Overclock Testing
Mild OC Testing
For our Mild OC testing, we have configured our CPU to run 4300MHz on all cores, set the voltage to 1.15V, and configured memory to XMP mode. This yields an approximate power at the wall of 450w under load (a 350w differential from idle, which pulls about 100w). This results in the CPU running at 4.3GHz on all cores during the looping rounds of Cinebench R20. You can read more about this in our introduction article here.
Max Fans – 100% Pump Speed
Running our AIOs at full tilt allowed the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL360 FLUX to chalk up a significant victory over there rest of the field, landing at 65degrees Celsius compared to the rest of the field landing in the 70-73C range.
1500 RPM Fans – 100% Pump Speed
Bringing the fans down to 1500 RPM had a similar effect as it did at stock clocks and the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL360 FLUX continued to maintain its lead at 73C but at a smaller margin of victory.
1000 RPM Fans – 100% Pump Speed
With the fans set to 1000 RPM, the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL360 FLUX maintained its cool at 79C, but still outperformed the rest of the field. Much like with the stock clock testing at this speed, we’re starting to notice that the sweet spot for performance is closer to 1500RPM.
600 RPM Fans – 100% Pump Speed
Quite frankly, we’re not sure why this header is even here (Ed: You’re supposed to make a chart for this). We do this test to every AIO that comes across our bench they typically fail miserably.
Max OC Testing
For our Max OC testing, we have configured our CPU to run 4700MHz on all cores, set the voltage to 1.25V, and configured memory to XMP mode. This yields an approximate power at the wall of 600w under load (a 500w differential from idle, which pulls about 100w). This results in the CPU running at 4.7GHz on all cores during the looping rounds of Cinebench R20. The only test that was completed without throttling was the Max Fans and 100% pump speed test. You can read more about this in our introduction article here.
Max Fans – 100% Pump Speed
Setting our test bench to “large flaming blowtorch mode” showed that the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL360 FLUX came out on top of all of the other contestants and gave us the best performance that we have ever seen here.
Now that we have seen how all of our units cool, let’s see if we can still hear!