 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 lacking customizability and options or you bought a bunch of different individual parts put them together yourself which while interesting it 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 EK 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 out. The MasterCase 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories. Check the link in the video description to learn more. Now what's interesting about 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 and 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 AIO's will have a higher likeliness of coming apart than 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 into 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 Ida64 stability test on the CPU and then firmark on the GPU just to kind of heat things up in the system. It performed quite well at 1,100 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 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 anyways so it was fine. It also features quick disconnect 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 millimeter rad outside of the case. The Corsair C70 that we used doesn't really work with 360 millimeter 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 Ida64 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 experienced 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 millimeter rad in your case I might recommend actually moving up. 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