Photos and Features
Before diving into the features of the LIQMAXFLO 360 I did want to run through the models available from Enermax with the LIQMAXFLO lineup because the LIQMAXFLO 360 that I have here for testing is just one of their models. The lineup has six models models in total with those being split up between the LIQMAXFLO and LIQMAXFLO SR models. The LIQMAXFLO SR has the same RGB pump design as the LIQMAXFLO lineup but has a standard 27 mm radiator thickness and comes with non-RGB fans. The LIQMAXFLO lineup on the other hand has a thicker 38mm radiator, RGB fans, and is also available in different sizes. The LIQMAXFLO SR comes in one, two, and three 120mm fan configurations whereas the LIQMAXFLO, with its performance focus skips the single fan design and is available in two and three 120mm fan configurations then one random 420 triple 140mm fan setup. I’m surprised they don’t also have a dual fan version on the 140 mm fan model as well.
Our LIQMAXFLO 360 comes with three 120mm fans and they have the model name UCSFARGB12P-LMF, this isn’t a model that Enermax sells currently and none of their listed fans look similar at all. It’s always nice when you can buy additional fans to match everything up. Officially the model name is their ARGB Silent Flow Fan, so I’m hoping we see them come out in the future. They can run between 500 RPM and 1800 RPM. They have a black housing which has rubber vibration pads on the corners and then white translucent fan blades which are lit up with the addressable RGB lights in the center housing. They have five blades that wrap around and then the front center cap has the Enermax logo on it. What is really unique about these though is their wiring, they have two sets of wiring that run from the center of the fan out and then it is all combined into a compact 8-pin connection which has two missing pins meaning it is only using 6 connections. Each fan has two plugs, one male and one female and the cable length goes just past the end of the fan. The idea here is that each fan can be plugged into each other daisy chaining them together for clean simple wiring. It isn’t as clean and simple as Lian Li’s Uni-Fan design but it does clean up the wiring significantly which is one of the main downsides to RGB fans.
One of the big upgrades for the LIQMAXFLO 360 over the SR model and almost every other AIO cooler is the radiator being 38 mm thick. We saw with this Lian Li’s new performance model as well and I’m excited to see all-in-one coolers moving beyond the “standard” configuration and looking to edge out more performance from more than just the pump/block design. The radiator on the LIQMAXFLO 360 has three 120 mm fan mounts and is all black. The end caps are both squared off which I think looks a little more modern than the older rounded endcap style you see sometimes. The fin density isn’t any different than a standard AIO radiator where the Lian Li performance model did increase there. They then have the LIQMAXFLO branding etched into the side and painted in white. The two water lines have black sleeving on them and then on the opposite end from the lines, there is a screw in the endcap where you can open the radiator up and top the coolant level off in the future. The hose end of the radiator has a serial number sticker and a sticker with the importer information on it for France and Germany.
In addition to the pump being on top of the waterblock, like most AIO coolers. The LIQMAXFLO 360 also has a 60 mm fan mounted to the top. The fan has the same addressable RGB lighting as the radiator fans to tie all of that together and for cooling this fan is designed to block air down and out the sides of the pump housing to get airflow onto the VRMs or VRM heatsinks around the CPU socket as well as your memory. One of the main downsides to going with water cooling over an air cooler is that those areas end up with less cooling. With power draw getting higher and higher with the current generation CPUs, this has become more and more important. The pump itself has a dual chamber design which is used to increase the pump pressure and flow. The pump is Enermax’s first PWM pump design and it runs between 1200 RPM and 3000 RPM. The fan on top maxes out at 3000 RPM as well but can run slower on the low end, down to 500 RPM. The fan cover is removable and is held in place with magnets and can be flipped around to line the Enermax branding on top depending on your build's orientation. The pump with the fan and cover on top is very tall for an AIO cooler at 70 mm in total height and for wiring, it has the 4-pin PWM fan header which controls the pump and VRM fan then a three-wire addressable RGB cable that can daisy chain in line with the fan cable to plug into the included controller or your motherboards aRGB header. The big gaps on the sides in the squared-off design are where air flows out from the VRM fan and the wires come out in between the two water lines which have a right-angled swivelable connection on the side of the pump. The base is copper and has a visible texture to it, not a mirrored finish. The water block comes with thermal paste pre-installed in a hexagram shape which helps eliminate that step from the installation.
