Temperatures
The GALAHAD 280mm AIO performed great in our stock test, with our lowest idle temperatures to date, which is awesome, and some very competitive load temperatures too.
However, with a little optimisation and overclock, I shed a whopping 10c from the load temperature making it one of the coolest AIOs we’ve tested to date.
Acoustics
The fans are whisper quiet, very nearly the quietest we’ve ever had. In fact, if you’re running this stock, I’d suggest cranking the fan’s RPM up a bit as this will greatly improve the cooling performance.
Even when overclocked, the temperatures were insanely good despite the rather quiet fans. I tested again with the fans pushed up higher, and you can shave another few degrees from your temperatures without compromising on the acoustic that much.
CineBench R23
The Cinebench score was very good, right in line with what we would expect to see from our i9-12900K.
However, despite how quiet this cooler is, optimisation saw a huge increase in the score, taking it to a much more impressive 27399 points, which is among the best we’ve gotten so far.
