be quiet! Light Loop 360 CPU Cooler Review

Gaming Tests – Intel CPU

OC3D CPU Cooler Gaming Test

With this new CPU testing rig, we wanted to experiment with analysing the “gaming” performance of CPU coolers. After all, all-core stress tests are not a common workload for PC users. Games do not usually put huge levels of stress on all cores of your processor, especially if your CPU has a high core count. We also wanted to see if your choice of CPU cooler impacts GPU thermals under a GPU-focused stress test. After all, your CPU cooler can have a huge impact on the overall airflow pattern of your PC.

For our CPU game test we used Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker’s benchmarking tool for our gaming test. This is a test that can run for a long time, and moves between CPU and GPU limited parts of the game. This test was used at a resolution of 1080p at maximum settings.

1000 RPM Performance

In out standard gaming test, be quiet’s new Light Loop cooler performs well. Below, we can see much lower thermals than their Dark Rock Elite air cooler. This is both in terms of GPU thermals and CPU thermals. This makes sense, as this liquid cooler adds three 120mm exhaust fans for our heatsink test system.

Max RPM Performance

Maxing out the RPMs of this AIO delivers similar results to before, with a small drop in CPU thermals. This isn’t an overly demanding thermal workload for this system, as games rarely max out all available CPU cores; even if it is CPU-limited.