ASUS Launches the ROG Ryujin II AIO Liquid CPU Coolers

[Vayra86]

Seems a bit over the top to put a LED screen on a watercooler. Temps can be seen from your PC monitor anyway. I'll stick with my Bequiet Silent Loop 2, thanks. It's barely audible, keeps my temps down and only uses enough RGB to keep it looking sleek rather than overstated. All that and at a better price too.

You don't understand. In the absence of GPUs, all those young gamers are looking at a box of hardware with a window in it, so this is much welcomed entertainment value along with the programmable RGB they have in there.

I reckon soon someone will play Doom on it soon.

I'll argue your point as the engine analogy is incorrect.
A vehicle has instruments to let you know how the engine is running, the LCD screen is no different in that regard, it does not however have to be mounted in the engine bay like this screen is mounted directly over the pump.
It serves a purpose and has a use.
Would you remove all gauges and instruments from your vehicle because you see them as extraneous?

In fact yes, most gauges and instruments are gone from newer cars, its all managed for you.

Monitoring your oil pressure and all that BS is old news, even in ICEs now - you simply don't have a gauge for it. Same goes for PCs, Go figure: even GPUs and CPUs overclock themselves now. Except they call it turbo or boost. And they also clock back to keep within spec.

Doing manual monitoring on new technology is just a way to keep busy.

 

[Mussels]

I wanted one of these when the first version came out, but reports back then about the software were absolutely terrible - like it wouldnt work at all on AMD systems, or it constantly forgot what you were telling it to display and went to defaults
and then for the people it did work for, it required an always running app that chewed CPU power

Being asetek, i wanted to merge it with the kraken G12 and slap it on a vertical mounted GPU

 

[MikeSnow]

Looking inside your case is the equivalent of looking at the inside of your engine bay, not the car's instrument cluster, that would be the equal to your monitor. The equivalent of an instrument cluster would be presenting the data on your monitor where you should be looking, kinda like how your instrament cluster isn't in your engine bay.... cause comon sense.

Highend boards have thermal probes for this very reason and if Asus wanted to do something clever they could output various fan, pump, and temp metrics via USB to an internal header and get the information out that way. That could actually be useful, this LCD is nothing but a form over function flashy gimmick.

No, the monitor would be the windscreen in that analogy. When doing full screen gaming alternate displays can be useful, being able to take a quick glance without having to switch to the Windows desktop or use a distracting overlay.

Personally I keep all the RGB stuff in my computer case turned off, but I enabled an alarm that turns it on, making all the LEDs red, when a component is hotter than normal. It was quite useful when some misbehaving app started overheating the CPU for no reason. I might not have detected it otherwise. Of course there are other options, like a sound alarm, but for example my speakers turn off automatically after a while if they are not used, so the RGB alarm is more reliable and less intrussive.

 

[Seun]

Lotta hate toward this cooler and I really don’t understand why. After all, we are all gamers and having another option to pick from isn’t a bad thing. It’s just another choice. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it but don’t hate Asus for adding another item to their inventory of wares to sell.

 

[The red spirit]

This is the equivalent of having a giant LCD for engine cover to read the temperature of your engine block, it is over the top and stupid combined.

Reminds me of Pontiac:

 

[Seun]

Isn't that what ASUS is all about though?

Honestly, it’s the same as people spending 3.5 million on a Supercar when the only place they can actually drive it is Germany or on a drag strip the way they are built do be driven legally. Beyond that it’s just expensive and pretty. But will this cooler work well? If it does, who cares that it has an LCD screen as a bonus right?