Cooler Master Masterliquid ML240L V2 RGB Review

A Closer Look

In the box, you’ll find two of their lovely new fans. They feature a 7 blade design, with built-in RGB lighting around the motor. The fan blades are frosted, so the light will propagate from the middle outwards.

I love attention to detail, and the fact that both fans come with tightly braided cables is a huge win. You get one for the RGB, one for the 4-pin PWM header.

Disco-Stu Likes Disco-Stickers? I dunno, it’s funky, but if I bought these fans I’d take this sticker off almost immediately, it’s a bit glitzy.

Around the back, we can see each fan can operate at 650 RPM up to 1800 RPM. However, I suspect it’ll spend much more of its time at the former rather than the latter.

You’ll find a swathe of component bags too, each containing bits of brackets or screws for the usual array of sockets. All major AMD and Intel consumer sockets are supported, but of course, double check the specifications table first before you make a purchase.

One of the coolest parts is this little dongle. It comes with a Molex cable to power it, and it basically lets you take manual control of the RGB. That means you can dial in colours and effects without having the need of RGB on your motherboard. Honestly, I prefer this, the less software I have to boot, the better.

Radiator

The new radiator is really nicely designed. That being said, they’ve not reinvented the wheel here, it’s a radiator, it’s 240mm, and it looks how you would expect. Of course, you have to look a little closer to see the changes.

They’ve increased the surface area of the radiator, thanks to more heatpipe and more fins running throughout the unit.

There’s a nice tight rectangle design to it, with no lumps and bumps spoiling those clean lines.

The weave on the braiding is nice and tight, with a slightly glossy finish to it, which looks great.

Plus, the heat shrink wrap is done really well, very neat and tidy.

The Pump

The pump is really nice and compact, and you’ll remember some of the earlier Cooler Master designs were pretty bulky. This is pretty sleek for an AIO pump and I like that.

The tubing mounts are on pivoting joints too, allowing for much easier placement.

A large contact plate, which should cover anything from AM4 to X299 easily enough. There’s no pre-applied thermal paste, but you do get a small tube in the box, which is perfect.