What's an inexpensive AIO product line with a strong pump and low price?

I'm thinking of buying an inexpensive product line with 120mm, 140mm, 240mm, 280mm, 360mm AND 420mm AIOs. What product line isn't that expensive, has a strong pump (I don't care about the fans since I'll just swap them out if they're weak), and comes in all of those sizes? If it doesn't have all of them, what product line comes the closest to having the full range?

Alternatively, if I were to build all of them myself, what's the best place to buy the parts cheaply with good quality, if not great? They would have to be identical in every way possible, and mimic pre-built AIOs, so no extras like VRM fan, reservoir, waterflow meter, etc. - fans aren't a concern as I have hundreds. No LEDs as I've discovered that light moves so much faster than water that water actually (not) slows down in their presence!

There's Alphacool Core Ocean T38: 120, 240, 280, 360, 420, although I don't see any useful info about their pumps. Total MSRP $422.62.

ID Cooling and Deepcool come to mind for economy and with good pumps. Rads are from third party AFAIK so I doubt that has any influence in performance differences. Deepcool has that Anti Leak gimmick, so maybe the rads are custom ordered or are made in-house.

Deepcool manufactures their own pumps, don't know about the ID Cooling.

But both don't usually have the greatest fans with the AIOs. Swapping fans does improve noise and performance for either one.

Edited by 0lds0d, 22 April 2024 - 11:01 AM.

Cooler Master is another for budget, but have no experience or first hand knowledge with these AIOs.

I am always curious about their AIOs.

Good or bad?

120mm AIO are loud but do the job.

Always wondered if a push pull setup on a 120mm would reduce the noise levels to something more reasonable.

240mm are most common but often a good air cooler does the very same for less dollars.

280mm AIOs are good. Very close to a 360mm in terms of cooling performance and quieter with 2x140 fans instead of 2x120 fans on a 240 or 3x120 on a 360 AIO.

Plus often a case can take a top mounted 280 AIO, but not the 360, so fitment issues can be remedied with a 280mm if wanting better cooling with the 280mm instead of a 240mm.

Downside is the 280mm are usually more expensive compared to a 240mm since these are less common.

Edited by 0lds0d, 22 April 2024 - 11:31 AM.

360mm are the choicest AIO, I suppose.

Many think it is 360mm or nothing else. But often the 240/280mm or air cooling with do the same cooling job.

420mm is for work desktops or the extreme hard core gamer or for the elitist.

Personally I would go with custom cooling and use 2 360mm instead for quieter and better performance. But that is expensive as opposed to the off the self 420mm AIO.

Looking at open loops and figured it would be $800-1000 CAN to start off.

Don't need any extreme cooling, so I quickly scrapped that idea!

ID Cooling and Deepcool come to mind for economy and with good pumps. Rads are from third party AFAIK so I doubt that has any influence in performance differences. Deepcool has that Anti Leak gimmick, so maybe the rads are custom ordered or are made in-house.

Deepcool manufactures their own pumps, don't know about the ID Cooling.

But both don't usually have the greatest fans with the AIOs. Swapping fans does improve noise and performance for either one.

Cooler Master is another for budget, but have no experience or first hand knowledge with these AIOs.

I am always curious about their AIOs.

Good or bad?

 

Thanks for the info! TR doesn't have any product lines that are full range, NZXT is expensive, MSI sucks, Lian Li is expensive, etc...Do you know if any of them have the full range of sizes in one product line?

"Alternatively, if I were to build all of them myself, what's the best place to buy the parts cheaply with good quality, if not great?"

Alibaba?

Deepcool maybe has all the different sizes. 120mm to 360mm I do know of, maybe has a 420.

I suppose Arctic does have the full range of those sizes. Good reputation too. But the newer product line is slightly different from the older line.

I suppose you could remove or disable the fan mounted on the Artic pump/block unit for equalized testing if so inclined. Or just go the pump/block fan running.

Edited by 0lds0d, 22 April 2024 - 11:55 AM.

"NZXT is expensive, MSI sucks, Lian Li is expensive, etc..."

Agreed. And needs useless or bloated software to run.

NXZT will turn off the pump and fans if their software isn't running, on some of their AIOs. Kind of useless IMO.

"NZXT is expensive, MSI sucks, Lian Li is expensive, etc..."

You forgot Corsair.

Lian Li Galahad has a good reputation.

Deepcool Mystique series is using that trendy but stupid models with gifs seen in the pump block.

Probably needs software to run it and do  the temperature curves as well.

Something I would personally avoid.

Probably I would go with Arctic if I need an AIO in the future.