Just installed beQuiet! Silent Loop 2 360 cooler.

[Firegod]

Moved away from my trusty beQuiet! Dark Rock TF cooler to this new AIO water cooled setup. So far so good. I'm cooling an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. Idle temps according to core temp are around 34ºC but the Asus Utility reports 31ºC at idle. I ran 2 passes through Cinebench just briefly to see how load temps looked and they seemed steady at 71ºC (according to core temp).

I used Noctua NT-H1 Thermal paste, although I see that NT-H2 is available now. Not sure if I should have stumped for the newer variant.

I have the setup quite silent. The x3 case fans (also Silent Wings 3) are about 600rpm each at idle and the CPU fan (x3 rad fans) are reporting in at 800rpm currently. I also have the pump duty cycle set lower in the BIOS. Default seemed to be 100% all the time no matter the temperature. I've changed it to run ~60% duty cycle if temps are lower than 40ºC, and then something like 75% if temps are lower than 60ºC and finally 100% duty cycle if temps reach 70ºC or above.

So there is room for tweaking if the temps are a little high but my initial feeling is 34 - 71 is a perfectly good operating range.

Ended up having to convert the case to an "open" standard as the radiator wouldn't fit nicely, it touched the heatsink on the VRM so I wanted to use a locating slot further off the motherboard but it was blocked by the upright in the case. So that had to come out... and a screw rounded! So had to drill it out. What a nightmare.

Some pics.

 

[Cooler running]

It's a nice cooler, unlike many of the cases, it comes with the higher end be quiet fans.

If I was putting my build together today I'd probably go for the silent loop 2 in an 802.

On temps, it depends on how fast you're running the fans.

 

[Firegod]

Thanks - I do like the beQuiet! products, they do seem very well made.

Yeah going to have another look into the fan profiles this weekend and see if I can't get a little more airflow without sacrificing the silence.

Big thanks to OCUK. It arrived the next day! Amazing service.

 

[DNfk]

How has it been I'm going to upgrade my CPU cooler but I'm stuck between air vs water. how has the noise been with this, I like beQuiet products, I've got 2 fan and their PSU but havent yet bit the bullet for a new cpu cooler.

 

[Firegod]

How has it been I'm going to upgrade my CPU cooler but I'm stuck between air vs water. how has the noise been with this, I like beQuiet products, I've got 2 fan and their PSU but havent yet bit the bullet for a new cpu cooler.

It's been going well, certainly pays to tune your fans if you can (Asus has QFan) and then set custom curves in the software. Normal use the fans just have a nice hum. I have my case fans set to follow CPU temperature in the software as well so with the 3 on the rad going and then the 3 in the case going it can get loud when the CPU heats up. I may unlink the case fans and set a static speed for them. But the watercooler has been rock solid. Just been gaming for an hour and a half, back in Windows now and temps are at ~36º with the CPU fans at ~1000rpm (~33%), and they are barely audible. I think if like me you have beQuiet products, you'll like the water cooler.