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Carver shea butter for only 5 dollars with free shipping after that razors in just a few bucks a month save time and money with Dollar Shave Club hi what's crackin everyone welcome back to the channel today we are taking a look at a brand new line of products from the folks over at ek water blocks this is their fluid gaming series liquid cooling kits the one I have on hand with me today is one of free that just hit the market not too long ago this is the a 240 G which stands for 240 millimeter radiator included as well as the G denoting that this does come with a GPU block as well it includes everything you need to cool your CPU and your GPU with a custom loop which is pretty sweet for only 240 us that's insanely cheap especially for ek quality components and the way that they're able to lower the price on this so much is because it's all aluminum pretty much say they've kind of opted out of copper this time around for this particular series and they're just going with aluminum components that includes the CPU block the GPU block the fittings aluminum radiator so that's why this is an incredibly light product but it also makes it much more affordable than the copper alternative and a big issue with that a lot of people have with aluminum when they hear that word paired with a custom water cooling loop is the issue of galvanic corrosion but I did a little bit of research and apparently that is only a problem if you're going to be fornicating different metals together in the same loop so if you had you know say aluminum fittings but a copper water block then you could speed up the process of galvanic corrosion but in the instance of just using aluminum for the entire loop we should be perfectly fine I believe ek has found a working solution around that issue as for the other kits that are available in this all aluminum lineup there's the what the a 120 and a 240 which are fitted with 120 and 240 millimeter radiators respectively but neither of those come included with the GPU block this is the only one that does the a 240 G hence the the letter G at the end that you can actually cool both CPU and GPU out of the box as far as support on the GPU side and and how the water block works there it's pretty much a universe I don't wanna say Universal but it covers a lot of ground on the high end of Nvidia as Pascal GPUs so right out of the box you get full support for founder's edition cards including the gtx 1070 1080 1080 TI Titan X and the Titan X little P so definitely a wide range of options the last thing I want to mention here this is sort of the roadmap or the game plan for today's video I have here behind me you've probably been looking at it is January's PC of the month this is a high-end skylake and Pascal build featuring the 7700 K and a water-cooled GTX 1080 you can see here it's pretty much all decked out with a IO glory right so we've got a Kraken X 62 currently on the 7700 K and the GPU is EVGA a hybrid GTX 1080 which includes a 120 millimeter a IO built right onto it so what we're going to be doing today is swapping out the existing cooling solution in this PC with the a 240 G kit and sort of comparing the thermals between both of those and I think this is going to be a really interesting comparison because we're kind of downgrading our radiator solution here if you think about it we've got a 280 and a 120 working concurrently on their respective components whereas we only have a single 240 millimeter radiator to cool both our CPU and GPU now that being said there's more to a custom loop or any water cooling loop for that matter than the radiator alone I mean we're using high end you know high quality EK materials here probably a much higher quality pump than what's in either of these AOS and so forth so at the end of the day it should be a fun comparison at the very least and I'm super curious to see how it all stacks up so on that note I'm going to go ahead and shut the heck up let's start swapping parts out it's probably going to take a while but we'll get through it circle back run some tests and see once and for all what this liquid cooling kit is made of the Phi's aluminum alright guys the loop is finally done several hours later this took a while and I'm going to go ahead and just go through all the things that worked for me and the things that didn't so I guess we can start there this took a long time this is a full-blown custom loop after all so we're not dealing with simple to install a iOS if you've never done custom water cooling before thankfully the instructions the ek provides are very clear and well thought-out but this is going to take you some time if you are the type of user that's just looking for something that's a quick and easy install this is not the product you're looking for also I forgot to mention that the included tubing is 3/8 inch soft flex tubing as you can see here you'll please forgive my saggy runs they don't look the best I kind of wanted to leave some additional slack just to prevent any sort of kinking so this was all function no form so to speak so I apologize if this is hard to look at but in my defense I feel like I could have made this loop look a lot better had ek included some angled fittings in with this kit the fact that you only get these standard fittings and no right angle or 45 degree angle fittings is kind of a bummer and it sort of forces you to use a little bit more slack with your runs because you don't have angled fittings that can point directly to where you want to go so that makes things a little bit challenging it doesn't look quite as elegant as it could be and I guess that brings up another talking point in the sense that since it would be ill-advised for you to mix any other metals into this loop such as copper brass etc in order to prevent galvanic corrosion if you did want to spice up your loop and add some angled fittings in here they would have to be aluminum which kamae knowledge it's pretty slim pickins when it comes to aluminum fitting so if you wanted to tighten up the runs a little bit or just kind of you know make the look your own it might be a little bit difficult to do that hopefully EK sells their own aluminum fittings that are you know that are actually angled a la carte if they did that then it'd be smooth sailin last few things I want to mention here before we dive into thermals maintenance is something to consider if you're looking into buying a like this because with an AO it's a set it and forget it type of deal for this you kinda have to keep an eye on it it's a custom loop you hand tightened all of the fittings and you could have easily effed up so you know look into your system once in a while and make sure it's not flooding and maybe you know if there is a leak yeah there's there's a higher chance there's just there's a higher chance that you'll get a leak with a custom water-cooled loop and so that's that's the risk that you have to be aware of and that's additional maintenance should any problems occur all right that's all nice and gravy cow but shut the heck up and give us the temperatures already okay you asked for it so first thing I want to say is we're pretty much using all the same settings that we were on the original January's PC of the month so we're still rocking the 7700 K overclock to 5 gigahertz at one point three seven five volts we still have a gtx 1080 mind you this is a Founders Edition just because it was you know compatible with the the cooler that we have here the waterblock I should say but for the most part we're running at the exact same frequency of 2065 Max and then that sort of slowed down a little bit to 2050 but still a pretty nice overclock that was set on both of these GPUs an identical overclock at that I should mention that I've also kept the ambient temperature in my room the same to 26 degree Celsius throughout the entirety of both these tests and we're testing GTA v 4k max settings for about 25 30 minutes and despite what you see here all the thermal testing was done with the side panel on just like it was back in January so the old system the 7700 K the CPU got up to 76 degree Celsius the new system with the new EK water cooling kit 76 degree celsius identical temperatures that's actually pretty crazy considering that the kraken x 62 that what was on the original january piece of the month was a 280 millimeter radiator dedicated only to the cpu whereas here we have just a 240 millimeter radiator we've shrunk it a bit and it is sharing and it's also cooling our graphics card so that's pretty impressive that just goes to show that there is more to a loop than just the radiator and it's also the quality of the the blocks themselves the palm assuming all that sort of stuff and then the graphics card so on the old system with the the EVGA hybrid GTX penaity we were getting 65 degrees Celsius under load that was the hottest it's pretty much got during our gameplay 65 degrees Celsius this bad boy 52 so that's a pretty massive drop that's over 10 degrees 13 degrees difference honestly these are pretty impressive numbers like well beyond my expectations honestly especially for a single 240 rag and I think that's cool I think it's red but even if you have a smaller or more budget case that has limited radiator options it's nice to know that you can cool your CPU and GPU very well with just a single 240 red so summing things up here I think for 240 bucks you are getting a lot for your money and I mean if you think about it you like the EVGA hybrid GTX 1080 usually for a GPU that has an AI o built onto it I feel like that's an eighty to a hundred dollar premium right there and then you've got you know your the Kraken X 62 which is about 150 bucks let's be conservative and say 120 for a solid a i/o quality a i/o so that's like almost 240 bucks right there that's almost the price of this entire kit so I don't know and this kid is definitely again we've already talked about it is not going to appeal to everyone but honestly guys if you just care about performance and thermally speaking then this is a very viable option I would say so let me know what you guys think that's pretty much all I have to say about it very here's to hear your thoughts in the comments below I'll put a link for this guy in the description as well if you want to check it out thank you guys so much for watching be sure to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it you can also check out bit wit ultra my ad free early access channel for a buck pity a month the first two weeks are completely free and you can back out any friggin time I've been do it for now guys thank you so much for watching a love y'all have a good one and I'll see you in the next video