Which is better, air cooling or water cooling? We have been arguing about this issue for a long time, but in fact, the results have come out. That is the market within 100 yuan, and it must be the world of air-cooled radiators. More than 100 yuan to less than 1,000 yuan, it is mainly water cooling, supplemented by air cooling. As for the market of more than a thousand yuan, it must be the world of water-cooled radiators. Through years of development, now the integrated water-cooled radiator has been popularized, and more and more users have accepted water cooling. Although at present, there are still problems such as leakage of water cooling, but it still cannot stop users from liking it.
In the past, the market of thousand-yuan water cooling basically belonged to foreign brands. However, in the past two years, domestic water cooling has finally begun to rise, and many high-end products with full personality and very distinctive characteristics have been launched. For example, recently Xingu launched a quasi-thousand-yuan water cooling, which is the Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator.
Its features are as follows, first of all, it adopts a separate water pump, and then it provides a cold head auxiliary motherboard heat dissipation function, as well as an ARGB motherboard synchronization function. And also supports multi-platform fasteners, supporting the latest 12th generation Core processors.
Before, the 11th generation Core gave me the biggest feeling, that is, the heat generation is very large. Compared with the 11th generation Core, the heat generation of the 12th generation Core can be said to be more than that. I am now using the I5-12600K processor, before, I used the air-cooled radiator within 100 yuan to dissipate heat, and found that under the premise of not overclocking, a simple copy test made the temperature of the 12600K processor easily exceed 80 ° C. So after using the 360 water-cooled heat sink, will the temperature of the 12600K processor improve?
First of all, it is still a traditional unboxed display, Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator this product, you can see from the name, its positioning is high-end, flagship. The reason is simple, its name contains the two Chinese characters "Kunlun". Xingu's high-end, flagship power supply is named after "Kunlun". The packaging on the front of the product reveals its high-end style, the upper right corner is marked with 100% dynamic balance calibration, FDB hydrodynamic bearing, 5V ARGB Divine Light synchronization information, and the lower left corner is marked with TDP (depyretic power consumption) ≤320W, using a 70mm embedded cold head fan, and 32dB (A) operating noise information.
This water-cooled accessory is very rich, and the buckle basically supports all the mainstream platforms at present.
In order to facilitate the use of users who do not support the Shenguang synchronization motherboard, this water-cooled also comes with a light controller. With it, you can easily experience 26 different lighting effects. Users who have a motherboard that supports Shenguang synchronization can also use this light controller to switch between motherboard mode, lamp off mode, and light controller mode. Therefore, Xingu officially provides users with three kinds of light control line connection schemes, users can choose the installation method according to their own needs, and the degree of freedom is very high.
This water-cooled, split pump features zirconia ceramic bearings and a three-phase motor with an internal 6-pole motor for added durability. The water cooling head is made of aluminum alloy material, with its own electron microscope Kunlun mirror glass window and Silver Dragon four-corner aluminum alloy installation limit assist. Inside, there is also a 70mm PWM fan that perfectly combines water cooling with air cooling. It can not only dissipate heat from the CPU, but also dissipate heat from the CPU power supply part of the motherboard, which can effectively reduce the temperature of nearly 12 °C compared with traditional water cooling.
The water cooling head adopts a 134*0.1mm capillary channel pure copper base, which has more contact surface with the CPU, which greatly improves the heat dissipation effect.
The fan that comes with it adopts FDB fluid dynamic bearings, which have the characteristics of low noise, low vibration, impact resistance, and long life. Moreover, the fan blade has also been calibrated by DBE dynamic balance to ensure smooth and high-speed operation of the fan. Its direct solid wind pressure is 3.0mm H2O, the true air volume is 78CFM, and as for the fan speed, it also reaches PWM 800-2000RPM±10%, which is a very good fan overall. Of course, it definitely supports 5V ARGB divine light synchronization.
The air-cooled radiator I used before was simply impossible to overclock, and even the most commonly used copy machine test was difficult to maintain a good temperature. The motherboard I use is MSI MPG Z690 EDGE TI WIFI DDR4 Blade Titanium, with a 12600K processor, which is still very good.
The I/O interface is from left to right, with a Flash BIOS Button button that supports updating the BIOS without a CPU. If you encounter a BIOS error and cannot be used normally, you can also use this function to perform BIOS recovery. Then there are two traditional USB 2.0 interfaces, a DP and an HDMI interface, five USB3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps (Type-A), a USB3.2 Gen 2x2 20Gbps (Type-C) interface, a 2.5G wired LAN port, a set of WIFI antenna interfaces, and a set of audio interfaces.
According to the introduction of the self-contained instruction manual, the Xingu Kunlun KL-360 all-in-one water-cooled CPU radiator was successfully assembled. In fact, the installation process is very simple, basically not difficult.
Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator, with the well-known manufacturer Dow Corning research and development of silicon grease, its thermal conduction system up to 5.2W / m.K, is conducive to CPU heat dissipation.
The installation process is very smooth, if there is no place, you can read the manual, you can also watch the official installation video.
Test Platform:
Processor: Intel I5-12600K (boxed)
Radiator: Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z690 EDGE TI WIFI DDR4 Blade Titanium Motherboard
HDD: Asgard 1TB SSD M.2 interface (NVMe protocol) AN3.0
Memory sticks: Gloway 16GB (8Gx2) set DDR4 3200 Yi Pro series - domestic particle RGB light bar
Graphics: Nuclear
Chassis: None
Power supply: ADATA XPG rated 850W high-end gaming computer power supply
Display: MSI MAG274QRF-QD 27-inch gaming monitor
CPU-Z software measures information about the processor, motherboard, graphics card, and memory.
Xingu Kunlun KL-360 all-in-one water-cooled CPU radiator supports 5V ARGB shenguang synchronization function, A.C.C adaptive function.
Using MSI's own light effect software, you can set the light effect of the water-cooled fan differently, up to 23 kinds of light effects.
Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator, part of the lighting special effects display.
In order to reduce the impact of the BIOS on testing, I will first upgrade the CPU's BIOS to the latest.
At the time of testing, the indoor temperature was 26.4 ° C, and the water-cooled radiator was not placed in the chassis, so its heat dissipation effect should be better.
The default CPU settings are:
Through the aida64 software for CPU copy machine testing, you can see that when the CPU occupancy rate is 100%, its maximum temperature is 66 ° C, it can be said that this effect is very good.
Since the 12600K processor comes with its own kernel display, in order to test the effect of the core display and the CPU under high load, I use OCCT here to test. As you can see, the frequency of the CPU is constantly changing, and it cannot be in a high load state all the time. At this time, its maximum temperature is 76 ° C, which is a full 10 ° C higher than when using the CPU alone.
When cpu overclocked to 4.9G:
The 12600K processor in my hand is a big thunder physique, and at 1.25V voltage, it can only be maintained to a full-core 4.9G, which cannot be 5.0G at all. When overclocking, the large core is overtaken to 4.9G, the small core does not move, the effect is still very good, in fact, I am still very much on the 5.0G, helpless U's physique is too poor.
After overclocking, the CPU is tested by aida64 software, and it can be seen that when the CPU occupancy rate is 100%, its maximum temperature is 80 °C.
The software that comes with MSI motherboards can also view information such as current CPU usage, CPU frequency, and CPU fan speed. At this time, the core temperature of the CPU is 78 °C, the temperature of the CPU socket is 47 °C, and the SPEED of the CPU fan is 83%.
After overclocking, only the CPU is copied to test, and the power consumption of this host is about 220W.
The CPU and nuclear display were tested by OCCT software, and after half an hour of operation, the maximum temperature of the 12600K processor was 94°C. It can be seen that when the CPU and the core display of the 12600K processor are copied together, its temperature will increase significantly, especially after overclocking, the temperature will increase even more.
The software that comes with the MSI motherboard provides information that the cpu core temperature is 93°C, the CPU socket temperature is 52°C, and the CPU fan speed is 100%.
After overclocking, when the CPU and its core display are tested at the same time, the power consumption of this host is about 298W, which is close to 300W. It can be seen that after overclocking, the power consumption increase is still quite large.
Through testing, we have also seen that the overall performance of the Xingu Kunlun KL-360 integrated water-cooled CPU radiator is still very good. Whether in appearance or function, the products are remarkable, and can be compared to the products of first-line brands outside the United States. After overclocking the 12600K processor to 4.9G, the maximum temperature when the CPU is copied is 80°C. At the same time, when the CPU and nuclear display are copied, although the maximum temperature reaches 94 °C, it has not exceeded 100 °C, which is a relatively normal temperature. However, Phantom Dust suggests that if you want to play overclocking, it is better to use a single display as much as possible, because this can better control the temperature of the CPU.