Cooler Master Seidon 120V V3 Plus Review

Performance Analysis

Performance on the LGA1150 system is okay but not outstanding, with the Seidon 120V V3 Plus only offering a delta T of 47°C, which is only on par with mid-range air coolers like the Gelid Antarctica. Meanwhile, other single 120mm radiator coolers, like the Corsair H75 and similarly priced Arctic Liquid Freezer 120, offer better results.


On LGA2011 it's a more promising result. Here, the delta T of 46°C is rather good – it's still bettered by other similar all-in-ones, but not by as much, and it takes a really beefy air cooler like the Cryorig R1 Universal to do better.

Finally, on AMD, we see another half-decent result for a cooler of this calibre, with the delta T of 27°C keeping up with the competition.

As regular readers will know, we test at maximum fan speed (or fixed custom settings if the cooler offers them), and so what you see is maximum performance. Unfortunately, the Seidon 120V V3 Plus is pretty loud, and while its wide RPM range does mean this won't always be the case, you are likely to hear it on an overclocked CPU once load is applied for any real length of time unless you do some PWM profile tweaking to limit its noise output, which will in turn limit its performance.

Conclusion

We haven't come away too impressed by the Seidon 120V V3 Plus. The unit doesn't do an especially good job of disguising its entry-level credentials from a build quality perspective, and niggles like the lack of a fan splitter cable and a fiddly installation process sour the milk further. Performance could have made up for this, but ultimately the performance-to-noise ratio didn't really impress either. Stood next to the Arctic Liquid Freezer 120, which costs pretty much the same, the Seidon 120V V3 Plus is tough to recommend. It does have a slimmer radiator and it's most potent from an installation and performance perspective for LGA2011(-v3) users, so for a certain subset of people working with those platforms it may hold some appeal. Still, we reckon most people with £50 to put towards cooling can do better than this, and the Arctic cooler is a fine place to start.