Introduction

It has been nearly three years since we last took a look at Bykski, and the Chinese watercooling brand has gone from strength to strength since. Indeed, Bykski has launched a premium brand in this time called Granzon and has maintained the main brand to offer products that aim to best pretty much everyone else from a pure value perspective. In fact, looking at the tagline of this very review, it seems clear that this trend has continued. What has not remained the same, however, has been Byksi’s marketing team which seems to change each time they contact me. Thankfully the most recent conversation led to a Bykski care package in my hands with a few different CPU blocks to go through in the coming weeks.

I was not ready for this product name. How exactly does someone decide “CPU-XPR-C-I” is easy to find online? The name has some logic behind it though with “CPU” telling us this is a CPU block, “XPR” likely to be the product line it belongs to, the “C” corresponds to the top option which is clear acrylic in this case, and the “I” confirms this is an Intel platform block. There are versions of this same waterblock design with POM and metal tops as well as support for AMD sockets, in addition to some SKUs with 12 V, 4-pin lighting (not individually addressable) whereas most use the more popular 5 V, 3-pin ARGB lighting as is the case here. As such, outside any potential performance differences from the metal top variants, this review would be representative of the entire family of the Bykski CPU-XPR lineup. Let’s examine the block further in our review today which begins with a look at the product specifications in the table below. Thanks to Bykski for providing a review sample to TechPowerUp!

Specifications

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