Core i7 8700K baseline test

Time for the essence of this review. The Deepcool Gamerstorm Castle 240 GB should be more than enough for the range of CPUs from the Pentium to the Core i7 hexa-core or even the Core i9 octa-core. We ran the test at the default frequencies, but there should still be some room left for OC. First up is the IDLE temperature, measured when the CPU does almost nothing, just waiting for any action by the user.

Then there are LOAD temperatures, 100% usage of the CPU was generated by WPrime 2.10 (3x 1024M).

The ambient temperature was about 23 degrees C. It does affect the cooling performance for sure, but all the coolers were tested in similar conditions. You don’t want to have the CPU above 75-80 degrees at default frequencies, otherwise we can surely assume that the cooling is very average/poor. This AIO cooler offers good performance but is a bit worse than, for example, the NZXT Kraken X62 (but this one has a 280 mm radiator). On the next page, we’ll show you how silent this cooler is.