Looking for alternative to corsair coolers

It's time to dump Corsair... For the same reason I dumped NZXT... The software.

Up until now I've been running the Corsair Coolers (H115i's mostly), with corsairlink, bur that hasn't been supported for years. iCue is a massive 3.5GB install that by default runs 64 additional processes and hammers my systems at a constant 3%-8%. Its full of bugs and telemetry. All I want is to control and monitor fans speeds and temps.

It's a cooler for heaven's sake, not some hi tech space craft...

I dislike RGB intensely. I'm only interested in performance not bling that distracts me and keeps me awake at night when I'm trying to watch content from the PC.

I would prefer something that can be controlled from within Windows rather than having to boot the UEFI to tweak my fan curves. I've checked out all the usual suspects but have yet to find anything suitable.

Are there any 280mm coolers that aren't all about the bling and ridiculously bugged, bloated software?

Looking for high performance cooler to handle overclocked HEDT CPUs and 13900K CPUs

People will have wildly different opinions on this, but for my personal preference, if you are not wildly overclocking, a high quality air cooler such as those from Noctua are an excellent choice.

No special software of any kind needed.

If you don't mind reading reviews you could try browsing sites like Techpowerup and Toms Hardware

Toms Hardware - Best AIO Coolers 2023
Best AIO Coolers 2023 | Tom's Hardware

Techpowerup - All the sites air cooler and AIO reviews
Reviews | TechPowerUp

Marcus Vinicus said:

If you don't mind reading reviews you could try browsing sites like Techpowerup and Toms Hardware

Toms Hardware - Best AIO Coolers 2023
Best AIO Coolers 2023 | Tom's Hardware

Techpowerup - All the sites air cooler and AIO reviews
Reviews | TechPowerUp

I don't mind reading at all. Have spent many hours reading reviews on coolers. The problem one often faces is the reviews seem to favor one of the coolers. I assume there are rewards for positive reviews? As such, I'm a little skeptical of what I read. For example one review will say the EVGA CLC280 is the bee's knees. Another will rate it as average.

Nothing beats actual user experience.

Some systems are heavily overclocked, but as I move away from HEDT and start installing the big.LITTLE CPUs I'm not inclined to start overclocking them until I know more about it.

Wobitancrawfodi said:

I don't mind reading at all. Have spent many hours reading reviews on coolers. The problem one often faces is the reviews seem to favor one of the coolers. I assume there are rewards for positive reviews? As such, I'm a little skeptical of what I read. For example one review will say the EVGA CLC280 is the bee's knees. Another will rate it as average.

Sites like Techpowerup do good reviews with lot of benchmarks and detailed measurements.
I'm not so sure about some of these guys on YouTube who are heavily monetised\sponsored by big tech companies.

Wow! Been reading a lot of reviews. No two seem to feel the same way about the same cooler.
Anyway, I think I'm leaning towards the Arctic II Freezer 360mm cooler with an extra set of fans in a push pull configuration. I have a W100 case with plenty of room.

The installation manual doesn't really explain too well how the cabling is handled.
I assume there is a pump header (4 pin) and 3 fan cables (or in my case 6 because of the extra fans).

How do I connect those? Connect 3 fans to one header through a 3 way cable? According to the website there is only one cable to connect? No power cable, no pump cable, just one for everything?

Wonder then how to add the extra fans?