ASUS ROG Ryuo III 240 ARGB, schwarz

This is a pretty fantastic cooler, and while it’s not quite the coolest performance we’ve seen yet, it’s certainly respectable in the realm of high-end performance, which is always impressive for a smaller 240mm radiator design. We use a particularly fierce i9-12900K for our testing, so to put in a competitive Cinebench R23 score is impressive. Anyone trying to cool a high TDP CPU will do just fine if they’re just gaming with this cooler. However, more demanding and extended rendering workloads and similar heavy-duty CPU tasks would benefit from the 360mm version.

With their RYOU series of AIOs, ASUS is trying to set themselves apart from their competitors, offering features that nobody else does while also investing in the latest pump technologies. With this effort, ASUS wanted to create the best performing AIO that they could, and one of the most technologically advanced AIOs on the market. On the pump side we have Asetek's new 8th generation 3-phase pump design, on the radiator side we have new design hat promises 2-degrees (celsius) cooler operation per 100 watts of thermal load than their last-generation radiator design. Together, these improvements should allow ASUS' RYOU III series of AIOs to easily outperform their predecessors, and ASUS believes that they have one of the best, if not the best performing AIOs on the market with their new 360mm RYOU III model. Today, we are putting that to the test.