DeepCool Ryzen Performance – Assassin III or Castle 360 AIO?

Peter Donnell / 5 years ago

Test System & Methodology

Please note that this review is not performed on our usual test bench. As such, these results are not comparable to our mainline CPU cooler review.

Test system:

Gigabyte Aorus Master X570
AMD Ryzen 3800X
PowerColor RX 5700
16GB Crucial DDR4 3000 MHz
512GB OCZ SSD
Thermaltake PSU
DeepCool Maccube 550
All testing conducted using their included thermal paste

We’d like to say a big thank you to Gigabyte, Crucial, AMD, OCZ, Thermaltake, and Deepcool for providing us with the above testing equipment and their on-going support.

Testing Methodology

WPrime is run for 10 runs to calculate “load” results
3DMark Firestrike (standard) is used for testing
Fans are left to operate at default PWM profile speeds unless otherwise stated
For water cooling tests, all pumps have been operated at 12 volts unless otherwise stated
Ambient temperatures should be between 21-23 degrees in all our tests unless otherwise stated
Acoustic measurements are taken 10cm horizontally and 10cm vertically away from the CPU cooler with the VGA fan disabled
Stock tests are performed using “out of the box” settings for the CPU
Overclocking tests are performed with PBO enabled
All coolers were tested under identical settings unless otherwise stated.
There is approximately a 1-degree Celsius margin of error in our temperature recording software CPUID HW Monitor
There is approximately a 1.5dBA margin of error with our Benetech GM1351 decibel meter