be quiet! Silent Loop 360 AIO CPU Cooler Review

Performance

Stock

The be quiet! Silent Loop 360 finds itself in some very respectable company around mid-table. As you would expect from a 360 cooler the idle and gaming temperatures are very good. That being said though in terms of temperatures, with a load score of 60C this is a little higher than we usually see from such large coolers. While this is a product specifically designed for quiet running rather than outright performance, I would’ve liked (and expected) to see it achieve sub-60C in our testing.

Overclocked

When we set our system into Overclocked mode the cooler performs much better. It would, therefore, seem that the marketing towards this area is well justified. It does again at 68C find itself consideration higher than other 360 coolers and again, that is a little disappointing. In terms of idle and gaming though 31 and 38 are very impressive temperatures. Even with a top-end of 68C though (at full load) the be quiet! Silent Loop 360 proves itself as a more than competent cooler which would seem to be at it’s best when pushed harder.

Stock Acoustics

The branding might say be quiet! but don’t let that fool you. This is not the quietest cooler out there. We see this cooler beaten by many other competitors and most notably both of the Dark Rock 4 coolers. Given that the latter are both air coolers (which are traditionally considered to be noisier) this is a disappointing turn in terms of noise output.

Overclocked Acoustics

I’d like to say that it gets better when overclocked, but it doesn’t. While the idle and gaming noise levels are more than respectable, when put under heavy overclocked load this gets noisy. This isn’t the loudest cooler we have seen by a big margin, but clearly, the overclocked performance in terms of temperatures does come at a high cost in terms of noise.