TRYX PANORAMA SE ARGB Overview
With the AIO out of the box, you can quickly see that it has a very unique look to it, with a curved LCD display that extends well beyond the height of most AIOs. Our review sample features the black colorway, and a few splashes of gray can be found on the corners of the fans, but otherwise this is an all-black design.
The first component up in our overview is the 360mm aluminum radiator. This radiator is very straight forward in it’s design, with a black paint job and a bit of TRYX branding along the sides. The 27mm thickness is the standard as far as most AIOs go, which makes fitting this cooler into your build less about size compatibility and more about cooling.
With 20 fins-per-inch, the tight fin density is able to provide adequate surface area while still confined to a 27mm thickness. The included 120mm ARGB PWM fans included with the this kit have a static pressure rating of up to 1.86mm-H2O, which is on the very low side of fan specifications we typically see in our AIO reviews, and has me wondering if it will be enough to get air moving through the radiator fins at an acceptable performance level.
Each 450mm braided cooling line exits from one end of the radiator’s end cap, and these lines are connected to the radiator via crimped connectors. I found the cooling lines to be quite flexible during installation, and their length was just fine during installation.
Moving over to the pump housing is where we see the showcase feature of the PANORAMA SE ARGB 350 – the 6.5″, 2K resolution AMOLED screen. This display boasts some pretty impressive specifications, including not only the size and resolution, but also a brightness of up to 400 nits, a 60Hz refresh rate for smooth motion graphics, and a high pixel density of 372 pixels-per-inch. Additionally, the contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 results in a very good range of brightness and color depth between light and dark areas being shown on the screen.
Additionally, the screen orientation can be adjusted by simply pulling the display off of the pump housing and rotating it. A simple keyed design helps you get the screen lined up with the housing, while magnets are employed to keep it in place once you have it set to your liking. Inside, the PANORAMA SE ARGB boasts a 4-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of ROM, which translates in to very low host system resource usage. Internally, TRYX is using ASETEK’s Adela liquid cooling solution, featuring their latest pump designs for long-lasting efficiency and stable performance for a wide variety of installation scenarios.
Moving around to the sides we find the two cooling lines exiting from the side of the pump housing. Each line is paired up with a swiveling fitting to make installation and fitment much easier than with fixed connections.
Just a single 4-pin PWM cable exits from the pump housing, and is used to provide power to the internal pump.
As mentioned earlier, the LCD display is completely removable from the pump housing, and shows that there are four orientations available, thanks to the four holes on the top surface.
Taking a look at the base of the cooler, we find a large copper base with pre-applied thermal material. Now, I’m not entirely sure if this material is the same as the included a-01 High Performance thermal paste, but for the purposes of this review, we will be testing with the pre-applied material.
Universal mounting hardware for both AMD and Intel installations is already installed from the factory, which leaves us with one less step when it comes time to hook everything up.
As far as the included fans go, TRYX has provided three 120mm ARGB fans that provide up to 1.8mm-H2O of static pressure at full speed, with 66.09 CFM of airflow at their full speed of 1,850 RPM. Just looking at these specifications, I was a bit worried that these fans would not have the static pressure needed to efficiently move air through the radiator’ 20 FPI density.
The rubber feet at each corner help isolate any vibrations that may come from the nine fan blades, which is always a welcome feature.
TRYX has already mounted these fans to the radiator from the factory, which is another welcome feature, and the fact that they also chain to each other will really help reduce cable clutter and installation headaches that can come from trying to wrangle the power and lighting cabling from each cable.
The included breakout cable attaches to one end of the fan chain, and then breaks out into dedicated PWM and ARGB headers that can then be attached to your fan and lighting controllers of choice, whether they be on the motherboard or on dedicated controllers.
