Raijintek is not re-inventing the wheel with the Calore Elite CA360, nor is it bringing anything to the market I haven't seen before. In fact, the core geometry and form factor remind me of a couple of radiators from a few years ago, and performance is not any different, either. The design too is somewhat "old school" compared to many others being boxier, so anyone wanting the pinnacle of aesthetics or performance should look elsewhere.

But you know what else is seemingly unchanged from those older radiators? That ~$65–70 price tag, which is what I saw most such thin triple 120 mm radiators go for before material cost, logistics, transport, and basically everything else in the supply chain decided not to play nice. Take the new Alphacool HPE-30 360 mm radiator, for example, which costs nearly twice as much and performs slightly worse. The included rubber gaskets here even out the thickness and help Raijintek beat it easily, which again shows how physics results in such a level playing field. The way things are going, every radiator on the market will be getting the price hike the Raijintek Calore Elite CA360 has gotten. In my books, despite neither design or performance being noteworthy, the very appeal of its lower cost makes it worth purchasing.