darkFlash TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6/RADIANT DC 360 All-in-One Watercooling Unboxing Test

darkFlash has been launching all-in-one water cooling related products in the past, such as DX-360 Ver2, TR360 and so on, and now they are launching two new models, DC 360 and DX 360 Ver2.6 and improved versions. Both new water coolers are available in 240/360mm specifications and support the latest LGA 1700/AM5 processor footers. Both watercoolers also come with ARGB watercooler and fan lighting effects that can be set, and a three-year warranty against non-human damage and leakage. Although it is a few years less compared to the big players, darkFlash is using a lower price to attract consumers.

darkFlash TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 All-in-one water cooling specification:
Cold head size: 78.5 x 70 x 54mm
Cold row size: 394 x 120 x 27mm
Cold tube length: 450mm
Cold head speed: 2700±10%RPM
Fan size: 120*120*25mm
Fan Speed: 800-1800RPM
Fan airflow: 51CFM±10%
Wind pressure: 1.5mm-H2O(Max.)
Noise level: 32dBA±10%
Supported pins: Intel: LGA115x / 1200 / 1700 / 20xx(v3), AMD: AM5 / AM4 / AM3(+) / AM2(+) / FM2(+)

darkFlash RADIANT DC 360 All-in-one water-cooled specification:
Cold head size: 71 x 66.5 x 45mm
Cold row size: 394 x 120 x 27mm
Cold tube length: 450mm
Cold head speed: 3200±10%RPM
Fan size: 120*120*25mm
Fan Speed: 800-2000±10% RPM
Fan airflow: 84.2CFM
Wind pressure: 2.54mm-H2O
Noise level: 16.0-30.15dBA
Supported pins: Intel: LGA115x / 12xx / 17xx / 20xx(v3), AMD: AM5 / AM4 / AM3(+) / AM2(+) / FM2 / FM1

darkFlash TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 All-in-one water-cooled case

Let's start with the TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 Iceman All-in-One Water Cooler. The DX 360 supports the latest PC platforms, Intel 12th/13th LGA 1700 and AMD Ryzen 7000 AM5 platforms, and the All-in-One Water Cooler features ARGB lighting effects on the water cooling fan and water cooling head. Through 5V 3-Pin After the cable is connected to the motherboard, the lighting can be controlled by the software of four motherboard manufacturers. The top right corner of the box indicates that it supports the lighting control software of four major motherboard manufacturers, including MSI, ASRock, GIGABYTE, and ASUS.

∆ TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 Box front.


∆Basic product features are labeled on the back of the box.

 

Gamers may not be familiar with darkFlash's all-in-one water-cooling products, and the author has only heard about it and not actually touched it before this unboxing. In addition to the customized carton box used to place the water-cooling body inside the box, the water-cooling body is also wrapped in plastic bags, kraft cartons, and thin pearl cotton, which achieves a three-layer transportation protection that reduces the damage in the process of transportation, but the disadvantage is that the dismantling takes a little bit of time and is not environmentally friendly. The disadvantage is that it takes time to dismantle the water cooler and it is not very environmentally friendly.

∆ Three layers of protection wrap around the one-piece water-cooled body.

 

During the warranty period, gamers should not open and fill the water by themselves, as it may cause artificial damage and loss of warranty.


∆ DX 360 Ver2.6 water-cooled body at a glance.


∆ Close-up of the water-cooled pipe and water-cooled drain interface on the outer layer of the braided cable.

 

The most special place of this water-cooling is the water-cooling head equipped with mirror infinite mirror decorative piece, but not yet energized can only clearly see the mirror effect, infinite mirror special pattern will only be more obvious after the boot, water-cooling head mirror in the factory pre-screened to avoid scratching the scratch protection film, after the installation of the machine is recommended to remove in order to have a better visual effect, but the protection sticker is more difficult to tear the gamers may have to be more patient.

The 360° rotatable infinite reflection water cooling head can be adjusted to the logo direction after installation to provide perfect relief for people with OCD. The water cooling head and water cooling tubes are fixed at 90 degrees on the side, so that the angle of the water cooling tubes can be adjusted significantly according to the actual installation conditions, and the water cooling head has a guiding aperture ring decorating the side of the water cooling head.

∆ Infinite Reflective Mirror Watercooler, 360° rotatable watercooler to adjust the angle of darkFlash's logo.

∆ Water-cooled pipe joints and guide ring halo.

 

The square contact surface is made of a copper base material with a laminated processor. The thermal base is not pre-coated with thermal paste, so gamers will need to use the paste included in the kit to apply it when installing the device, and the surface of the thermal base is pre-pasted with a scratch-resistant clear plastic film, so remember to remove it before applying the thermal paste!

∆ Pure copper bottom contact surface.

 

The water-cooling head of the DX 360 Ver2.6 extends two power supply and connecting cables, the common 5V 3-Pin ARGB cable with one male and one female, which can be connected to the ARGB slot on the motherboard for synchronization of the lights, and can also be connected to other ARGB devices for synchronization of the whole system, while the power supply has a 3-Pin water-cooling head PUMP power supply, and the special one is the SATA power supply and the RESET SW cable. The power supply has a 3-Pin water-cooling head PUMP power supply, a special SATA power supply and a RESET SW cable.

If you do not have enough ARGB slots on your motherboard, you can use the RESET SW button on the front I/O of the chassis to control the lights. If you want to use the RESET SW control mode to set up the light calibration, you need to connect an additional SATA power supply, and it is important to note that if the water-cooler is installed in the ARGB slot on the motherboard, the SATA power supply does not need to be connected.


∆ The water cooler head's 5V 3-Pin ARGB serial cable is powered with SATA.

∆ RESET SW interface and water-cooled PUMP power supply.


∆ Official Schematic.

 

The DX 360 Ver2.6 is equipped with three 12cm water-cooled exhaust fans, with fan speeds ranging from 800~1800RPM to provide an airflow of 51CFM±10% and an air pressure of 1.5mm-H2O, and is powered by a 4-Pin PWM. Anti-vibration rubber pads have been pre-pasted on the corners of both sides of the fan to minimize resonance during PC operation.

There is also an infinite reflective mirror design at the center of the fan's rotor, which not only provides sufficient cooling performance but also visual effect, the fan itself also has a 5V 3-Pin ARGB with one male and one female cable, and is powered by a 4-Pin PWM that can be adjusted through the motherboard to adjust the speed of the fan's cranking.


∆ All-white water-cooled exhaust fan.


∆ ARGB serialized wire and PWM power supply.

 

Accessories include three sets of long and short fan screws, three PWM interface fan hubs, 1g of thermal paste, and an AMD/Intel snap-on kit. The Intel snap-on backplate uses a snap-on stage to adjust the position of the locking holes, so you'll need to fiddle around with it a bit.

∆ Three sets of fan long and short screws.


∆ Three PWM fan interface hubs.


∆ 1g capacity cooling cream, the texture is a bit thin and watery, do not squeeze too vigorously.

∆ AMD fastener set.

∆ Intel Retainer Set.

∆ Stage-type adjustable foot lock hole.

 

Then the actual power on the machine to show everyone DX 360 Ver2.6 infinite mirror effect, after the installation of the entire texture of the explosion to the price of 3700 yuan is very surprising it.

∆ DX 360 Ver2.6 Actual lighting effect.

∆ Water-cooled head with unlimited reflection effect.

∆ Fan axis effect.

 

darkFlash TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 Thermal Performance Test

A few days ago anotherUnboxing Review by Du FuWe have already brought you the unboxing of the AMD platform, and today I will bring you the performance of these two water coolers on the Intel Core i9-13900K platform. For the thermal performance test, we used Intel's 13th generation platform, which consists of the i9-13900K with 8 P-Cores, 16 E-Cores, and 24 cores and 32 threads, and MSI's MPG Z790 CARBON WIFI to build a barebones test platform. MPG Z790 CARBON WIFI is used to build the bare test platform to see how the cooling performance of DX 360 Ver2.6 all-in-one water-cooled full-speed setup performs. The test software we use is AIDA64 CPU, R23 multi-core test to simulate the temperature data under the limit state, and we will also use Fire strike in 3D Mark to simulate the game running condition, and HWiNN to collect the data. We also use 3D Mark's Fire strike to simulate the game running condition, and HWiNFO64 to collect and record the maximum temperature of the CPU Packge for data collection.

I believe we all know very well the high heating capacity of i9-13900K, basically 360mm all-in-one water cooling in AIDA64 FPU and R23 multi-core project is basically a hundred degrees, before the test, the author will be the motherboard BIOS first within thepower wastageThe limitations and the upper limit of temperature have been removed, although this cannot be used as a basis for daily use, but let's see where the upper limit of heat dissipation of this water-cooling set is.

Testing Platform
Processor: Intel Core i9-13900K
Cooler: darkFlash TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z790 CARBON WIFI
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade RGB 6000mt/s 16GBx2
Display Card: MSI GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC
Power : Montech Century 850W Gold

 

The first is the AIDA64 CPU test, which peaked at 84°C after 15 minutes. power wastageThe maximum is around 205W, here you may wonder why we didn't test the FPU item? It's because the FPU results in this test are the same as those of the R23, so I didn't take any screenshots because I didn't want to take up too much space.


∆ AIDA64 CPU test project.

 

Gaming scenarios were tested with the 3D Mark Fire strike, which is more heavily utilized by the processor, and the maximum temperature was 60°C using the built-in monitoring log.


∆ Fire strike test item.

 

The Intel i9-13900K scored 41236pts for multi-core in R23, with a maximum temperature of 111°C and a maximum power consumption of around 353W. The most common processor score test is CINEBENCH R23, which is often used to evaluate the processor's 3D rendering and graphic performance.


∆ CINEBENCH R23.

 

darkFlash RADIANT DC 360 All-in-One Watercooler Unboxing

darkFlash also launched a more affordable, but also with the basic ARGB light school RADIANT DC 360 Waterwalker all-in-one water cooling, also available in 240/360mm two specifications, support for the latest LGA 1700/AM5 processor foot mount, and provide three years of non-human damage leakage of the whole machine warranty, support for MSI, ASRock, MSI, ASRock, GIGABYTE, ASUS, and other four major motherboard manufacturers to support the lighting control software.


∆ RADIANT DC 360 Boxed front.

∆Basic product features are labeled on the back of the box.

 

The RADIANT DC 360 that I got my hands on is also an all-white model. When it was shipped from the factory, darkFlash pre-installed the fan on the water-cooling exhaust in the top-mounted water-cooling direction that most people use, which saves some time during the installation process.


∆ The water-cooled body is wrapped in a plastic bag and pearl cotton.


∆ Pre-lock the water-cooled exhaust fan.

 

The water-cooling head uses a diamond-shaped swirl with the darkFlash logo pattern, and the ARGB lighting will shine through the pattern on the top cover. However, the water-cooling head's pattern is not as adjustable as that of the DX 360 Ver2.6, so OCD gamers will need to simulate the mounting method inside the chassis to find out the most suitable mounting method and the direction of the water-cooling tubes before installing the system.

The power supply and connection cables from the water-cooling head are the same as the DX 360 Ver2.6, there are 5V 3-Pin ARGB male and female cables, which can be connected to the ARGB slots on the motherboard for synchronization of the lights, and can also be connected to other ARGB devices for synchronization of the whole system, and the power supply part has a 3-Pin water-cooling head PUMP power supply and a SATA power supply and a RESET SW cable, so I won't go into details since they are the same. The power supply section has a 3-Pin water-cooling head PUMP power supply, as well as a SATA power supply and a RESET SW cable, so I won't go into details here since they are all the same thing.


∆The water-cooling head pattern cannot be adjusted in angle, so the direction of the pipes should be arranged before installation.


∆Water-cooled head power supply and ARGB cables, etc.

 

The same square contact surface is made of copper, which is a little bit smaller than the DX 360 Ver2.6. The heat sink is not pre-coated with thermal paste, so gamers will need to use the included thermal paste to apply it when installing the device, and the surface of the heat sink is pre-pasted with a scratch-resistant clear plastic film, which you should remember to remove before applying the thermal paste!


∆ Copper bottom contact surface.


∆This is the author's deliberate misrepresentation to you all, definitely not me forgetting again 🙂 Really! Trust me on this one...

 

The three pre-installed 12cm ARGB fans spin at 800~2000RPM, delivering 84.2CFM airflow and 2.54mm-H2O air pressure, and are powered by a 4-Pin PWM, with anti-vibration rubber pads pre-installed at the corners of both sides of the fan.

The side of the fan is engraved with an indication of the direction of airflow, and the fan is also provided with ARGB cables for easy cable routing, as well as a 4-Pin PWM for power supply and speed adjustment.


Close-up of the ∆ pre-installed fan.


Close-up of the side of the ∆ fan and water-cooling exhaust.


∆ ARGB serialized wire and PWM power supply.

 

The white water-cooling manifolds are also equipped with factory-filled holes. The high-toughness FEP water-cooling tubes provide sufficient durability, and the extra braided cable wrapped around the tubes increases the durability and appearance of the integrated water-cooling.


∆ Water-cooled tubes and water-cooled rows close-up.

 

The DC 360 has the same accessories as the DX 360 Ver2.6, including three sets of short fan screws, three PWM interface fan hubs, 1g of thermal grease, and AMD/Intel grommets. However, it should be noted that the grommets of the two water coolers are not interchangeable, so gamers should not be lazy if they have purchased both models.


∆ DC 360 Accessories at a Glance.


∆ Intel and AMD composite snap-on backplanes.

 

The appearance of the RADIANT DC 360 is a bit more plain, but there is a nice visual effect emanating from the fan and water-cooling head pattern, but it's a pity that the water-cooling head can't be adjusted to the direction of the water-cooling head which is rather embarrassing.


∆ DC 360 energizing effect.


Close-up of the ∆ water cooler.

 

darkFlash RADIANT DC 360 Thermal Performance Test

Testing Platform
Processor: Intel Core i9-13900K
Cooler: darkFlash RADIANT DC 360
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z790 CARBON WIFI
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade RGB 6000mt/s 16GBx2
Display Card: MSI GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC
Power : Montech Century 850W Gold

 

Firstly, the AIDA64 CPU was tested for 15 minutes and the maximum temperature was 93°C and the maximum power consumption was around 213W. Although the temperature is a bit higher, it is still a bit higher than the AIDA64 CPU.power wastageIt's also a little bit more than DX 360 Ver2.6.


∆ AIDA64 CPU test project.

 

Gaming scenarios were tested with the more processor-heavy 3D Mark Fire strike, and the maximum temperature of 58°C was recorded using the built-in monitor.


∆ Fire strike test item.

 

CINEBENCH R23, a common processor score test, is often used to evaluate the 3D rendering and graphics performance of the processor itself. Developed by MAXON based on Cinema 4D, the Intel i9-13900K scored 39,443 pts for multi-core in R23, with a maximum temperature of 112°C. The Intel i9-13900K scored 39443 pts for multi-core in R23, and 112°C for maximum temperature. power wastageThe maximum is about 354W.


∆ CINEBENCH R23.

Conclusion

darkFlash is launching two new models of TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 and RADIANT DC 360 in one go. Both water coolers are available in 240mm and 360mm with black and white color options. The white TWISTER DX 360 Ver2.6 and RADIANT DC 360 are now available for purchase, and according to the official website, they are priced at NT$3,700 and NT$2,790 respectively, which is quite affordable for a 360mm all-in-one watercooler.

The hands-on testing of the cooling performance of the two water coolers on the 13900K, in the load higher power consumption will be more than 350 above the R23 and AIDA64 FPU test temperature exceeded one hundred degrees, in front of the thirteenth generation of i9 is still the cooler masses equal a, and in the lower load and game scenario simulation test can be suppressed in the 13900K in the one hundred degrees below, therefore, in daily use and game play, the 13900K is still able to cope with the situation. Therefore, in daily use and game play, the 13900K can still cope without additional overclocking.