The Corsair iCue Link Titan 240 RX RGB is an all-in-one (AIO) water cooling solution for modern Intel and AMD processors. The two 120mm fans mounted to a 240mm radiator allow even PC builds in small cases to benefit from Corsair’s iCue unified RGB technology.
In the box, you get the radiator with the fans preinstalled and the pump configured for Intel-compatible motherboards. There are several bags with cables, the Intel motherboard backplate, the fixings for AMD CPU motherboards and a bag of screws. Finally, there’s the iCue controller.
There is no paper manual; instead, a QR code provides a link to the online documentation. Unless you are familiar with Corsair’s iCue coolers, I recommend looking at the manual before trying to install it.
Corsair has refined its iCue RGB configuration since I last set one up. The two fans are clipped together, out of the box, with a cable to connect further iCue case fans to the arrangement. The fan and the pump are connected to the iCue controller, which in turn connects to the motherboard CPU connector, the motherboard’s USB 2.0 connector, and a six-pin power output from the power supply unit.
Installation is pretty easy being a self-contained, preassembled unit. You just need to attach the heat block to the top of the CPU (using the specific fixings depending on if it’s an AMD or Intel CPU). The pump unit and fans are then connected to the iCue controller. There’s a cable that needs to run from the controller to the motherboard’s CPU fan header and a data cable that connects to a motherboard USB 2.0 header.
The controller’s requirement for a 6-pin PCIe power input rather than a SATA power connector was a bit of a surprise. The comparatively leanly configured test bench machine uses up all the power supply unit’s 6-pin PCIe peripheral power outputs, with the two for the GPU, and the three required for the beefy MSI motherboard in the machine. Thankfully I had a 2x Molex to 6-pin power socket spare. Whilst I’d have sooner Corsair used a SATA power connector, it makes sense to optimise the power delivery if you have the facility to daisy-chain additional fans into the system.
The iCue Link Titan 240 RX RGB package has eight RGB LED lights per fan and 20 LEDs on the pump. The pump cap can be removed and upgraded with another Corsair AIO module, which includes an LED display.
The package comes complete with all the fixings for both Intel and AMD CPU sockets. The cooler is compatible with Intel’s new LGA 1851 socket for Core Ultra 2 processors as well as LGA socket 1700 for Intel 12th, 13th and 14th generation CPUs. It is also compatible with AMD AM5 and AM4 motherboards for AMD Ryzen CPUs.
The radiator measures 276mm x 120mm x 27 with the two 120mm fans measuring 240mm x 120mm x 25mm. This means that it should fit in all but the most petite cases.
The fans’ magnetic dome bearings make them whisper quiet, even when cranked up to the max. This is very important if you are after an almost silent machine. The test machine is in an open case, and I could hardly hear the fans, except when the machine was working hard.
Testing the cooler with Intel’s new Core Ultra 285K CPU in an MSI MEG Z890 Unify-X motherboard, I was able to achieve a moderate “out-of-the-box” overclock, which seemed stable. The Titan 240 RX, whilst effective for everyday use and a bit of mild tinkering, is more of a gaming AIO cooler rather than a component aimed at the serious overclocking enthusiast.
The heart of the Corsair iCue Link Titan 240 RX RGB cooler is the iCue software. This is a unified app that can be used to control the cooler’s fans and pump, monitor temperatures and customise the RGB lighting. The software can also be used to monitor and synchronise and monitor any iCue-compatible devices and components. This means that regardless of manufacturer, you can coordinate all the RGB lights in your machine.
The Corsair iCue Link Titan 240 RX RGB is an effective, reasonably compact, all-in-one water-cooling solution for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. The iCue modular design allows for expansion via additional iCue-compatible case fans that can be daisy-chained into the iCue controller.