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Reeven Naia 240 AIO Water Cooler Review

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Testing & Results

Testing Methodology

The CPU tested was mounted in a Thermaltake V51 case. The case was in it’s normal upright orientation and case doors were fully closed during testing. There are two 140mm front intake fans, and one 140mm exhaust fan, as well as an addition 120mm intake fan above the VRMs of the motherboard in the top of the case.

The front 140mm fans are running from a 7v input so there is no variance in fan speed from test to test. The exhaust fan is set to 50%. The top 120mm fan is set to run at 100% speed. As far as the CPU cooler fans go, I set them to run 100% so any variance from the BIOS controlling the fans would be eliminated. Settings were left the same for all coolers while testing was done.

The GPU was left installed and running with fans set to a static 35% to keep any variance from the GPU out of the equation.

CPU cooler prep included cleaning and prepping the CPU coolers with the same TIM that was included with the Reeven Naia 240 cooler. The same amount of TIM was applied to all coolers for this test.

Testing was performed with AIDA64 Engineer software using their stability test application, which generates 100% CPU usage during the entire test run. The stability test was run until CPU temperatures had plateaued, then began to record ambient air temperature and CPU temperatures over the next minute. I then shutdown the PC completely and turned it back on after a minute or so and ran the test 3 times in total.

After swapping and running the test 3 times in the exact same way with the Reeven Naia 240, SilverStone TD-02 Slim, and AMD Wraith Spire cooler, I took the results of the CPU temperatures and discarded the highest and lowest temperature results and subtracted that result from the ambient room temperature.

Ambient room temperatures was measured in degrees Celsius using a thermometer with 1/10 decimal point accuracy.

Test System

  • Motherboard: ASUS Prime X370-Pro
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 OC 3.8Ghz 1.334vCore

Results

Listed from best to worst, the Reeven Naia 240 beats out  the SilverStone Tundra TD02 Slim by a narrow 2.7C. This was expected, since the Reeven unit has a thicker radiator, and full 25mm fans, although it’s not as big of a gap as I thought there would be. This could be because Reeven has opted to use an aluminum heat-plate instead of copper. I can see why Reeven would go this route, as aluminum is cheaper, but this can also help avoid things like galvanic corrosion from mixed metals in the same liquid loop.

The AMD Wraith Spire simply is not built to handle overclocking, and it’s dreadful performance shows, hitting 55.1C over ambient temperature, a whole 20.1C higher than the Reeven Naia 240!

I decided not to include idle temps simply because the variance was only by a degree or two between all coolers. The CPU vCore drops when idling, so not much heat is being produced, and even the Wraith Spire cooler kept the CPU within a couple degrees of ambient temperature.

Custom Dye Results

I chose to combine some blue and green dye to try for an aqua blue color. I had to add some red to darken it up a bit. Mixing the colors is pretty much a trial and error affair. Your results will vary greatly here, depending on the volume of dye used from each color.

From the side you can see some of the green showing through, and gives it a two-tone effect I wasn’t expecting as a result. I think it looks pretty good though.

In hind-sight I think I would of preferred to go with just the blue dye, as it would match my keyboard color better, and I can always change my Asus motherboard to the color of the fluid with a bit of tweaking.

Next page I go over my final thoughts and conclusion of the Reeven Naia 240 AIO liquid cooler.


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