Finished Looks

Now lets get something out of the way immediately. In EK's installation manual, it shows the tubing at the top in an installation like I would usually do here is not supported. That is not the case. The tubing can be at the top of the radiator as long as it sits above the pump itself. Meaning if you draw a horizontal line from the top of the pump in image two and go across, if the tubing is sitting comfortably above that you will be fine. However, as I was in a rush I installed per the manual and kept going. After getting clarification from EK i tested the other way and found no difference in performance.

With that out of the way. The cooler looks great when mounted. While it doesn't look bad without ARGB lighting you can definitely tell it was designed to have it as a major feature. Even so I think even without the lighting the cooler will fit most build themes due to a neutral appearance.


As for memory and graphics card clearance, there were no issues on either platform.


The ARGB lighting is quite good and the pump top design is visually different from many other options available giving it a unique appearance that sets it apart from the infinity mirror or just all-in super bright lights you see fairly often. In terms of color uniformity it was fairly good with only red being only slightly off. That said, it was only noticeable when using default red in the motherboard software and with manual settings was easily corrected. It also didn't appear to be an issue when using color shift or rainbow modes. As such I don't consider it an issue just a minor aspect I noticed on both my test system's Gigabyte motherboards.