Review on 💦 MSI MAG CORELIQUID 360R: Advanced Rotatable Blockhead Design with 360mm Radiator and Triple 120mm aRGB PWM Fans - AIO CPU Liquid Cooler by Randi Heleotes

So I really liked the cooler. It looks exquisite and cools (at first) very well. My 5800X ran for about 30 seconds idling and up to 60 seconds under load, even in a very warm environment. I built this system and started using it in April 2021. A few weeks ago I accidentally lost power. I powered the system back on, opened Ryzen Master and watched the temperature while using the computer for a while and it looked fine. There were no problems for another week when he did it again. At startup the temperature looked normal again. I've been getting more power outages the past few days, again for no apparent reason. I suspected a defective power supply as it was the only component I kept from my old build. Fast forward to today, I have a lot of power outages. I look at the temps and realize that when idle, mid 60's with no programs running, they were very high. It crashes to 85 (maximum 95) when opening a web page. I just sat there and did nothing and watched the temperature keep rising until it hit 109 and the system shut down. Seeing this, I realized that the temperatures I had observed in my previous review were well below the thermal limit, but were actually much higher at idle and under load than when we started, steadily increasing each time. It starts to overheat faster each time, getting to the point where I won't even turn it on now as it now overheats in minutes instead of hours. I've seen a few other reviews describing almost exactly the same behavior, mentioning dirt buildup in the pump. I'm not sure if that's what happened in my case or if the pump just dies, but either way it shouldn't happen after such a short time, if at all. Corsair in my previous build is still solid after 5 years. It wasn't the right time because I'm currently writing my thesis for my master's degree and therefore don't have much time to deal with it. Once I'm done, I can open it up and see if there's any crap. I think I'll be ordering a Corsair as a spare anyway as based on my own experience and the bad reviews I see I just don't believe in this product anymore. Since they require you to pay for return shipping (which unfortunately seems to be the norm these days), I'm not sure it's even worth returning this bullet if I don't plan on ever using it. See you next week. I've found that with the side panel of my case removed, when I start noticing temperature spikes in the Ryzen Master, the temperature drops quickly as I stretch and move the inlet and outlet tubes back and forth multiple times. When I was writing my article, the temperature in the office went from 60 to almost 90. After moving the tubes, the temperature quickly returned to 65. This seems to confirm the conclusion that something is glued together inside, and the movement of it allows it to detach and release heat again. EDIT #2 - Moving the pipe trick didn't work today and it started freezing around 88 with only Word open. It looks like the movement couldn't clear the blockage anymore. I hit the top of the case where the heatsink was a little stiff and the temperature in the Ryzen Master dropped from 89 to under 50 in about 10 seconds. It definitely seems like a lot has accumulated in this device. The new cooler can't come soon enough. EDIT #3 - A new cooler arrived and I installed the H150i Pro XT. My 5800x is now idling at 27 degrees instead of the previous 60 degrees. The MSI cooler had a lot of dirt and clogged the pump. Definitely not very good. I'll see what their support says, but I won't switch back. Unfortunately I really like the dragon theme and the fans at MSI were also RGB unlike Corsair. However, they seem to be the best fans, so I won't change them.