★★★★★
Great AIO with no nonsense installation
This be quiet! 360mm is a top cooling option for those looking for 1.) 360mm water cooling 2.) very quiet performance 3.) Easy installation and software setup. 4.) Future proof because it can be refilled.
This is a great value for the money because of the quality of this AIO. The appeareance is sleek and looks great for those wanting RGB lighting. It fits perfectly into my case with no issues.
Overall, the performace is as I expected with a 9800x3d CPU and a 9070XT GPU dumping heat while gaming. My CPU stayed around 50 to 62 C in long periods of gaming.
The fans are really really nice! They are quiet and do the job easily.
Overall, I like this AIO and I plan on keeping it in my gaming PC.
★★★★★
Straightforward instructions. Very quiet pump. Good quality cooler and lighting.
I'll preface this by saying that I am just running a Linux server so I am not stressing this system very much. but this cooler runs very quietly and I do not hear any pump noise and barely any fan noise, which is exactly what I wanted. If my gaming rig didn't already have a similar cooler, I would have put it there. I am confident that it would do a fine job there at a fraction of what I paid for the cooler on that system.
This CPU cooler was fairly simple to install. All the mounting hardware was included for my older Intel LG1151 system and extra parts are included for AMD CPUs as well. I really like the CPU block mounting setup. The backing plate on my old cooler that I am replacing never really felt solid but this one fits snugly and securely. The one tricky part was inserting the mounting pins into the Intel backplate. There are two positions for these pins, but the pins wanted to go right in between the two. I had to rotate the pins to get them in the right place. And they provided some little O-rings to hold these pins in place while you mount it. Without the O-rings, it would have been a nightmare to install. They also provided thermal compound to apply to the CPU and I actually used all of it. At first I applied a little and tried to spread it with my finger, but it's really thick and sticky, so a bunch of it stuck on the glove I was using, so I applied the rest and kind of spread out where I was putting it. This worked out ok for me. The cooler and fans were fairly straightforward to install. On my case, I have a removeable plate that I can secure the fans and radiator to so once this piece was removed it went pretty quickly. The installation guide showed the fans installed on the inside of the radiator, but I opted to swap this around to the fans are visible from the front. One thing to be careful of is that the fan connectors all daisy-chain together, so the orientation of the fans needs to be the same for all, and the connector at the top of the radiator needs to be able to connect to the correct connector on the topmost fan. If you don't get this right, you will end up having to redo it all. The internal connections were straightforward for me. If you know your way around a PC, the connections are self explanatory. One thing I really like is that the controller box has magnets which means it just sticks on to any metal piece inside my case. Very nice.
One note is that in the UEFI, the fans should be set to use PWM to get the fan speeds to be controlled by the motherboard. I think the fans were running constantly at full speed before I changed this, and after the change, the fans slowed quite a bit and became super quiet.
Also, since I am running Linux, I was unable to install and test the manufacturers software. But luckily, the system was entirely plug and play, so it actually works just fine out of the box. I just can't customize the display on the cooling block or the fan colors. One small issue for me is that by default, when you install the cooling block with the orientation as recommended, the display is rotated by 90 degrees. I'm not sure why they wouldn't align it to be the right way up by default. I'm sure you can adjust this in software, but again, that option is not available to me. The LED lighting is good. The resolution of the screen on the CPU block is pretty good. And the and the LED colors on the edges of the block and the centers of the fans are bright and have good color saturation, regardless of how they look in my photos.
