ASUS ROG RYOU III 240 & 360 ARGB CPU Heatsink Review

Thermal Testing - Strong results from ASUS

When testing ASUS' new ROG RYOU III series liquid coolers, we utilised our standard heatsink testing configuration which uses an Intel i9-9900K processor running at a fixed clock speed of 4.8GHz at 1.2V.

Using this hardware configuration, we tested ASUS' ROG AIOs at various fan speeds using OCCT as our CPU test. We recorded the CPU's maximum temperatures over a 30-minute test run and recorded the data below. Below we can see that ASUS' 360mm AIO can deliver similar thermal results to EK's Nucleus CR360 AIO, but EK retains an edge against ASUS and their 8th Gen Asetek pump.

ASUS' 240mm RYOU III AIO is the best performing 240mm AIO that we have tested, though it is worth noting that we have not tested the 240mm version of EK's Nucleus AIOs for comparison.