Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler

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We've seen CPU coolers with screens before. We've seen CPU coolers with OLED screens before. We've seen CPU coolers with curved OLED screens before. We've even seen CPU coolers with curved, motorised OLED screens before. But have we seen a CPU cooler with a curved, movable 3D-effect OLED screen before? No, sir, we have not. Until today.

Give it up for the ROG Ryuo IV 360 ARGB water cooler, the ultimate checkbox exercise in CPU cooling, announced today at Gamescom. Its finely triangulated USP is a movable curved 6.67-inch AMOLED display that supports "3D-effect videos or customized system information".

Asus says, "a powerful pump delivers robust cooling performance, higher flow, and lower impedance, while the pre-mounted, daisy-chained ARGB fans provide high airflow and static pressure. Its fans have a low-noise design and feature front and side lighting."

The cooler supports LGA 1851, 1700, AMD AM5, and AM4 CPU sockets, and features 400mm tubing for better chassis compatibility. There's also software with support for hardware monitoring and screen content management. Oh, and there's a white version, too, that's otherwise identical.

Getting back to that "3D effect" thing, our understanding is that is doesn't mean some kind of lenticular 3D, as per the Acer Predator SpatialLabs View 27 we recently reviewed. Instead, we're talking 3D effect as in those videos that use borders and lines to frame movement, plus extreme perspective and a bit of blur. Like this demo video.

Asus doesn't provide a specific resolution for the display, only describing it at "2K". But that probably means 1,920 by 1,080, or something very close to that. By default, it can either display one of a number of preloaded 3D effect visuals or a user-configurable suite of hard info, such as CPU temps, fan speeds, voltages, clockspeeds and all that good stuff.

You can also splitscreen the display, so that part of it is showing hardware info, the other trick visuals. And as you can see above, the "3Dness" does actually kinda work.

As for the "movable" bit, the OLED screen [[link]] is on a slider. So now you know. For the record, the radiator measures 394 by 140 [[link]] by 32 mm and sports three front-and-side lit 120 mm fans. That setup delivers a rated airflow of 71.44 CFM at a noise level of 39.6 dB(A). The cooler module has a six year warranty, while the screen is covered for two years.

Finally and on the sordid matter of money, this was never gonna be cheap. US pricing hasn't emerged, but it's available in the UK for £322, which implies something in the region of $350. Ouch. But then if you want screens on everything, it's going to cost you.

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