ID-Cooling Auraflow X 240 RGB CPU Cooler Review

Final Thoughts

Price

At the time of writing, we could not find a specific price for the ID-Cooling Auraflow X 240 cooler. Despite this, based on the price of the standard Auraflow 240, we’d anticipate this to cost something in the region of £100-£120. Based on the extreme performance offered in our testing, this is an absolute bargain.

You could easily spend £20-£30 more on a cooler that neither looked as good or performed anywhere near as well!

Design and Ease Of Use

The design aesthetics of the Auraflow X 240 are excellent whether the lights are on or off. While I don’t think that ID-Cooling spent a fortune creating this product, it still doesn’t feel cheap or badly made. There are more than a few areas in the design that could be improved. I do, however, feel that these are, on the balance of everything, easily forgiven based on the areas in which this product really shines.

For example, fitting this to your system provides little difficult. The pipes are a little inflexible, but then the pump head mounting system is practically effortless. The RGB lighting effects work well with sync capable motherboards and you are provided with a manual controller if you don’t have that option in your system.

It isn’t perfect in the design, but it certainly gets a heck of a lot more right than it gets wrong!

Overview

One of the real ‘litmus’ tests I have surrounding a cooler is whether I would personally choose to use it on my system. If I would use it, they clearly got something very right. Particularly given the number of coolers I have reviewed just in 2018 alone.

So, what about the Auraflow X 240? Well, as above, it isn’t perfect and there are more than a few areas in which ID-Cooling could improve this even further. In terms of the outright performance though, this is an absolutely amazing cooler. Beating off many rivals you would easily expect to trounce this in outright temperatures, it is perhaps time that people started taking ID-Cooling products seriously.

The ID-Cooling Auraflow X 240 isn’t just one of the best products they (as a company) have created, it’s arguably one of the best 240mm AIO coolers currently on the market!

Pros

• Amazingly strong performance.
• Easy installation.
• Impression functionality with RGB effects.
• Outperforms many much more costly coolers.
• Strong aesthetics.

Cons

• None.

Neutral

• Fan noise levels can spike. Particularly when overclocked.
• RGB effects could have stood to be a little more bright and vivid.