EKWB EK-XLC Predator 360 All-in-One CPU Liquid Cooling Unit

Right out of the box this custom AIO feels very handsome. The build quality feels top notch and I can assume it's build to last. All the assembly is done for you, you just need to figure out how and where to mount it on your case. Then attach a power cable to a SATA cable and a PWM cable preferably to a cpu fan header. Thats it, your ready to roll. It comes with a three PWM fan header on board, very nice. I would have liked it even more had it come with three extra fan headers should I want to do a push- pull config, customization. In my case (750D), I'm guessing I could do a push pull but I might have to remove the heat spreader on the motherboard (rampage v extreme). Mounting this baby can be a bit tricky; depending on your case and as this thing is pretty big and heavy. In my case I have it mounted on the top with the tubes housed inside the optical drive bays, of course I had to sacrifice the optical drive and the OC panel that came with the mobo. I could have turned it around but the tubes would interfere the rear exhaust fan, which I decided, I wanted functional. One of the tubes is fitted with a quick disconnect mechanism should you want to expand this AIO. I wonder how it would perform when expanded as with just the CPU (i7 5820k) overclocked to 4.5 Ghz @ 1.3 volts it doesn't do any better than my last AIO. Which by the way was very cheap and feels very cheap too as opposed to this baby. Speaking strictly in terms of performance I feel like I've been let down. Or maybe I had unrealistic expectations. But honestly price to performance ratio, not very impressive. The overclocked 5820k idle's at 37C and at full load it bumps up to 70C which I think is aaaa ok. Put the performance aside, I think this is a very well made custom AIO. I'm definitely not disappointed.

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I have been using EKWB products for all of my water cooling needs and this product met my needs of simplicity. However, I opened the package and the water coolant was all over the packaging. This was not a big of a deal for me because I have an AMD system and I was going to change the bracket anyways because I had an extra Supremacy CPU block (non-EVO) and add a reservoir so I can leave it for long periods of time without having to add more coolant. However, had I expected an AIO that was ready to go plug-n-play so to speak, it was have been missing a lot of coolant and performance would not have been up to par. I guess I could have exchanged it but I would have been down for a few more days.Overall this cooler is the best AIO you can purchase as of right now. However, the package is not the best and I would argue that the retail package is part of the product. Perhaps the leak was caused by improper handling by the shipper or the retail packaging. Anyways, I would recommend purchasing this from a local retailer if possible such as but not limited Micro Center. I say this because you can exchange it if you find out that there were coolant in package. I will continue to purchase water cooling products from EKWB in the future.

Awesome AIO! I'm very impressed with the quality of the product and overall excited to see how she performs. I did have a problem with it fitting in my 780t, didn't fit at the top nor did it fit in the front cause the 5.25" optical bays. So I drilled out the rivets and now she fits like a dream.

Works well. No pump noise to speak of. Would of give it 5 stars but because I had to order a set of cpu mounting screws from Ek to fit it to my motherboard I had to take a star off. Those should be included. We shouldn't have to pay any extra for company design choices for things like mounting hardware. Don't have a pic for max temps because I am waiting for a new board before overclocking and haven't stressed it at stock. But I never go over 40 degrees C in game.

It cools well but the fans that came with it are terrible. One of them is defective and makes a lot of noise even when the computer is idling. The two "good" ones were noticeably louder than my 980ti when playing games. If I hadn't planned on replacing the fans all along I would have returned it.