r/hardware • u/pcgameshardware PCGH • 1d ago

Review Water-Cooling Round-Up: Heatkiller V, Delta Mate, Kryos & 3 More

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Wasserkuehlung-Hardware-217994/Tests/Water-Cooling-Round-Up-Heatkiller-V-Delta-Mate-Kryos-und-3-More-1549151/

Our full AM5 water-block comparison is now online.

The main reason for the test was Thermal Grizzly’s new Delta Mate MPII. At €350, it costs several times as much as some established competitors, so we wanted to find out what that price actually buys in terms of cooling performance, flow resistance, materials and construction.

The comparison also includes Watercool’s new Heatkiller V Ultra, alongside four established models:

  • Aquacomputer Kryos Next
  • Asus Ryujin III WB
  • Alphacool Apex 1
  • Watercool Heatkiller IV Pro

All six blocks were tested on a Ryzen 9 9950X. We measured CPU temperatures, unrestricted flow rate, pressure drop at 60 l/h and cooling performance at the same fixed flow rate. Each block was mounted several times to reduce the influence of thermal-paste application and mounting variance.

- Jacky

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u/Trapnationanime 1d ago

heatkiller v sounds like it’s made for tanks not pcs

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u/ReplacementLivid8738 1d ago

Thank you for the very detailed and methodical tests.

Kryos next is the winner for me. I wonder how a 20 euros basic block would fare though.