Hyte vows to “destroy” competition with outlandish AIO cooler at CES

It’s not straightforward to face out within the overcrowded AIO CPU cooler market, nonetheless many RGB LEDs you throw at your followers, however Hyte managed to cease us on our tracks at CES 2024 with this gloriously over-the-top liquid cooler. The Hyte THICC Q60 not solely has a 52mm-thick radiator, two pumps, and daisy-chainable followers, but it surely additionally has an enormous 5-inch display perching on high of the waterblock unit.

Hyte modestly says that the aptly named THICC Q60 “this 240 will destroy any 360 AIO from our competitors,” which is combating discuss, and would make the cooler a really sturdy contender for our best AIO cooler information if it lives as much as the corporate’s claims. The concept is that this Hyte cooler’s chunky radiator and followers will nonetheless slot in numerous circumstances that solely have room for a 240mm cooler, however will nonetheless have sufficient cooling energy to tame the newest top-end CPUs, such because the Intel Core i9-14900K.

It’s the display that steals the present, although. We’ve seen numerous AIO coolers with shows on the waterblock unit, however the THICC Q60’s display is like having a second monitor on high of your CPU. It’s a 5-inch IPS mannequin with a 720 x 1,280 decision and 60Hz refresh fee, and a brightness score of 300 nits. Overlook simply displaying a customized animated GIF emblem in your cooler, you possibly can mainly play a film inside your PC case now.

Not solely that, however there’s additionally a 42-pixel qRGB array beneath the display, enabling you to unfold your chosen RGB lighting and results over the remainder of your system’s innards. All of that is controllable by means of Hyte’s Nexus software program. In the meantime, the cooling system has not one however two pumps for circulating coolant across the loop, and these are situated in a bit of the radiator unit.

All of it appears to be like good on paper, however I’ve a number of phrases of warning about utilizing thick radiators from my expertise with customized water-cooling techniques. The THICC Q60’s 54mm radiator is twice as thick as the same old 27mm radiators discovered on AIO coolers, such because the Corsair H100 fashions.

This does certainly provide you with much more room to unfold warmth, however a thick radiator additionally requires extra airflow than a standard radiator in an effort to push sufficient air by means of the extra-large radiator’s fins and correctly hold the coolant in examine. This can be helped by the 32mm-thick followers supplied with the THICC Q60, which have an enormous quantity of static strain, however these in flip make the Q60 an enormous beast to accommodate in your PC.

When you plan to mount the radiator within the roof of your case, a thick radiator can even dangle down prominently over your motherboard in numerous circumstances, so that you’ll wish to measure up your case’s inside to work out the place you’re going to place that display (which is fortunately movable), and that the thick radiator and followers received’t conflict along with your reminiscence modules.

This a lot cooling energy and bling naturally doesn’t come low cost, although. The Hyte THICC Q60 worth is $299, and is accessible to pre-order now, with items delivery on Thursday, February 15, 2024.

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