Review on EKWB EK Momentum Aorus Master Monoblock by Nathan Jankowski

TLDR: Very satisfied with the thermal performance despite the installation problems. I've never water cooled anything before, but I wanted my build to extend the life of both the motherboard and CPU. The instructions focus more on the Aorus Master than the Ultra, so many of the screws you need to remove don't apply to my board (Ultra). For those of you with an Ultra: make sure you unscrew the back I/O cover in two steps (1 screw for each raised standoff that looks like an ATX standoff on the bottom of your board and the I/O holding it in place, and then the stand itself can also be unscrewed (although it looks like it's glued to your board), then lift the plastic cover and remove the rear I/O, and to remove the VRM heatsink, there is a small screw that is parallel to the circuit board in the heatsink itself. . It's easy to miss. I hope this helped - it took forever. But the rest of the instructions are clear. The point of contact with the processor is round and given the size of the monoblock you can't see how well it contacts, so I would suggest applying thermal paste to the processor itself. before installation, instead of using the point-cross method, etc., which is based on cooler contact and the distribution of contact pressure objects. Otherwise a great all-in-one - I get close to ambient with 240mm and 360mm SE wheel (mid 20C) and under synthetic CPU load I get mid to high 60C with 9900K OC up to 5GHz all cores. Would I buy it again? Definitely I would buy a candy bar for all my future builds. Would I buy from TitanRIG? Also, yes, they were kind enough to refund a small portion of unused customs duties. I sincerely appreciated it. Considering I'm not a US customer, I would have liked more of their range to be held at Revain so that Revain Global could calculate taxes etc for me. In this case I would buy more products from them.