Test Report: XSPC RX120

[ibm390s]

Great review with a lot of useful data. Thanks for this test.

[INFRNL]

Sweet review Skinnee!
Hope the 360 will provide us with similar results and 480 would be nice too. in time I think they will make one

[Migi06]

Sweet review Skinnee!
Hope the 360 will provide us with similar results and 480 would be nice too. in time I think they will make one

I hope there would be more 140mm rads..
And thanks for the review skinnee Only very low fans like 500-600rpm would be nice to see but this is good enaugh

[INFRNL]

I hope there would be more 140mm rads..
And thanks for the review skinnee Only very low fans like 500-600rpm would be nice to see but this is good enaugh

yes 140mm rads would be sweet as well but I just bought a bunch of the dirt cheap San Ace's

[AndreaBZ]

Good job

According to me however only three measures between 500RPM and 1800 RPM are too much little to establish the characteristics of the radiator.
Not only to know the behavior of the radiator to 500 RPM
But also for a further control of the correctness of the data.

[Zw_Roodbaard]

I hope there will be soon a test from the 240 and 360 radiator from XSPC. The specs are very promising

[skinnee]

Good job

According to me however only three measures between 500RPM and 1800 RPM are too much little to establish the characteristics of the radiator.
Not only to know the behavior of the radiator to 500 RPM
But also for a further control of the correctness of the data.

What RPM settings do you suggest? As I said previously, I am open to adding additional test runs to the procedure. With that said, I would prefer not to have to run tests at 100RPM increments from 500RPM to 2800RPM. That would mean 24 tests per run for a total of 3 runs. 1 test run would take 36 hours of test time. The amount of time it would take to crunch the numbers and generate the write-up would grow exponentially as well.

And please note, there are 3 measurements between 1000RPM and 1800RPM, not 500-1800RPM like you specified.

[AndreaBZ]

What RPM settings do you suggest? As I said previously, I am open to adding additional test runs to the procedure. With that said, I would prefer not to have to run tests at 100RPM increments from 500RPM to 2800RPM. That would mean 24 tests per run for a total of 3 runs. 1 test run would take 36 hours of test time. The amount of time it would take to crunch the numbers and generate the write-up would grow exponentially as well.

And please note, there are 3 measurements between 1000RPM and 1800RPM, not 500-1800RPM like you specified.

Thanks of the polite answer,
To me an only measurement would be enough to around 600 RPM
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I have attentively read your test...........

[skinnee]

Thanks of the polite answer,
To me an only measurement would be enough to around 600 RPM
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I have attentively read your test...........

So all you are requesting is one additional RPM setting of 600? If so, that can definitely be added.

[warriorpoet]

So all you are requesting is one additional RPM setting of 600? If so, that can definitely be added.

600 RPM is fine, It'll probably be enough for a general trendline below 1000 RPM.

[iandh]

FYI everyone I called Petra's and nudged them, they now plan to stock the RX series rads. They will be placing the order along with some other XSPC items shortly.

[Vapor]

These may become the most popular rads pretty quickly...there's nothing bad about them at all

TFC has insane prices, TC has the funky fan spacing and G3/8, GTX series doesn't perform well with low fannage, MCRs have a reachable performance ceiling and aren't *quite* as good as the rest at regular fannage levels (though I still use them and just over-radiator my setup or deal with the 1C loss). These (preliminarily) have everything just about right

[skinnee]

FYI everyone I called Petra's and nudged them, they now plan to stock the RX series rads. They will be placing the order along with some other XSPC items shortly.

I will add Petra's link to the review when I finish pressure drop tests.

Thanks iandh!

[iandh]

These may become the most popular rads pretty quickly...there's nothing bad about them at all

TFC has insane prices, TC has the funky fan spacing and G3/8, GTX series doesn't perform well with low fannage, MCRs have a reachable performance ceiling and aren't *quite* as good as the rest at regular fannage levels (though I still use them and just over-radiator my setup or deal with the 1C loss). These (preliminarily) have everything just about right

Haha, that's pretty much what I told Quoc... somebody had emailed him a link but he hadn't checked it out yet.

I said he had better hurry up and stock these puppies because once the word gets out they're really gonna move IMO.

[highoctane]

Great review, I enjoyed it enough that I bought the little RX120 for a minimal noise setup with a max fan speed of around 1500rpm for a PII 940.

I think the little bugger should work out perfect, you sold one radiator!!

[Kaldor]

Did it ruin the paint on the fins themselves? If its only on the body of the rad it shouldn't be too bad to sand and repaint even though you shouldn't have to with something new. Unfortunate that it ruined the finish though.

[Waterlogged]

Just a heads up. I received my RX360 yesterday. Well constructed and a great paint job, or at least it would have been. They rap the rad up in white tissue paper, then bubble rap to protect the rad. That woulld have been great, except the paint hadn't cured it would seem, and the tissue paper mared the hell out of the gloss black finish, the finish on the paint job is ruined. I'll post some pics later. I know the tissue paper is what did it because I had to peel it off the rad somewhat.

Typical POS XSPC QC. I mean hard hard would it have been to let the goddamn paint cure, or rap it in something else. Just pretty much runied an otherwise great product IMO..

andyc

mcoffey, that sucks man...but, they are likely made in China like all their other stuff is and likely by some of the same vendors, so I can't really say I'm too surprised. I think I'll wait a while so they get this problem sorted before I order any.

[Sadasius]

Damn sweat shop kids ruining rad paint jobs!

[skinnee]

I noticed the tissue paper stuck to the paint in spots on the triple as well, but the paint is not ruined on mine. Just needed some minor buffing with a paper towel and some water.

On the ultra low speed fan topic...what fans would you guys recommend? Yate Loon D12SL-12's or something else?

[Vapor]

How low do your current fans go....the less fan swapping, the better (IMO, and for more than one reason).

[skinnee]

How low do your current fans go....the less fan swapping, the better (IMO, and for more than one reason).

They don't want to go below 1k RPM, but they are D12SH-12's. I think either way I am going to have to do 3 fan swaps.

[Vapor]

3?

FWIW, S-Flex G usually do 400-1900RPM just fine...but for the sake of preservation of data, just stick with your current config and add some SLs (they *should* go to 600RPM).

[skinnee]

3?

FWIW, S-Flex G usually do 400-1900RPM just fine...but for the sake of preservation of data, just stick with your current config and add some SLs (they *should* go to 600RPM).

D12SL-12's (<600RPM-999RPM)
D12SH-12's (>1000RPM-1800RPM)
DFS123812H (>1800RPM-3000RPM)

Thats my thinking anway...good, bad, indifferent?

[Vapor]

I took three changes to mean 4 different fans

Yeah, that's a good setup to work with Each fan is a 'typical' fan in design, which is also good

[skinnee]

I took three changes to mean 4 different fans

Yeah, that's a good setup to work with Each fan is a 'typical' fan in design, which is also good

Ahh...oops.

Excellent, thanks Vapor!

Heads up,

Just got thru sepaking with John over at Jab-Tech, who's great to work with by the way. He said he thinks all the rads are shipped the same, so others might have issues with the paint finish also. He offered a return or exchange which was very accomodating. He also said he'd bring this up with XSPC and see if there were better ways of packaging. I'll see if I can buff it out, but again it's a shame XSPC couldn't have paid more attention, which doesn't cost anything as far as I'm concerned.

Interesting enough, he said they are packed and shipped exactly as the ST MCR series rads, but I don't remember the same issue with the last MCR 320 I bought.

andyc

Thanks for contacting the vendor Andy. I will send a note to XSPC as well.