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The Max L 360 Liquid Cooling System: A Comprehensive Review

Upon unboxing and initial inspection, it was evident that this all-in-one liquid cooling system is a high-performance solution for CPU cooling. The max temperature reading on liquid was a staggering 42 degrees Celsius, indicating a significant drop in temperatures compared to the ambient temperature. As the reviewer noted, "there's just a couple things I wanted to address that I didn't put in the video so I'm adding it now." One of these issues was related to the AMD Wraith cooler, which pushes air down onto the motherboard, potentially cooling other components.

The reviewer highlighted an important consideration for users who opt for liquid cooling versus air cooling: ensuring good airflow across the motherboard. If the fan system is not properly designed or if a taller fan system is used, it can push air down on the board, exacerbating temperature issues. In contrast, a tower-style fan setup provides better airflow and efficiency in cooling components.

During the testing process, the reviewer discovered an issue with the air cooling bench test on the CPU. Despite making the CPU warm, the first score was 1201.9, while subsequent tests using the AIo (All-In-One) liquid cooler yielded a higher score of 1208.8. This indicates that the liquid cooler provided improved performance during the stress test.

In addition to its impressive cooling capabilities, the reviewer noted that the system's temperature reading during gaming sessions dropped by approximately half, from 60-70 degrees Celsius to around 20-30 degrees Celsius. This significant drop in temperatures is a major advantage over air cooling solutions, particularly for users who experience high ambient temperatures while gaming.

The installation of the Max L 360 Liquid Cooling System was relatively straightforward, with the reviewer praising its simplicity and ease of use. The system utilizes the Factor Mounting backplate from Andy, eliminating the need for separate mounting plates. The installation process involved attaching a compound to the radiator, mounting the water block, and screwing down top-mounted screws onto the bracket.

In conclusion, the Max L 360 Liquid Cooling System has demonstrated exceptional performance in cooling CPU temperatures during both bench testing and actual usage scenarios. Its compact design, ease of installation, and impressive temperature reductions make it an attractive option for users seeking improved gaming performance and reduced heat-related issues. As the reviewer noted, "keep cool" – with this liquid cooler, gamers can do just that.

**Product Details:**

* All-in-one liquid cooling system

* Max temperature reading on liquid was 42 degrees Celsius

* AMD Wraith cooler pushed air down onto motherboard, potentially cooling other components

* Important consideration for users: ensuring good airflow across the motherboard

**Performance Comparison:**

* Air cooling bench test score: 1201.9

* AIo (All-In-One) liquid cooler performance during stress testing: 1208.8

**Temperature Reductions:**

* From ambient temperature of 60-70 degrees Celsius to around 20-30 degrees Celsius during gaming sessions.

**Ease of Installation:**

* Utilizes Factor Mounting backplate from Andy, eliminating the need for separate mounting plates

* Compact design and straightforward installation process

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the last game hunter and guys today we're gonna find out should you water cool your computer so right now guys for running the stock cooler you can hear it's loud it really is loud actually a lot louder than what I'm used to from an AMD cooler it is a beer cooler than I've tried before it's a Gen 1 so that might be a factor and we're running at 37 degrees so this is just idle now we're gonna bench test and see what happens with the performance and the cooling okay so the highest the CPU actually hit was 48 degrees and now it's dropped back down to 36 pretty quickly so this cooling fan is actually doing pretty good for a factory cooler I gotta say so now what we're gonna do is we're going to install the radiator and the liquid cool system and see how much this changes or if it actually changes okay guys one thing that's really nice about this this is the original plate for the AMD socket and basically these things while it's in the board of course are just going to screw down inside like so then your liquid cools gonna go on here and then there's a thumb screw that goes on that that tightens it down so you don't even need to use any other included back pains with the a m4 socket if you're using AMD's m2 or m3 or AF m1 or anything like that you would use the bracket that's supplied with the kit or Intel you would use the bracket supply but for the a m4 factory back pain is all you need that made this so much easier for sure okay so we've now built ourselves a jet engine this thing is moving tons of air let's see what happens now when we fire up the software okay so now we've got everything installed it's moving tons of air I mean because it's up top we're hearing it pretty good because the machine is really close to us and it is throwing air this thing is massive very very easy and so I have to say all your wires just daisy chained together for your RGB and you have your own controller if you don't have it on your board so from here we're running at 30 31 or 32 degrees right now on idle now we're going to bench test and see what happens so we're just gonna run CPU test while we're down to 27 degrees as this is sitting itself in the heating compound and everything is blending we're gonna notice temperature drops so that's one big bonus of this basically in the very beginning we'll be what I call a fictitious reading based on it just being all-new artic silver and working together we're running at 35 degrees right now and dropping on a bench test so before we hit the high of 48 let's see what we hit a high of we're almost done 90 percent or 98 percent of the time actually we stayed within the 30 degree area right now we're in 33 degrees near the end of this test we hit a high so far of and a high literally of 42 so we have high of 48 on the air we just hit a high a little high I'm gonna say when I say we hit a high we've hit a high of 42 for a split second and it dropped down to 38 we're running at 28 degrees now after the bench test we were running much higher idle after the bench test before so I'm just for fun I'm gonna run the test once again now I think that things are sitting better this will be the better test at this point - were a little warmer give the benefit of the doubt I'm gonna push it a little harder so we hit 42 for a second and drop down to 35 that is really impressive or holding at 34 38 on a CPU bench test so we're stressing the CPU so tip 42 again one more time this is just after running a bench test well we did hit a high of 44 but to be fair just as a second run of a bench test that I believe that we did it on air we probably would have hit 51 52 34 degrees and holding 33 just dropped 4 33 degrees just like that just like that and now we're down below we're in the 29 27 degree area so guys let me give you my thoughts B overall build everything so let's just get back to it okay so what was the question the question was is it worth it to liquid cool your computer now for the price point of this cooler this is only a hundred and ten dollars Canadian it's a radiator with three 120 s on it so this is a 360 as to gain max L 360 v2 I'm using its own controller which allows me to change colors flicker or do what I hope with the lighting which is kind of cool it also comes with an adapter to plug it straight into the motherboard but in this case I figured I'd leave that open as he's running a blue scheme due to the fact that my friend has led blue lights in the front and rear so you can't change the color so in this case I'll make sure he can't change the color but anyway guys overall the cons of this I have to say is the noise I find it a bit noisy how would that be in a different case I don't know we'd have to try that out and we'll I more than likely I really enjoyed this cooler overall the unit was running about 10 degrees cooler is what I'm estimating so let's say 10 degrees cooler that could mean a lot if you were to overclock for example I found that once you got out of any benching that would push your stress the CPU the CPU is dropping down to like 24 to 27 degrees and that's only going to get a little better as the system marries itself from the CPU to the cooler it just takes a little bit of time for all that to just kind of you know work to work its magic shall we say as we've seen on the second time around that I benched it right after benching it just for fun because I knew it was already warm why not heat it up some more and then max we hit was 44 degrees on a single bench on air that max we hit was 48 on a single bench on this the max we hit was 42 on liquid so right off the bat I could say they're safely a good eight to ten degrees definite drop in temperatures as I think that can only get better during gaming there's just a couple things I wanted to address that I didn't put in the video so I'm adding it now about this game max L 360 cooler this all-in-one liquid cooling system there's one more con that I missed and that con is when you have the AMD Wraith cooler you're pushing air down onto your board which is actually in turn cooling all of your components so unless you have good cooling which this case that we did do it all in did as you can see it had fans everywhere it was pulling in air and sucking air out so he wouldn't really suffer from it but if you don't have good efficient cooling coming in and going across your motherboard you your regular components and your board are going to heat up a little more so there's a problem with water cooling versus air right there so I just wanted to make that clear that is one thing if you're gonna water cool make sure you have good air going across your board so that is something important now that also plays a factor too if you use a taller fan system you're not pushing air down on your board either so keep that in mind when you're doing your fan so sometimes having a fan that blows down is actually a much more efficient system if it's a good fan if you're going to stay air cooling then it is to have a tower thing when it comes to cooling your components if you don't have good airflow so here's something that I noticed that is very important there's a big prorate here because something I missed even though it was right in front of my eyes and that is the air cooling bench test on the CPU we were testing it and making the CPU get warm but I didn't look at the performance and the first score was 1201 9 so that was his score on air cooling then when we went to the a i/o and did the same stress test we actually got a score of 1208 8 so we went up some points on there so it just goes to show that if you're writing your system cooler you're definitely getting a better performance even on a bench test now another thing I got feedback from the customer and the customer told me that he's running about 38 degrees while gaming that is a major thing here because we were running in the 60s when he was gaming before so we've definitely taken care of the problem that this guy was having so it's a friend of mine he contacted me and he said he was having trouble I recommended this a i/o and thank god this a i/o turned out to be very good because I recommended it so that was one of the big things that we were worried about what is his performance during gaming and it definitely dropped almost we will say half but almost half on the temperature rating so a good 20 degrees and that is very impressive so I just wanted to add this to the video and let that get out there because it is very important to know that your performance increased how is your gaming performance and so on and these were little things that I just wanted to put in the video after I noticed I didn't add it to begin with which is very much what this gentleman needed this for was to cool himself off he was hitting the 60s and 70s while gaming and this is what our intentions were or to bring that down at least 10 15 degrees and I think this thing can do it it's definitely got a big enough radiator and the pump seems to be pretty decent so this is the game max L 360 v2 super simple to install in fact like I said it uses the factor mounting backplate from Andy so you don't need to use the included mounting plates four threaded screws with little threads on it screw into that bracket put your compound on mount your water block and thumb screw some screws down on top of those screws installed the radiator went in pretty smoothly this case was a little tight but still pretty smoothly so I have left to do now is clean this bad boy up make the wiring look a heck of a lot better until next time guys keep cool this is the last game hunter saying game overhello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the last game hunter and guys today we're gonna find out should you water cool your computer so right now guys for running the stock cooler you can hear it's loud it really is loud actually a lot louder than what I'm used to from an AMD cooler it is a beer cooler than I've tried before it's a Gen 1 so that might be a factor and we're running at 37 degrees so this is just idle now we're gonna bench test and see what happens with the performance and the cooling okay so the highest the CPU actually hit was 48 degrees and now it's dropped back down to 36 pretty quickly so this cooling fan is actually doing pretty good for a factory cooler I gotta say so now what we're gonna do is we're going to install the radiator and the liquid cool system and see how much this changes or if it actually changes okay guys one thing that's really nice about this this is the original plate for the AMD socket and basically these things while it's in the board of course are just going to screw down inside like so then your liquid cools gonna go on here and then there's a thumb screw that goes on that that tightens it down so you don't even need to use any other included back pains with the a m4 socket if you're using AMD's m2 or m3 or AF m1 or anything like that you would use the bracket that's supplied with the kit or Intel you would use the bracket supply but for the a m4 factory back pain is all you need that made this so much easier for sure okay so we've now built ourselves a jet engine this thing is moving tons of air let's see what happens now when we fire up the software okay so now we've got everything installed it's moving tons of air I mean because it's up top we're hearing it pretty good because the machine is really close to us and it is throwing air this thing is massive very very easy and so I have to say all your wires just daisy chained together for your RGB and you have your own controller if you don't have it on your board so from here we're running at 30 31 or 32 degrees right now on idle now we're going to bench test and see what happens so we're just gonna run CPU test while we're down to 27 degrees as this is sitting itself in the heating compound and everything is blending we're gonna notice temperature drops so that's one big bonus of this basically in the very beginning we'll be what I call a fictitious reading based on it just being all-new artic silver and working together we're running at 35 degrees right now and dropping on a bench test so before we hit the high of 48 let's see what we hit a high of we're almost done 90 percent or 98 percent of the time actually we stayed within the 30 degree area right now we're in 33 degrees near the end of this test we hit a high so far of and a high literally of 42 so we have high of 48 on the air we just hit a high a little high I'm gonna say when I say we hit a high we've hit a high of 42 for a split second and it dropped down to 38 we're running at 28 degrees now after the bench test we were running much higher idle after the bench test before so I'm just for fun I'm gonna run the test once again now I think that things are sitting better this will be the better test at this point - were a little warmer give the benefit of the doubt I'm gonna push it a little harder so we hit 42 for a second and drop down to 35 that is really impressive or holding at 34 38 on a CPU bench test so we're stressing the CPU so tip 42 again one more time this is just after running a bench test well we did hit a high of 44 but to be fair just as a second run of a bench test that I believe that we did it on air we probably would have hit 51 52 34 degrees and holding 33 just dropped 4 33 degrees just like that just like that and now we're down below we're in the 29 27 degree area so guys let me give you my thoughts B overall build everything so let's just get back to it okay so what was the question the question was is it worth it to liquid cool your computer now for the price point of this cooler this is only a hundred and ten dollars Canadian it's a radiator with three 120 s on it so this is a 360 as to gain max L 360 v2 I'm using its own controller which allows me to change colors flicker or do what I hope with the lighting which is kind of cool it also comes with an adapter to plug it straight into the motherboard but in this case I figured I'd leave that open as he's running a blue scheme due to the fact that my friend has led blue lights in the front and rear so you can't change the color so in this case I'll make sure he can't change the color but anyway guys overall the cons of this I have to say is the noise I find it a bit noisy how would that be in a different case I don't know we'd have to try that out and we'll I more than likely I really enjoyed this cooler overall the unit was running about 10 degrees cooler is what I'm estimating so let's say 10 degrees cooler that could mean a lot if you were to overclock for example I found that once you got out of any benching that would push your stress the CPU the CPU is dropping down to like 24 to 27 degrees and that's only going to get a little better as the system marries itself from the CPU to the cooler it just takes a little bit of time for all that to just kind of you know work to work its magic shall we say as we've seen on the second time around that I benched it right after benching it just for fun because I knew it was already warm why not heat it up some more and then max we hit was 44 degrees on a single bench on air that max we hit was 48 on a single bench on this the max we hit was 42 on liquid so right off the bat I could say they're safely a good eight to ten degrees definite drop in temperatures as I think that can only get better during gaming there's just a couple things I wanted to address that I didn't put in the video so I'm adding it now about this game max L 360 cooler this all-in-one liquid cooling system there's one more con that I missed and that con is when you have the AMD Wraith cooler you're pushing air down onto your board which is actually in turn cooling all of your components so unless you have good cooling which this case that we did do it all in did as you can see it had fans everywhere it was pulling in air and sucking air out so he wouldn't really suffer from it but if you don't have good efficient cooling coming in and going across your motherboard you your regular components and your board are going to heat up a little more so there's a problem with water cooling versus air right there so I just wanted to make that clear that is one thing if you're gonna water cool make sure you have good air going across your board so that is something important now that also plays a factor too if you use a taller fan system you're not pushing air down on your board either so keep that in mind when you're doing your fan so sometimes having a fan that blows down is actually a much more efficient system if it's a good fan if you're going to stay air cooling then it is to have a tower thing when it comes to cooling your components if you don't have good airflow so here's something that I noticed that is very important there's a big prorate here because something I missed even though it was right in front of my eyes and that is the air cooling bench test on the CPU we were testing it and making the CPU get warm but I didn't look at the performance and the first score was 1201 9 so that was his score on air cooling then when we went to the a i/o and did the same stress test we actually got a score of 1208 8 so we went up some points on there so it just goes to show that if you're writing your system cooler you're definitely getting a better performance even on a bench test now another thing I got feedback from the customer and the customer told me that he's running about 38 degrees while gaming that is a major thing here because we were running in the 60s when he was gaming before so we've definitely taken care of the problem that this guy was having so it's a friend of mine he contacted me and he said he was having trouble I recommended this a i/o and thank god this a i/o turned out to be very good because I recommended it so that was one of the big things that we were worried about what is his performance during gaming and it definitely dropped almost we will say half but almost half on the temperature rating so a good 20 degrees and that is very impressive so I just wanted to add this to the video and let that get out there because it is very important to know that your performance increased how is your gaming performance and so on and these were little things that I just wanted to put in the video after I noticed I didn't add it to begin with which is very much what this gentleman needed this for was to cool himself off he was hitting the 60s and 70s while gaming and this is what our intentions were or to bring that down at least 10 15 degrees and I think this thing can do it it's definitely got a big enough radiator and the pump seems to be pretty decent so this is the game max L 360 v2 super simple to install in fact like I said it uses the factor mounting backplate from Andy so you don't need to use the included mounting plates four threaded screws with little threads on it screw into that bracket put your compound on mount your water block and thumb screw some screws down on top of those screws installed the radiator went in pretty smoothly this case was a little tight but still pretty smoothly so I have left to do now is clean this bad boy up make the wiring look a heck of a lot better until next time guys keep cool this is the last game hunter saying game over