Today at CES 2023, Leo checked in with EKWB to see what is in store for us this year on the custom liquid cooling front. As it turns out, EKWB is expanding beyond components and will soon offer fully pre-built liquid-cooled systems. 

Watch via YouTube below:

Video Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:17 Stuart Tonks Custom PCs
02:10 New daisy-chain fans
02:51 Andie the Lab build with nine fans
03:38 One more Stuart Tonks build!
04:08 Quantum Surface radiators and active backplates
05:16 Nucleus AIO
05:57 EK Fluid Gaming PCs
07:28 Luke takes over – server cooling!
09:16 More compact enterprise cooling
10:51 A Core i9 ‘slab’
12:11 Rounding out

After doing some market research, EKWB has determined that around 80% of people who would otherwise build a liquid-cooled system refrain from doing so due to risks of leakage or misconfiguration. With that in mind, the company will soon begin selling its own pre-built custom liquid-cooled PCs in the US, with a UK store planned for later down the line. These systems will be built and tested for leakages using air. Then the system will be shipped to the customer and all you'll need to do on your end is fill the loop with coolant.

Aside from its new pre-built systems, EK is also launching new DIY components for those who do want to put together their own custom loop. This includes the new EK-Quantum Surface Radiator, the new EK-Quantum Reflection Distroplate, new fans and new cooling blocks for AM5 CPUs and active cooling backplates for new-gen graphics cards. As you might expect, EK is also launching new AIOs too, with our own James Dawson currently testing a 360mm EKWB Nucleus for review coming very soon.

Alongside liquid cooling gear for enthusiasts building gaming systems, EKWB also supplies products for the workstation/server markets too. At CES this week, the company is showing off several multi-GPU systems with high-end workstation and server hardware, including a $60,000 AMD EPYC Milan-X server, all cooled with EKWB gear.

There were also plenty of custom builds on show, including some particularly snazzy systems from Stuart Tonks, with one gold-themed and another copper-themed system, alongside one with a mirror-finish PSU shroud which really elevates the aesthetic.

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