Foreword:
As the saying goes, water cooling that can't show emojis is not good water cooling.
Taking stock of the current flagship water coolers, most of them use a visual water block design, which is simply to add a screen to the water block, such as ASUS's Ryujin series, Limin Frozen Vision series, Xingu Kunlun II series, and MSI's MEG Coreliquid S360 and so on. However, when it comes to MSI MEG 360, the biggest regret is that the fan focuses on performance + silence, and does not bless ARGB lighting effects. Recently, MSI brought the best radiator - MPG Coreliquid D360, which not only makes up for the shortcomings of no ARGB lighting effect, but also makes it a lot more accessible to the people. Just a few days before 2024, I got this radiator, and now I'll talk about the hands-on experience.
Unboxing:
In terms of the design of the outer packaging, MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 is a little more dynamic than the previous product, especially the frosty atmosphere shown is stronger. The lower right side indicates that the heatsink uses ASETEK's water pump solution and supports the latest AM5 and LGA1700 platforms.
The back of the package shows a series of highlights of the water cooler, such as the fan, the structure of the water block, the screen, and so on.
Unboxing family photo:
The MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 fan is placed separately from the radiator, and there are still a lot of accessories overall, mainly the buckles of each platform, as well as 5V ARGB 3in1 cable, thermal grease, quick start guide, etc.
The fastening scheme is almost identical to the previous S360. Several are compatible with all major platforms on the market (including some server platforms).
For example, Intel supports LGA1150 1151 1155 1156 1200 1700 and LGA2011 2011-3 2066 platforms.
AMD supports AM5, AM4, FM2+ FM2, FM1, AM3+ AM3, AM2+ AM2, and SocketTR4 STRx4 SP3 platforms.
In terms of fans, MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 has been upgraded to the 6th generation Blade fan, which not only supports ARGB lighting effects, but also adopts a staggered ring design of fan blades to increase air pressure, which can allow the airflow to blow into the radiator more intensively, and the penetration is stronger, thereby improving the heat dissipation efficiency.
In terms of specific parameters, the fan size is 120x120x25mm, with a double ball bearing design, a speed of 0 2500rpm, and a maximum air volume of 774cfm, the maximum wind pressure has reached 429mmh20 with a maximum noise of 399 dba。It is an ARGB fan with excellent performance.
In terms of radiator, the specific size is 394x120x27mm, and there are MPG and Dragon Shield logos on the side. The overall workmanship is very outstanding, the fin layout is smooth, the density is high, and the water cooling pipe adopts a three-layer nylon wrapping design, which can not only prevent the evaporation of the water cooling liquid, but also improve the wear resistance of the water pipe and prolong the service life.
Of course, the core of the MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 is the water block, like the previous S360, the front mirror cover is a magnetic design, and after removing it, you can see the three-layer design of the water block.
Its specific structure is: the first layer is 24-inch IPS screen;The second layer is equipped with a 60mm push-down fanThe third layer is a water block base made of pure copper.
Among them, the 60mm downward pressure fan can mainly assist in heat dissipation of the VRM cooling module, so that the processor performance can be released more smoothly and durably.
The pure copper water block base is reserved for silicone grease, but a small tube of thermal grease is also included, which is convenient for users to use when disassembling and replacing the processor.
In terms of cables, each fan comes with a 4-pin power supply and a 3-pin ARGB lighting synchronization cableThe water block is equipped with 3 4pin fan power cables (directly connected to the CPU FAN) and USB 20 data cable for reading and transmitting on-screen information, plus a SATA power supply cable.
Installation effect display:
cpu：intel i7 14700k
Radiator: MSI MPG Coreliquid D360
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WiFi II
Memory: Shadowrun Hof Pro DDR5 7000MHz 16GX2
Graphics card: Shadow Run RTX4080 OC.
Power supply: MSI MPG A1000G
MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 is very difficult to install, mainly because the fastener is easy to install, but there are a lot of wires, you need to be patient to sort it out, and finally cover the magnetic top cover.
The MSI MPG Coreliquid D360 can be finely tuned on the screen via the MSI Center software. For example, the default state is a landscape design, displaying the current CPU temperature, frequency, usage, etc., and users can also customize the time, weather, **text information, etc.;And both support the popular GIF and MOV formats.
Perfect interpretation of water cooling that can't show emojis is not good water cooling!
Introduction to the installed platform:
Because the processor uses i7 14700K, this time it is also equipped with a new generation of high-end Z790 motherboard from MSI - MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WiFi II, as far as the power supply is concerned, the motherboard can be described as far ahead, using a rather luxurious 19+1+1 phase power supply, of which the PWM controller uses Renesas RAA229131, which can control up to 20 phase PWM signals;DRMOS uses the Renesas RAA22010540, which can reach a maximum output current of 105A, which can unleash the performance of the processor.
In addition, the VRM power supply part of the motherboard also adopts an excellent heat dissipation dealer, through the heat pipe direct touch design + 7W MK high-efficiency heat dissipation pad, which can quickly dissipate the heat of the MOS tube, bringing more stable and long-lasting performance output.
The graphics card that is installed and matched this time is Yingchi RTX4080 Xingyao OC (mainly RTX4090 The premium is too serious), I have also written a single review before, it uses AD103-300 core, based on TSMC 4N manufacturing process, equipped with 9728 CUDA cores, 304 *** Tensor cores, 76 third-generation RT cores, 112 ROP units. Its core base clock is 2205MHz, the boost frequency is 2580MHz, the video memory configuration is 256-bit wide 16GB GDDR6X, and the video memory frequency is 224Gbps, and adopts 12VHPWR power supply interface, TGP power consumption is 320W (Max 450W), and the recommended power supply is 1000W.
So in terms of power supply, MSI's flagship power supply - MPG A1000G PCIe5 is also used. This power supply is based on the latest ATX3It is built with 0 standard, has the latest 12VHPWR interface, and supports a maximum power output of 600W on a single wire. In terms of specs, the power supply is +5V and +3The DC output of 3V is 22A, and the combined power is 120W;The DC output of +12V is 835A, the converted power is 1000W.
Table set renderings:
The display is MSI 274QRF-QD E2, and I personally think it is the most worthwhile gaming monitor for about 1500 yuan. It is 27 inches in size, equipped with a Rapid IPS panel, with a 180Hz screen refresh rate and ultra-low screen latency of 1ms, as well as quantum dot technology, and the color performance is also very good, and the sense of transparency is very strong.
Performance measurement:
In the case of room temperature 21 (with air conditioning on), through AIDA64 single baking FPU, i7-14700K is fully fired, and the core voltage is 132V with a frequency of p-core 55GHz, 4 for E core3GHz, the power consumption is about 292W, after more than 10 minutes of copying, the core temperature is only 88, and the performance is really strong.
And when playing daily games, the temperature of the CPU basically does not exceed 60 degrees Celsius. For example, when testing PUBG, the CPU temperature was controlled below 50 (the measured environment was about 20 in the indoor temperature).
Summary:
As a sub-flagship liquid cooling radiator priced at 1200 yuan, MSI MPG Coreliquid D360's performance in all aspects is really eye-catching, not only has a visual water block, but also makes up for the shortcomings of S360 that does not support ARGB lighting effects, the most important thing is that the performance is still top-notch, and it can easily suppress the fast 300W power of the i7-14700K under actual measurements. In short, if you want to install a high-end DIY host at the end of the year, you can learn about this radiator.
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