Say it ain’t so, a product in the custom PC industry space right now that’s dare I say “cheap”, “affordable”, “coming down in price”. Unbelievably, yes, that is the case. This is Thermaltake’s TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync all-in-one liquid cooler. And despite the ridiculously funky name, it’s surprisingly impressive all things considered. That’s mostly because of the price.
Let me be clear, this thing isn’t going to blow the bloody doors off of our best CPU coolers buying guide, on quality alone, or by introducing some radical new design element. No sir, but what it does do is dramatically drop the price of LCD display AIOs by a hell of a lot.
This is possibly the cheapest 360 mm I’ve seen with a display (“possibly” doing a lot of heavy lifting there, to stop the comments section from rinsing me. It’s cheap, ok, real cheap). At $140 US and £125, what you get for the money is utterly staggering.
Thermaltake’s built this thing with a 360 mm aluminum radiator (pretty much the de facto norm when it comes to AIOs these days) with a “high-quality pump” (Thermaltake’s words, not mine) and a single 360 mm single-frame ARGB fan setup all baked in as standard to minimize cable clutter.
TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync specs
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Socket Compatibility: AM5, AM4, LGA2066, LGA2011-3, LGA2011, LGA1851, LGA1700, LGA1366, LGA1200, LGA115XDimensions: 397 x 120 x 27 mmRadiator: 360 mm aluminumTubing: 460 mmPump: High Performance Pump @ 800 - 2500 rpmFans: 3x 120 mm / 360mm Single Frame ARGB FansLighting: Full RGB Fans & LCD DisplayScreen: 3.95-inch TFT LCD, 720 x 720Warranty: 3-years US, 2-years UKPrice: $140 / £125
The display itself, completely detachable from the pump block, isn’t particularly fancy. Just a TFT-LCD model, but it does come with a 720x720 resolution on a 3.95-inch display and is entirely customizable within Thermaltake’s multitude of software. More on that in a bit.
You also get 460 mm tubes (the longest I’ve seen in my testing), and a copper cold plate attached to a block that’s compatible with enough Intel CPU sockets to break our humble table CSS, probably; in fact, it’s easier to list what it’s not compatible with (anything below LGA1150 and above LGA2066, oh and 1567 because screw that guy).
And again, it’s just the price of it that’s so mind-bogglingly savage. Just take a look at a few of the true LCD displays on the market. The Kraken Elite 360 RGB is $320, the Tryx Panorama SE is $280, the Kraken Plus is $220. Like those are more than double in most cases, and, yes, ok some are OLED curved models I’ll admit. That said, we can’t ignore the big bumbling RAM error in the room, and that’s the warranty on this thing.
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Three years in the US, two years in the UK. Given the industry standard is at least six years on the pump alone for almost all of the TH360 V3’s competitors, that’s a painful cutback, particularly for us pommes living in ol’ blighty. Given the cost of practically everything else in the industry at the minute, I think it’s fair to say, most folk’s upgrade plans are now spanning half-decades, rather than the one to two year cycle they used to, so seeing that warranty so minimal is a little unnerving.
And then there’s the pump; in short, there’s no detail on what it actually is. Thermaltake has it listed as “high performance,” but that’s it. To our knowledge, it’s not an Asetek model (again likely to keep cost down), but the pump speed is rather limited, suggesting the internal spec is probably quite cut-back in contrast to other models on the market.
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Benchmarks: Temperature
Delta over ambient (Celsius) for CPU package temp with a Core i7 14700K in various benchmarks
Metro Exodus EE (5 runs) | 1080p | Ultra | ΔTBaldur’s Gate 3 | 1080p | Ultra | ΔTCinebench R23 | Multi | 10 min| ΔTx264 | ΔTCinebench R23 | Multi | 10-minute | 14700K @ 120 W PL1 + PL2 | ΔTAmbient temperature Delta over ambient (max °C)Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync4926Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync5432MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 3605139Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD4537Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB4330015304560
Metro Exodus EE (5 runs) | 1080p | Ultra | ΔT Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync49 Delta over ambient (max °C), 26 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync54 Delta over ambient (max °C), 32 Delta over ambient (avg °C)MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36051 Delta over ambient (max °C), 39 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD45 Delta over ambient (max °C), 37 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB43 Delta over ambient (max °C), 30 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Delta over ambient (max °C)Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync4540Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync5139MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 3605648Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD5343Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB4739015304560
Baldur’s Gate 3 | 1080p | Ultra | ΔT Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync45 Delta over ambient (max °C), 40 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync51 Delta over ambient (max °C), 39 Delta over ambient (avg °C)MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36056 Delta over ambient (max °C), 48 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD53 Delta over ambient (max °C), 43 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB47 Delta over ambient (max °C), 39 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Delta over ambient (max °C)Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync6056Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync6560MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 3607266Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD6762Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB6357020406080
Cinebench R23 | Multi | 10 min| ΔT Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync60 Delta over ambient (max °C), 56 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync65 Delta over ambient (max °C), 60 Delta over ambient (avg °C)MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36072 Delta over ambient (max °C), 66 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD67 Delta over ambient (max °C), 62 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB63 Delta over ambient (max °C), 57 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Delta over ambient (max °C)Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync7156Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync7757MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 3607565Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD7461Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB6856020406080
x264 | ΔT Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync71 Delta over ambient (max °C), 56 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync77 Delta over ambient (max °C), 57 Delta over ambient (avg °C)MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36075 Delta over ambient (max °C), 65 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD74 Delta over ambient (max °C), 61 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB68 Delta over ambient (max °C), 56 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Delta over ambient (max °C)Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync3627Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync4730MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 3605130Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD4128Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB4322015304560
Cinebench R23 | Multi | 10-minute | 14700K @ 120 W PL1 + PL2 | ΔT Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync36 Delta over ambient (max °C), 27 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync47 Delta over ambient (max °C), 30 Delta over ambient (avg °C)MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36051 Delta over ambient (max °C), 30 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD41 Delta over ambient (max °C), 28 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB43 Delta over ambient (max °C), 22 Delta over ambient (avg °C)Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync26Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync18MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36025Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD22Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB2507.51522.530°C
Ambient temperature Data
ProductValueThermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync26Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync18MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 36025Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD22Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB25Test bench: Intel Core i7 14700K | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 FE | G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 | open chassis | Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero | Gigabyte Aorus 1200W Platinum
Fortunately, in my time testing, that reduced RPM doesn’t seem to be hurting that much in terms of overall performance. With an ambient temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, it performed admirably across our testing suite, with record temperatures in CineBench R23 (86 degrees) and an impressive 71 degrees in Baldur’s Gate 3, too.
There’s one caveat to that, and that’s the noise. The V3 Ultra is incredibly loud. By my readings, those fans clocked in at an astonishing 63.4 dB at full whack, that’s a full 8.4 dB louder than the likes of the Kraken Plus 360 RGB (now the second loudest cooler I’ve tested so far).
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It doesn’t disappoint on the looks front either, the display is crisp and punchy, the tubing braided (anyone else getting nostalgia for the old school PVC tubing, now we’re getting older?), and the ARGB fans crisp and clean too. The single-frame design and one set of cables to manage makes things seriously easy to handle too.
Buy if…
✅ You’re trying to save money to buy RAM: What you’re getting for $140 or £125 is utterly wild. Top-tier performance, a full-size LCD customizable display and outstanding compatibility.
Don’t buy if…
❌ You’re worried about longevity: Will the TH360 V3 break in four years? Maybe, maybe not. But if it does your warranty doesn’t cover it.
Thermaltake’s software is a pretty mixed bag overall. Confusingly, there’s two, neither of which are found in the downloads section of the TH360 V3 Ultra’s product page. You’ve got the TT RGB Plus 3.0 software, which is buried in the features section, and the TT LCD Screen software (technically for the Minecube, but it also works).
The MineCube version is pretty barebones but allows you to build a completely custom display, with all manner of stats monitoring, font control and backgrounds. RGB Plus, on the other hand, is more plug-and-play; you get a set number of stat setups, backgrounds are automated, there’s some carousel modes, and clocks, and that’s about it, barring some AI background generation oddness integrated in there too.
So then. Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync. Big, bold, versatile, potent, and insanely affordable compared to the competition. But, with some caveats. If you go into this purchase with that in mind, and don’t expect this to outlast the AI boom, then you’re going to have a good time.
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