Reviewers Liked
- Silent mode delivers great temps
- Affordable
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Plastic backplate
- Case compatibility chart has gaps
NZXT Kraken X60
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Maximum PC
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In the world of enthusiast system cooling, water is the new black. Even the fanciest, biggest air cooler can't seem to keep up with a good closed-loop liquid cooler these days. NZXT ups the ante by expanding from the standard 12cm form factor to 14cm. It...
By BCCHardware
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While NZXT might be new to the liquid cooling game with their Kraken series of coolers, they have partnered with Asetek and based the Kraken X40 and X60 on the Asetek Gen4 cooling platform which is very established and well-respected platform. The...
By AnandTech
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Remember the time when liquid cooling a computer chip was considered to be an extreme approach, one performed by hardcore enthusiasts and overclockers alone? Everything had to be personally designed and or procured by the user, as there were no...
By FrostyTech
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This is a preliminary review of the NZXT Kraken X60 self contained liquid cooling system. The Kraken X60 uses a very large, 280mm heat exchanger designed for dual 140mm fans....
By Legit Reviews
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NZXT has been making CPU coolers, computer cases, and other PC enthusiast related products for quite some time now. On the CPU cooler side of things, they have more recently created their Kraken series sealed liquid CPU coolers. This cooler is one that...
By MadShrimps
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The performances of the all-in-one liquid cooling systems seem to improve significantly from a generation to another, while keeping a simple mode of installation. The NZXT Kraken X60 is a good example of this, being able to deliver high performance...
By HardOCP
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Up until now Corsair has been given the lion's share of the attention when it comes to closed loop water cooling and with good reason. The Corsair H90 and H110 CPU water coolers have created a lot of excitement given the performance and low noise...
By uk.hardware.info
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Many manufacturers sell complete liquid cooling sets as a superior alternative for high-end CPU air coolers. They're typically more expensive, but do they also cool better? We put 20 liquid cooling sets to the test to find out. The liquid cooling sets...
By X-bit Labs
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We guess the only downside of the NZXT Kraken X60 is that it has limited compatibility with computer cases which cannot generally accommodate its 240mm radiator. Otherwise, the Kraken X60 is the best ready-made liquid cooling system even considering...
By AnandTech
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Cooler Testing RevisitedUntil recently we haven't been very aggressive in testing CPU cooling methods. I'd been busy with notebooks, desktops, cases, and peripherals, but good and consistent writers are hard to come by in this industry, and eventually I...
By skratchwizpc.net
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NZXT only recently ventured into air cooing but they've now made the step up with their first closed loop All-in-One system that uses 140mm fans. Let's release the Kraken!! Read...
By eTeknix
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NZXT's Kraken X60 is special in that it is the first 280mm all in one liquid CPU cooler to hit the market. With NZXT conducting the market transition from 120mm/240mm to 140mm/280mm they are able to offer more surface area, larger fans capable of...
By Hardware Secrets
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The NZXT Kraken X60 presented extremely good performance on our tests, performing comparably with the best sealed liquid cooling systems we have tested so far. It is also flexible and smart with its companion software, and the performance didn’t...
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