Thermaltake Pacific M360 Plus D5 Res/Pump PETG Hard Tube Water Cooling Kit CL-W218-CU00SW-A

I waited a little bit to write this review as I wanted to make an informed opinion after having it installed by myself after a few months. This has been the third month in my rig and it's working just fine. Temperature is ice cold (around 40 ish celsius with an I7 8700k OC'd to 5.0ghz) and it was easier to install than I thought. That being said, I have a lot of experience building PCs for the past 2 decades, and I never tried custom water cooling until now. In my opinion it was more simple than I thought it would be but it requires a lot of time and attention to detail. Watch a youtube tutorial before attempting to install it yourself and follow instructions to the letter if you're willing to do it. Just the water loop took me about 4 hours because I'm OCD (wanted to be sure every pipe fits tight and nicely as it should). This not meant to be installed by people who are not handy with tools and electronics or have no patience. Number one thing is to test the set up directly with the power supply alone before plugging the motherboard to ensure there are no leaks, water is moving etc.I think this was a gorgeous, and a super affordable for those who want to try custom water cooling without breaking the bank.

I like that it's a good entry point to a custom liquid cooling loop. It should be stated more clearly that this is an aluminum setup. Furthermore it does not fit a Ryzen Threadripper TR4 socket, a fact that I didn't realize until I tried fitting it (that part was just a lack of research on my part, so my fault). Both the radiator and water block are made of aluminum, making it incompatible with copper parts. Due to the enthusiast nature of Threadrippers, the only water blocks I could find were made of copper so I was unable to use the radiator, plus it's a little on the small side for my needs. On the positive, the pump works flawlessly and I ended up buying a second pump for my GPU loop; I have the Thermaltake Tower 900 case.GOOD:-Solid entry point for custom liquid cooling-Definitely recommend pairing this with Thermaltake's pipe bending kit, which comes with a pipe cutter (I bought it and it worked flawlessly)CONSIDERATIONS for those new to liquid cooling like myself:-If you use just the parts in this kit, you'll be using aluminum which is fine by itself. If you need to mix and match parts, be aware that aluminum parts are incompatible with copper parts. Direct contact with eachother or being connected in a loop with the coolant will cause bimetallic/galvanic corrosion, which will corrode a hole in the aluminum parts!

Really nice starter kit didn't give it 5 stars because I noticed one of the rgb controller box's were missing from the box that contained the rgb water block and this isn't really a minus but the radiator is very thick so make sure ur case can accommodate it.

The media could not be loaded.  Great kit. Almost had to order longer tubing, but was able to reroute a couple pipes to make it work. I have the thermaltake core p5 and with the 500mm tubes, I wasn't able to run my piping how I originally planned for, but was able to make due! No issues with actual manufacturers stuff, all fans, controllers, fittings and water block all worked like they said it would! No leaks and relatively easy to do (with previous pipe bending experience :P)110% recommend buying the pipe bending kit, and most likely extra piping if you have no experience in bending pipe/tubing.

The media could not be loaded.  I wanted to wait some time before posting a review to be more informative on how the product has actually performed for me. I'm currently cooling a Ryzen 9 3900x and I can safely say my idle temps are in the 40's and my underload temps are no more than 61°C. I am so surprised how amazing this turned out. I would definitely recommend to a friend if I were there to help them because figuring out how to bend the tubes was a pain no matter how many YouTube videos you watch before hand.One thing I'd like to note is do not attempt to install this without ordering more tubing and getting the kit that comes with a tube cutter, some sort of tube sander, and angled brackets to get the perfect shape you want.