 This video is brought to you by CM Storm, preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of Curse Gaming. Visit www.coolermaster-usa.com slash team underscore curse for more details. Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the LQ315 from Zalman. This is an all-in-one liquid cooler with a built-in pump with a slim water block, a copper base, and micro fins to maximize cooling performance. And I'm going to turn it into like a song. Welcome to an unboxing where we do lots of cool things like opening things with knives and we... Okay, that was about as far as I got with that. So let's just go ahead and open this bad boy up. So this is a single 120 millimeter radiator liquid cooler. It's based on an Asetek design, which means that there shouldn't be any huge surprises in terms of the mounting mechanism or the overall build quality. I think these LCLC sort of generation 1, 2, 3, what are we up to? Like four generations now. Designs have been out there in the wild long enough that if there were any kinds of mass failures, we'd know about them already. It uses durable and long lasting tubes. An additional 120 millimeter fan can be installed and used as an environmentally friendly anti-corrosion coolant. Oh, that's kind of good to know. There's also a blue LED included in the water block itself, which is not true of the 310, which is the lower end version of this particular cooler. And the other thing that's not true of the 310 is the fact that the 315 uses a thicker style radiator. So one of the things that Zollmann's done to set their cooler apart from the other sort of Asetek based designs out there is they've added like a faux aluminum finish to the side here. That's kind of that brushed plastic finish that I always talk about because I think it's freaking awesome. Because it doesn't attract fingerprints and stains the way that aluminum does, but it actually looks kind of like aluminum and it has sort of a premium look to it that you don't get with other more different radiators. They've also changed the way the threading is done on the shroud itself. So if you look at that, they've actually got brass inlaid threads rather than using just a simple tapped thread through a metal piece here. So this is partly because this is a plastic shroud, so you wouldn't want to thread plastic in order to mount a fan to something. But I think this should actually be more durable overall anyway, and it'll be less of a problem if you accidentally screw something up and strip it. So that's a nice little touch to see as well. The pre-attached tubes are one quarter inch and they run to, again, a very sharp looking. So it's a better looking pre-liquid, pre-done liquid cooler than what we've seen in the past. So it's a better looking CPU block unit there with a nice shiny Z on top. And there is a blue LED inside there that illuminates. The block pump unit is powered by a three pin fan connector that uses black wires. So it's not going to look out of place in your well-done little build. And last but not least, well, second last, also not least, we have the mounting hardware. So this is the standard fair that you see for these Asetek units. It's got the updated one that allows you to use one piece as a hold down, another piece to hold the hold down, held in place. And then you actually use little plastic clips, stick them through here, stick the screws through there, and you can mount it to pretty much any socket you want, including LGA 2011. Now, another thing that they've changed that they've included is Alman fans. Alman fans have been, in my experience, some of the better ones out there as far as the overall build quality goes. They undervolt very well. This one right here calls itself an ultra quiet CPU cooler. So I'd probably believe it. This one has a bit of a unique design because you can see that only one side actually has a square fan mount on it and the other side is just rounded here. So the only challenge that I would foresee with a product like this is it limits your options in terms of fan mounting a little bit. So you're going to either be able to use it in push at the back of your case, mounting the radiator directly to the back of the case. Or if you don't have clearance at the back of the case because of the tank, you're going to have to mount it in push, which is the other option you have. So there's push from one direction or push from the other direction. And no, wait, no, you won't be able to do that. Oh, yeah, that won't work at all because you'll have to use a... Oh, no, they do have what you'd need, but it'd be a bit of a weird orientation because you'd have this against the case, then you'd have to go through the case, through here, into the radiator in order to get it mounted. So I would have preferred if they'd included a fan that does have both sides, but it's probably not the end of the world. And usually I replace the fans on these things anyway with something like a knock to a fan, for example. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And I sure hope you enjoyed this one.