Is there a go-to AIO cooler?

[Gangster]

Hi all,

Not kept up to date with any PC components at all, but wondering what is the current best AIO cooler available, preferably one without any LCD (I understand they're more expensive).

I'm talking best watt capability, for a reasonable price. I've seen the BeQuiet Silent 3 pop up recently which was showing aiblity to cool 400w (YouTube video) is that realistic? Looking for something that is quiet too - I see Lian Li mentioned and Arctic Cooling (seem well priced). Looking at 360mm size wise. I'm aware of an Asus ROG that gets reccomended but that seems ridiculous in price.

So yeah, most cost effective, reasonably sounding AIO 360mm, is there one? Doing a bit of Googling there doesn't seem to be a king that I can see (e.g. like the Noctua D15 for air cooling, for example).

Thanks

 

[mickyflinn]

Thermalright aio's is excellent value and there other cookers in the review to compare.

Thermalright Frozen Notte and Aqua Elite 360 White V3 Review: Strong AIOs available for less than $65

If you’re looking for a strong AIO that has a budget price tag, you can’t beat Thermalright’s bang per buck.

www.tomshardware.com

Best AIO Coolers 2025

After testing dozens of AIO coolers for thermal performance and noise, we've listed the best models below.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Gangster]

Thermalright aio's is excellent value and there other cookers in the review to compare.

Thermalright Frozen Notte and Aqua Elite 360 White V3 Review: Strong AIOs available for less than $65

If you’re looking for a strong AIO that has a budget price tag, you can’t beat Thermalright’s bang per buck.

www.tomshardware.com

Best AIO Coolers 2025

After testing dozens of AIO coolers for thermal performance and noise, we've listed the best models below.

www.tomshardware.com

Thanks, just trying to get an idea of one that is reasonable priced, quiet and decent at cooling... seems to be quite difficult because an asus rog will be like £300 odd? and then you can get a few for 60-70£? Trying to see if there is a significant difference. Of course, those with the LCD will be the reason (not interested in that) so it does make it a bit difficult. Thanks will take a look at the link - I guess noise normalised results are what I need to look at really.

 

[Gray2233]

Thanks, just trying to get an idea of one that is reasonable priced, quiet and decent at cooling... seems to be quite difficult because an asus rog will be like £300 odd? and then you can get a few for 60-70£? Trying to see if there is a significant difference. Of course, those with the LCD will be the reason (not interested in that) so it does make it a bit difficult. Thanks will take a look at the link - I guess noise normalised results are what I need to look at really.

Asus are some of the biggest rip off merchants in tech.

Pick your poison out of these:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 Black ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03256) = £49.99
• 1 x Thermalright Frozen Warframe SE 360 ARGB Black All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-TLR-04551) = £49.99
• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer III PRO High Performance All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-ARC-04932) = £84.95
• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer III PRO ARGB High Performance All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-ARC-04930) = £99.95

Total: £288.88 (includes delivery: £3.99)​

The Warframe has a nifty LCD screen on the CPU mount, but either of the Thermalrights will cool just about anything in a consumer PC without problems.

The Arctic Freezer III series is the only other AiO I'd consider, while you do pay more you also get thicker radiators and a fan on the CPU mount which can help with VRM cooling, that said the thicker radiators can make mounting it in certain cases problematic.

 

[deviation]

Arctic Freezer III Pro in whatever size you fancy providing you have the space for the thicker 38mm radiator.

 

[Vimes]

Recently bought a Corsair Nautilus 360 AIO, very happy with it. Performance great, no offset mount needed for Intel either.

 

[clone]

Arctic Freezer III Pro in whatever size you fancy providing you have the space for the thicker 38mm radiator.

This.

 

[jabski]

Arctic Freezer III Pro in whatever size you fancy providing you have the space for the thicker 38mm radiator.

thats what I went for also

 

[Fluffybob]

Another vote for the Arctic cooling here

 

[martos123]

I've an Arctic Cooling 420 in my system and it does a great job. Fans are very quiet too.

 

[Gangster]

thanks all appreciate the replies

 

[deviation]

thanks all appreciate the replies

You're welcome dude!