Review Silverstone IceMyst 360 and 240mm AIO Review: Unique VRM and RAM fans, chart-topping noise-normalized performance

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It’s not often we review a cooler with genuine innovation. But the Silverstone IceMyst AIOs’ unique fans provide cooling where competitors don’t.

Silverstone IceMyst 360 and 240mm AIO Review: Unique VRM and RAM fans, chart-topping noise-normalized performance : Read more

 

[thestryker]

I'm a little surprised to see the 360mm performing that well and it's great that this cooler isn't just the gimmicks. I've been looking forward to a good review of these coolers because I'm willing to overlook the shorter warranty if the performance is good and additional fans work well.

I really like the additional fans concept as high performance DDR5 is getting to the point where some active airflow to dissipate heat is important.

Do we know who the pump OEM is in the case of these AIOs? I know in the past they'd used Apaltek, but haven't seen it mentioned one way or another in more recent cooler reviews.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

I really like the additional fans concept as high performance DDR5 is getting to the point where some active airflow to dissipate heat is important.

Eh, I don't know if I'd say it's important. For most users active cooling on the RAM will be pointless, though those trying to maintain the fastest possible speeds overclocking RAM might find it useful.

I'd say this would be more relevant for users who bought a motherboard only to find its VRMs lacking, adding one of these side fans could help in a situation like that.

Do we know who the pump OEM is in the case of these AIOs? I know in the past they'd used Apaltek, but haven't seen it mentioned one way or another in more recent cooler reviews.

Unfortunately I'm not sure about that.

 

[thestryker]

Eh, I don't know if I'd say it's important. For most users active cooling on the RAM will be pointless, though those trying to maintain the fastest possible speeds overclocking RAM might find it useful.

Yeah it's mostly when getting up around 7800 or more that it becomes a thing. I'm thinking down the road with better memory controllers which may be able to hit 8000+ reliably. Seems like right now with 14th gen 7200 is close to a given with the Apex boards being around 7600. Not that it's a guarantee ARL will end up being that much better it just seems likely with the improvements from 12th to 14th. It's also not impossible that AMD's Zen 5 could benefit more from high memory clocks.

I was surprised watching some of Buildzoid's videos and him talking about needing cooling to maintain stability (his stability tests are pretty extreme though). That wasn't particularly a thing with DDR4 unless you were going for peak overclock.