Cooler Master Seidon 120M All-in-One Water Cooler Review - Value and Conclusion

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Although all-in-one water cooling systems are nothing new, their rise in popularity is something very recent. We have watched as multiple companies have launched products designed bring “enthusiast” level cooling to the masses. This type of move is also nothing new as we have watched it happen with RAID, SLI, and many other items that were once only for gamers and other computer enthusiasts Still what many do not know is that most of these companies all buy their parts from the same place; Asetek. This company makes great water cooling products and they resell the pieces to others. Now, while that represents most of the market there are some that still build their own; one of these is Cooler Master. Back at CES 2011 we were allowed to see a prototype water cooling unit and we knew that they were looking to do something very different. Now in last months of 2012 Cooler Master has released their work. Today we will be taking a look at the Seidon 120M all-in-one water cooling unit to see if all of Cooler Master’s hard work has paid off.

Value -
The Seidon is around $55.00 from most online stores. This makes it quite a bit less expensive than many all-in-one coolers out there. For this amount of money we would not have expected the high-quality build and specs. Normally at this price level things can become a little flimsy while the performance also drops considerably. Considering the performance that we saw from the Seidon $55 is a great value and one that we can get behind.

Conclusion -
The Seidon was not the best all-in-one we have ever tested; it was not even the second best. However it is the best all-in-one we have tested at the price point it is at. We have yet to see a cooling system like this for under $80 that can maintain decent performance when pushing an overclocked top-end CPU. We were pleasantly surprised to see the temps that we did from the Seidon. We do think that Cooler Master has some room for improvement; they could have added a copper radiator to increase the thermal dissipation and also included better thermal interface material for use in mounting this on your CPU. Perhaps in future models Cooler Master will add in liquid metal and a copper radiator as an “enthusiast” option. If they did the Seidon would be one amazing product. As it stands we are still able to recommend it to any of you that are interested in adding water cooling into your rig, but do not want to build it piece by piece. In fact the Seidon is good enough to earn our Silver Key award for its build quality, price and performance.

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