I. Introduction
When each family is upgrading its own products, Kyushu Fengshen, who has strong research and development capabilities and design capabilities, is not idle, and has also begun to polish its own water-cooled products, and has carried out a comprehensive upgrade of its own fortress series water cooling.
In terms of appearance, the new design of the front lighting effect of the water-cooled head creates an infinite reflection ARGB water-cooled head, and the top of the water-cooled head supports 360 ° rotation, and also supports personalized DIY, which has a huge improvement in appearance; in terms of performance, the water-cooled head has upgraded the fourth generation internally, further improving the upper limit of water-cooled heat dissipation, while cooperating with the design of the internal micro-water channel and the thickening of the copper bottom, it will be more quiet at the same time.
In terms of cold exhaust fans, a new design is also adopted. The fan blade is newly designed, the fan blade angle is larger, the middle is concave, convenient for air intake; the wiring aspect adopts a special chrysanthemum link, the single line can adjust the speed, but also support the synchronization of the light effect, the daily wiring is more convenient, and the expansion of the chassis fan is more convenient; in terms of shock absorption and noise reduction, the fan bearing adopts FDB bearing, the mute effect is better, the life is longer, the four corners of the fan are independent rubber edges, the effect of absorbing vibration is stronger, and the overall is quieter and more powerful.
Kyushu Fengshen Ice Fortress series water cooling has a very obvious all-round improvement compared to the previous generation, appearance, performance, followed by machine testing, see how the effect is.
Second, Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress 360 water-cooled radiator unpacking
▼ The water-cooled packaging has been replaced by a new design, which is more simple and has a sense of design.
▼ On the left is a white paper sleeve with water-cooled color prints and models on the front, a carton in the middle, a complete carton, and a new LOGO of Kyushu Fengshen in the lower right corner.
▼There is a detailed parameter table on the back, and various parameters of water cooling are introduced.
▼ There is an icon in the upper left corner, Kyushu Fengshen's own dynamic balance pressure relief technology, at different temperatures, can maintain the stability of the internal pressure of water cooling, this technology is still very good.
▼ The carton adopts the upper opening design, and the inside is familiar corrugated paper, and the water-cooled body and various accessories are placed inside.
▼In addition to the water-cooled main body, there are three cold exhaust fans and a box of fasteners.
Third, Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress 360 water-cooled radiator appearance
▼ The overall feeling of water cooling is very good and textured.
▼The top of the water-cooled head adopts a mirror double-layer design, and the surface is covered with a protective film, which can effectively prevent scratches during transportation and installation.
▼ The water-cooled head is a familiar tapered design, with a narrower upper part and a wider bottom.
▼ The side of the water cooling head is a metal water pipe, and the joint part is an independent connector, and the firmness will be better.
▼ At the bottom of the water-cooled head, there is a large area of copper bottom, which personally feels that it is larger than the copper bottom of the previous generation of the fortress water-cooled head, and there is pre-coated silicone grease in the middle, which is praised.
▼ The water cooling pipe is still familiar with the woven mesh wrapping, and the thickness is OK.
▼ There are also two cable snaps on the water cooling pipe, which are very good in workmanship, and have the LOGO of Kyushu Wind God on it. The water cooling pipe can be stuck into the two ends of the buckle separately, and the wiring of the water cooling pipe will be more regular and beautiful when installing the machine.
▼ The inlet and outlet pipe part of the water cooling head is also wrapped with metal reinforcements.
▼There is a new LOGO of Kyushu Wind God on the side, and it looks very delicate.
▼On the other side is the Kyushu Fengshen Dynamic Balance Pressure Relief Component, which is used to adjust the internal pressure of the cold drain.
▼ The cold drainage channel is still familiar with 12 channels, 6 hot and cold, to ensure the right fin density at the same time, but also to obtain a good heat dissipation effect.
▼ The cold exhaust fan is also very beautiful, square, the frame is black, and the fan blade in the middle is milky white.
▼ There are 9 fan blades of the cold exhaust fan, and the curvature of the fan blade is particularly large, so it is presumably that the air volume performance will be excellent.
▼The four corners of the fan have an independent rubber coating design, and the vibration absorption effect is first-class.
▼In addition, the middle part of the fan blade is concave, and in the case of the reverse side close to the cold row installation, the space in the front of the fan blade will be more sufficient, and the suction effect will be better.
▼ The back of the fan is still a familiar frame, the middle is the label part, the rated input DC 12V 0.29A, the fan model is FC120, and the bearing is FDB.
▼The frame on the back of the fan has a clear chamfer design around it, which is more convenient for airflow to blow out. The bracket part of the fan has a clear angle, which can effectively comb the airflow and achieve better results.
▼ The power supply line of the fan, the interface adopts a unique 6Pin design, and the speed regulation and lighting effect are completed by one line.
▼ There is also an interface in the outlet part of the cable, which is convenient for another device to access and create a perfect daisy chain effect.
▼ Finally, mushroom found that the rubber parts of the four corners of the fan can be directly removed, and the design of this soft connection can better absorb vibration and praise.
▼ After removing the rubber part, the inside is a plastic part with a complex stiffener design.
Fourth, Kyushu Fengshen Ice Fortress 360 water-cooled radiator installed
▼ The installation of water cooling still requires a little effort, first prepare the cold exhaust fan and the fastener accessories that need to be used.
▼ Kyushu Wind God buckle design is also quite good, the back panel is compatible with a variety of holes, intel's latest LGA1700 can also be easily compatible.
▼The cold drain fan is fixed to the cold drain according to the outlet position.
▼ The cold exhaust fans all use daisy chain links, and only one wire is out at the end, which is particularly convenient.
▼ Then fix the cold row to the upper part of the chassis, install the water cooling head on the motherboard, and remove the protective film on the front of the water cooling head. The exterior design of this cold head of the Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress is still very good, and the texture is very good.
▼ The cover plate in the middle part of the water cooling head supports any angle rotation, and can be adjusted according to the position of different water cooling tubes, which is very convenient.
▼ For example, if the water cooling pipe comes out to the right, you can easily turn the middle part of the water cooling head and put the new LOGO of Kyushu Fengshen in the lower right corner, which will look more comfortable.
▼ In addition, there is also a milky white cold head accessory inside the package, which can be arbitrarily customized on this accessory, replacing the original accessory in the middle of the water cooling head to achieve the effect of private customization DIY. In addition, this accessory as a whole is milky white, has a certain soft light effect, and the lighting effect is definitely different from the original mirror.
▼ After the water cooling is installed, it is very convenient to simply straighten the water cooling pipe, with the original plastic buckle.
▼ Then install the graphics card, Yingchi's RTX3060Ti Star Yao OC graphics card, the appearance of this graphics card is very beautiful, the fan cover including the cooling fan supports light effect synchronization.
▼ The graphics card is installed horizontally by default, and a graphics card bracket is added to the tail to make the graphics card easily maintain level.
▼ The whole machine effect looks good.
▼ Boot, light up at once, perfect.
▼ Water cooling supports the synchronization of lighting effects, and the lighting effects of the water cooling head and the cold exhaust fan are perfectly unified.
▼ Look close to the water cool head, look at the front, the middle part of the cold head and the surrounding area have beautiful ARGB lighting effects.
▼ Look closely, the middle of the cold head has a mirror ARGB light effect, infinitely extending inward, the effect is very good.
▼The top of the cold head part is a mirror design, which reflects various light and shadow, and the appearance looks exquisite.
▼ The mirror effect also alludes to some hardware at different angles, which is very interesting.
▼ The fan blade of the cold exhaust fan has a large angle, milky white, has a soft light effect, and the light effect is also very beautiful.
▼Look at the whole machine effect, it is still very beautiful.
▼ The motherboard uses MSI's Z690 dark carbon, and the front of the motherboard has a large number of metal coverings, all black, and the surface is decorated with carbon fiber, which looks good. In addition, the IO trim cover has MSI's Dragon Shield LOGO, which supports ARGB lighting effects, which looks amazing.
▼This motherboard is equipped with 5 M2 interfaces as standard, each interface is covered with metal heat sinks to ensure stable operation. In addition, the south bridge part of the motherboard also has a lighting effect design.
▼ The power supply is MSI's MPG A1000G, the face value of this power supply side is very beautiful, using two pieces of black and white aluminum alloy material, the surface has exquisite brushing and sandblasting treatment, respectively, printed with MSI's English LOGO and Dragon Shield LOGO, which looks very beautiful.
▼ In addition to the power interface and switch at the end of the power supply, there is also a Zero Fan button, through this button, you can control the power supply fan to stop at low load, further reduce the standby noise, praise.
▼ MSI's power supply is rated up to 1000W, and the standard graphics card PCIe auxiliary power supply 8Pin cable is designed with a single 8Pin design, and is equipped with three, which can easily be fully loaded with the power supply requirements of the RTX3090Ti. And the single 8Pin design of the cable, in the graphics card high load output, the single line load is lower, the operation is more stable.
▼ The chassis uses Antic's DF800 Flux, and the appearance and duct performance of this chassis are very good.
▼ The front part of the chassis is the left and right two parts, the left side is a large area of metal punching mesh, the surface has a complex face shape, to ensure the air intake of the front part of the chassis; the right is an ARGB light board, the middle is a mirror design, there is an ANTIC LOGO, support ARGB light effect synchronization.
▼ The upper part of the power supply compartment inside the chassis can also be fixed with two chassis fans, which are specially used to take care of the heat dissipation of the graphics card.
5. Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress 360 water-cooled radiator test
▼ The whole machine configuration list, the processor is 12700K, the motherboard is MSI's Z690 Dark Carbon, the graphics card is Yingchi's RTX3060Ti Star Yao OC, and the water cooling is Kyushu Wind God's Ice Fortress 360.
▼ Simple run a whole machine test, the whole machine score of 190W, of which the processor 85.8W, graphics card 49W, the performance is still very strong.
▼ Daily standby situation, room temperature is about 26 ° C, the temperature of the processor fluctuates around 29 ° C, standby temperature performance is very good.
▼ Simple run a CPU-Z pressure test, processor power consumption of about 145W, large core turbo 4.7GHz, small core turbo 3.6GHz, package temperature at about 63 °C, core temperature at 58 °C, the overall heat dissipation is good.
▼ Single baked FPU test for 5 minutes, processor power consumption of about 205W, large core turbo 4.7GHz, small core turbo 3.6GHz, processor package temperature at 77 °C, core temperature at 73 °C, the overall heat dissipation effect is very good.
▼ Continuously stretching the single-baked FPU test to 10 minutes, the temperature performance of the processor is still very stable, and there is no sign of temperature rise. The heat dissipation efficiency of the Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress 360 water cooling is still very positive, easily suppressing the 12700K of the silent frequency, and can control the temperature at more than 70 ° C, which is a very good result.
▼ Finally, the single-baked FPU test, the frame rate stability rate is 99%, very stable.
▼ The core temperature of the graphics card is up to about 69 ° C, the temperature of the processor fluctuates around 32 ° C, and there is almost no obvious temperature rise, which is not bad.
6. Summary
Kyushu Wind God Ice Fortress 360 This water cooling is still very good, compared to the previous generation of fortress 360 progress is huge, whether it is in appearance, or heat dissipation performance, the improvement is very obvious.
The appearance of the water-cooled water-cooled head adopts a new infinite mirror design, with beautiful ARGB lighting effects, the overall appearance is still very good. In addition, the middle part of the water-cooled head supports any angle of rotation, which can be matched with different angles to exit the pipe, which is well received. At the same time, it is equipped with a milky white accessory, which can support DIY any pattern and LOGO, which is very suitable for friends who want to play.
The cold exhaust fan part is completely new in design, the fan blade angle is larger, and the four corners of the fan have a rubber design. The fan wiring part adopts a new daisy chain design, which will be more convenient for daily wiring, and the cold exhaust fan will only produce one wire in total.
The details, the water-cooled management line snap, the cold head pre-coated silicone grease, the fastener installation design, etc., have consistently performed well, and the overall use experience is still very good.
Thank you!
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