Introduction

Raijintek entered our watercooling product review database earlier this year with the Calore Elite CA360—a triple 120 mm radiator that hit the mark simply by selling at a reasonable price in a time where everything seems to cost a lot more than just a couple of years ago. I had mentioned in said review that it was the first of a few different Raijintek product reviews I'd be submitting, and today we get to the second, in the form of the Forkis Pro RBW CPU water block.


The Raijintek Forkis family of CPU blocks currently has two members, the Forkis Elite and the Forkis Pro RBW. The former gets a POM (acetal) top and does not feature any lighting support, whereas the Pro RBW version has a PMMA (acrylic) top and integrated addressable RGB LEDs, as the image above indicates. This review otherwise will be a good indicator for the user experience and performance of both blocks, given they are identical in all other matters. Raijintek claims the use of a "3D micro-structure flow tunnel" in addition to a nickel-plated copper cold plate with the copper itself "melted by alloying brazing." This is a product designed in Germany and made in China, so I mostly care about the build quality and how well it performs for the asking price. As such, let's not waste more time and get on with this review, beginning with a look at the product specifications in the table below. Thanks to Raijintek for providing a sample to TechPowerUp!

Specifications

Packaging and Accessories

The Raijintek Forkis Pro RBW CPU block came as part of a watercooling kit that I agreed to take on simply to be able to do individual product reviews. As such, please note that the standalone product may come with other accessories. In particular, there may or may not be a control box for the RGB LEDs in the box, but I understand that what I have here will be what most customers will be getting. This is further evident from the product packaging that shows a sticker on the front allowing Raijintek to use it for either of the two Forkis series CPU blocks and the LGA 1700 tag also indicates this is a recent update, to ensure the block will work with newer Intel CPUs. Side flaps keep the contents inside in place during transit and opening the box shows a bunch of different accessory sets on top of the block itself.


The CPU block comes inside a plastic wrap for a pristine and dust-free unboxing experience. Raijintek does not go with socket-specific blocks here—far from it, given it supports both Intel and AMD CPUs from a long time ago all the way to the present. There are also printed instructions here, including a separate note about LGA 1700 support, to further cement the block's appeal to those who want wider CPU compatibility. Do note that AMD Socket AM5 support isn't explicitly mentioned, but logic dictates it should work fine there too. As for Intel, we get a plastic socket backplate with re-sizable corner threads depending on the CPU socket being cooled.


Given the flexible CPU compatibility of offer here, we get also an AMD mounting bracket in the box with the associated AMD installation hardware too. There are then socket-specific mounting pieces, which thankfully come labelled, along a tiny wrench, a sachet of thermal paste and even a plastic spreader tool for the paste! The various mounting gear is quite typical in the form of metal locking screws, stand-offs, and springs, as well as plastic washers which we will go over in the installation section later on in this review.