as thats what i find to be the loudest part.
AngelOfHavoc
I'm with these guys. I've used the h80 and h100i, and they are a bit overhyped. The cooling performance was decent but they were cumbersome to install and limited on where they could be mounted. They were also much louder than my current setup.
I switched to the NH-D15 and couldn't be happier. While it may seem cumbersome to some, it fit easily in my Fractal R4 and was much easier to install. It is also silent with the included in line voltage reducers and the performance is slightly better than I was getting from the corsair aio's. I'm using a 4790k@4.5 Ghz
Solfaur
dyonoctis
jura11
Maye
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=25588
That's correct yes. At a mighty inconvenient location though. Look to the left of the wire on the cooling block, there you can see the fill port:
Ridiric
Ahh, yep i see it now... thats inconvenient alright.
And if its as Maye said, and you void the warranty if you customize it i can see why you didn't say any more then that quick mention of the fill port in the review.
Guess ill stick to the 240 or 360 EK Predator for my new build. (though... frustratingly the aussie PC stores both online and bricks and mortar ones often get out of stock of those kits and take forever to restock them)
pastorpastor
I had a good image of be-quiet
but unfortunatly, that the tests do not show, it is the disastrous reliability of the silent loop 280, bought a year and a half ago, it was very fast to make noise until the pump loose. the wholesaler will have more than 4 months to send me a replacement, it is scandalous.
the silent loop 280 spare I received , the pump has just let go after one year ... so for me it's over, I lost 140 euros and especially a lot of time a cause a faulty design.