Moving on to the AIO portion. While we cannot confirm it. It is pretty much a given that this is a Cooler Master design. Let us be clear. It is an MSI design… but the 27.5 thick radiator.
The ~5.25mm offset (instead of the Asetek nominal 5.5mm) for the rad’s integrated standoff/ fan shroud.
Even the loosey-goosey sheathing over the 19-inch long tubing.
It all screams Cooler Master as the sub-contractor who actually built it for MSI. Especially when the waterblock+pump combo on the board is square and not a classic Asetek “what is a 90-degree angle anyways?!” circular block.
This is a good thing. Cooler Master makes some of the best AIO kits going and they have been the ODM of choice for air-based video cards for many years now. Hell, both AMD and NVIDIA themselves routinely use Cooler Master as their OEM. As such, MSI made the right choice.
The fans themselves are ball bearing based bad asses built by PowerLogic (PLA12025S12H-4ZP) for MSI. With their innovative combination of focusing ring and air vortices breaking spoilers baked into each of the seven blades, these are some highly impressive fans. Fans that are worth a ten-dollar name like “STORMFORCE”. No wonder earlier, less advanced, variants of this fan are used in multiple Power Supply Units.
Hell. MSI even got the daisy chaining design right by including an integrated 4-pin cable and 4-pin header… and not a pigtail / dual-headed cable!
The only nit-pick anyone could ever find with them is that they are not A-RGB enabled. They are not LED enabled at all. Instead, these are old-school cool where you have to add a LED light strip if you want a light show. We kind of like that… and certainly respect it. Especially when every other manufacturer is going out of their way to make their model look like a Christmas tree. Color us highly impressed.
Overall, we can not find fault with the RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC in any key area. Even with the high asking price demanding we increase our expectations… we just cannot. Instead, this is a pretty. Powerful and above all else flexible GPU. You just have to have room for the 360 rad in your case for it to work.
