Teamgroup T-Force SIREN DUO360 AIO CPU & SSD Liquid Cooler – Make It Double!

TeamGroup is the creator of some of the most high-quality PC components & products for the PC industry. They have come a long way since its inception in 1997 & went on to become one of the fastest-growing product manufacturers and a leading brand around the globe.

We have taken a look at a vast amount of products from Teamgroup and its gaming sub-brand, T-Force, but today, we will be testing the brand new Siren DUO360 AIO liquid cooler which is said to provide top-end cooling to both the CPU and the SSD.

Now you must be wondering why is there a need for an AIO cooling solution for SSDs. If you have been keeping up with our review of the latest PCIe Gen5 SSDs and all the news associated with those drives, you may already be aware of the immense heat generated by these new flagship storage solutions. Furthermore, the SSDs available on the market today aren't even the best out there & as SSDs get faster, we can expect their controller and NAND Flash to run even hotter.

To keep this heat in control, SSD manufacturers and motherboard makers have devised new active and passive cooling solutions but cooling manufacturers like Teamgroup want to take things all the way up to 11 with AIO liquid cooling for the SSDs. The concept of the SIREN DUO360 AIO was very simple. It is designed primarily as a traditional AIO CPU cooler but extends it to a singular SSD too. So let's talk about the cooler specs and what it has to offer.

So starting off with the specifications first, the Teamgroup T-Force SIREN DUO360 AIO cooler comes with a 360mm radiator and is compatible with both Intel and AMD platforms including the latest LGA 1700 and AM5 CPU solutions which will make the most obvious sense since both platforms are designed to support the newer Gen5 SSDs. The SSD side includes support for M.2 2280 form factors.

The 360mm radiator comes in a white color scheme which looks great and features aluminum fins while measuring 396 x 120 x 27 mm. Interestingly, the radiator also houses the pump which is mounted to it and operates at up to 4000 RPM with a reported noise output of 22 dBA and liquid flow rate of 850 ml/min.

The radiator comes with three 120mm Hydraulic Bearing fans which feature a 4-pin PWM connector & offer 60.2-70.07 CFM airflow while running between 600-2000 RPM (34.45 dBA - 39.5 dBA). These fans have a static pressure of 2.89-3.88 mm-H2O. All three fans feature ARGB Lightning and look great.

Moving over to the CPU waterblock, we have a copper baseplate and an aluminum block that measures 65.5*49 mm. This block comes with the traditional circular frame which includes an ARGB-lit Mirror finish design. There's a T-Force logo on the mirror finish which illuminates and adds a style to your PC. The SSD water block shares a similar design philosophy but comes with a magnetic/detachable ARGB Mirror plate and measures 78 x 58 x 23.6 mm.

The cooler has enough tubing for you to easily mount it over the CPU and the topmost M.2 SSD slot on your motherboard. For motherboards that do not have an M.2 slot on the very top of the PCIe expansion slots, attaching the SIREN DUO360 AIO will become impossible since the GPU will be in the way. With that said, the tubing from the radiator to the SSD water block is 430mm long, and 400mm long from the radiator to the CPU.

For testing the performance, we used the AORUS X670E Xtreme motherboard paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, 32 GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB memory (DDR5-6800 EXPO), and a ROG THOR II 1000W PSU. The chassis used was a Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL which allowed us to mount the radiator on the top since the front is a mirror panel. For the Gen5 storage, we used a CARDEA Z540 SSD which is a 2 TB Gen5 drive by Teamgroup. This SSD has been rebranded under the Z5 SSD line which we covered during our Computex 2023 coverage. The Z540 retains a high-end 10 GB/s speed for transfer and utilizes the Phison E26 controller which should give us a good run down of the AIO cooler's performance.

The overall temperatures of the Teamgroup SIREN DUO360 AIO cooler align pretty much the same with other high-end 360mm coolers and as you can see in the noise profile tests below, the cooler also performs decently here.

For SSD temperatures, we used four separate test conditions. The first was without the heatsink, the second was with the motherboard heatsink, the third was with an ASRock-supplied M.2 heatsink & the last one was the AIO block.

Without the heatsinks, the Gen5 drives can easily hit their throttle limit of around 70C which means you'll end up with speeds that are below even mainstream Gen4 drives which defeats the purpose of buying such a high-end storage solution. While the passive and air-cooled options offer great SSD cooling, the T-Force Siren DUO360 just crushes all other solutions with vastly lower temps at sustained rates.

Teamgroup's T-Force SIREN DUO360 is a unique AIO solution that comes at the prime time of the Gen5 SSDs launch. The product features impressive cooling capabilities, not just for the CPU but for the GPU too but it does come with a few issues for a first-gen product of its kind.

First up, the price. At $399 US, the SIREN DUO360 AIO is clearly targeted at the enthusiast market space but what we have seen so far is that the Gen5 SSD adoption rate has been rather slow. So the SIREN DUO360 sits in a very niche market and carters an even smaller audience who will find the need to water-cool their SSDs a bit unnecessary. Surely, the benefits of extra cooling exist but at the same time, a $20-$30 US air-cooling solution designed for Gen5 SSDs or even the heatsink on your motherboards is going to do a pretty decent job too. But I guess for those who are looking for a combo solution, there might be a space for this cooler.

In terms of design, the SIREN DUO360 looks absolutely gorgeous with its all white-design that is further complimented by the ARGB fans and the mirror finish on both the SSD and CPU blocks. It also isn't that difficult to install it within the PC since its a closed-loop design but while the process of installing is easy, compatibility might be a totally different scenario as certain motherboards that don't put the Gen5 protocol on the top-most SSD slots will have major issues with the cooler and its tubing since the GPU will be in the way as mentioned above. So make sure that your motherboard comes with an SSD slot above the topmost PCIe x16 slot.

So to sum up the complete product, I must say that Teamgroup T-Force is really up to something with the SIREN DUO360. Given the way, SSDs are going and how hotter they are becoming, AIO may just become a necessity rather than an add-on. Air-cooled SSDs are already here so liquid cooling looks to be the next step and T-Force already has its 1st gen design out now with the Siren Duo360. We can only expect optimizations to this design and better prices in the future.

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