Friday, May 23rd 2025
EK's Latest AIO: Pump, Reservoir, & Dual 120 mm Radiators in One Package
EK Water Blocks showed us an exciting solution at their Computex 2025 booth, with the unveiling of its Quantum Surface Kinetics 240, an all-in-one liquid‐cooling kit that marries two 120 mm Quantum Surface radiators with the company's signature Quantum Kinetic pump-and-reservoir module. The dual‐radiator array leverages a thin, high‐density micro-fin design to allow for ample heat dissipation while remaining just 30 mm thick—ideal for cramped mid-tower builds or even ITX systems. At the heart of the loop sits EK's Quantum Kinetic DDC pump and reservoir combo, now showcased in a newly refined, transparent acrylic housing. The integrated fill port and machined aluminium top cap feature customizable RGB channels, while the visible coolant pathways highlight EK's precision flow engineering. EK has pegged the Quantum Surface Kinetics 240 at an MSRP of $360. While not being like a traditional AIO design, it will allow PC enthusiasts to get much more creative with their water-cooling setups and both and reduce the setup difficulty of custom loops.
17 Comments on EK's Latest AIO: Pump, Reservoir, & Dual 120 mm Radiators in One Package
EK reservoir quality is trash, fittings and rads are still good but their blocks are starting to become obsolete and are crazy expensive for no good reason. I mean you have Watercool Heatkiller blocks for 5000 series costing less than EK classic plexi/acetal blocks while offering much better build quality. Hell you have Alphacool new CORE blocks which offer similar if not slighty better quality than EK at much lower price.
Long gone are the days EK enjoyed market dominance. Nowadays they are 2nd if not 3rd pick yet pricing isn't reflecting it , they still act as if there were no other options , so in that sense they need a big wake up call but im not even sure they can afford to compete on price !
But I guess if the card is already going to be blocking direct airflow upward, wouldn't lose much. Or would it?
While I'd love to support a home grown company here in Slovenia, Arctic Cooling sold me with the value and design of Liquid Freezers. It's amazing how well Liquid Freezer is designed, has VRM cooling, thicker radiator and it's absolutely amazing for maintenance. Mine started making noise after 4-5 years of 24/7 operation and I took entire pump block apart thanks to regular screws and no safety screw nonsense, cleaned it all as there was some buildup on fins and pump rotor, put it together, filled with new AlphaCool liquid (again, EK's liquid would take like 1 month to ship which is just bonkers) and it's working like new again. It's really hard to fight that performance and long term maintenance proposition. I have no info if EK's AiO's can be serviced in any way and they cost significantly more.
Look at the pic of the rear, this is notr dual 120mm radiators it's a 240mm radiator.
I feel like they are one step away and they could just make this an external unit like a mini MO-RA but with a D5, fan speed control, and friendly power adaptor.
Advertising a product where one fan blocks another fan.
Advertising a product where i think I see air bubbles in a cool loop.