Review Kraken G12, give your GPU the love it deserves...

[PandaAttack1]

I recently purchased a MSI Armor 1080ti, notorious for it's superior cooling ability. Heh.

Personally I am not too fond of my hardware constantly thermal throttling. My limited solutions were a choice between an AIO or some monstrosity of a Artic cooler. I opted for the NZXT Kraken G12.

Straight out of the box, it is literally a piece of metal. The punch marks are clean and everything is neatly powdered coated. However, the kit does NOT include thermal paste, very strange...

Preparing the now sad looking 1080ti for its new cooler.

I have no idea how MSI thought this was good enough?

All cleaned up!

3... 2... 1...

After some (read A LOT) of fiddling, she is in!

:3

Finally plugged in and ready to roll again:

Onto the results...
From constantly hitting 80degrees, the card now hardly goes over 50degrees. Win win win.

In conclusion, it works! Wonderfully. Installation was super simple and the card looks good back in the PC.

 

[AceSwiftShooter]

Yoh the min FPS came up nicely.



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[Samildanach69]

I am also looking into the g12 for my rx580. What cooler did you decide to go with?

 

[toy1985]

I am also looking into the g12 for my rx580. What cooler did you decide to go with?

Looks like a Corsair H100i V2


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[PandaAttack1]

I am also looking into the g12 for my rx580. What cooler did you decide to go with?

As toy mentioned, a lekker big 240mm corsair cooler.

 

[superrob]

The G12 with a decent cooler is EPIC, just to let you all know my temps with the Gigabyte 1080Ti OC Gaming edition were around 76 degrees sometimes higher dependent on weather.... add a nice overclock to the gpu and temps were iffy around the 86 degree mark..... add a G12 and H100i V2 to the mix with Thermal Grizzly and idle temps are around 23 degrees on the OC and 40 degrees under load with the pump turned to Extreme in Corsair software YAY

 

[PandaAttack1]

The G12 with a decent cooler is EPIC, just to let you all know my temps with the Gigabyte 1080Ti OC Gaming edition were around 76 degrees sometimes higher dependent on weather.... add a nice overclock to the gpu and temps were iffy around the 86 degree mark..... add a G12 and H100i V2 to the mix with Thermal Grizzly and idle temps are around 23 degrees on the OC and 40 degrees under load with the pump turned to Extreme in Corsair software YAY

Can confirm!