CRYORIG MONSTER XX 10-Heatpipe Dual Tower Unboxing Review

The CRYORIG MONSTER XX, a dual tower, dual fan, ten heatpipe cooler, has re-emerged as a brand new flagship in front of Taiwanese gamers, labeled as the world's only dual-tower, ten heatpipe air-cooled cooler, with a TDP of 300W. How does this dual-tower cooler with ten heatpipes perform on the new platforms of Intel Core 9, Ultra 9, 285K, and Z890? How does this dual-tower cooler with ten heatpipes perform on the new Intel Core 9 285K and Z890 platforms? The author's real-world test will show you how it performs on the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Z890 platforms!

CRYORIG MONSTER XX Specifications:

Intel Feet: LGA 1851 / 1700 / 1200 / 115x
AMD feet: AM5 / AM4
Dimensions: 120 x 133 x 159 mm
Number of heat pipes: Ø6 mm x 10
Using Fan: Vision F120 ARGB
Fan size: 120 x 120 x 25 mm
Fan Speed: 800~1800 RPM ± 10%
Maximum airflow: 58.47 CFM
Maximum wind pressure: 1.35 mmH₂O
Fan Power Supply: 5V 3-Pin ARGB / Fan PWM 4-Pin
Warranty: 6 years

CRYORIG MONSTER XX 10-Heatpipe Twin-Tower Air-Cooled Tower Cooler Unboxing

In the early days, CRYORIG launched the C7 CU copper version / graphene downdraft cooler which impressed me a lot, as well as the ultra evergreen air-cooled H7, but there is almost no new product news in the past few years. ..... Just when everyone thought that CRYORIG has lost its last breath, I read on the internet in 2024 Q4 that CRYORIG is going to launch a new product, and I believe all gamers have the same reaction as the author, they are still alive!

The MONSTER XX is labeled as the world's only dual-tower, ten-heat-pipe air-cooled cooler. I have not seen any ten-heat-pipe air-cooled coolers in the past few years, and there are a few eight-heat-pipe air-cooled cooled tower coolers, but they are rare, so if any of you can remember which one of the previous air-cooled tower coolers was also a ten-heat-pipe cooler, please leave a comment and share it with me (I'd like to play it and see what it's all about).

MONSTER XX should be the flagship air-cooled model of Crydom, right? The current price in Taiwan is about NT$3300, which is similar to the price of Owl D15, and I am looking forward to the full copper version or graphene version of MONSTER XX in the future.

∆ The boxed set is very much in the author's preference of black color with a low profile.

∆ CRYORIG Fast Rui.

∆ Inside the box it says: Faster, Stronger, Better, that's the new CRYORIG Velocity.

 

The overall dimensions of the MONSTER XX are 120 x 133 x 159 mm, and the overall height is 159 mm. It is possible to compress it within the 160 mm range, and some chassis may still need to pay attention to the height of the air-cooled towers. lian li lancool 207 Or the Fractal Design Torrent, an air-cooled optimized chassis model, for that matter.

The pre-installed two Vision F120 ARGBs have a maximum airflow and pressure of 58.47 CFM and 1.35 mmH₂O, with a maximum fan speed of 1800 RPM ± 10%, and a maximum return of around 1780 RPM when the BIOS slot is set to full speed during the actual test. The fan itself is connected to two fans via a special connector for PWM 4-Pin power supply and a 5V 3-Pin ARGB for synchronized ARGB lighting effect, and an additional male and female connector is provided for other fans to be connected. The fan itself is powered by a PWM 4-Pin connector that connects two fans to a 5V 3-Pin ARGB to synchronize the ARGB lighting effect, and provides an additional male and female connector for other fans to connect.

The height of the ∆ CRYORIG MONSTER XX air-cooled radiator is 159 mm.

∆ Vision F120 ARGB fan lighting display.

∆The dual towers are fully blacked out, and the official website states that the number of cooling fins is 86.

∆ List of fan supply cables.

 

In addition to the dual towers and dual fans, CRYORIG MONSTER XX also features ten Ø6 mm heat pipes to enhance its cooling performance, which are labeled to increase the cooling effect by 10~15%, and the TDP (Thermal Design Power) is labeled as 300W.

The heatpipe exposed on the top cover looks like it has undergone a finishing process, and the overall visual effect of the top cover is good in the author's personal opinion, but it will take time to verify whether the appearance will change in the future due to air oxidization.

∆ Ten heat pipes of Ø6 mm diameter are terminated in the top cover.

∆ The heatpipe at the bottom uses a blackened outer layer to wrap the body, and the contact surface with the processor is covered with an anti-scratch film, which you should remember to peel off.

The ∆ nickel-plated copper base (presumably) covers ten heat pipes to form a basic heat equalization, which is currently common for air-cooled towers.

 

MONSTER XX supports common consumer platforms such as Intel LGA 1851 / 1700 / 1200 / 115x, and AMD AM5 / AM4, but older or workstation platforms are not supported.

Accessories packaging is a bit similar to the old days when the packaging of the lottery, that is, you can draw small toys of the lottery do not know if you know, because the sealing paper is disposable, so it is difficult to open after the accessories are not used to collect, the author personally do not like this design, but the front is useful to mark the name of each accessory as well as the use of the text.

Included accessories are: L-shaped screwdriver, CRYORIG thermal paste, thermal paste spatula, Intel screw set, AMD screw set, mounting bracket, Intel mounting backplate.

∆ Accessories at a glance, clearly labeled but no instruction manual, and the cover sheet is disposable unfortunately.

∆ Locking the air-cooled body to the bracket does not require removing the fan, but it should be secured with a long screwdriver.

∆ Motherboard Installation Demonstration.

∆ If it is paired Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB This kind of heat sink higher memory use, the front fan will have to go to adjust the height.

 

CRYORIG MONSTER XX Thermal Performance Measurement

The CRYORIG MONSTER XX dual-tower air-cooled system was installed on a bare-bones test platform with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an ASRock Z890 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard. During the test, the fan slots were set to run at full speed in the motherboard's BIOS, and the test scenario was a closed room in Taipei, where an air-conditioning crew was about to arrive. The actual test was conducted in a closed room in Taipei at 21 °C. The ambient temperature in a normal room is difficult to control, so this is for reference only.

We used AIDA64 FPU, Cinebench R23 multi-core test to simulate the temperature data under extreme load conditions, and HWiNFO64 to collect and record the maximum temperature and power consumption of the CPU package. The thermal paste is applied in a nine-dot pattern, and then a spatula is used to smooth out the paste evenly.

Testing Platform
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (Power Delivery Profile_ASRock Extreme Mode / Intel default Mode)
Cooler: CRYORIG MONSTER XX (full speed)
Motherboard: ASRock Z890 Steel Legend WiFi (BIOS version: 2.22.AS01 [Beta])
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB 7200 MT/s 16GBx2
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition 8GB
Operating System: Windows 11 Professional 24H2
System disk: Kingston NV3 2TB
Power Supply: MONTECH TITAN PLA 1000W
Case: STREACOM BC1 Benchtable V2
Graphics driver: GeForce Game Ready 565.9

 

Since the TDP (Thermal Design Power) is 300W, I am curious to see how it will work with Intel Core Ultra 9 285K platform, so I firstly manually adjusted the Power Delivery Profile to ASRock Extreme Mode. Extreme Mode, no other settings are changed, and the rest of the settings: XMP_on, Fan_Full Speed.

Unfortunately, in ASRock Extreme Mode, the Core Ultra 9 285K, which is automatically overclocked by the motherboard, reached a maximum CPU Package temperature of 105 °C in one hour of AIDA64 FPU; the CPU Package power consumption was 242.6 W, which triggered the overheating and downclocking protection mechanism.

In the short Cinebench R23 Multi Core_1 Round multi-core rendering test, the maximum temperature of the CPU Package came to 92 °C; the power consumption of the CPU Package was 245.5 W. Though the maximum temperature recorded did not exceed 100 °C as in the AIDA64 FPU long time test, it still triggered the Although the maximum temperature recorded did not exceed 100°C as in the AIDA64 FPU long-term test, it still triggered the overheating and downclocking protection.

• CPU temperature is measured by the diode in the slot to measure the internal (core) or external (case) temperature, but there is no way to know exactly whether it is the internal or external temperature that is measured, and most monitoring software uses this item to display the CPU temperature.
• CPU Package temperature is recorded by all Digital Temperature Sensors (DTS) in the package as the average of the maximum temperature over 256 milliseconds, and is the HWiNFO64 recommended CPU temperature observation value, which is also used as a benchmark for overheating and downclocking of the processor.

Results of an hour-long AID64 FPU test in the ∆Power Delivery Profile_ASRock Extreme Mode profile.

Results of a round of Cinebench R23 Multi Core short-term stress tests under the ∆ Power Delivery Profile_ASRock Extreme Mode profile.

 

In addition, during the one-hour AID64 FPU test in the Power Delivery Profile_ASRock Extreme Mode profile, the author used the FLIR ONE PRO thermal imaging camera to observe the heat pipe temperature, because many people would say that the ten heat pipes are not useful at all, and that the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) area on the top cover of the CPU is too small to completely touch the ten heat pipes. The IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) on the top of the processor is too small to touch all ten heat pipes.

However, I have actually observed that the temperature of the heatpipes near the top of the motherboard of the MONSTER XX is higher (42.4 °C), while the temperature of the heatpipes nearer to the graphics card is lower (36.4 °C), which means the temperature difference between the heatpipes at the north and south ends of the heatpipes is about 6 °C.

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K's observation that some of the heatpipes are not in contact with the hotspot is more like the hotspot is a bit more to the north, which is the same as Thermal Grizzly's owner der8auer's statement on overclock.net, and the same as the author's previous article on the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, "The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is not in contact with the heatpipes.AMD Ryzen 9 7950X AM5 processor open-cover thermal performance testThe opposite is true for the southern part of the AM5 heating site mentioned in the report.

∆ The temperature of the north heat pipe closer to the CPU power supply slot is higher at 42.4 °C. The temperature of the heat pipe is higher at 42.4 °C.

 

Well, since the overheating protection mechanism will be triggered under the more aggressive Power Delivery Profile_ASRock Extreme Mode profile, I will go back to the default Power Delivery Profile_Intel default Mode, which is also the default profile provided by the ASRock motherboard. This is also the default mode of the ASRock motherboard, which is the profile provided by the motherboard for reference.

However, after half an hour of AIDA64 FPU testing, the maximum temperature of the CPU Package reached 105°C; the power consumption of the CPU Package was 243.4 W. Even after half an hour of testing, the overheating and downsizing protection mechanism was still triggered, so there is no need to test it for half an hour more.

No matter what kind of Power Delivery Profile is used, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K will trigger downclocking when used with MONSTER XX under high load conditions. The author switched to AIDA64 CPU which is more in line with the load of daily use to test it out, and the maximum temperature of CPU Package is 76°C; the power consumption of CPU Package is 150.2 W. The author only tested it for 15 minutes and felt that the condition is in line with the standard, then did not continue to test it out. The maximum temperature of the CPU Package was 76 °C; the power consumption of the CPU Package was 150.2 W. I only tested it for 15 minutes, but I didn't continue to test it because I thought the condition was up to the standard.

Results of a half-hour AID64 FPU test under the ∆ Power Delivery Profile_Intel default Mode profile.

Results of a 15-minute AID64 CPU test under the ∆ Power Delivery Profile_Intel default Mode profile.

 

Conclusion

CRYORIG MONSTER XX has nothing to criticize in terms of the packaging and the quality of the product itself. This is the first time I unboxed a CRYORIG product, and it is a bit of a breakthrough from my stereotypical impression of this brand in the past. However, I don't like the way the accessories are packaged in paper seals with blisters, and the first time I took out the accessories, the rest of the things were very hard to store, and there is no instruction manual on how to install the device. There are no instructions on how to install it, which may be difficult for most of the players. The author installed it directly according to his own experience, but most of the people don't have so much experience to refer to.

Vision F120 ARGB fan lighting effect is not bad looking, and there are pre-installed in the tower with cable stringing design, the entire installation process is quite worry-free and effort-saving as long as you deal with the screws, even if the author manually set the fan to run at full speed, the wind noise is not too loud, but if you replace it with a fan with a higher air volume or pressure, perhaps the cooling performance can be further improved? But if I replace it with a fan with more airflow or pressure, maybe the cooling performance can be improved.

The TDP (Thermal Design Power / Thermal Design Power) of the ten heatpipes dual tower dual fan labeled 300W, almost all aspects of the air-cooled top, so the author is quite looking forward to the effect on the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Z890 new platform, but unfortunately in the case of the motherboard automatic overclocking and processor automatic overclocking (Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3 0), it can not be suppressed in the temperature wall under the high load of the whole core. But unfortunately, with the motherboard auto overclocking and processor auto overclocking (Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0), it is not possible to suppress the temperature within the temperature wall under the high load condition of the whole core, but if it is for daily use such as playing games, CRYORIG MONSTER XX can still be used with it.