EK Water Blocks EK-Nucleus CR360 Lux D-RGB AIO Cooler Review

Temperatures

Wow, it came so close to being the best AIO we’ve tested to date right away, scoring a very impressive 70c at full load, and a very low idle of just 25c too.

Optimisation of our i9-12900K saw some staggering improvements too, with load temperatures dropping by 7c, again, one of the best results we’ve seen.

Acoustics

At idle, the fans are very quiet, but at their full load, they’re quite loud. This is fine though, the cooler is built with performance in mind, so the fans have a very high RPM for this purpose. However, there’s plenty over overhead here to dial them way back to suit your acoustic taste.

When I optimised the drop in temperature resulted in a lower fan noise too, putting them more in line with other triple fan coolers.

CineBench R23

It’s no surprise that the impressive cooling performance quickly translated to one of the best Cinebench scores we’ve had, with 26954 at stock is good enough to beat around 50% of our overclocked and optimised results.

Again a really fantastic score here, absolutely into the enthusiast territory here, with a blisteringly high score of 27397 points.