Be Quiet announces their Silent Loop 360 liquid CPU cooler

[WYP]

Be Quiet has announced their Silent Loop 360 liquid CPU cooler, coming with a large 360mm radiator and support for all modern CPU sockets.



Read more on Be Quiet's Silent Loop 360.

 

[Dawelio]

I like this sleek, brushed aluminium design. Although those metal things around the tubes, why does manufacturers include those on the tubes? :huh:...

 

[Bartacus]

I like this sleek, brushed aluminium design. Although those metal things around the tubes, why does manufacturers include those on the tubes? :huh:...

The coil is supposed to prevent kinking of the hose. Looks ugly as hell though, and personally I've been water cooling for a few years now and never had an issue with kinked hose.

 

[Dawelio]

The coil is supposed to prevent kinking of the hose. Looks ugly as hell though, and personally I've been water cooling for a few years now and never had an issue with kinked hose.

Yeah, I can understand your point. Although, your other point as well. Only Fractal used it on their Kelvin coolers. No other AIO company has, as far as I'm aware.

Like I don't think Corsair wouldn't use it if it didn't need to. So obviously it's not really needed, hence me wondering why they included it really?...

 

[Bartacus]

Most likely to protect themselves from the 1% of idiots who will buy this and kink the hose by being stupid.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Cooler Master have often used the ugly anti-kinking coils.

I'm really tempted to run this in the front of a Corsair 460X.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Liking the brushed pump design! Disliking the brand name (in general) stamped on the pump and the peculiar coils. I think I like the celcius better overall (of which I only dislike the logo not being a white LED).

 

[Cbotha15]

Strange that they would launch a new cooler without any RGB bling. But that brushed aluminium looks very sleek indeed.

 

[Warchild]

Strange that they would launch a new cooler without any RGB bling. But that brushed aluminium looks very sleek indeed.

Not strange, but genius. This is the kind of design most mature audiences and consumers want.

 

[Dawelio]

Not strange, but genius. This is the kind of design most mature audiences and consumers want.

Why?... It's not like you can't turn off the LED's on most hardware today anyway.
Turn off the LED's and you'd get basically the same "mature" design.

 

[AlienALX]

There's a couple of ways of making this sort of tubing (real WC tubing IMO) not kink. You either braid it and run the risk of it kinking still, or you use any kink coils (those things).

Otherwise it's back to those horrible straw things and I know what I would rather have

I've got kink coils in my green rig but not visible. There were a couple of areas that concerned me though, so I just bolstered them using AKCs.

 

[Bartacus]

Kink coils are not needed, ever. Especially with 3/8 5/8 tube. Get proper thick walled tube and this isn't an issue. That crap might have been needed 10 years ago (still questionable), but not now. The only reason it's there is liability for the stupid people. We are a "lowest common denominator" society after all.

 

[AlienALX]

Kink coils are not needed, ever. Especially with 3/8 5/8 tube. Get proper thick walled tube and this isn't an issue. That crap might have been needed 10 years ago (still questionable), but not now. The only reason it's there is liability for the stupid people. We are a "lowest common denominator" society after all.

Both of the 19mm hoses I had running past a res started to kink. That is why I fitted coils. I also had a 11mm hose kink too, so had to plumb in the res/pump in situ to stop that. My hose comes out of the radiator straight, then turns 90' and goes down to the GPU. I also have a drain port and stop fitting on there too. The weight of it was pulling the hose and kinking it. For real, IRL, actually happened.

It does happen.

 

[Bartacus]

That sounds like bad loop design to me. I've been water cooling for years, never saw that. Maybe I just got lucky in my tube choice since I went 3/8 5/8 at the start, and you can't kink that stuff if you tried. Well, maybe if you tried. But at one point I had a connection between 2 GPUs shaped like the letter C (only backwards), a complete 180 (and a short one too).

 

[AlienALX]

That sounds like bad loop design to me. I've been water cooling for years, never saw that. Maybe I just got lucky in my tube choice since I went 3/8 5/8 at the start, and you can't kink that stuff if you tried. Well, maybe if you tried. But at one point I had a connection between 2 GPUs shaped like the letter C (only backwards), a complete 180 (and a short one too).

No actually the loop design was very good. For a hose based rig.

And it works beautifully. As I said though, making a hose based rig look tidy comes at a price, and that down tube has some weight pulling on it. Anti kink coils fixed it perfectly, and it's been absolutely fine ever since.

I thought that was actually pushing the design. Usually hose based rigs are all the same with hoses running everywhere. I also had a very tight fitting from the rad to the res so again, just as a precaution, fitted a coil.

You don't see them but they are there to prevent issues.

/Engineering.

Ed. To give you an idea.

Hose comes out horizontally from rad. Goes over top of res, away from the fill port. Then has a chrome 19mm fitting, 90' fitting, another 19mm fitting then runs down. There it has a drain plug etc on it too that also has two more 19mm fittings. All of that weight meant the hose started to kink on the edge of the top of the res, which was easily resolved by putting on a coil and pulling it in tight to stiffen up the hose to rock hard.

Job done.