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To briefly mention internals, we have a separate tear-down video coming up that’ll talk about how the EK AIO series works and how it’s assembled. The biggest item of note is that it’s running a larger diameter plastic impeller, as compared to the smaller Asetek CLC impellers or the medium-sized Arctic metal impeller. The EK AIO also uses a massive electromagnet for the pump, something we’ll look at in the tear-down. Installation Procedure NZXT’s flagship 240mm liquid cooler is the Kraken Z53 RGB White. It comes with two 120mm AER RGB Fans and the latest 7th-generation Asetek-derived pump. Both the fans and the pump are software-controlled. Moreover, the pump is powered by a 3-pin power cable that plugs into the pump’s housing. To light the LEDs to daisy chain the A-RGB components, there are conventional 3-pin 5V A-RGB connections. At 12VDC, the pump’s rated speed is 3100 RPM. With 0.38A of current and power usage of 4.56 watts. While the noise level is 19 dB(A). You prioritize quiet operation: While the cooler offers excellent performance, the fans at full power can be rather loud, so it may not be ideal if you’re looking for a silent solution.
The installation procedure is trivial with EK’s AIO series, as we’ve come to expect from most liquid coolers. It tends to be the air coolers, like Zalman’s CNPS20X and its abominable 26 screws to mount, where we see challenges in mounting hardware. Even Arctic’s was inconvenient and something the company is improving upon. Now let’s talk about the radiator. AlphaCool has used a radiator from its NexXxos ST30 series , which offers effective heat dispersion by using brass and copper for high density. Furthermore, Alphacool is the first company to use just copper for water-bearing parts, such as cooling fins, antechambers, and the cooling channels to which the fins are connected.This AIO features an aluminum side plate put on a lathe, and part of the panel's surface is machined off to leave a shiny alloy finish. Universally Compatible and Easy to Install DeepCool’s CASTLE 240EX A-RGB AIO liquid CPU cooler has two DeepCool TF 120S PWM fans and DeepCool’s unique infinity mirror in a 240mm radiator. With the redesigned dual-chamber pump and a stronger 3-phase motor, an improved flow path for greater heat exchange is accomplished, allowing for enhanced cooling performance with an increased flow rate while maintaining low noise levels. The EK AIO 240mm D-RGB is a premium liquid cooler providing excellent cooling capabilities and gorgeous A-RGB Pump AIO and Fans. Coupled with its exceptional cooling performance, EK AIO 240mm D-RGB is our choice for the Runner-Up For Best High Performance 240mm AIO Cooler.
EK-OmniLink – allows daisy chaining of multiple fans, thus reducing cable clutter and greatly easing cable management. The Omni-Link ecosystem of interconnects will be greatly expanded in the near future, allowing additional benefits to users. It uses Micro-fit 8-pin connectors between products. The EK-OmniLink design resolves the cable clutter issues of unifying the connection of multiple fans onto a single PWM and D-RGB header while still maintaining full flexibility if the user wants to remove a single fan from the chain. EK-Loop FPT Fans This next test is noise-normalized at 40dBA on an Intel HEDT CPU, our 3-year-old test bench, and is compared against more coolers. Note also that the fact that this is a monolothic, HEDT, large-area IHS has the potential to significantly shuffle some results. Testing at 40dBA also changes things, as now we’ve shifted in a way that the fans with worse static pressure performance may be able to achieve the minimum pressure required to cool efficiently, whereas 35dBA can fall below that threshold for inefficient fans. Likely unsurprisingly, the Liquid Freezer II remains the leader in VRM thermals at 35dBA. The NH-D15 is next, with the Liquid Freezer following that up with its VRM fan disabled -- the wider spread of the 140mm fans help get even spread across the VRM heatsinks. The EK AIO series follows that. The EK AIO 240 and 360 are within error and test variance of each other in all three MOSFET thermal measurements. Ultimately, this number doesn’t matter too much -- it’s a technical tally favoring large air coolers that cast air toward the VRM heatsinks, like the NH-D15, or toward the Arctic Liquid Freezer with a VRM fan; that said, considering we’re talking about parts that can run at 100C and technically still be fine, it’s something of a hollow victory under these testing conditions. Note that this chart becomes irrelevant if you mount your EK AIO in the front, as you’d be relying on case fans, at that point. Coldplate Levelness There is a single 4-pin flat cable coming out of the pump to power its motor. It has an approximate length of 495mm.
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Ultra-durable design with diamond-cut rotary fittings- The EK AIO comes pre-installed with reinforced and sleeved rubber tubing, each fitted with an aluminum cover to ensure they’re ultra-durable. Its diamond-cut rotary fittings allow for easy installation and adjustment of the rubber tubing, featuring a full range of movement to make the EK AIO suitable for installation in even the tightest spaces.
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