The best budget AIO liquid cooler is 10% more budget-friendly in the Prime Day sales, making it 10%

Compared to gaming laptops, big desktop rigs, or hulking graphics cards, all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers are a tad... well... boring. Sure, you can get ones with all kinds of bling to them, but the vast majority of us want something that will keep your CPU's temperatures in check, without making an unholy noise.

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Anything extra, such as fans with RGB LEDs or a pump head that looks really cool, are nice to have but it'd be nice if you didn't have to pay too much for it all. So when I saw the we've ever tested was discounted in the Prime Day sales, I thought that this was well worth sharing.

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The snappily-titled is a fairly run-of-the-mill AIO liquid cooler, sporting a near-traditional 360 mm radiator with three 120 mm fans that come pre-installed in 'push' configuration.

Neither the fans nor the pump are top-of-the-class affairs but they're pretty quiet and do [[link]] a fine job at handling the heat given off by a CPU. If it copes with a at full chat, you'll know it'll cope with anything else.

Sure, there are more capable or quieter AIO coolers on the market, but they don't cost $90. Having said that, Arctic's Liquid Freezer III Pro 360—the successor to our —is only a little more expensive, coming in at .

So why aren't I recommending that cooler instead of the Core II? well, I have a house full of Arctic Freezer III AIOs (240, 280, and 360 mm ones), and while they are extremely good, I can tell you this now: they're a pig to install.

That's because Arctic uses an extra radiator to hit its performance target, which means they don't fit in many cases, and for Intel processors, you need to remove the mounting bracket entirely from the motherboard and use the one supplied by Arctic. Cooler Master's system, on the other hand, is a cinch to fit.

That 'infinity mirror' pump head is petite and low-profile, so it won't block crucial airflow through your PC case, and while the water tubes could be a little longer, the whole kaboodle takes very little effort to install, especially on chips.

The final thing that tips the deal in favor of Cooler Master is the fact that the white version of the Core [[link]] II costs exactly the same as the black one, whereas Arctic's white coolers are always more expensive.

Now that's the [[link]] kind of Prime Day deal I'd go for every time.

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