The sound performance is a different story and shows a usual pattern for a solid CPU cooler. Second on the charts shows that with a little cooling profile tweak you could get a nice performance increase in basic cooling, at the cost of some sound performance. We wouldn’t say whisper quiet, but it’s a very hushed cooler.
Overclocked next and the Scythe Kama Cross 3 was put through our usual stress test with a 4.4Ghz overclock. It doesn’t do too badly at idle, but during the AIDA64 Engineer stress test, the same as the stock test, it comes last on our performance chart.
This is bad news but we are hoping that this will be another fan profile tweak. The current settings may have only requested enough fan power to clip throttling, which is something we did not observe, despite reaching 102 Degrees C.
Scythe Grand Kama Cross 3 CPU Cooler Review
Package - 8
Performance - 7.4
Price - 8
Consumer Experience - 7.5
7.7
The Kama Cross 3 is a competent cooler, and looks really good too. With memory and CPU area clearance sorted too, the Kama Cross 3 gives you an extra couple of reasons to buy one over the other standard looking single and dual fan tower coolers.