Cooling

Raijintek Cyclops 360mm ARGB LCD AIO Cooler Review

Performance

While not the most extreme cooling performance we’ve ever seen, it’s fair to say the Raijintek Cyclops 360 put up a strong performance here, being the best mid-range cooler we’ve tested. It’s just a few degrees behind the best of the best, but largely it’s worth pointing out the price again, as the more performance-focused coolers are all much more expensive with the exception of the ID-Cooling FX360 Pro. However, considering you get ARGB lighting and that LCD thrown in, the value for money here is still impressive.

Using our optimised settings, we use fixed overclocked core speeds but with significant undervolting to get both better performance and lower TDP, the Raijintek Cyclops 360 AIO performed even better, scoring a peak load temperature of just 68c at full load, while the idle temperature maintained the same 25c we saw using stock settings.

The acoustics are very reasonable, and they very closely match that of the Cooler Master ATMOS 360, and the NZXT Kraken Elite 360, which makes sense since they all have three fans and a single pump. However, the fan RPM is pretty modest, they don’t make a lot of noise, and while you can push the RPM higher, I can’t say I felt the need given the perfectly reasonable thermal performance so far.

While temperatures dropped a fair bit with our optimised settings, the PWM profile didn’t change at all in response to this, but that’s not a bad thing. As I said above, it’s already reasonably quiet, and while you could lower the RPM if you so desired this will of course have some impact on the cooling performance, but if you’re going for a more silence-focused build, at least you could do that with a custom fan curve if you’re CPU temperatures are already reasonable.

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Peter Donnell

As a child still in my 30's (but not for long), I spend my day combining my love of music and movies with a life-long passion for gaming, from arcade classics and retro consoles to the latest high-end PC and console games. So it's no wonder I write about tech and test the latest hardware while I enjoy my hobbies!

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