be quiet! Light Loop 360mm AIO Review

Epilogue

The be quiet! Light Loop 360mm uses high-speed fans to achieve high performance at the cost of increased noise output when needed. Nonetheless, its performance in the normalized noise tests is good enough on Intel sockets and pretty high on AMD ones. Given the not-so-high power consumption readings that I measured on Intel sockets, I suspect the mounting mechanism could be improved to offer better contact with the CPU’s heatspreader. A contact frame, like the one that Arctic provides with its AIOs, would do the job perfectly. On the contrary, the AMD mounting mechanism does a very good job (I installed it with the offset on my Ryzen 9 7900x).

This cooler is expensive, at 160 euros or dollars. The high price is due to the exceptional LED lighting, the quality fans—which don’t use a fluid dynamic bearing, but a rifle one—and mainly the included ARGB/PWM hub. The moment the equally good, in terms of performance, ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 ARGB costs $110 on Amazon, 50 dollars less, it is difficult to overlook it. Moreover, the Arctic cooler has a fan on its block to cool down the area around the socket, including the mainboard’s VRMs. Furthermore, the top-performer Cooler Master 360 Atmos is less expensive at $145.

The Light Loop 360mm is a capable AIO equipped with good fans and nice ARGB lighting, but its high price doesn’t make it so competitive. Moreover, I would like its fans to be daisy-chained together and, ideally, all signals, both power and ARGB, to pass from a single cable. It’s cumbersome to deal with six cables in total from its three fans. I know a PWM/ARGB hub is provided, but you must still route all fan cables to it.

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