for a long time now if you wanted to water cool your system you had one of
two options either you bought a closed loop sealed liquid cooler which has some
uh lacking customizability and options or you bought a bunch of different
individual parts put them together yourself which while interesting can be
difficult for those who are not experienced tinkerers but lately we've
been seeing units that offer the convenience of an all-in-one showing up
at your door pre-made but have the expandability of a do-it-yourself
solution enter the e Predator 240 and EK Predator 360 which also claim a fairly
significant amount more performance does it live up to that claim stay tuned to
find
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the predator is that it's not really its own product at all it's kind of more an
assembly of other parts all of the individual Parts the pump the rad the
block Etc you can actually get from Ek including the vardar fans that are
included so more or less this is a kit
that comes pre-assembled and that's actually kind of cool it also comes with
a Fan Hub which is really nice and the cable management around the unit is
great although one not necessarily good thing depending on what your system is
configured as is that the Predator is exclusively an Intel socket cooler it
does not have compatibility for AMD CPUs so yeah be wary of that if you are an
AMD CPU user also if you are a user of
an LGA 2011-3 board that doesn't have mounting
screws that go all the way through the PCB you will need to order special
screws from ek's website why they don't include this I don't know especially
considering it's a high-end cooler i' I'd appreciate those four extra
screws the installation went pretty well except
for one pretty significant hiccup one of the fittings popped out of the block and
we had a pretty major leak on our hands going all over our system which was not
fun it should be noted that expandable aios will have a higher likeliness of
coming apart the non-expandable ones a lot of non-expandable ones are heat
sealed and stuff and expandable ones are designed to be able to be taken apart
but it shouldn't pop out after a couple twists and turns from installing it in
your system so that was a bit of a disappointment once we were done
cleaning everything up we mounted the Predator 240 inside of our Corsair C70
case and ran ID to 64 stability tests on the CPU and then firm mark on the GPU
just to kind of heat things up in the system it performed quite well at 1100
RPMs and even when we cranked the fan speed up to full they weren't too loud
and the performance did improve which was good to see and good to hear but
since we mentioned earlier the EK Predator series is an expandable Loop so
we wanted to test it with more things in the loop thanks EK K they sent us a
Titan X water block so that we could use it in the same system the 240 the EK
Predator 240 had some issues bleeding
the air bubbles in the loop that was a little frustrating so we moved up to the
360 which we kind of wanted to bench anyway so it was fine it also features
quick disconnects so it was a lot easier to add something to the loop because you
could just partially take the loop apart without anything leaking without the need to refill add things to it and then
keep on moving on I must note here that we had to just kind of leave the 360 mm
rad outside of the case the Corsair C70 that we used doesn't really work with
360 mm cases unless you do some pretty
intense ghetto modding and even then not so much so we opted to leave it outside
it's not really a fair comparison against the other coolers but we did crank up furmark to 4K and with 4K
furmark running on the GPU and the CPU still being pushed by ID 64 stability
test the temperatures on this thing were
pretty impressive I was quite happy with it so in conclusion if you're looking
for a more advanced water cooling setup but still don't necessarily want to
piece everything together yourself or if you're experience and have pieced things
together before but just want the premium components just want to put it in your case relatively quickly the
Predator is not a bad idea really high performance feels very premium all
around has a fan controller built in all that kind of stuff it is a little
expensive and if you can fit a 360 mm rad in your case I might recommend
actually moving up it's a lot more Cooling and you get those quick
disconnects which if you are going to expand this system are really nice
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