Amazon.com: Customer reviews: LEPA AquaChanger 240mm Intel/AMD High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler, LPWAC240-HF

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015

Considered this cooler or the Corsair H100i. The main difference between the 2 is the price tag (LEPA is $80, Corsair is $110). I went with my gut and was not let down. My friend has the H100i so we compared the two. Overall they weren't that much different but we both agreed that LEPA looked cooler but was a bit more bulky. Also the fans for the LEPA are much louder than Corsair's, so I run my fans at a constant 40% (just play around with the fans in the bios/uefi to get them quiet). In actual tests, my CPU was an average 1 degree cooler than my friend's when burning it. However, this may not be a fair comparison as we both have different CPU's. Here is a pro/con list:
Pro:
- Looks cool (opinion)
- Includes lots of tools and parts for many CPU's, also easy to understand instructions
- Well packaged
- Quality feel and build, most of it is metal
- Water cooling tubes seems to be extremely high grade (but are thicker because of this)
- Great price ($80 ain't bad for a dual radiator cooler)
Cons:
- Bulky (thicker tubes, radiator, harder to install than the H100i in tight spaces)
- Fans are loud (change the power being delivered to them, about 40% is barely audible, above 70% is ridiculous)
-Some of the screws look the same and therefore I had to try some of them before I actually figured out which was which (instructions aren't clear)

The verdict:
Overall, if you are looking at a water cooler and you trying to be cautious with money, this one will not let you down. Though it is bulky and not as easy to install as others, it isn't a huge hassle. And after it is installed and you limit the fans, you are good to go. I highly recommend this product to anyone in need of a water cooler!

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Joao H. Machado

Worth every penny!

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017

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I installed the LEPA AquaChanger 240mm on my AMD FX-9590 CPU and could not be happier. The difference in performance, noise level is pretty amazing! The PWM fans working in tandem with a Motherboard that supports PWM is the only way to go. Average CPU temp is down by 25deg C! Fans are quiet and strong... I used to run my old Thermaltake dual fan beast at 1500 RPM just for normal operation, now the Motherboard takes care of adjusting the fan speed and I have yet to see it over 1200 RPM under hard load! Worth the money.

The kit is complete, the instructions were a little lacking and the plastic spacers that hold the rear bracket could be a little more snug, but once installed, it works perfect!

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Deven Dixon

Solid cooler but not really for overclocking 2011v3. not with top end air coolers within a 10-15$ dollar difference

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2015

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Good cooler however not really suitable for overclocking 2011 v3 at the price point and the competition of top end air coolers that are right within the 10 dollar range of cooler perform better. albeit take up more space and are probably noiser

at 1.250 volts on full power 44 cpu ratio [4.4 ghz] and 4 case fans on full power i was still hitting 90 degres. it would spike to that for a few minutes and then climb back down to 65-75 degrees.

if you are going to overclock a 4 core should be fine. if you are going to do a moderate overclock maybe a few megahertz on a 6 core should be ok but pushing past 1.125 volts it cant discharge the heat fast/consistently enough to be worth it in this price range with competition. i didn''t notice any pump noise....maybe it needed to pump faster. that could explain why it would spike and then come back down. unknown

again good cooler but it's not really for overclocking a 6 core...it proved too much for it to handle

the parent company of LEPA is enermax i believe...or maybe i'm saying that the other way around....but they both make good things so it's not a knock on the provider.

just be wary trying to overclock a 6 core 2011v3. hmm... amd has 6 and 8 cores and they run much hotter....i wouldn't put this on an amd if you ask me.

if it had been really noisy, not that it wasn't noisy already, but brought the temperature down more i would have kept it. but nay it did not.

i'm not comfortable hitting 80 degrees let alone 90 degrees, and room temperature is 73 degrees farenheit.

was going to upload the screen shots but it was a pain.

oh i should mention i also was overclocking my gtx970 it was at 62 degrees. but turning it off didn't make much a difference

oh and again my opinion is because a top end air cooler is not much more....

EDIT:

forgot to mention i used artic silver 5 thermal paste. a few words on the paste. i used the line method, why? on artic silver website that is instructed for 2011v3 because the heat spreader is a little larger. even with the breakin period, 300-400 hours, it would max drop the temps 3 or 4 degrees but realistically 1 or 2. i checked the thermal paste to see if i had proper application and it was dead on. meh forgot to take the picture.

installed the fans on the cooler as directions said for lepa as well and used stock cooler. case fans were Fractal Design Dynamic GP-14 Black 140mm Case Fan. 4 of them total. 3 were intake 1 was outake on rear of case next to watercooler

shoulda took a picture of that too...and my cable management was beast.

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David F.

Highly Recommend, do not hesitate

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016

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I was skeptical at first that i could fit this in my case, I had a box ready to return it. But wow, i managed to finagle this awesome lil thing into a less than 10' x 10' x 10' area by mounting it with the label upside down on the pump. Amazingly well built product, I spent 20ish minutes when I first took it out of the box just stretching it around seeing how flexible it was, because i read one bad review about receiving a leaking unit. While the pipes are fairly rigid, the mounting brackets are very sturdy, and the entire unit is suprisingly giving when u need it to be. It took a bit of elbow grease to get it mounted just right but wow, it looks amazing, it works amazing (down 20C from my old heatsink+fan), and its suprisingly dexterous. I have less than a half inch of space between the radiator and the pump just looking directly into my case and it still somehow fits in there and works perfectly (havent been able to get it above 44C with an I5-6600k OCed to 4.2GH.)

I was also happy to find that it came with additional screws to accomodate an existing fan in the push pull config. So it comes with the push fan, and if u already have a 120mm mounted fan (an exit fan, which is the pull) all u have to do is change the screws out to mount it to the existing fan and your good to go!

The only problem i had is that it comes with a lot of extra paraphernalia i.e. mounting screws and whatnot, but is that really a downside?

I highly recommend this product, and if u have doubts about spacing, just go for it, u cant end up with less space than I have, and mine still works perfectly. 5 star product with 5 star design and 5 star materials.

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Daniel

Works like a charm!

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2016

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* * * * * UPDATE * * * * *
What good is it if the pump dies within a year? I only had this thing for 11 months before it quit on me. Not only that, but this thing started dying several months ago (around the 7 month mark), and my temps were regularly climbing into the 70s and above. At the 10 month mark, I was experiencing 80s and thermal shutdown under less than full loads. When it finally gave out completely this month, I couldn't even keep it booted for longer than a few seconds before automatic trip shutdown.

Garbage.

Since this Lepa broke, I switched to a Noctua NH-D15 (an air cooled heatsink), and that has been providing the same OR BETTER cooling performance than the Lepa, plus the Noctua is much quieter. I'm happy with the Noctua. Don't buy the Lepa.

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I've been running an air cooled AMD FX 8320 8-core processor on an ASUS M5A99X EVO r2.0 at its power saving settings pretty much since I bought them several years ago. I couldn't run it at a higher setting because it would overheat.

My regular temps with the fan and heatsink combo were typically 38 C at idle (power saving setting) to the mid-40s under load. At the higher settings, my temps jumped to 55 C at idle well into the high 60s. And the noise was deafening with all my fans at full throttle.

After installing this bad boy, my idle temps dropped to around 30 C at the higher stock settings (no OC yet). That's about 25 C cooler! Under load, my temps have not climbed higher than 46 C, but they're usually in the lower 40s now. This thing WORKS! Installation was not terribly difficult, but because of my case shape (a Cooler Master Centurion 5), I had to configure the installation with the fan attached to the case first in a pull orientation. Together with my NZXT 200mm case fan (modded to fit by tracing and then Dremeling the polycarbonate window on my case), the cooling on my system has never been better. I left it on high all night to check the temps in the morning, and it's holding steady at 30 C. I have not benchmarked anything yet, as I'm waiting for 2 video cards (MSI 390 8GB in CrossfireX), some extra memory, and a new PSU to arrive.

Installation was not as difficult as I was expecting from the reviews. It was actually fairly easy. The only "hard part" was having the 4 screws on the backplate stay on long enough to put the motherboard in its place in the case without them sliding out. This was solved by wrapping some tape on the threads of the inserted backplate screws to prevent them from sliding through the plastic spacers and out the back. Once mounted, they stayed put. I installed it easily without needing another's help.

The installation instructions show the radiator installed to the back wall of the case first. So with my setup, I had to screw the fan to the radiator and THEN to my case. Then, after attaching it on my case, I installed my old case fan on the other (inboard) side of the radiator in a push configuration, effectively sandwiching the radiator in between two fans blowing air out of the case.

So my steps for installation were:
• Remove motherboard from case and remove the old cooler and mount (clean the cpu of the old thermal grease)
• Unbox everything for the Lepa.
• Prepare and install the backplate according to instructions (silver screws with flat backs--without the Phillips head). Apply tape (not included) to the threads of the backplate screws to hold them in place.
• Attach the fan to the radiator--pull configuration.
• Attach fan and radiator to the case--I needed my old case fan screws for this as I was not provided any of the right size by Lepa.
• Apply thermal grease. Careful, there's only barely enough to cover the cpu. I used the bottom of the plastic bubble packaging the grease tube came in as a spreader.
• Mount the motherboard in the case.
• Remove the user-applied holding tape on the screws (my unique step--skip this if you didn't do it).
• Prepare the cooling block/pump by installing the brackets on it as shown in the instructions; there are 2 sets, 1 set for Intel and 1 set for AMD. The Intel set flares out while the AMD set bends toward itself. Be sure you have the right set AND that they are installed the correct side up.
• Remove protective film from cooling block and attach cooling block to motherboard.
• Attach the old case fan to the radiator in the same directional orientation as the Lepa one.
• You're done! Plug everything in and boot 'er up! I plugged the pump (in the cooling block) into my CPU_OPT port and the radiator fan into the CPU_FAN port. Everything else (all my other case fans) went into various case fan ports.

I'm rating 5 stars because the unit is well built, installed easily, and worked without need for adjustments from the very first boot. The tubes are flexible enough to be mounted easily, but rigid enough that I feel assured they will not leak. I kept them fairly straight and undisturbed during install, and I recommend you do the same. Plus, unlike what others have said, my cooling block has the logo right side up. Maybe they're not installing it right? Great product. Happy customer. Now I can FINALLY use my cpu as it was intended!

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I've had this for about a month and I'm still happy with it. After installing my two GPUs in CrossfireX and the new PSU (and considering this is a hot summer in southern California), I'm seeing temps of around 50-52 C under load while running my 3.7GHz processor overclocked at 4.0GHz. The highest temps I've seen after some intense SW Battlefront gaming at full ultra settings reached 58 C, but so far, I have not hit 60 C on my cpu with the LEPA.

At idle, my temps are around 36-38 C or less. Not bad for the middle of summer with TWO big GPUs dumping enormous amounts of heat into my mid-tower case. My next upgrade is to a full-tower case (Nanoxia Deep Silence 5). Also considering replacing each stock sink/fan combo on my GPUs to a closed-loop system. Will post again if temps drop with the larger case and improved airflow and spacing.

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Ernman

Works great - at first...read updated review

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016

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this seems to be a great product. installed and dropped my cpu temp by a good 10-15 degrees across the board. used to run about 60 degrees C, under heavy loads. now about 45-50. one thing to note...make sure you plug the fan connector into a board connector that doesn't have fan control (don't use the cpu header). you want the cooling fan to run at max speed all the time otherwise it won't be as effective.

is being used with a lga 2011 cpu and mobo so installation was super easy. if u have an amd system, it will be a bit more tedious. one thing that i took a star away for was that they didn't include the right screws to attach the brackets to the cooler to mount on the board...that is sloppy QC. Fortunately, i have tons of screws from hundreds of builds so i had them handy. they are the screws that are used in hard drives.

now it is just a matter to see how long it actually lasts.

update feb 2016. fan is now noisy. and for some reason, it randomly lets the cpu temp rise uncontrollably to as much as 80 C. have to shut down the computer..wait...restart and is ok. i replaced with a typical intel type cooler and the problem went away. would not recommend...sorry

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MastaX

Great Cooler, Best price to performance ratio ever.

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2015

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Let me introduce you to the LEPA Aquachanger a 240mm liquid cooler that comes in at just $84. This is a CPU cooler that came out in november of 2014 and is Enermax's parent company, the LEPA Aquachanger 240 is the revision of the already popular Enermax Liqtech 240 which is also a AIO cpu liquid cooler.
System Specs:

Motherboard: MSI Z97s SLI PLUS
CPU: i5 4670k @ 4.4ghz at 1.212V
RAM: 8GB HyperX Fury 1600mhz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970
HDD: 1x120gb ssd, 1x1TB HDD
PSU: Corsair GS800
CASE: NZXT Phantom 410
Box Contents: http://imgur.com/a/6T7Gh [1]

The package contains all the standard mounting hardware and 2x 120mm included LEPA branded fans. And of course the cooler itself.
Installation: http://imgur.com/a/H4nn9 [2]

Installing the AquaChanger 240 is pretty easy and if you've ever installed a water cooler before then the AquaChanger 240 won't hold any surprises. In fact, I find the mounting system LEPA uses for this unit to be exceedingly well designed. It was very straightforward and simple to use for even a novice user.
Appearance: http://imgur.com/a/H4nn9 [RES ignored duplicate link] [3]

The LEPA AquaChanger isnt as flashy as some of the liquid coolers on the market, but it does feature a nice red LED to let you know the pump is working. The black tubes are not textured giving it a simple but clean look to any setup. The radiator is nothing special but it is usually out of sight in most rigs.
Performance

before we get to the benchmarks i should mention i have the cooler running in a pull config and the ambient air temperature is 72F. The case is the NZXT Phantom 410 with 2x 120mm front fans and one 120mm rear at max RPM from the fan controller. The thermal paste used was arctic silver 5. The CPU was then stress tested for aproximately 30 minutes using HeavyLoad v3.3. In conclusion the maximum recorded temperature was 63C, very impressive for a overclock of 4.4ghz. the idle temperatures were in the mid to low 30C range.
Build Quality

The pump itself is made from what appears to be hard plastic and metal, the contact point itself is made entirely from a protruding copper base for good heat transfer. The tubes are very rigid and will not kink a all under any type of circumstance. The radiator felt very nice with fins that are as sturdy as a regular air cooler heatsink. Running your hand over the fins will not bend them. Overall we have to hand it to LEPA for a great radiator design.
NOISE

The pump itself contains a ceramic bearing to reduce noise. I could not physically hear the pump running, even when benchmarking the CPU. the only indication of it working was a very small vibration. Which can only be felt when putting your hand directly on the pump itself. Overall you will never have to worry about the pump making any sound
Conclusion

I have been using the cooler for about a week and have ran into no issues. The pump looks very nice and functions as well as the largely popular Noctua dh-14. For $84 you cant beat the price to performance ratio, this is a rock solid deal and a great offering from the LEPA brand.

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Mike Lindgren

I bought this for my first build in like 10 years and I wanted to make it a ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2016

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I bought this for my first build in like 10 years and I wanted to make it a good one. I bought this on sale and I saw some pretty good reviews so I figured I would give it a chance over the major brands out there. About a month into the build (I'm writing this review from it) and the standard temps I'm getting is between 29-40C when I'm running a bunch of tabs in chrome with sports streaming and I live upstairs where the heat gathers naturally using stock fans from the case. The only game I have and have played so far is WOW and the temps stay within what I listed.

Installation wasn't too bad. Follow the directions in the manual and it's what you would expect during any install. Figure out where you're going to mount the radiator and have the hose reach the processor, put some brackets and screws in, tighten it up a little and you're done. It took me about an hour and a half but like I said, this is my first build in 10 years and I've never even seen these things in person before. And I changed my mind on where I wanted it halfway through so that took up some time. Overall, easy install, cools my processor and it looks pretty good.

My build:
-Asus Maximus Extreme VIII
-Intel i7 6700k
-MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB video card
-G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2X8GB) RAM
-Lepa AquaChanger 120 cooling unit
-LG 29UM68-P Monitor
-Silicon Power 240 GB SSD
-Toshiba 4TB 7200 RPM HDD
-Phanteks Enthoo Pro Series Case
-LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Rewriter

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Wednesday Addams

Excellent Little Cooler! Fits on 10 year old case, too!

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016

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Purchased this cooler because my home server, with an AMD A10-7800 running the stock cooler, was running a bit warmer than I would have liked.
At idle, temps were ... OK, I guess. There was about 65C thermal margin (AMD CPUs don't report actual temps, just the "thermal margin" ... how much you need before it overheats and scales back). However, under any kind of load, the margin would quickly deteriorate, even overheating in less than 5 minutes running Prime95. Not good. And since all that heat from the CPU wound up being blown into the room, it did make my home office, where this machine is, a little warmer.
The case for this particular machine is about 10 years old or so and certainly wasn't designed for liquid cooling. However, it did have a 120mm exhaust fan behind the CPU ... perfect for this little cooler. Installation was easy enough. I did not use the paste that they supplied as I have a tube of Noctua NT-H1 handy.
After installing, idle temps had 70+ degrees thermal margin (limit that it reports) ... so that's a 5+ degree drop. More impressive, however, was the temperature under load ... even after running Prime95 for a good solid 30 minutes, I still had about 50 degrees thermal margin. Quite impressive. Also, once I stopped Prime95, temps returned to within 3 degrees of idle in less than a minute.
It is also nearly silent ... unless the fan is cranked up to 100%. However, this won't happen until the CPU nears its thermal margin and that doesn't look very likely. So far in testing, the fan hasn't been more than 60%.
Overall, extremely pleased with the results and the performance. Not only that, but the ambient temp in my home office also seems to have dropped a degree or two, at least so far.
There are only two issues I have with this cooler.
1) I would have preferred to have the fan controlled by the pump, rather than the motherboard connector (my Corsair liquid cooler on my main desktop is designed this way). That way the fan speed would alter with the temperature of the liquid rather than the temp of the processor.
2) I was also a little dismayed that the directions suggested that some motherboards may not supply enough power via the fan headers to run the pump ... if that's a concern, why doesn't the pump use an alternate power source to make sure that there's enough power? And does the pump speed change based on the temperature of the CPU if it's connected to the fan header? (it should). This wasn't clear in the instructions and I didn't find any details on this online.

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Sourdo

This is the ONE!

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016

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This is my third attempt at buying a closed loop liquid cooling system. The first one(Cooler Master Seidon 120M) failed, twice. It was not cost effective to send the second one back so I ate it money wise and kept the fans. The second try(Cooler Master Seidon 120V) , while it worked well, the whine from the pump was truly obnoxious and it too is sitting useless in a box. When I upgraded to the AMD FX-8350 overclocked to 4.3Gh@1.3v things start to get hot fast. Sooooo when I stumbled across this new Lepa Aqua cooler with the glowing reviews I thought I'd give it a shot.

I was not disappointed this time. I have no real cons but for the installation has a minor issue noted below and the not so quiet fan. Pros are a low noise pump, and once I ditched the Lepa fan for two Noctua fans in a push/pull system I now have a nice quiet and cool system. cpu stays below 60C while playing Fallout 4. Idles along about 28C. I could turn up the fans and get better cooling but low noise is what I'm after. The supplied fan can spin up very fast and is very loud versus the Noctua fans and no difference in cooling but a HUGE difference in noise.

I've had this cooler now since November and so far it's been working well and I am quite happy with this setup. It looks nice too, though it's a tight fit with the hoses on the cpu plate against the ram, but it just fits ok.

Mounting is a bit tricky too. When installing the backplate there is nothing to hold the long screws into the little plastic barrels and keeping those in place long enough to screw everything together. My solution was to cut a tiny piece of electrical tape onto the screw then giving some "hold" to the plastic barrels and keep things in place, otherwise prepare for some frustration. The addition of some small retainer clips would be nice. Overall installation was ok, but I'm a mechanic and used to fingering little parts in tight places, no doubt some people might have problems.

So I knocked off one star for the loud fan and skimpy installation instructions and procedures. Otherwise I am a satisfied customer.

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