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If you’re looking for an All-In-One cooler for your CPU, ASUS have some great options available covering different needs and budgets
Updated: Apr 24, 2024 7:14 pm
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Roll up for the best ASUS coolers money can buy! Liquid cooling is increasingly popular among PC enthusiasts and there’s a growing number of products being produced by different brands to cater for these needs. Typically this is focused on the cooling for the CPU and takes the form of an All-In-One (AIO) setup that includes a pump, radiator, and fans within a single unit. Below we’ll be discussing the options offered by ASUS, one of the leading brands in the market.
If you’re new to AIO setups, you can read our how to install liquid cooling guide, which will walk you through the process in easy to understand steps. ASUS also has their own all-in-one liquid cooling guide which you can consult to get more information on their different product lines; their ‘comprehensive compatibility’ table is particularly useful on this page if you want to make absolutely sure that a particular cooler matches your chosen motherboard socket. Finally, do also read our ‘what to look for when buying an AIO cooler?’ section further down this page if you need to brush up on your knowledge before pulling the trigger on a purchase.
Are ASUS AIO coolers any good?
ASUS are known for producing some of the most high-end AIO coolers available, which regularly appear in our ‘best CPU cooler’ lists each year. They mostly produce premium grade products though they do have more affordable options within the TUF range as well. Most ASUS liquid coolers come with a 6 year warranty, which should bring you some comfort as to the quality of these products.
Premium coolers with a 360° option: ROG Strix LC III Series
£159.99 – £224.99 MSRP
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The ASUS ROG Strix LC III is a high-end, high performance cooler that comes with a fairly unique feature: a magnetic water block that you can rotate 360° to fit any mounting option you choose, allowing for maximum flexibility in your PC build.
The series comes in 240mm (with two fans) and 360mm (three fan) options in either black or white coloring, plus you can pick up ARGB variants of either and/or an LCD model with an 2.1” IPS LCD screen on the water block. All have high-end, high performance coolers that feature an upgraded version of the Asetek 7th gen pump that gives around 0.5°C better cooling on average than the already impressive standard version, thanks to the enhanced cold plate.
The 120mm ROG radiator fans all the options come with have a 2,200RPM speed, capable of generating a 70.38cfm airflow, whilst staying below a respectable 36dB in terms of noise. The ARGB on the fans looks great (assuming you picked that model) and can be controlled via Aura.
ASUS ROG Strix LC III 240 ARGB (White) with 360° rotatable Water Block
Embedded fan with a new ring-shaped frame design and advanced airflow channels
Premium ROG ARGB 120mm fans
ASUS ROG Strix LC III 360 with 360° rotatable Water Block
Embedded fan with a new ring-shaped frame design and advanced airflow channels
The budget-friendly option: TUF Gaming LC II Series
£119.99 – £149.99 MSRP
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The TUF Gaming range is ASUS line of products that provide more affordable options for gamers, and these TUF Gaming LC II ARGB coolers are the most cost-effective picks here by some margin, once again available in either 240mm or 360mm variants depending on the size you need.
The more budget-friendly pricing of this cooler doesn’t mean it’s a weak product: it has solid cooling performance plus ARGB lighting controllable via Aura Sync on its three 120mm fans. You get durable, reinforced-sleeve tubing, and It’s also very quiet, with a claimed peak noise level below 29 dB.
Like many of our selections here it supports LGA 1700 sockets for 12th, 13th, and 14th gen Intel processors, the older LGA 1200 and LGA 115x sockets in case you’re running 10th and 11th gen, plus has AM4 and AM5 socket support for AMD Ryzen processors.
ASUS TUF Gaming LC II 360 ARGB AIO
TUF Gaming 120mm ARGB Radiator Fans
Quiet yet powerful; reserved and elegant: ProArt LC 420
£299.99 MSRP
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The ProArt LC 420 is design suited to content creators and workstation users and the like who aren’t interested in distracting RGB, and want something a bit more stealthy. It’s available in just this one black color and in 420mm size only, which is large indeed.
Noctua are a premium fan brand favoured by enthusiasts, known for being powerful, yet quiet, and the three 140mm NF-A14 fans the cooler comes equipped with are top notch. The fans will only reach about 31.5db when put under strain and yet are capable of shifting 4.18mmH20 of fan air pressure. The radiator they’re housed in is extra thick to provide a greater surface area and therefore improved cooling.
Besides this you get an illuminated meter which displays system information, plus extra reinforced tubing to ensure superior durability.
ProArt LC 420 AIO liquid CPU cooler
Noctua NF-A14 industrial PPC-2000 PWM 140mm Radiator Fans
The ultra-high performer with LCD screen: ROG RYUJIN III series
£289.99 – £404.99 MSRP
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The ROG Ryujin III is the most high performance AIO that the company currently makes, and arguably the best on the market today. It’s the ideal pick for those looking to put together an extreme overclocking build.
The previous generation Ryujin II still features in our best of guides, but this latest model improves on the winning template even further with its new Asetek 8th generation pump with improved embedded fan, which delivers up to 2°C cooler temps than the 7th gen Asetek pump in the previous model. Besides more effective cooling, the pump is also quieter.
In terms of the fans, the three premium-end Noctua 120mm 2000 PWM radiator fans in the non-RGB variant are also nice and quiet, though you can also opt for ROG magnetic Daisy Chain ARGB fans if you wish in the ARGB versions. You can buy either in black or white color variants or in 240mm or 360mm size.
The waterblock is covered by a 3.5″ full-color LCD screen on which hardware info plus customizable animations (in GIF form) can be played, with twice as much storage as the previous gen. You also get one year free subscription to the AIDA 64 advanced diagnostic and system monitoring tool included when you buy this product.
ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 ARGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler with LCD screen
The latest 8th gen Asetek pump with a 3-phase motor
Embedded fan with a new ring-shaped frame design and advanced airflow channels
Premium ROG ARGB magnetic daisy-chainable fans with Gen 2 LED
ASUS ROG Ryujin III 240 AIO Liquid CPU Cooler with LCD screen (Noctua fans)
The latest 8th gen Asetek pump with a 3-phase motor
Embedded fan with a new ring-shaped frame design and advanced airflow channels
Premium Noctua 120mm 2000 PWM fans
ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 ARGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler with LCD screen (white)
The latest 8th gen Asetek pump with a 3-phase motor
Embedded fan with a new ring-shaped frame design and advanced airflow channels
Premium ROG ARGB magnetic daisy-chainable fans with Gen 2 LED
Another ultra-high performer with circular LED array: ROG RYUO III series
£199 – £259 MSRP
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The RYUO III is another 360mm radiator option that comes with a Asetek 8th gen pump, however, instead of the LCD screen in the more expensive cooler you get a circular mini LED array that can display the usual stats on the core system or customized animations and ‘ROG-exclusive anime content’. This cooler is ideal for painting with an ASUS ROG motherboard and case with similar styling. The build quality is again top notch, with the components being made from aluminum with a vacuum coating for maximum durability.
You get up to three premium ROG ARGB fans with this cooler, which obviously have the benefit of controllable ARGB lighting to match the rest of your PC case.
ASUS ROG RYUO III 360 ARGB AIO Liquid CPU Cooler with LED display
8th gen Asetek pump with a 3-phase motor
Premium ROG ARGB cooling fans
For those putting together a custom loop design: RYUJIN III Waterblock
If, instead of an AIO you’re constructing your own custom loop water-cooling setup, then you can buy the RYUJIN III Waterblock separately. Depending on which model you go with, this can provide you with the same LCD screen and ROG monitor features as you’d find in an AIO setup.
Save money on these coolers with Rate My Gear
ASUS are once again launching their Rate My Gear campaign, allowing you to get £25 cashback off select products if you pop in a review of said products.
At the time of writing, all the coolers on this page, bar the TUF II are on the list of eligible products. Click the link to read the terms and conditions and claim your money back!
What to look for when buying an AIO cooler?
Compatibility with the CPU and motherboard
When picking a cooler, the first thing to do is look at what TDP value it supports: this represents the Wattage (i.e. power) of the CPU, with higher TDP values requiring more advanced cooling. With regards to motherboard compatibility, you’ll want to match up the sockets supported by the cooler with those of the motherboard.
Factors that determine cooling performance
CPU AIO coolers work by affixing a conductive heatsink to the processor which draws heat away from the component by the movement of liquid through it. Warm liquid is pulled away from the heatsink towards a radiator where the temperature is dissipated outside of your case, the now-cooled liquid travels back to the heatsink where it ‘picks up’ more thermal energy, and the cycle continues. The movement of the water is controlled by a pump which is usually affixed to the heatsink forming what is commonly referred to as a ‘water block’. This is connected by tubes to the radiator, which works by forcing the warm liquid into thin tubes in a high-surface area mesh through which fans blow air.
The three main factors that determine the effectiveness of an AIO cooler then are the heatsink, the water pump, and the radiator.
Noise levels
On average, AIO setups tend to be a bit quieter than air cooling builds, particularly under heavy strain, though this is not always the case. As mentioned above, liquid cooling setups do still incorporate fans in order to extract heat from the radiator and out of your case which do make a noise, and the water pump itself also makes a noise; how quiet an AIO is can vary depending on the manufacturing of these two features.
Reliability
Given these AIO systems will be pumping liquid around the electrics of your highly valuable computer, reliability is of the utmost importance. Assuming you put the tubing together correctly, it tends to be the pump which can cause any leaking issues, so we advise doing a bit of reading to make sure this is of an acceptable quality. Thankfully ASUS products tend to be of very high build quality.
If there are any issues with your unit, ASUS also offers a 6 year warranty for AIO coolers, which is one of the longer ones out there, with a 1 year warranty for the water block element specifically.
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