DeepCool Ryzen Performance – Assassin III or Castle 360 AIO?

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

Software Used

• CPUID HWMonitor
• WPrime
• Ryzen Master
• 3DMark