Performance
This is a high-end and premium cooler, so as you might expect, it does deliver on performance in a big way. Of course, we wouldn’t expect anything less from one of the flagship products from MSI. It made easy work of the i9-12900K (one of the hottest running CPUs on the market), coming in at just 77c under full all-core load, and of course, the idle temperatures are great at just 26c.
Using our optimised settings, we set our Intel Core i9-12900K to fixed clock speeds of 4.9 GHz on all P-Cores and 4 GHz on all of the E-Cores. However, this is combined with an undervolting of 1.3v, this not only saw improved performance from the system but resulted in even lower temperatures of just 70c at full load, putting the MSI in line with other premium solutions from all the big-name brands.
For acoustics, this cooler runs nice and quiet. It was just 33 dBa at idle, on par with all the best AIO coolers, and even some premium air coolers such as the Noctua D15S. Even under load, it was pretty quiet, just 38 dBa, making it one of the quieter AIOs we’ve tested.
There was no change in the optimised test either, it ran just as quietly as in the previous test.
