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Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm review: a powerful, customizable AIO at a premium price

Name: Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm
Brand: Be Quiet!

With an added screen to it, we put the new Be Quiet! AIO to the test

Sebastian Kozlowski

Last Updated on September 15, 2026

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm review: a powerful, customizable AIO at a premium price

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Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm
Price and availability

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What’s in the box
Design
Installation
Software
Performance

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm

Conclusion

Be Quiet! is a company that has one thing in mind when it comes to creating PC hardware, and that’s keeping noise levels to a minimum. But that doesn’t mean it has to be plain and boring; as with its new AIO liquid cooler, it adds an LCD screen to its pump alongside the already-present aRGB design. This is quite different from the Noctua NL-LC1-36 AIO, which sticks to its simple design and colors with its foray into AIOs.

So I got hands-on with the Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm. It is available in 240 and 360mm versions in both black and white, with mine being the 360mm white model. It comes with three Light Wings LX RGB fans and a 2.1-inch IPS LCD display, all of which can be controlled via the IO Center it introduced with its peripherals last year. Now that has been expanded to include performance control and customization, so here’s how it performs.

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm

5 /5

Editor’s Rating

How We Review

Specifications

Cooling method: Liquid coolant
Max noise level (50%/75%/100% RPM): 17.2/29.1/36.8 dB(A)
Material: Base: Copper & nickel plating, Radiator: Aluminum & white spray paint
Fan size: 120mm (Light Wings LX 120mm PWM)
Max fan speed: 2100 RPM
Thermal paste: Grease included

What We Think

With this AIO, Be Quiet! combines low noise with a good level of customization, thanks to the screen and control it provides. Despite keeping the noise down, it still provides excellent cooling power to the processor, delivering great performance even through the toughest loads. It also has plenty of long-term usability, with the included fill port and coolant and the range of control the IO Center offers in-app and on the web. All of this doesn’t come cheap, though, and even with the heightened quality, it is a rather steep price to pay.

Reasons to Buy

Effective cooling power
Some great customization and control
Can be controlled from web app
Very convenient single-cable wiring with daisy-chaining
Handy magnetic hub gives easy cable management and setup
Great quality and easy setup
Comes with a fill port and extra coolant

Reasons to Avoid

Rather expensive for most builders
Only a 3-year warranty
Some IO Center functions are limited to the app

Price and availability

The Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD comes in four models, with all coming in at different MSRPs. That is, the 240mm available for £224.90/€204.90 for the black colorway and $229.90/€209.90 for the white model. As for the 360mm models, those should cost $249.90/€229.90 and $254.90/€234.90 for the black and white versions, respectively.

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Prices correct as of October 6th, 2026.

The availability of these starts on the day of the reviews’ release (11th August), but they were already available for preorders at some retailers. Including this 360mm white model for $249.48 at Amazon US and £179.99 at Overclockers UK. In comparison, the Noctua AIO is $249.95 (very much on par), the NZXT Kraken Elite is $279.99, the Corsair Nautilus 360 RS is $181.00, and the Thermalright FW 360 SE is $73.89. So it is still a rather premium option, yet offering a lot for the price.

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What’s in the box

The Be Quiet! AIO comes with the basics for an AIO, although with some nifty additions to it too. You can find what I found in the box in the list below.

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm white AIO
3x Light Wings LX 120mm PWM fans
1x Coolant bottle
1x Thermal grease
AMD/Intel mounting hardware
Bag of fan and radiator screws
1x Hub
1x splitter
3x white zip ties
2x fill port stickers
1x Manual

Apart from the usual hardware and parts of the AIO, it does come with spare coolant you can use to top up inside of it. But also part of keeping it looking the part, it does have stickers for the fill port and zip ties to keep the cables in place, as there is a magnetic hub to install as well.

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Design

Opening up the Light Loop box, it is covered with a cardboard sheet with the booklets on top. Underneath that, the hardware is all packed in tight, with a cardboard mold holding all the parts in their plastic shrouds and providing protection. Once unpacked, you’re left with a decent amount of accessories and parts to gather up and install.

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Getting rid of all the packaging, I’m left with the clean white radiator, with a dense set of fins built into it, and a whole range of screw holes around the edges of the large 360mm rad that can have three 120mm fans on it. Around the edges, there are also etched-in holes that add some texture and break up the otherwise flat and uniform build.

A couple of other features of this AIO are the refill port and cable on the radiator. The former can be found on the end opposite the hoses and is covered by a white sticker, offering a rather convenient way to top up the coolant inside. So over time, as it evaporates, you can reduce the bubbling from the air inside with the provided bottle. By the hoses, there is a proprietary cable used to connect the fans mounted to the radiator, making cable management much easier.

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Following the white braided cables, you do get to the pump head. The bulky cube prominently features a 2.1-inch round IPS LCD right on the top, embedded in the slightly translucent and textured casing. Created to diffuse the RGB lights inside, the bottom half comes in a solid white instead, sitting right on top of the black mounting plate and installation screws on either side.

The copper cold plate on the bottom does have a plastic cover and plenty of screws holding it in place. On the side where the hoses connect, you can find the singular cable that powers the pump, screen, and even the fans connected up on the radiator. This definitely makes cabling the whole thing a lot easier, as long as you place the hub in a reachable spot.

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That hub itself is a rather convenient solution to cabling, as the small box has a magnetic backing and three cables coming from it: one each for the fan, RGB, and power, along with a port for the pump connection. The fans also connect up to it, which themselves have an interesting design.

The three Light Wings LX PWM fans have a clean white finish, with some rather sloped edging to them instead of the usual flat and simple design. This gives them some rather unique-looking shells, both on the front and back. On the reverse, they have a sloped edge towards the center hub with rather thin stems as well, apart from the one that hides the cable behind it so it doesn’t impact the airflow.

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Even the blades have a rather intriguing finish to them, with grooves along the whole length of them, looking much like a plowed field with peaks and troughs across both the front and back. To optimize airflow, the fans also come with a closed-loop motor to keep the RPM up independent of the resistance.

Around the edges, it does have Be Quiet! branding but also the arrows showing the direction of airflow to help in installation if you’re not certain of it. Where the cable comes out, it does have two ends for daisy chaining with the other ones and an indent in the casing to fit it into.

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Installation

Putting the AIO together is a rather easy task; the instruction manual has a rather informative and easy-to-follow guide and annotations, so it didn’t take too long. Starting with the mounting hardware, on AMD, it does make use of the bracket that the motherboard comes with. This then has two possible mounting points: an offset for best coverage on a range of CPUs or more universal support with the standard holes. It also has handy pointers for which way round they go without having to try and figure it out.

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm standoff brackets, Image by PC Guide

Likewise, mounting the fans, once I oriented them, was rather simple and easy. Then connecting them up was a bit of a fiddly job, depending on their orientation. But it does make it a lot cleaner than having each have its own cable out; instead, it all combines into one as the main cable nicely tucks away into the hoses.

What it does lack is a nicer way to hide each of the cables. Although there is a place to push them into the fan edges, there’s nothing that holds them in place, so it can be a bit fiddly to keep them clean. That is unless you wrap the cables around or hold them in place with something else.

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Once the unit was ready, I could mount it in the case, which, with a big 360mm and an equally big Antec Flux Pro Noctua case, was a bit of a challenge to do alone while standing it up. But otherwise it does hold up very well, although the orientation I chose to put the pipes in did limit their length severely and put a bit of strain on them, so maybe it could do with a bit of extra length or would require mounting them the other way around.

As for the pump, it has only got two screws that mount it to the plates, so it is quite simple to do once they catch the threading. That just leaves the one cable to connect to the hub around back, making it quite simple to manage and plug in. As for that itself, the magnetic backing can be easily put in the right place and powered up when choosing the right spot for it.

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Software

For the control and customization of its expanding selection of hardware, Be Quiet! has its IO Center. With plenty of upgrades in the year since it first came out, when I got to experience it with the Dark and Light Mount keyboards, it’s still got plenty of utility to it; particularly handy is the fact that it has both an app you download and a web app, so you can use the latter to keep bloat and installed programmes to a minimum.

In the case of the AIO, it does seem to lack some of the extra controls the standalone app offers. Just booting up the Windows program, you get a hardware monitor on the side with control for the cooling behavior and a look at the temperatures and all of your PC. It’s a rather handy way to give you control over its power and all.

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Inside of it, there are also plenty of customization options for the AIO. Starting off, of course, with the illumination of the AIO, you have the ability to change the colors through various zones with different effects to suit your preferences, letting you get into the fine details of your customization.

That goes for the screen as well, which lets you have any custom images, GIFs, or useful overlays like temperatures and readouts with a fun background too. Then there’s the cooling setup to adjust the pump and fans’ behaviors with options to change the curve between the liquid or CPU temps, and choosing between the quiet and performance modes, while also being able to choose the target temperature.

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All of which comes together to create a great-looking build inside the PC. You don’t even need to have the app installed for this, as you can just set it in the browser and forget about it too. That is, if you plug in the USB correctly the first time, as at first I did not and wondered why it wouldn’t show up.

Performance

After setting it all up, it was time to put it to the test to see how good of a job it did in cooling the CPU during intensive tasks. I did that by loading it up with the Furmark 2 stress test for 30 minutes. With both the CPU and GPU under stress, it should provide a very hot case for the AIO to work with and a worst-case scenario.

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I tested three modes on the AIO. With the options for behaviors on the screen, I then adjusted the pump too. So I tried the quiet mode and performance mode with the pump on the quiet curve, and then I tried the performance mode and put it in full speed to see what it can do at its maximum.

You can see the result of those in the graphs below. The HWinfo data shows various temperatures, in particular the CPU and surrounding parts, to showcase what it can do. I then also compared it to the Noctua NL-LC1-36 and ROG Ryujin III 360 to see how it compares.

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm thermals, Image by PC Guide

Below you can see a table of the results from these various AIOs and the temperatures the CPU and its surrounding parts were at. With that, you can see the Be Quiet! AIO is a rather effective option in keeping your CPU in check. With it sitting at 88°C at its maximum in both the quiet curve scenarios, turning it up to performance and full speed drops that by an extra 2°C. It does seemingly also do the same for the MOS caps around the processor, but not as much as the Noctua cooler that has a fan on the pump as an accessory.

Yet still it is a great option for the 9800X3D that is on my bench, and with the offset, that does mean getting the best performance on it even with it fully loaded, well beyond normal use cases. Even then, it still keeps things quiet under heavy load, with the airflow through the radiator varying the most and creating a whoosh of sound, but not exactly a deafening or loud overall sound.

Component	ROG Ryujin III 360	Noctua NL-LC1-36 quiet mode	Noctua NL-LC1-36 quiet + NL-ACF1	Noctua NL-LC1-36 balanced mode	Noctua NL-LC1-36 balanced + NL-ACF1	Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm Quiet	Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm Performance + Quiet	Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm Full speed + performance
CPU	95°C	82°C	79°C	81°C	77°C	88°C	88°C	86°C
Chipset 1	53.7°C	47.4°C	44.7°C	48.3°C	44.7°C	47.4°C	47.4°C	47.4°C
Chipset 2	60.1°C	53.7°C	51.9°C	54.6°C	51°C	54.6°C	54.6°C	54.6°C
Drive temp	48°C	43°C	40°C	44°C	39°C	45°C	45°C	45°C
MOS	55.5°C	48°C	44.5°C	49.5°C	44°C	53°C	53°C	51°C
System	37.5°C	29.5°C	27.5°C	31°C	27°C	31°C	30.5°C	31°C

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm

5 /5

Editor’s Rating

How We Review

Specifications

Cooling method: Liquid coolant
Max noise level (50%/75%/100% RPM): 17.2/29.1/36.8 dB(A)
Material: Base: Copper & nickel plating, Radiator: Aluminum & white spray paint
Fan size: 120mm (Light Wings LX 120mm PWM)
Max fan speed: 2100 RPM
Thermal paste: Grease included

Conclusion

Overall, the Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm is a great AIO that does a good job of balancing performance, noise, and customization. The cooling performance is strong, keeping the 9800X3D well under control even under heavy loads, while the different pump and fan modes give you plenty of control over how it performs. The 2.1-inch LCD is also a nice addition, giving the AIO more personality than Be Quiet!’s usual understated designs, with the ability to add images, GIFs, temperatures, and other readouts. Combined with the RGB lighting and IO Center software, there’s plenty to customize.

There are a few downsides, though, with the fan cabling being a little fiddly to keep tidy and the hose length potentially being restrictive depending on how you mount it. It’s also a fairly expensive 360mm AIO, especially compared to some of the cheaper options available. However, you are getting plenty for that premium, including the LCD, RGB lighting, hub, refill port, spare coolant, and strong cooling performance. If you want a good-looking AIO with plenty of customization without sacrificing cooling or noise levels, the Light Loop IO LCD 360mm is a strong option, although you’ll have to be willing to pay for it.

About the Author

Sebastian Kozlowski

With a fascination for technology and games, Seb is a tech writer with a focus on hardware, news, and deals. He is also a tester and reviewer for the site. Contact him @ [email protected]

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Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm review: a powerful, customizable AIO at a premium price

Table of Contents

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm

Price and availability

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What’s in the box

Design

Installation

Software

Performance

Be Quiet! Light Loop IO LCD 360mm

Conclusion

About the Author