Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS Radiator

I have been using this radiator for 4 yrs. Restricted flow rad but this can be fixed with a high flow pump. Right now I am using this with an EK D5 pump/res 80 in a Jonplus 100i pro. I do have 3 T30 fans at 1000rpm and it is whisper quiet. Cpu 36c idle/65c load - AMD 7950x and 30c idle/65c load - Gigabyte RTX 4090. I thought i was going to have to use two to cool it, but this radiator will cool 1400 watts on its own. There is no other competition outside of matching your build with a white or silver rad but you can always paint it. This is hands down the best 360 radiator. Nothing else compares and I have used them all except Heat killer's new rad and EK's new series of radiators but I already know they cant cool as much heat as this radiator and its been around forever. Just buy it but remember you need to have a high flow pump.

If you are after a slim radiator this can’t be beat by anyone period. Better Performance than a 360x45MM rad from another big name company. Liked it so much a canned a 480x45 rad from same other company and replaced it with HW labs GTR 420. Less space and better performance. I’ll not be buying anything but HW labs from now on. I have another 360 slim rad and 480x60 to replace. Yes they are built that well, solid as a rock and performance is better than any of the other rads I’ve tried. There are many different manufacturers sitting on my shelf of shame. Costs a little more but WELL with it from every aspect from build quite, aesthetics and most importantly....PERFORMANCE!!! One thing to keep in mind is ALL rads need to be flushed prior to installation. I’ve been though several that say “Cleaned prior to packaging”. None of them, including this one have been completely cleaned from the manufacturing process. Maybe on the outside but every single one I’ve installed, and it’s be A LOT as I not only do my own HEDT machine I do custom builds for others for a little side $$ they have all had gunk in them. Don’t laugh but my method works well. Lay Rad on back with poets facing up, get a can of Coca Cola and fill it up. Leave it sit overnight and you will wake up to green funk bubbles out. Flush for 5 mins or so with hot tap water then fill with distilled water and shake around for a rinse and let it dry out before installation. Funk free every time. You can look in through the ports and see nice shiny copper!

i realize that this is a recognized brand, but being that this is one of their thinner or lower-end product lines, i was not expecting it to perform as well as it does. i've got this mounted in the front of my chassis against three thermaltake riing intake fans with a rather large reservoir mounted to the inside of the radiator (so potentially blocking a lot of the airflow), but this radiator doesn't seem to have any issue with it. i have two mosfet blocks, a northbridge block, cpu (i7 2600k @ 4.4 GHz) and an XFX radeon rx 580 (stock clocks) all being maintained in the same loop by this one skinny little radiator. idle liquid temps into the radiator @ 31-36C (depending on time of day) idle out of the radiator 27-29C, under load into the radiator @ 39-44C, leaving the radiator under load @ 36-42C. i'm really impressed and almost a little bummed that i didn't throw some more cash at these guys because i can only imagine how well one of their GTR units performs. they will be getting more of my business without a doubt.

During normal computer usage (email/browsing/etc) GPU+CPU temps idle between upper 20s and mid 30s. During light gaming (eg gamecube games under dolphin), GPU temp peaks around ~35 and CPU peaks around 45C During stress testing using Unreal's Heaven benchmark, or playing demanding games like Bioshock Infinity at full settings at 2K res, temps of CPU + CPU might jump to around ~60C or so but not go beyond that. My specs: i7-8700k, not overclocked yet evga geforce gtx 1080 ti ftw3 GTS nemesis 360 (this rad) EK blocks for CPU and GPU (full cover) 3 EK Vardar EVO 120s fans in pull configuration on the rad. Fan speeds locked around 400 RPM and they don't auto increase on load. Fractal Design Define S, with rad mounted on top I could likely get better temps if I went with different fans or had them sped up higher or did push-pull configuration instead of just pull, but I like barely being able to hear my rig. It's a good rad.

This slim radiator has insane cooling... Crammed it in the front of my case and my fans don't even run when I'm not under load. Paired with BeQuiet! LightWings... Even running benchmarks, I don't get additional cooling performance beyond ~50% fan speed!!

Just received the radiator and as the title says it has a dent in the top near the ports. Their is no marks on the box so it didn't happen in transit. So it came from the manufacturer like that NOT the reseller. For me as long as it doesn't leak it doesn't effect me because I won't even see it once it's in the case and it will take longer to send it back to get a replacement than it's worth I'll just cover the copper coloring with paint. I have attached photos of the box and the rad. Performance PC did an amazing job double boxing the package to ensure it wasn't damaged so again this was at no fault to the seller. Radiator is extremely thin at overall thickness of 29.8-29.9mm so if you need a low profile rad like I needed this should work, the connector neck sticks out about 2.5mm's further then the actual rad. The rad comes with two different length screws a 30mm and a 6-7mm. Build quality of the rad itself looks and feels great it feels like a powder coating type covering. It has very light corrosion inside the rad itself but nothing a little work can't fix. Once I get distilled water to check if it leaks I'll update the review. Update: dent isn't causing it to leak and running a little distilled water and vinegar removed everything from the inside updated stars still left one off since it did come with a dent from the manufacturer.

To start off, Hardware Labs makes, generally, the top radiators in the game. These are excellent products at excellent prices. The negative here is that, while nearly every other product in the PC customization scene uses M2 screws, including other water cooling manufacturers like EK and XSPC and Aquacomputer and Watercool. Hardware Labs radiators use M4 screws. And unfortunately, only come with 12 per radiator, so you’d better get a shitload of screws somewhere else.

I use these in all my various PC builds. They have never let me down and always look great.