EK P360 Performance Liquid Cooling KIT review - Introduction

EK P360 Liquid Cooling KIT Review
Because Liquid Cooling A Core i7 6700K Processor Is Totally 360 & Rad Dude

In this review we take the Performance series EK liquid cooling kit consisting out of all components needed to assemble and design your own proper liquid cooling loop. We will build a system and test this kit on the Mac Daddy quad-core Intel Core i7 6700K processor. The end result is a setup that will surpass any AIO kit in both performance, low noise levels and looks. Once we have defined and built our loop, we'll obviously massively overclock the PC as well to see how well Skylake (Core i7 6700K) behaves at up-to even 1.50 Volts!

You know, in the world of CPU coolers nothing ever stops developing. These days you can select from a hundred different heat-pipe based coolers, where many are shaped, formed and priced the same. The better heat-pipe based coolers are good though. Next in line are LCS systems (liquid cooling) setup followed by the real and proper expensive liquid cooling kits. The entry level LCS products are affordable, easy to install pre-fab liquid cooling kits. We've seen and tested many of them as Corsair, Asetek, NZXT, Cooler Master and so on all have interesting kits. Today we test a new kit from EK, not an AIO kit but a kit with everything you need to build your own liquid cooling loop. EK released the 360 Performance with a proper price / value ratio in mind. 

So what we test today is marketed as a true liquid cooling solution for the starters among you, and not a factory kit like the (great) Predator series. Inside the box you'll find everything you need from tubing, to radiator, fans, and reservoir/pump, biaslly all you need to do is pickup some distilled water and spend some time putting it all together. EK is offering this Performance series kit in three models, a 240, 280 and 360 kit. Obviously this number is is tied towards the raditor size and the included fans that go along with it (3x 120 mm).

The P Series kits can be applied to the following CPU sockets:

• Intel LGA-775
• Intel LGA-1366
• Intel LGA-1150/1151/1155/1156
• Intel LGA-2011(-3)
• AMD Sockets: 939, 754, 940
• AMD Sockets: AM2(+), AM3(+), FM1, FM2(+)

The kit as we received and as tested would cost you 345 bucks for this 360P model. And yes that is quite a difference compared to AIO kits, this is the real deal. The kits that EK offers can be spotted on product codes EK-KIT P240, EK-KIT P280 and EK-KIT P360. 

in this review we'll simply build a system, step-for-step based upon the 360P kit, a MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard, a Corsair 600C chassis and Corsair DIMM and power supply (to keep the design in line). We'll have a look at the overall design guided with photo's, but obviously also performance tests.