Cryorig Intros Monster XX Dual Fin-stack CPU Cooler Capable of 300W Thermal Loads

[btarunr]

Cryorig today introduced the Monster XX, a premium dual fin-stack (D-type) CPU cooler. The cooler's claim to fame is its thermal capacity of 300 W, rivaling 240 mm AIO CLCs. It measures 120 mm x 133 mm x 159 mm (WxDxH). Its design involves a copper base, from which ten 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes arranged in two rows emerge, and pass through the two aluminium fin-stacks, each with 86 fins. The heatsinks are ventilated by a pair of included 120 mm ARGB-illuminated fans, arranged in a push-pull configuration.

Each of the two included 120 mm fans turns at speeds ranging between 800 and 1,800 RPM, pushing up to 58.47 CFM of airflow at 1.35 mm H₂O of static-pressure, and up to 31.5 dBA of noise. The fan takes in 4-pin PWM for its main function, and 3-pin ARGB for lighting. Among the CPU socket types supported are the new LGA1851, LGA1700, AM5, AM4, and LGA1200/115x. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[Redwoodz]

10 6mm heatpipes? Wow

 

[Chaitanya]

They had vanished for quite sometime, good to see them back with new product.

 

[arbiter]

Those mounting screws look like its a pain in the $#@ to install on a board already in a case.

 

[Onasi]

@arbiter
More like borderline impossible. Maybe it’s just the perspective of the render, but that mounting hardware indeed looks hilariously bad.

Anyway, curious to see how it performs. There are plenty of people who are rabidly convinced that adding MOAR heat-pipes is totally the key to pushing air coolers forward. My bet is that it won’t outperform the usual 40 bucks PA120. If Noctua could barely do it after half a decade and over-engineering the shit out of the G2 I doubt Cryorig stands a chance.

 

[Space Lynx]

@crazyeyesreaper I do hope we get a review on this one, just because 10 heatpipes has never been done on an air cooler before to my knowledge. Interested to see if it beats the other air coolers or not.

 

[katzi]

Those are going to have to be some Stout fans to push air through all that obstruction, lol.

 

[Caring1]

Serious amounts of copium for Intel CPUs.

 

[Chaitanya]

Those mounting screws look like its a pain in the $#@ to install on a board already in a case.

You dont have a long screwdriver? Cryorig has left notches in fins to slide screwdriver to insert, I hope they include a screwdriver in package similar to BeQuite does with their tower coolers.

 

[AusWolf]

I love the progress being made in high-end air cooling.

I would love it even more if someone took the effort to design something better instead of the fiddly, flimsy, thin metal brackets.

 

[Assimilator]

300W and it doesn't even support HEDT CPUs.

 

[AusWolf]

300W and it doesn't even support HEDT CPUs.

So the people who want it don't need it, and the people who need it can't have it. Brilliant!

 

[Woomack]

I'm surprised they still exist. I reviewed most of their products, but later, they released some pretty stupid ones that I skipped. Some months later, all the marketing was fired (at least, this was the info from my contact). Now, looking at this cooler, I have mixed feelings. The base looks like the one from old coolers, and the general design isn't much different, but everything is more "packed".

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Thick coldplate , just how I like my britches, jk.

 

[Tomgang]

300 watt is a lot to ask of an air cooler. Even a big one.

I would like to se a test of it and se how true are these claims really. Some companies do have a tendency to claim more than it actually can do.

 

[AusWolf]

300 watt is a lot to ask of an air cooler. Even a big one.

I would like to se a test of it and se how true are these claims really. Some companies do have a tendency to claim more than it actually can do.

It depends on the CPU design, too. It might be able to cool 300 W (or close to it) on Intel, but definitely not on AMD.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Where is the white version?

 

[z1tu]

You dont have a long screwdriver? Cryorig has left notches in fins to slide screwdriver to insert, I hope they include a screwdriver in package similar to BeQuite does with their tower coolers.

Noctua includes one as well

 

[freeagent]

I have to agree with Woomack here.

 

[Space Lynx]

300 watt is a lot to ask of an air cooler. Even a big one.

I would like to se a test of it and se how true are these claims really. Some companies do have a tendency to claim more than it actually can do.

I want to see a test with not stock fans, but the 30mm thick fans from Antec or Phanteks. Those fans in push pull combined with the thickness of this might be an impressive combo.

@crazyeyesreaper I know you probably don't have time to test this, but hopefully someday!

 

[Firedrops]

They used to have novel designs. Now they're just white-labelling alibaba products that have fundamentally not evolved since 15 years ago.

 

[Draconis]

Noctua includes one as well

So does Deepcool

 

[capdauntless]

Ive Cryorig stuff in the past and liked them. Sadly, theyve basically disappeared completely in Canada.

 

[sLowEnd]

Coolers with tons of heatpipes aren't a new thing. The benefit of the extra heatpipes on regular consumer CPUs over something with less (e.g. 6-8 heatpipes) is dubious because the pipes at the edge are too far away from the source of the heat to do much. It might help with an HEDT CPU, but with the state of the HEDT market right now...eh...

 

[Chane]

Cryorig is back?