Lighting Effects
If you’re buying this cooler over Cooler Masters lower priced ML240L AIO it’s probably because of the lighting so let’s see if this cooler is worth the extra money.
Color options
If static colors are your thing you have the option of 7 colors shown above. Both the fans and the pump show off the colors really well and the colors are the exact same on both the fan and the pump so there won’t be any mismatch of colors here.
Where the lighting really shines (pun intended) is with the lighting animations and even without a compatible motherboard to give me software controls this cooler gives you a lot of options to customize the look and animation of the lighting. Please check out the video playlist below for a full range of the lighting animations that you can do with the included controller.
Due to the low lighting, my camera had a hard time with the autofocus so some videos will be blurry.
Due to file size restrictions, the videos are only a few seconds long.
As you can tell this AIO gives you a ton of customizability right out of the box, you can even choose any of the colors shown with any of the animations except the Spectrum and Demo modes to give you close to 100 different options for lighting with the included controller.
But where this cooler really shines is with the software customisability. Which I unfortunately can’t show off in this review due to not having a motherboard with an RGB header but if you do own a compatible motherboard you can use the supported software to control the lighting of each individual RGB to give you nearly unlimited color options as well as changing the animation speeds and animations to give you hundreds of lighting options!
Overall I rate the lighting portion of this AIO 5/5 since you can do a ton without needing any software and if you do have the compatible software you will have nearly unlimited lighting options.
