Cooling Performance

For cooling performance, I installed the Enermax LIQMAXFLO 360 up to our test bench and ran a few different tests to get a look at its performance in a few different situations. Our test configuration by default runs with the Intel i9-13900K with its PL1 and PL2 set to 253 watts and 307A overall. This keeps these tests consistent and doesn’t have the CPU just ramping up almost endlessly which would just show the CPU running at a high temperature for every possible cooler. My first test was with AIDA64’s Stress Test using the FPU workload which is extremely demanding and very similar to what you would see when running rendering workloads. I tested the LIQMAXFLO 360 with the stock fan profile on our Asus motherboard and again at 100% fan speed. With that we could see that the LIQMAXFLO 360 does have some headroom left if you need to crank the fans up, it went from 65c down to 61c at 100% fan speed. The overall results did still have a few coolers running cooler, especially on the stock fan profile test where a few AIOs have their own fan controller and are a little more aggressive on their fan profile but the 100% fan speed test does show that the Trinity Performance 360 did still run a little cooler with its higher slowing fans and denser fins on the radiator.

I ran the same FPU workload, but this time going in and uncapped the PL2 and amperage and this test was done at 100% fan speed. Here I wasn’t looking at temperatures at all, every cooler tested is going to be completely maxed out. I was just watching the CPU wattage readings after running the test until they leveled off. The LIQMAXFLO 360 ended up at 301 watts which was in line with the other 360 mm AIO coolers but the Trinity Performance was still a step above.

My last test is the CPU workload with the AIDA64 Stress Test and this is a more realistic workload that compares to 100% CPU load when gaming and other everyday tasks. These are a lot lower than the FPU workload results. The LIQMAXFLO 360 was a little warm with the stock fan profile but wasn’t too bad at 100% fan speed which is in line with what we saw on the noise tests earlier.