On 22/04/2017 at 0:01 AM, Adric24 said:

 

Your maths are off by a factor of 3.. The reported RPM by the mother board is incorrect and a known issue.. So divide your RPM's by 3

So with your numbers the 5 year number is more like 8.2 billion maximum rotations in 5 years..

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This issue of the wrong RPM will very likely never be fixed by motherboard manufacturers, I can say with 100% certainty that Asus will not fix it despite they being able to duplicate.

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Since yesterday, Im a new proud owner of the newer model with the sleeved hoses.

I would have to say the blue LED is a niggling issue, it cant be turned off either, the ability to turn off the LED is more important than the color of it for me, but if I wanted a color it wouldn't be blue that's for sure. A microswitch would be perfect to turn the LED OFF.

IMO I would sell the lighting separately to attach ontop so you can have a choice.

I would also use some better quality braiding other than nylon and not go so mad on the shrink tubing at the tube ends, this could have been less or if it was a cloth material type sleeve, it wouldnt need any shrink tubing either.

The extension cable and the fans also had excessive amount of shrink tubing applied, (too long by the plug), which made it really hard and not flexible, thus routing/bending the cables wasnt as easy as it would have otherwise been.

I would also think about having a top of the pump that has the Cooler Master logo - that spins, so that no matter if you mount the radiator hoses facing left or right, the Cooler Master logo would be easy to put facing the right way up.

With the hoses facing left, the plug from pump to mobo is in the right place and needs no extension, mostly, but if there were some other assemble position this cable would be too short. so IDK how to solve that except maybe have two plugs or a longer cable from pump to mobo?

Mine was perfect size BTW.

Finally make it simple to know that you are buying the old model with non sleeved vs new model sleeved, next time change the product code to reflect these UPDATES.