Finished Looks

After installing the monoblock and setting up the MSI MPG X570S Carbon EK X, we can see how it looks in action. The motherboard's gunmetal gray heatsinks keeps the focal point on the watercooling aspect and everything below out of sight and out of mind. When powered on, the rear I/O has a small RGB LED strip next to the monoblock. The chipset has a small amount of lighting as well, with the Carbon EK X text illuminated. Probably the biggest eye catcher is the massive monoblock which is front and center of the system build.

Test System

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. XMP is enabled for the memory. However, if the primary, secondary or tertiary memory timings are incorrectly set by the BIOS, it is tested as-is to mimic a standard user. The same goes for the CPU. Unless it is a bug in the current BIOS—i.e., not present in other versions—any and all CPU boost parameters are left alone.