Until recently, Asus was not represented in the liquid cooling market. However, at the end of the last decade of the year, the Taiwanese brand broke the silence by releasing 3 new series of dropsy processors at once: Asus TUF, Asus ROG Strix and Asus ROG. The first ones belong to the middle class, the second ones are asking for the status of “optimal”, well, and the third ones are already a pure fashion product for enthusiasts. Such powerful, sophisticated and expensive dropsies are designed for assembling high-end systems with powerful and hot processors of the Intel Core i9-12900K caliber for effective overclocking of which even an elite tower cooler may not be enough.


For 4 years of existence in the ROG series, 2 sets of full-cycle LSS have been released: ROG Ryujin and ROG Ryuo. A distinctive feature of the first was an advanced water block with a built-in LCD display. The user can display useful system information on it, such as the temperature of the processor, play RGB lighting effects, or loop a funny GIF that will look non-trivial in an open case. To cool the processor, the ROG Ryujin LSS uses water blocks with a copper base and a built-in 6/7th generation Asetek pump, as well as two- and three-section aluminium radiators with several Noctua turntables. The fans support PWM speed control and semi-passive cooling mode. In the second generation of ROG Ryujin LSS, an additional fan was also built into the water block to blow the VRM.

In turn, LSS ROG Ryuo are made a little easier and are a little cheaper. Their notable feature was the use of Wing Blade Fans, which ASUS uses to cool their AAA-class video cards. The Ryuo pump also features an LCD display for displaying system information, GIFs and animations. However, the screen here is slightly smaller and simpler than in Ryujin, and the water block itself is round, not square. Ryuo LSS are produced exclusively with 120 mm and 240 mm radiators, 360 format models are not provided by the manufacturer.