We have another flagship among all-in-one liquid coolers, this time from Fractal Design. We will focus in detail on the cooler Celsius+ S36 Prisma, which offers a pleasantly minimalist design with a pinch of ARGB lighting. And due to the size of the cooler, high cooling performance can be expected. The question remains, above all, whether it is not at the cost of too much noise, and also whether the cooler can defend its high price.
Results – correlation of the temperature and noise level
Due to the higher noise at maximum speed during standard testing, I performed additional testing again to better demonstrate the relationship between cooling performance and fan noise. The results are similar to the MPG Coreliquid K360. While the temperature curves are quite flat with respect to the fan speed, the noise curve is quite steep at higher speeds.
So again, we come across the limits of the cooler somewhere around half the maximum fan speed. Any further increase in speed has only a minimal benefit for cooling, while the noise level of the fans increases rapidly.
