Published: October 9, 2023 | Source: Enermax | Author: Von Blade

Enermax Liqmaxflo 360 AIO Review

Conclusion

Conclusion

You know how you can watch cooking shows like Masterchef and they blather on about ingredients of which you’ve never heard, and then produce a meal that would barely count as a snack. Then you can have something fairly simple like pie and mash, or burger and chips for dinner, and it might not win any culinary awards but it’s still ticking all the boxes of filling and tasty. The Enermax Liqmaxflo 360 AIO fits very much into that category.

That isn’t damning with faint praise either. It’s all you actually need a cooler to be, in that it keeps your processor cool at both the tested RPM speeds, is built well, has a few options you can fiddle around with, and has RGB lighting. It might not have some of the more outre elements of higher-end products, such as customisable OLED screens built into the pump, or cableless fan chaining, but that enables it to keep the price low and leave it in the thick of a very competitive market.

Naturally when a product does its job with the minimum of fuss, neither being terrible or ridiculously impressive, it tends to mean that our list of niggles outweighs the positives, so bear in mind that we’re being nitpicky here, and things that might feel like odd-choices to us might be drops in the ocean if you just want an AIO CPU cooler which is quiet enough and keeps your CPU cool. Normally we would applaud anything which cut down on the amount of software we had to install, but we’d prefer a little more control over the lighting on the Enermax Liqmaxflo 360. As you could see from our photograph, the VRM fan lighting and radiator fan lighting aren’t synched together. A niggle. Similarly the actual VRM fan itself is an odd thing. It’s so tiny that there is little airflow off of it, and the likelihood of you having a motherboard that has such poor VRM cooling, and yet push your system hard enough to heat them up whilst also saving money on your cooling, is slim to none. If your VRMs get hot enough that the tiny fan on the Enermax makes a difference you’ve got bigger problems. Lastly whilst the connectors do their job well enough, they are about as basic as it is possible to be, although at this price point we’d be unlikely to expect more.

However, those are small downsides to a product which covers the base requirements of a CPU cooler well enough. It has a flexible mounting solution so you can fit it to any current sockets. You get four fans, and it’s easy enough to run without the VRM fan if you so wish. Additionally whilst the lighting options aren’t enormous, they are enough for most people who want some RGB lighting without being super fussy about how it looks. Lastly, and most importantly, it performs well in our testing showing that the fans and ultra-thick radiator are more than enough to keep even the toastiest processor cool, even at lower fan speeds. Doing all that at this price point might be all you want in life, and so the Enermax Liqmaxflo 360 AIO wins our OC3D Approved Award.