Package and its contents
The EOS 360 RBW comes in a typical for this type of coolers, quite large box. The product is also protected similarly to other brands, higher series AIO coolers. The most important is that the product is well-protected and the package contains everything we may need for the installation. The only thing missing compared to some other AIO series with ARGB illumination is an RGB controller. We can find it in Raijintek ORCUS, which will be reviewed soon, but not in the EOS series. I assume that most users don’t use it anyway, but those who don’t have motherboards with ARGB connectors may need it.
Since it’s our first Raijintek AIO cooler review, it’s hard to compare it to earlier products of this brand. We will make a little comparison in the upcoming Raijintek reviews, and I can promise you that some more products will be presented soon.
Used 120mm fans are very quiet and perform well. During tests, we could register up to 1600RPM, while most of the time, fans were spinning at about 800RPM. It’s hard to talk about the noise during a typical work as the ambient sounds were louder during the tests. Counting that, we could register about 32-34dB in a quiet room, then you can count that the cooler was generating lower noise by itself.
The cooler has quite a unique design. Most AIO coolers are designed with the pump built-in CPU block. The EOS 360 RBW has its pump in the radiator. It’s hard to say if it’s a better or worse option. Certainly, it causes that the CPU block is smaller, and at least for me, it looks better. On the other hand, we have to be sure there is enough space in the PC case as the radiator will be longer than the usual 360mm radiators.
The cold plate is made of copper, and it’s well-designed. It’s also using 0.12mm microchannels, and this type of design is right now the best option for CPU coolers.
Installation
The installation is quite simple, and everything is well-described in the manual. I actually like the new mounting kit. It fits perfectly on every socket and doesn’t use additional space so that it can be installed on every available motherboard. It also looks good.
If you are a less advanced user, then you can handle the installation without issues, as long as you stick with the user’s manual. All elements fit perfectly, and the lighting is compatible with all popular standards.
The above photos show our test rig with the i7-11700K CPU, ASRock Z590 Extreme motherboard, HyperX Predator RAM, and RX6800XT graphics card from ASRock.
The illumination can be controlled by ASRock software. Even more, if you don’t have a proper motherboard, then some graphics cards, like our RX6800XT, have ARGB connectors so that we can use them for the cooler lighting. The same ASRock software can manage the motherboard and the graphics card and synchronizes most modes with the Raijintek cooler.
On the next page of this review, we will take a closer look at the performance.
