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No matter if you are into overclocking or just high performance processors and want lower temps, watercooling is your answer! But this time around, we will focus on how you can actually keep your temperatures as low as possible, and squeeze the best performance out of your processor while overclocking to 5GHz or more with the help of our all-in-one cooling solution!

Why is liquid cooling better than air cooling? Should you liquid cool your PC or should you stick to air cooling? Questions like these might pop into your head sooner or later, so lets find out what are main advantages of liquid cooling.

Coolant is a vital part of any liquid cooling system – just like oil is in your car's internal combustion engine. And just like engine oil, the coolant needs to be changed regularly to keep your liquid-cooled PC in top shape. There are 5  crucial functions that the coolant performs in liquid cooling loops.

Choosing the right fittings and tubing is almost equally important as choosing any other component in a liquid cooling loop and usually very confusing to beginners.

The launch of new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards has caused some confusion on the market regarding the compatibility and we are here to help set the record straight. This is the first generation of graphics cards that very clearly separates the term "Founders Edition" from the so-called "reference" PCB design.

In order to make navigating through our webshop and searching for products easier for customers, we've decided to remove all EOL (End Of Life) products from search results, as well as categories as these products cannot be purchased anymore.

This might be pretty straightforward, but to avoid issues we've decided to make a little article to explain the EK 6-way D-RGB splitter and how it should be used. This splitter cable is to be used exclusively with D-RGB (addressable RGB) fans using 5V 3-pin connectors. These standardized connectors are used by all motherboard manufacturers thus EK has chosen to follow the standards with our D-RGB products, as well as splitter cables. 

Filling the loop with the Filling bottle is a really great help, especially if the reservoir is in a hard to reach position, surrounded by tubing or other components. But, did you know that you can also use it for draining the loop?