120mm Water Cooler Round Up w/ Cooler Master, Scythe and Zalman

Temperature Results

With the system running at stock settings the Zalman Reserator 3 Max sets at the head of the pack running at 55.25C with only 0.6 degrees gap between the top 3 coolers. At the back of the pack is the Scythe Apsalus II 120 running a 58.5C. The Scythe Apsalus II 120 is also the quietest cooler in the round up, with the Zalman Reserator 3 Max being the loudest. This is due to their respective fans. Running the Scythe fan the system was running completely silent. So I retested all coolers running the Scythe fan so see how the performance of the coolers.

All the coolers except the Zalman Reserator 3 Max ran pretty much identically, running within a degree of one another. The Reserator 3 Max slipped to the back of the pack with the slower CFM Scythe fan. So, when all four of these liquid coolers were using the same fan the idle results were damn near identical and at load they were also fairly close. These results were pretty much what I was expecting considering all the coolers have very similar designs with the exception of the Zalman Reserator 3 Max.