MSI MPG CoreLiquid K360 – Big cooler with big ambitions

Conclusion and summary

The MPG Coreliquid K360 is the imaginary flagship among MSI’s coolers. Its interesting features include, for example, a fully customizable LCD display or a hidden fan for cooling the surroundings of the processor socket. Nowadays, of course, ARGB fan backlighting cannot be missing. But can this cooler also defend its high price? Today’s review will give you answers to not only this question.

Conclusion and summary

I have a rather contradictory feeling from the MSI MPG Coreliquid K360. On the one hand, it is a highly efficient cooler that will certainly tame even extremely powerful processors with a high amount of waste heat. In terms of cooling efficiency, it is the best cooler in our database at the time. The block with the pump offers attractive build quality, including an LCD display, which you can adapt to your own liking. And the fans give you an impressive backlight of the whole set.

But there are also shortcomings which, given the high price, cannot be overlooked. The use of very high speed fans unnecessarily increases the noise of the cooler. The optimum for this cooler is about half the maximum rpm of the supplied fans. Excessive cabling could certainly be solved better, and the absence of a tube of thermal paste is simply incomprehensible with the cooler being so expensive. At the same time, it would be enough to finish a few details and it would be a great product. The potential of this cooler is considerable, but the overall execution unfortunately does not correspond to its very high price.

• Contents
• Key features
• Measurement methodology
• Results – max rpm
• Results – medium rpm
• Results – low rpm
• Results – temperature and noise dependence
• Conclusion and summary