Hyte Thicc Q60 AIO cooler review
Take a look at the Hyte Thicc Q60 and you might come to the conclusion that this is an all-in-one liquid cooler that pushes appearance over performance. That's not strictly true, however. Yes, the Q60 is adorned with a 5-inch screen, a litany of RGB LEDs, and some tidy cabling—but there's also a chunky CPU cooler beneath it all.
The Q60 is a big beast. It's an all-in-one liquid cooler with a radiator double as thick as some, coming in at 52 mm. That's reportedly to utilise space not often utilised to its fullest in modern PC cases, according to Hyte—it's opting for a thicker radiator in the place of a longer one.
The Q60 is billed as a 240 mm radiator, on account of the two 120 mm Thicc FP12 fans included, but it's actually 288 mm from top to bottom. The remaining space is taken up by the pump, which takes residence on the radiator rather than in the more traditional spot behind the cold plate. The benefit of this being, for the Q60 at least, more room for the enormous screen above the CPU.
The 5-inch screen on the Q60 is best described as a tiny computer. It includes a quad-core Arm Cortex CPU, with 2 GB of DDR4 running at 2,666 MT/s, and running at 1.3 GHz. It also has 32 GB of eMMC storage. All to run the many widgets, which Hyte has named 'faces', available via the Hexus application, which is pretty much a must-install with this cooler.
Compatibility: LGA 1700, 1200, 115X, 2011*, 2066* — AMD Socket AM5, AM4, TR4* (* available from Hyte support)
Dimensions: 120 x 288 x 52 mm (cold plate: 56 x 56 x 1.5 mm)
Radiator: 288 mm, aluminium
Pump: Ceramic, up to 4,500 RPM
Fans: 2x Thicc FP12 120 mm, Fluid Dynamic Bearing, up to 3,000 RPM
Lighting: Full RGB on radiator logo, array behind screen
Screen: 5-inch IPS, 60 Hz, 300 nits, 720 x 1280 resolution
Storage: 32 GB eMMC
Memory: 2 GB DDR4
Price: $300 | £330
«You can watch the entirety of Shrek on the Q60 if you want to,» a Hyte representative tells me.
I've opted for a parade of system monitoring 'faces': liquid in
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