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It’s hard to say. They put out some great stuff that filled some genuine gaps in the market… then the whole thing with the one case happened. It’s very possible they’ve always been shady creeps and we just didn’t notice right away.
I bought a kraken 240 a few years ago, since it was one of, if not the only 240mm aio cooler available at the time. A genuine gap in the market.
Then I learned that its pump speed is not set by the motherboard, but via usb and a proprietary (and infamously buggy and resource hoggy) windows app. At startup it is set to a default slow pump speed, and will not speed up unless you have their application bloatware running. On linux youre just fucked.
I will not be buying NZXT again.
It’s hard to say. They put out some great stuff that filled some genuine gaps in the market… then the whole thing with the one case happened. It’s very possible they’ve always been shady creeps and we just didn’t notice right away.
I bought a kraken 240 a few years ago, since it was one of, if not the only 240mm aio cooler available at the time. A genuine gap in the market.
Then I learned that its pump speed is not set by the motherboard, but via usb and a proprietary (and infamously buggy and resource hoggy) windows app. At startup it is set to a default slow pump speed, and will not speed up unless you have their application bloatware running. On linux youre just fucked.
I will not be buying NZXT again.