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Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 280 AIO Review

Temperatures

All temperature charts are sorted with lowest load temperatures at the top.

The MasterLiquid Pro 280 is a decent performer when dealing with both a stock-clocked and overclocked CPU. However, it is unable to dethrone the Liquid Freezer 240 which remains king of our cooling charts.

Acoustics

The MasterLiquid Pro 280 is nice and quiet, though. The pump is especially quiet and I would say it is actually the quietest pump of any AIO I have ever used. This is with it next to me on an open-air test bench as well – I am sure that in a case, it would be dead silent.

The Air Balance fans also acquit themselves well, giving off a mere hum when the CPU is at stock clocks. Of course, the fans do ramp up when the CPU is overclocked, but the noise is still far from offensive. I have heard much louder AIOs so in this regard the MasterLiquid 280 can be considered a success.

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4 comments

  1. Great review on a average product. That’s an ugly CPU block, why on earth would you want to illuminate a couple of screwheads and what looks like a clutch pressure plate?. You don’t describe it but from the pictures it looks like the coolant passes over the fins then up through a weird ‘Z’ bend then out through the top part of the block. When I saw that configuration and the blue light with the clear cover I thought the water filled the chamber but in the last picture I guess not.
    I’m not a fan of desktop illuminations but this cooler takes it back to basics and then some, performance wise its a Seidon 240M you reviewed in 2013 but the Seidon performed better on a hotter processor. http://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/henry-butt/cooler-master-seidon-240m-liquid-cpu-cooler-review/

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