CoolMaster ML360R - validation

[looak]

Hello fellow enthusiasts!

 

I've got a few concerns I'd like to vent and hear your thoughts on. I bought the ML360R AIO on a pretty decent black Friday sale.

 

Installation of which was PAINFULL to say the least. The manual is probably one of the worst I've experienced in a while. The tubing is just about long enough to mount it vertically right next to the motherboard. And the cables, what a mess and so many, also since the manual was so bad it was really difficult to figure out what cables I needed and which I could just leave. I had to resort to other installation guides to figure it out in the end. That said, this is the first AIO cooler I've attempted to install - still though?

 

Performance isn't where I'd expect it. My idle temperatures seems to be on par with what I read from reviews and benchmarks, around +10 degrees Celsius of room temperature. But running a stress test with prime95 brings my temperatures to around 85 degrees per core, which is about 10 degrees away from when thermal throttling threshold on my CPU. And this is also with only running the stress test for about a minute. I thought maybe I've done something wrong when installing, maybe the thermal paste wasn't applied well enough. So I reapplied it but didn't make much difference.

 

I'm concerned about the pump - how do I know it's actually doing what its supposed to. I guess I would have seen even higher temps if it didn't. 

 

The system I'm running on is a ASRock z370 Extreme4 with i7 8086k.

 

I'm considering buying some third party thermal paste. Thermal Grizzly has done me well in the past.

[Statik]

I don’t have a 360R but I’ve got a 240R coming, and all the reviews I’ve seen have been good?

[looak]

Yes, I agree, reviews are good for them and they seem to have pretty good performance so I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong. But I would like to have validation tools to make sure the pump is running as expected.

 

Some reviews have mentioned the cabling issues with these AIOs.

[Statik]

32 minutes ago, looak said:

Yes, I agree, reviews are good for them and they seem to have pretty good performance so I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong. But I would like to have validation tools to make sure the pump is running as expected.

 

Some reviews have mentioned the cabling issues with these AIOs.

Id try to find temps on a setup with the same specs, compare, and try reseating it. If it’s still not working correctly I’d contact cooler master