be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler Review

A Closer Look

Out of the box, the initial impressions of the Pure Loop 240mm are excellent. With it’s sleek black design contrasted well against the silver pump head, it certainly gets off to a good start in terms of the aesthetics. Even when it’s not quite yet fully assembled.

While obviously being a little weighty in the hand, the be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm is actually quite pleasurable to handle with a solid weight balance between the pump head and the radiator. In addition, with the hose offering some good levels of flexibility, it’s not awkward to move around or adjust either.

Pump Head

With it’s black and silver design, the pump head is a little unusual in that the design is in something of an elongated square. While this is largely due to the installation method, it looks very slick and particularly so with the logo to the centre. The only mildly controversial point we would make is that it’s hard to tell, looking at it below, that this does actually have some lighting effects. Trust us though, it does, and you’ll see more of them later!

Contact Plate

The pump head is nice and large coming in a hexagonal style shape. With an amazingly polished surface as well, this should not only provide good contact with either Intel or AMD processors, but this should also provide some excellent levels of efficient heat transfer!

Radiator

The radiator for the Pure Loop 240mm is rather basic in that, as per the vast majority of AIO radiator designs, it’s largely just a black rectangle. On the plus side, however, be quiet! has applied some minor branding to the side which is nice both in terms of punch and presentation.

Hose

Starting with one of the most practical aspects, the hose found on the be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm is of an exceptionally good length and is somewhat surprisingly malleable. Given that hose length can often restrict the radiators location within a chassis, or simply that the hose resistance makes installation difficult, be quiet! has provided what I can only call one of the best compromises to suit both of these factors exceptionally well.

In addition, it should be noted that be quiet! has designed the Pure Loop to allow the potential for it to be an integrated part of an existing custom loop system. Through the bracket attachment, the hoses can be easily disconnected and hooked up to other components albeit, we should note, you don’t have to do this, and to clarify 100%, this AIO cooler works perfectly independently out of the box.

Fan

As this is a 240mm AIO liquid cooler, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to find that you are provided with 2 x 120mm cooling fans.

Being be quiet! own ‘Pure Wings 2’ design, we have encountered these fans many times in the past and, putting the excellent aesthetics to one side, we have never failed to be impressed with the amazingly low acoustic performance they provide.

Overall

Taking the design as a whole and individually, the be quiet! Pure Loop 240mm looks to be a truly excellent AIO liquid cooler. There is literally nothing we can fault with this design in its appearance and, as we alluded to earlier in the review, with be quiet! seemingly being more than a little pleased with themselves here, everything we have seen so far has us concurring with that.

We do, however, need to address an elephant in the room here regarding be quiet! coolers. Put simply, based on a number of their other earlier products, they are a manufacturer with a reputation for having something of a difficult installation process. So, is that the case here? Well, there’s only one way to find out!