The pump housing is perfectly circular, with a mirrored front that provides NZXT’s trademark appearance. The front piece can be rotated a full 360° to ensure the NZXT branding is always square on.
Measuring 53mm across the base, the copper coldplate arrives pre-applied with NZXT’s thermal paste. The cooler is delivered to you with Intel’s mounting system pre-installed but swapping out to the AMD system is a simple 2 second task.
Removing the thermal paste, the machining on the copper looks beautiful. This is easily one of the smoothest coldplates we’ve seen so far, despite the appearance of grooves, they can’t be felt with the fingertip or fingernail.
The Kraken X53 is equipped with a 240mm radiator at 25mm in thickness. The X63 and X73 land with 280mm or 360mm radiators if you need the increased cooling capacity.
NZXT bundle their new Kraken cooler with the Aer P120 fans, with 7 blades, 4-pin PWM connection and fluid bearings for quiet operation and a prolonged lifespan.
Strapping the fans to the radiator is a simple process with the included hardware but counter-sinking the fans would help installation into tighter cases, helping to remove a few millimetres by sitting the screwheads flush to the fan chassis.
Measuring 53mm across the base, the copper coldplate arrives pre-applied with NZXT’s thermal paste. The cooler is delivered to you with Intel’s mounting system pre-installed but swapping out to the AMD system is a simple 2 second task.
Removing the thermal paste, the machining on the copper looks beautiful. This is easily one of the smoothest coldplates we’ve seen so far, despite the appearance of grooves, they can’t be felt with the fingertip or fingernail.
The Kraken X53 is equipped with a 240mm radiator at 25mm in thickness. The X63 and X73 land with 280mm or 360mm radiators if you need the increased cooling capacity.
NZXT bundle their new Kraken cooler with the Aer P120 fans, with 7 blades, 4-pin PWM connection and fluid bearings for quiet operation and a prolonged lifespan.
Strapping the fans to the radiator is a simple process with the included hardware but counter-sinking the fans would help installation into tighter cases, helping to remove a few millimetres by sitting the screwheads flush to the fan chassis.
