Installation
No real issues with installation of the radiator or mounting the waterblock. However, the braided tubing maybe a little stiff … but I did manage to bend it so that it fitted within the chassis. The only other concern, as with most AIO coolers that support ARGB lighting … is the cables. There’s so much of it … you’ll just have to find a way to hide them using your divine cable management skills 😛
Test Setup
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the ASRock B550 Taichi Motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X at default clock speed of 3.6GHz (turbo boost 4.4GHz), as well as 16GB of XPG Spectrix D60G (DDR4-3600) ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X (Matisse) @ 3.6GHz / Boost @ 4.4GHz |
| Cooling | Lian Li Galahad AIO 240 RGB CPU Cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock B550 Taichi |
| Ram | 16GB of XPG Spectrix D60G (DDR4-3600) |
| XMP profiles | Yes |
| SSD/HDD | Adata XPG Gammix S50 – 1TB SSD (PCIE Gen4x4) |
| PSU | Thermaltake ToughPower 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme Core 8GB GDDR6 |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest GeForce Drivers – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Idle Temps
Idle temperatures was around 41 degrees Celsius, which falls perfectly in line with our expectations, so no surprises here.
Full Load Temps
During our stress test at full load, CPU temperatures reached a high of 89 degrees Celsius, which isn’t too bad. Well at least it’s under 90 degrees.
