Core i7 8700K baseline test

Core i7 8700K baseline test

Now for the most important point of the review, meaning test results. The Asus AIO coolers should be more than enough for the range of CPUs from the Pentium to the Core i7 hexa-core or even the Core i9 octa-core. We ran the test at the default frequencies, but there should still be some headroom left for OC. First up is IDLE temperature, measured when the CPU does almost nothing, just waiting for any action by the user. 

LOAD temperatures; 100% usage of the CPU was generated by WPrime 2.10 (3x 1024M).

The ambient temperature was about 23 degrees C, which does affect the cooling performance for sure, but all the coolers were tested in similar conditions. You don’t want to have the CPU above 75-80 degrees at default frequencies, otherwise, we can surely assume that the cooling is very average/poor. This AIO cooler offers good performance but is a bit worse than, for example, the NZXT Kraken X62 (but that one has a 280 mm radiator). On the next page, we’ll show you how silent this cooler is.