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Silverstone PF360-ARGB AIO CPU Cooler Review

Installation

The installation of the backplate and heatsink are a breeze. Its Compatible with Intel LGA775/115x/1366/2011/2066 and AMD AM2/AM3/AM4/FM1/FM2 sockets.  Thanks Silverstone for the effortless design. Now as far as where you plan on putting the cooler in your rig can vary in difficulty. Just keep in mind the bottle neck for most cases are going to be the length of the hoses.

 

Performance

Test setup and Testing Methodology

The system used for testing is listed in the table below. Ambient temperatures were kept at 24 degrees Celsius +/- 1 degree. The thermal paste used was Noctua’s NT-H2 (for testing consistency). The cool and quite mode was disabled to prevent the CPU idling at lower voltages to attain accurate temperatures at idle. The fan speed was set to Full. The idle temperatures were recorded after 10 minutes of idle and max temperatures were recorded after a 5 minute torture test using Adia 64 System Stability Test and recording the Cores values.

CPU Intel Core i5-8600K @ 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake)
Cooling Silverstone PF360
Motherboard Asus ROG Maximus X Hero Z370
Ram Zadak Spark RGB DDR4-4133 32GB Kit
HDD Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIE M.2 SSD
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB 850W
OS Windows 10

 

Now we get to the good stuff the results. I apologize for my cooling catalogue being rather slim, but as more coolers come in we will continue to grow this list. As you can see in the graph below we have the Idle temps for the Silverstone PF360. This chip hovers at a cool 26.25 degrees Celsius. Almost ambient temps!

Alright LOAD temps! The ones that really matter. The Silverstone PF360 sits at the top right now of my small sample size, coming in at 41.75 degrees Celsius. Only time will tell where this cooler will rank in future tests but I am pretty confidant it will compete with the best of them as the cooler manages to out do the ones I have tested on this set up!

 

 

Noise can be a important factor for some. If we have a open case design and the fans might be exposed, we don not want record setting noise coming from our cooler. This not the case with the Silverstone PF360. As you can see in the graph above the fans at full speed hit 38 dBs. Not bad for three fans! Just to note, the actually hear-able noise from the fans are not distracting at all and I use an open test bench.

 

 

Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!

 

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