Performance
The be quiet! Light Loop 360 is a large and high-end cooler, so it’s hardly surprising to see it perform so well. The load temperatures peaked at just 74c, which puts it firmly in line with many of the best coolers we’ve ever tested, such as the Cooler Master Atmos, Thermaltake TH420, and the Arctic Freezer III.
However, with our optimised settings delivering a nice overclock, and fixed boost clocks, but with lower voltages, the Light Loop came into the big leagues, scoring just 64c at load, making it one of the absolute best performers we’ve ever had, matched by the Kraken Elite, and only 1-2c off the top spot with the FREEZER III and the THICC Q60.
be quiet! has a strong reputation for low noise performance, and while these aren’t massively quiet, they’re right in the middle of the chart, so I guess you could say the sound is average. However, they’re pretty high RPM fans, and for the speed they run at, the amount of airflow the move, and the amazing cooling performance, this level of acoustics is pretty sublime.
It stayed the same using the optimised settings, so perhaps the PWM curve is a little eager. We already saw some of the best cooling performance we’ve had from an AIO, so really, if you want silence, you have a huge amount of cooling headroom to dial the fans back to their silent profile, in which case, they’ll be barely a whisper from your computer.
