Test and methodology
A Ryzen 5 3600 has to be cooled at factory settings, in addition 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport (2x8GB) DDR4 memory on a MSI B550 Tomahawk (BIOS 7C91vA3). The Asus ROG Strix GTX 1060 6GB is running in zero-fan mode for the CPU stress tests only for the image output, and a BitFenix Whisper M 450W serves as the power source, all housed in the Thermaltake Core P3 as an open benchtable.
All records are logged with HWInfo64 v6.30-4240 – 2000ms logging, the specified temperature is derived from the sensor CPU Die (Average). The load of Prime95 produces an average of 88 watts of CPU package power. Since I don’t have air conditioning, the values in the graphs are the delta between room temperature and CPU temperature. This allows all cooling systems to be compared fairly, even if the ambient temperature is different. The thermal paste supplied with the cooler or pre-applied is used in each case
Benchmarks
The first run was performed with maximum pump speed and increasing fan PWM. The speed of the pump seems to be not correctly readable, for the sake of completeness they are nevertheless in the table.
|
100% pump |
30% PWM |
60% PWM |
100% PWM |
|
Pump speed |
5310 RPM (?) |
5310 RPM (?) |
5310 RPM (?) |
|
Fan speed |
1070 RPM |
1570 RPM |
2050 RPM |
|
Noise characteristics |
low hum |
whirring |
loud whirring |
|
Ambient temperature |
23,7 – 23,5°C |
23,1 – 23,6°C |
21,8 – 22,6°C |
The second set of data aims to scale the cooling capacity with the flow rate of the pump, here is the result:
|
100% Fan |
30% PWM |
60% PWM |
100% PWM |
|
Pump speed |
2540 RPM (?) |
2540 RPM (?) |
5310 RPM (?) |
|
Fan speed |
2050 RPM |
2045 RPM |
2055 RPM |
|
Noise characteristics |
inaudible |
inaudible |
low hum |
|
Ambient temperature |
21,7 – 21,2°C |
22,6 – 22,0°C |
21,8 – 22,6°C |
And this is how the newcomer fares in comparison to the established AiO manufacturers:
Summary and conclusion
To answer the question posed at the beginning: No, these first steps are not a crash landing. But when it comes to the aspects of quality control, workmanship and pure cooling performance, you do stumble a bit. You can’t beat other 360mm or 280mm AiO solutions, with 240mm you at least pull even within the measurement tolerance. I removed the crumbs in the thermal paste with tweezers, so that wasn’t the problem.
With a 5 year warranty, you put a lot of faith in your new product, but it definitely needs some touch ups. By ditching the plastic bags, you could spend the few cents on black mounting hardware and rework the installation at the same time. Currently planned pricing of 129.99 euros for the 240mm , 149.99 euros for 280mm and 179.99 euros for the 360mm version shown here seem unrealistic to me.
Until G.Skill comes back with an improved revision or a second series, you’d better reach for other offerings. I don’t want to pronounce a “cobbler sticks to his last” here, but they can simply do memory better.
G.Skill ENKI Series AiO ENKI 360 (GW-DTNL9A1P-A360XG1)
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