EK has developed the AIO 240 D-RGB to pair with its EK Loop Connect management system (sold separately), which provides fan curve control, pump performance, lighting control, data collection and temperature monitoring , via the EK Connect software suite. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

EK® Water Blocks, the premium liquid cooling manufacturer, bears the name of its founder Edvard König. EK Water Blocks has highlighted three key components of the cooler here; powerful pump, fans, and the efficient radiator.The EK AIO 240 D-RGB is an all-in-one liquid cooling solution for desktop PCs and is available in 120mm, 240mm, and 360mm versions.

People generally praise Liquid Freezer, but maybe my expectations were too high or something and I feel like it could be performing better. We publish these articles to be helpful, but make most our money to sustain this expensive operation via videos. The EK-AIO LGA1700 Upgrade Kit includes everything you need to mount your EK-AIO onto the motherboard with an LGA 1700 socket, making it compatible with the latest Intel® Alder Lake processors.There is no protective plating under the mounting holes on the radiator assembly much like what we have seen on the majority of AIO solutions in the market with a few exceptions. As for the air coolers, they’re within a few degrees and mostly doing fine while comprising the bottom half of the chart. Turns out that suing all your competition out of the market only works for so long before it breeds necessity and innovation. The EK AIO 360 is comparable to the Noctua NH-D15 for point-to-point deviations across the surface, with an overall higher average depth from 0. In this test, the EK AIO 360 ends up a new chart leader, just ahead of the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm CLC; note, however, that we don’t have the Liquid Freezer II 360 to test, so there’d be some competition size-for-size.

A pair of aRGB Vardar S fans come standard on the EK AIO 240 D-RGB, are 4-pin PWM-managed and can be run in parallel from the same header using the 2-way splitter. The EK-Hub was added to help with the cable management, offering multi-connection with up to seven sets of addressable RGB and PWM headers.

Installation is a breeze with a toolless CPU mounting, the latest EK-OmniLink single cable connector, and custom aluminum rotary fittings with vertical alignment. Cable management is also a breeze with the EK-OmniLink cable design – a single 8-Pin Micro-Fit connector ecosystem that combines power and D-RGB lighting into one cable for rapid installation and ultra-clean cable management. The Elite Aurum is here and ready to provide ample cooling power even for the toughest processors on the market. Fin stack is dense and taking into account the left and right side channels, it has total 12 channels for water flow. Both AIO Basic and Elite Aurum made their video debuts at the EK EXPO Media Day, and you can see them in the immersive 360 Showroom.

So I wondered if EK-AIO Basic 240 would perform any different, but I can't seem to find any tests of it.Competition is fierce for CPU coolers right now, with Arctic’s Liquid Freezer II, which we reviewed here, posing the biggest challenge for EK. To top everything off, EK is also introducing the unapologetic, attention-seeking EK-AIO Elite Aurum 360 D-RGB. This is most relevant for air coolers or for coolers like the Arctic unit, which has a VRM fan, but it’s still interesting for standard liquid coolers.