Deciding on whether to buy a product like EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block or perhaps PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit? You’re in the right place as we’ll take you through all of the specs, features and look at the quality, pricing and reviews of both to help you make the decision on which one to go for.

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EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block vs PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit

EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel® CPU Water Block specs

EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel® CPU Water Block
PNY 2.5

PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit
Type: CPU water block

Internal connectivity: SATA

Voltage: 12 V

Colour : Black

FEATURES

FEATURES

Pin connection: 4

Hard drive type: Laptop

Other features: – material: Acrylic glass
– CPU socket support: LGA1156, LGA1155, LGA2011, LGA1150, LGA2011-3, LGA1151, LGA2066

Disc format: 2.5″

GENERAL

Connectivity : USB 3.0

Other features : Acronis software:
– Backup of running system
– Disk/partition backup
– Full backup
– Factory backup
– Local drives
– Network shares
– External storage (USB/Firewire)
– Bare metal restore
– Disks/partitions cloning
– Restoring individual files and folders
– Extended capacity disks
– Support for GPT/UEFI-based systems
– Advanced drives (4k drives) awareness

Colour: Black

GENERAL

Box contents: – EK Cooling EK-Velocity RGB Intel CPU Water Block
– Thermal paste
– Backplate
– Mounting screws
– Springs

Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years

Box contents: – 3.5 to 2.5 bracket
– SATA III data cable
– USB 3.0 external enclosure
– USB 3.0 cable
– Screws
– Screwdriver
– Acronis 2014 software

Weight: 180 g

Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years

Price: £71.99

Price: £14.99

Number of Reviews:

Number of Reviews:

Review Score: 8.8 / 10

Review Score: 8.1 / 10


When deciding on whether to buy EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block or PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit, a very important consideration is the price. So we’re going to spend a bit of time looking at the price of both.

To start with, we looked at the price of the 77 products in the same category as EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block, which is the PC fans and coolers category. Of these 77 products the average price was £71.97, the most expensive was £339.95 and the cheapest was just £3.95. We then looked at the price of the 69 in the same as the PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit, which of course the average was £372.68, top price was £1860 and cheapest £5.99.

We then looked specifically at the average price of products from Ek Cooling and Pny, the average was £106.66 for Ek Cooling, £109.35 for Pny. The max for each was £339.95/£1100 and minimum was £7/£4.99

Price analysis of EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel® CPU Water Block

Price analysis of PNY 2.5

  • EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block
  • RGB lighting
  • Finish out your high spec cooling loop with the EK Cooling Velocity Intel CPU Water Block.Great for all modern Intel processors, this water block can even be used with some lower-powered water pumps to make your system run quieter.Advanced RGB lighting gives you loads of colour variations to choose from. And connecting it to your other RGB sync components is quick and painless.
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  • PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit
  • 3.5″ to 2.5″ mounting bracket
  • USB 3.0 external enclosure
  • Mounting kit
  • Acronis software included
  • The PNY SSD and 2.5″ Hard Drive Enclosure and Upgrade Kit is an all-in-one solution for upgrading your laptop or desktop storage to solid state storage. Upgrade kitThis upgrade kit provides everything you need to install a 2.5‚Äù SSD into your desktop computer, including a 3.5” to 2.5” mounting bracket, SATA cable, screws and tool. EnclosureAlso included is a USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure. Designed to allow you to turn any 2.5‚Äù SATA SSD into an external hard drive, it’s perfect for backing up your data before upgrading.AcronisAcronis True Image for PC makes it simple to migrate data and operating systems from old hard drives to new ones with automatic and manual modes.Working with both local and cloud backup, Acronis saves your entire system and single files, so you can go back to them any time. It’s a totally reliable back up of everything.Choose where, when, and how you want to back up using a simple graphical interface. You can use external drives, cloud backup, or any NAS devices, and it’s compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. It also has support for Windows 8.1.Save changes as you work and set up your own backup schedule. Since you’re full backed up, you can restore in quickly and easily or move your entire system to and from any PC.
  • Product codes: 3536401517498

What’s better EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block or PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit?

There are obviously a number of differences between EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block and PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit, but there are several things that you can use when comparing the two. The first of these, which we’ve already covered, is price. Make sure you spend a bit of time deciding how much you are willing and able to spend on your product to really get a good idea if the £71.99 cost of EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block is closer to the expectation you had than the £14.99 pricep point of PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit.

Once you’ve nailed down everything there is to know on the price of both, the next step is to really study the reviews. Taking the time to read reviews of both will really help you to decide which is a better product between EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block and PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit. We looked at the reviews over at Currys PC World for both products and found that EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel¬Æ CPU Water Block scores out of 10 from reviews. Whereas PNY 2.5″ SSD, Enclosure & Upgrade Kit scores out of 10 from reviews.

It’s also really worthwhile spending the time to look at the key differences between the two products. For that you can use our comparison table about which looks at the main features of both products to give you a clear idea of where one product perhaps benefits over another. When comparing the two it’s a really good idea to have an idea in your mind of the key features that you need from your PC fans and coolers as this will help you to narrow down the products that do or don’t meet your criteria.



EK COOLING EK-Velocity RGB Intel® CPU Water Block



Rating:
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