NZXT Kraken G10 GPU Bracket Review

What if I told you that a $30 part can help improve your GPU’s temperatures by around 46°C at load compared to stock cooling? Crazy, right? Well, NZXT’s Kraken G10 might be nothing more than a steel bracket and mounting hardware, but pair it with a compatible AIO CPU water cooler, and you’ve got the hottest cooling equipment combo ever.

Sometimes an idea is just so good, you wonder why the heck it took so long before anyone thought it up and transformed it to reality.

NZXT’s new Kraken G10 GPU Bracket is one of these. As a concept it’s brilliant: It allows you to use an AIO (all-in-one) CPU water cooling system – the market is now flooded with them – on a graphics card. However, as good as any idea is, you only get a measure of its true worth after seeing it in action in the real world.

NZXT was very kind to have provided Techgage a sample of not just its Kraken G10 GPU Bracket for review, but also one of its X40 AIO CPU coolers as well. Because of this, we have 100% guaranteed compatibility between the Kraken G10 and the AIO CPU cooler. Having said this, the Kraken G10′s compatibility list is huge, encompassing a wide variety of GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA as well as other Asetek-sourced AIO CPU cooler solutions providers.

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