Enermax Aquafusion Adv
The Enermax Aquafusion Adv is available in three different radiator sizes with all three using 120mm fans they have the single fan 120mm, dual fan 140mm, and triple fan 360mm models. Each is also available in white and black color options. To get a feel for the whole lineup they sent over the Aquafusion Adv 240 in white and the Aquafusion Adv 360 in black. Both have a similar packaging design which has a black background and the Aquafusion Adv branding along the bottom with a rainbow effect below that highlights the RGB lighting. The Enermax red logo is in the top left corner and the front of the box on both also have all of the different motherboard RGB software certifications. Of course, the longer 360 model has a larger box and they both have pictures that match their specific model across the front. I’m a huge fan of packaging having a picture of what you are getting so I was happy to see this, it makes shopping in a store a lot easier. The back of the boxes have a full specification listing which also helps as well and then six photos that help show some of the key features along with short descriptions below each.
Once you open up the box you will find the user manual on top and a removable layer of foam. Then below that with both models, the coolers come in a formed cardboard tray. Each component is bagged up including each fan and the radiator also has a slide-on cardboard cover as well to give it additional protection from damage. You have a bag filled with cables and then a big bag with all of the mounting hardware. Both the 240 and 360 that we have here come with a small basic RGB controller along with the cables that help adapt it to a few of the different motherboard connections. You have a SATA power plug that plugs into the included controller and then a fan splitter which depending on the model slits to two or three fans. There is also a cable that plugs into the pump for its RGB lighting controls. You get a back bracket for Intel but not AMD, they use the stock AMD backplate and you have two sets of pump brackets depending on if you are going AMD or Intel. On both the white and black models, all of this hardware is black. You get a small tube of thermal paste and then six small bags of mounting hardware. The AMD hardware is market and only one bag, the one with the small bracket mounting screws is a reusable bag the rest tear open.
Sorry for having so many pictures but I wanted to be sure to show everything from both models but it does mean a lot of duplicates other than the color difference. For the fans the white Aquafusion Adv 240 came with two 120mm fans with the model number UCSQUARGBA12P-AQFA-W, the black model is the same only with B at the end and with AQFA in the model name it is clear that the model name here is specific to the Aquafusion Adv but these do look just like the Enermax SquA ADV aRGB 120MM PWM Fans so you can get matching fans for the rest of your case if needed. The fans run between 500 and 2000 RPM. They can push from 39 to 79.8 CFM and have from 0.67 to 3.6 mm H2O for pressure which is a lot of air and a lot of pressure. They run from 15 to 32.6 dBA according to Enermax as well. They have two color-matched cables, one is a four-pin PWM fan cable and the second is a 3-pin ARGB lighting cable which has a second lighting plug also attached so you can daisy chain the lighting together. They have a unique shape that has flat sides on two sides and tabs with a curved shape on two sides. Then on the back, the housing has 13 blade-like fins that hold the center of the fan in place. The specifications don’t list the bearing type but I did find that it is a hydraulic bearing. The mounting tabs do have thin color-matched rubber pads to help with vibration and on the front, the same flat-sided and rounded on the top and bottom is used on the diffused lighting ring. Both the black and white fans both have a white translucent fan blade as well that works with the lighting in the center housing to light up. Then in the center, they have the Enermax branding on the color-matched center sticker.
The radiator design for the Aquafusion Adv has the old school standard rounded ends and is a standard AIO size with a thickness of 27mm. Where it does stand out however is on the sides where they have stamped in a dogbone-like shape with the Enermax logo printed in the middle. The Enermax logo is hardly visible on the white model but is bright white on the black model. Also to note, like with the mounting hardware the screws they used to attach this side panel on the white model are black. But for the fins, they have finished those in white. It’s just interesting to see them go to extra lengths to color match things in white but then miss other parts. The radiator has an importer sticker on the end as well as a second sticker with the AIO serial number as well.
The hoses are 8mm wide and are sleeved. The black model has black sleeving and the white models have white sleeving though the white sleeving does have a slight hint of yellow. They did also change all of the plastic on the radiator to white to match including the fill cap.
Then at the end of those hoses, we have the pump and water block all combined. The pump has a squared shape and is 54mm from the contact surface to the mirrored top. It has just one wire, a 3-pin fan header to let your PC know what fan speed everything is running to keep it from freaking out, and inside the pump uses a ceramic bearing to help with longevity. They use a dual chamber design and the pump pushes the coolant in at the center of the waterblock to get it on the hottest part of the CPU. Like with the other components the white model has bright white plastic for the pump housing and the white-sleeved hoses but the small right-angled connections here are black. At the bottom, it has a big copper contact surface which isn’t a perfect mirrored finish but does have a good reflection. The pump housing has a diffused ring around the outside of the top to put some RGB lighting in that direction. But it’s the top design that Enermax has put the most focus on. They call it "Infinite RGB Reflection” which they have a mirrored top that when lit up has an infinity mirror setup with lighting behind it. Right next to the fan wire, there is a color-matched rubber plug, behind this is where you hook up the included RGB cable. I’m surprised that cable didn’t come already attached like the fan cable which wouldn’t then leave as big of an opening.
