AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Baseline test

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Baseline test

Time for the essence of this review. The Deepcool Castle 280EX 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 and also the AMD Ryzen family. Unlike in the previous reviews, this time we’ll check the cooler on a Ryzen 7 3700X system as well. We ran the test at the default frequencies. First up is the IDLE temperature, measured when the CPU does next to nothing, just waiting for any action by the user.

There are no major differences in this case.

Here, it’s becoming more interesting, and you can see some differences. The ambient temperature was about 22°C, which does affect cooling performance for sure, but we tested all the previous coolers in similar conditions. You don’t want to have the CPU above 70-75 degrees at default frequencies for the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, otherwise, you can assume that the cooler is surely doing a poor job. This AIO cooler offers very solid performance, and it’s in the higher-end areas of the 280 mm LCSs spectrum. On the next page, we’ll show you how silent (or maybe loud?) the cooler is.