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So you're building a brand new PC

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and it's time to choose a cooler for your CPU.

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There are so many options out there,

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but before you even really get into the weeds,

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you've gotta make one choice.

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Do you cool your PC with a large air cooler

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or with an all-in-one liquid cooler?

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Now, if we can trust the marketing,

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AIOs are the clear choice.

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Water transfers heat so much better than air, right?

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But is that the entire story?

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Maybe, actually.

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I don't know.

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Alex has been working on this in isolation

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and I don't know the test results.

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So I'm just as eager to find out as you guys are.

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Now, before you run out and buy a new CPU cooler,

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you need to first figure out if your CPU

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is gonna get any benefit from additional cooling.

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Now, in the old days,

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inadequate cooling was a recipe

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for instant catastrophic failure

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because the modern protection or throttling mechanisms

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that prevent them from exceeding

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the generally accepted maximum,

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of a hundred degrees Celsius,

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didn't exist yet.

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But just because both Intel and AMD seem to agree

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that their processors will last

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at least through their warranty period at that temperature,

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doesn't mean having it there is a great idea.

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The hotter an integrated circuit runs,

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the more power it will consume

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and the shorter its lifespan will be.

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And furthermore, when your CPU does approach its limit,

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you can experience greatly reduced performance.

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That throttling mechanism.

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That I alluded to before.

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So if your only goal is not sacrificing performance,

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then temperatures that don't exceed 90 degrees,

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it's honestly a good spot to start

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with 65 to 75 under full load

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being the conventional wisdom target,

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as well as contributing

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to a quieter computing experience overall.

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So finally getting to our PC then,

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in here, we've got an RTX 2070

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and an Intel Core i7-9700K.

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But since any decent cooler

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can keep the stock 95 watt 9700K at bay,

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provided you don't live in the Sahara, of course,

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we cranked it up to a blistering five gigahertz

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on all eight cores at a voltage of 1.33 volts,

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bringing it up to 160 watts.

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Now, we definitely need something a bit more robust.

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Or do we?

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This overclock was actually achieved

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using just a Noctua NFU12S, a mid-range air cooler,

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coming from Intel.

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And that's what we're going to do today.

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We're going to test it out.

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We're going to test it out.

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We have a 10 gigahertz controller coming in at just $60.

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And with just one fan,

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it was able to keep us at a max of 84 degrees.

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Now, that is a little toasty.

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And with our fan at full blast,

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it was a little loud,

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at least by Noctua standards, at 45 decibels.

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So well, now it's time to go water cooling then, right?

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Maybe, but not until we've adjusted our test setup.

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The thing is, 43 decibels is clearly audible

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and bordering on annoying to have right next to your head.

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But for context, the average office is 50 decibels.

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So because noise is just as important

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as cooling performance,

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we had to create an environment

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where we could properly evaluate both.

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Okay, so why don't you show me what you've done here?

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Yes, welcome to my room of quietness.

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This used to be an office, you know.

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Yes, but now it's uncomfortably silent.

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So we know this is kind of ghetto,

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but it works via the same principles

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as our recent server room sound deadening video.

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Basically, if you take a bunch of loosely packed

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permeable mass and you put it all around

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where you're trying to block the sound,

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you don't get any standing waves.

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It ends up absorbing a lot of the sound

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that's trying to come in

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and preventing any reflections and bouncing.

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So basically,

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because we can easily control the HVAC,

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this room has its own dedicated thermostat.

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And because we've got all these beanbags set up,

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we're able to achieve, what was it?

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26 decibels.

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A 26 decibel noise floor in here.

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That means that we can comfortably measure devices

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like this computer that are not much above 30.

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Now this computer has been modified

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from our original configuration a little bit.

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So it's running four of Noctua's NF-A12X25FLX fans.

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So it's running four of Noctua's NF-A12X25FLX fans.

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So it's running four of Noctua's NF-A12X25FLX fans.

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So it's running four of Noctua's NF-A12X25FLX fans.

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With their ultra low noise adapter

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coming off the power supply.

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So these are at just 900 RPM.

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That power supply is a prime fanless titanium

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from Seasonic unit.

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So it's not making any noise.

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The graphics card, there's not much we can do.

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Your system's gonna have a graphics card in it, but-

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It does have a silent mode.

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It does have, oh, it does.

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Oh, the fans are off.

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It has a switch on it.

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Perfect.

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Thank you, ROG Strix.

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So what this means then is that our only variable

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is our CPU cooler.

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Now, some of you have probably noticed

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that the spot where we mounted the radiators is in the top

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because we've got case fans in the front here.

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And that was for a reason.

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So on the one hand, yes,

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drawing in fresh air for your radiator

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is going to give it an advantage

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versus drawing in warmed up air

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and exhausting it out the top of the system.

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However, what we found was that the disadvantage

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from an acoustic standpoint

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of having it right there in the front of the case

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was much greater than the advantage

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it gained from having access to fresh airflow,

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especially because you guys got to consider,

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this is not exactly a little tiny mid-tower chassis.

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We've got three intake fans.

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So the ambient temperature inside the case

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is really not that much warmer.

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So to keep things as real world as possible,

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we're using the blender classroom test.

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So that takes about 17 minutes

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and that's enough time to heat up most AIOs.

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And we were having issues where the whole room

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was heating up two to three degrees.

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And given the fact that we had to do that,

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given that's more than the variation

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between all of our coolers,

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we had to have HVAC on and the door open

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and then run in at about 16 minutes,

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turn the HVAC off, measure the acoustics and boom.

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So with that out of the way,

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we're ready for the results.

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That we are.

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Are you excited?

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I actually am.

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Which one of these do you think is the best?

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Cooling, purely cooling.

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Am I supposed to play devil's advocate or am I?

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Actually guess.

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Actually guess.

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I would guess that it's gonna be

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the triple 120 millimeter red

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from a sheer mass and surface area perspective.

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Not even in second.

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This guy here.

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Really?

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Yup.

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Which one do you think?

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So hold on.

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We're talking raw performance at a given noise level.

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Just raw performance.

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Straight up raw performance.

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Yup.

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This beats this.

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Yup.

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78 degrees, 81.

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Wow, that's not even that close.

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No.

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Okay.

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And guess what sound level they were both at then?

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Okay, this one right here was at 36.

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Okay, 36 decibels?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I would say this with only two fans

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is gonna have to be a little louder, 38.

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34.

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Really? It's quieter too.

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Yeah.

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And the worst part is that this right here.

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Yeah.

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It performs the 360.

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And isn't the 360 the one that comes

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with their new redesigned cold plate?

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Yeah.

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So the Ace Attack one,

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it's only a two degree difference,

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but also like 79, 81.

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So.

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So it's quieter as well.

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Yeah.

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And this right here, garbage, 86 degrees.

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This guy fared pretty well.

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So.

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Okay, well now let's talk price to performance then.

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So we know this is our least expensive offering.

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This was like our mid-tier air cooler.

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Yeah.

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This is probably more like 80 bucks, right?

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70 bucks.

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The one that I really don't understand

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is how this performs so well.

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I guess this is really a testament

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to how well heat pipes perform then.

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And also just Noctua, like they just kill it.

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They know their shiz.

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But if you think about it, like yes,

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water transfers heat very quickly,

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but heat pipes are also fluid heat transfer.

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So this is actually phase change cooling on a certain level.

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So then one point of clarification though,

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do you think this is unique to Corsair's AIOs?

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Like, are they just bad?

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No, I think they're pretty good.

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They're just like the largest company for AIOs

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and they all use basically the same design.

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So it's the most representative.

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Right.

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Cause that's what people are probably gonna buy.

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I'm gonna get you to take these two away since they're done.

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So things don't look great for our water coolers,

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but there is more to the story than performance.

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And performance, noise levels and price to performance.

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Let's run through some more pros and cons.

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So one big problem,

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an additional problem for water coolers is actually the pump.

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Not only does that add additional noise and cost,

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it also adds a point of failure and a nasty one too.

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Since not only are pumps more likely to fail than a fan,

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but when they do, it's more catastrophic for your cooling

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and it's harder to detect.

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Now, if your CPU fan dies,

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then you can probably see that it isn't spinning

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and then slap a case fan on there until a new one arrives.

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With a pump,

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you better hope that you have your software monitoring

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enabled and then when it does bite the bullet,

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you pretty much just need to pony up for an entire new unit.

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An unattractive prospect since AIOs, like I said,

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extra components tend to be more expensive than heat sinks

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with similar performance.

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But that doesn't mean that AIOs don't have

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some advantages.

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Because it's full of water,

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an AIO has greater thermal mass than a heat sink.

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That means that even though after a long load,

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its performance might not be as impressive,

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during short bursts, like while your CPU is turboing up,

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that extra heat can be absorbed then dissipated later

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without such stark swings in temperatures.

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Also, if you regularly move your PC,

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like to LAN parties in search,

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transportation is arguably much safer with an AIO.

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I mean, we are talking for this guy,

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12 points of contact versus just two for this.

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Big bulky air coolers have a lot of weight

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hanging directly off of your CPU socket,

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which in some extreme cases can actually lead

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to motherboards bending or even breaking.

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Now, this isn't as much of an issue with brands

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that have good mounting hardware,

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which is one of the reasons

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that we so strongly recommend Noctua.

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But even with Noctua mounting,

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if I needed to entrust my PC to an airline

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or a parcel carrier, I would equip it with an AIO.

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Another good point for AIOs is the coolness factor,

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not coolness for your CPU,

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or even for your motherboards VRM,

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which can benefit from incidental airflow

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that bleeds away from the heat sink.

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But I mean, coolness for showing off your PC.

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Now, naturally this comes down to personal preference,

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but I mean, coolness for showing off your PC.

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But I mean, coolness for showing off your PC.

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Some people really like the look of big air coolers.

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Yeah.

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Thank you, Alex.

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But most of the time,

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it's easier to get a cleaner overall look

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to your build with water.

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Now, one thing we haven't mentioned yet

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is custom liquid cooling.

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With a top of the line block from EK or Alpha Cool,

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a huge radiator and a D5 pump,

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you can get measurably better performance

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than what is possible even with the beefiest of air coolers.

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The thing is, at that point,

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it isn't really a fair comparison anymore,

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since a custom water cooling setup

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is only for very advanced users,

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requires regular maintenance,

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and is incredibly expensive.

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Like just the CPU block alone

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can cost more than our NHU 12A.

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That's not to say custom water cooling isn't awesome

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and that we don't love it for ourselves.

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It's just not the kind of thing

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that we're comfortable recommending to people who,

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well, enjoy using their computer as opposed to, you know,

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well, enjoy using their computer as opposed to, you know,

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tinkering with their computer.

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Nope.

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You know what's funny is I remember back when

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these 120 millimeter Asetek units first launched,

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like 10 years ago or whatever it was,

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the initial reviews for the Asetek LCLC,

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go find reviews for it, overwhelmingly negative.

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But then when the Corsair H50 turned up,

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which was literally exactly the same product

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with a different fan on it, the reviews get positive.

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And I'm not accusing, I know the people at Corsair very well.

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I know for a fact they didn't pay off anybody.

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But like, it's just funny how a brand can,

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like the brand name and brand loyalty

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might subliminally influence people.

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Like with the Asetek ones, people would be like,

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yeah, it's not great.

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And then with Corsair, they'd be like,

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yeah, it's like, it didn't perform as good,

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but like, here's all these other benefits.

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I don't know, it's a funny thing.

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Ha!

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Ha!