The Aorus brand is and still is the pinnacle in the Gigabyte range, where the Gigabyte products are all about function over looks the Aorus products add in some serious flair making them, often, breathtaking to behold, and the Aorus Waterforce 360 is no different. I cannot thank them enough for this as well as the Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X motherboard ( review incoming) that they have supplied us with! We are now Gigabyte powered. Gigabyte and Aorus were so gracious in sending me the Aorus Waterforce 360mm AIO to tame my newly acquired 12th Generation Intel 12700k CPU. AIOs have also become a bit of a fashion statement. AIO coolers have been around for some time, being the go-to cooling solution as they are good at cooling while looking good and generally run quieter than most air coolers. Gigabyte and Aorus have just the solution for it.

This means lots of heat, which means you will need some serious cooling capabilities.

With monster CPU’s such as the Ryzen 9 5950X boasting a massive 16 cores and 32 threads, and the new Adler lake, 12th Gen Intel CPUs with the 12900k which has, a very confusing, 16 cores, of which 8 is performance cores and the other 8 is efficiency cores, and 32 threads, these beasts both can touch on 250w when going full tilt. The days of simple stock coolers being enough to keep CPUs cool are long gone.

Aorus 360mm aio