Cooling Performance

For performance testing, I put both of the Lian Li Galahad II Trinity coolers through our standard testing. This includes a few different workloads to heat things up. The most demanding of those is the AIDA 64 FPU workload. I tested this with the stock fan profile and again at 100% fan speed. Both of the triple 120mm coolers handled this surprisingly well. With the stock fan profile, the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF 360 came in at 62c which matched the Aquafusion Adv 360 but the Galahad II Trinity Performance 360 on the other hand blew that out of the water at 59c. Testing again with 100% fan speed the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF 360 matched the Aquafusion Adv at 60c but the Galahad II Trinity Performance knocked two degrees off of that for 58c.

While testing with the AIDA64 FPU workload I went in and turned out PL2 and amperage limits off and ran one more test. This test has every cooler maxing out the temperatures but big us a look at which cooler has more cooling overall, this is of course with the fans at 100% fan speed, not that they wouldn’t already be on the stock fan profile. The test is run until the wattage for the CPU stops dropping and levels off. The Galahad II Trinity SL-INF 360 outperformed the Aquafusion Adv here with an impressive 307 watts. The Galahad II Trinity Performance however said hold my bear and put down an impressive 323 watts making it the best performing cooler tested so far and by a large margin.

The AIDA64 Stress Test using the CPU workload is what I find to be more realistic than what you will see when gaming and using your PC normally. The FPU workload is closer to when you are rendering something. So it is no surprise that here the temperatures are lower with the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF 360 matching the Aquafusion Adv with the stock fan profile at 55c and the Galahad II Trinity Performance knocking 2 degrees off of that at 53c. With the fans cranked up the Galahad II Trinity SL-INF 360 was one degree behind the Aquafusion Adv here but the Galahad II Trinity Performance did well at 48c.

Something to note btw, the Galahad II Trinity Performance was initially tested not knowing I didn’t have the pump RPMs turned up. They run at 4202 RPM when cranked up. Turning that down, even with the fan speeds at 100% made a 3-degree difference in most of our tests and for the CPU wattage test was the difference between 317 watts and 323. The 317 is still well ahead of anything else tested but it is surprising how much of a difference the pump speed from 3000 RPM to 4200 RPM made.