welcome to my unboxing and first look at the swifttech
h220 this is by any accounts that we've
seen the Next Generation in all-in-one
CPU coolers because this Bridges the Gap
in a true way between a regular allinone
which is what we've seen in the past so the original all-in-one was kind of the
acitech lclc where it's pre-filled
pre-sealed non-expandable it was kind of tricky to
install in terms of the mounting hardware and that other stuff and this
Bridges the gap between that that pre-filled easy to install relatively
you know you don't have to replace it thing and a truly custom
Loop so it comes in an eco-friendly packaging you've got cardboard here and
uh just a sec guys we'll be right back back so beyond the eco-friendly
packaging we move on to what's included the first thing you're going to notice
about this is it looks an awful lot like something that I've already done a video
about before where we actually checked this out in the swifttech suite at CES
and we pretty much know how it's going to perform already which is why I'm able
to say something like next Generation in pre-done liquid coolers because it has
the horses to back up the claims that swifttech is making about this unit so
how does it function as a straight allinone well you've got the mounting
hardware not only included but actually
pre-attached for Intel and then they include the mounting hardware that you
need for AMD so here we've got just a powdercoated uh screw based mechanism so
that'll go into presumably the uh the
back plate that's included with your AMD motherboard so those are using very very
uh rugged mounting Springs it swifttech does such a good job of their mounting
mechanisms so these look like all you got to do is what yeah AIX them here and
then screw them in so okay now let's
move on to the included one so this covers pretty much any Intel mounting
mechanism that you'd encounter whether it's 775 1155 1156 and 2011 with the
only changes being you would have to change out the screws here for 2011 due
to the differing mounting pressure and the different threads compared to the
included back plate that is used for all of the other sockets now one of the
first things I noticed about the block itself I didn't have much Hands-On time
with it when I was in the suite at CES is how freely these joints rotate it's
very very nice to see because normally they're stiff now the way these joints
work is they have to stay sealed no matter what kind of pressure you're
putting on it from this direction or that direction they're swiveling on the
radiator as well they go all the way around on the radiator so they have to
stay sealed and they have to also not put any additional strain on the fitting
which can cause it over time to leak so having them so flexible like that just
means that you're not going to run into any difficulty with that one of the most
important design differences between this and swifttech has done previous
sort of all-in-one liquid coolers like their Drive series is that it uses a
swifttech designed and manufactured pump
so unlike what everyone else is doing where they're pretty much oeming through
coolit or acch or I believe Cooler Master also manufactures their own
swifttech is now a manufacturer of pumps
not a rebrander of pumps so in the past swifttech even was using Lang for the
pumps for their all-in-one liquid coolers so now you find a completely
redone design all by swifttech with a swifttech base plate a swifttech pump
swifttech design fittings and uh special
tubing and even hold Downs for the tubing itself so check out this hold
down here they're using a custom sort of like a worm Drive clamp where you've got
a very slight bulge
right here so you can see the lip on the fitting itself and the way that the
clamp actually fastens down all the way tight so you don't really have to think
about the way that you're mounting it so that it will form a perfect seal not
overtighten and not under tighten so it can't actually go anywhere but the thing
about this is it uses a standard Philips head so if you wanted to clearly labeled
in and out on the other side presumably nope just the inlet is labeled so if you
wanted to you can actually remove this and Plum it up to a completely custom
water loop which is an option that the existing products on the market don't
really have because you can't really drain them you can't really refill them
this one has a drain plug on the radiator itself it has completely
removable tubing with fittings that can be reused with other industry standard
38 inch tubing and reusable clamps so
that you don't have to worry about sort of damaging in any way I actually did
empty and refill a generation 1 lclc but it was a bit of a be so the drain plug
is here on the radiator so the radiator has a built-in sort of extra part here
that's uh kind of a reservoir it has a little bit of extra room in it so it's
not a ton of extra fluid but it'll be pretty much all you'll need so if you
were going to drain it you just take the whole thing and go like this pretty much
after you open up the drain plug you want to refill it you refill the whole
thing with it oriented like this get it as full as you can and there you go
you've actually refilled it swifttech also takes things a step in the right
direction I Believe by pre-installing the fan on the radiator itself in the
orientation where they expect you to use it they also include the screws that you
need to mount the here we go which ones
are these I haven't looked closely at this
yet but it looks like yeah to mount the radiator directly to the case so in that
case remember Guys these fittings up here swivel around completely so to
mount the radiator directly to the case or to mount da da da da flip this around
the fans directly to the case whichever you prefer you want to use it as an
inlet or an outlet that is totally up to you and the fact that the fans are
pre-installed and you just screw the screws into the fan plastic housings
themselves rather than all the way through as a bolt through to the
radiator just means that you don't have to we've all gone through this
installing these predone liquid coolers where you hold this in place and you
align the fan and then you thread the screw and you try to get it in they also
have their own custom fans installed on here so these are fully sleeved look
absolutely gorgeous in fact let's get a closeup of the uh of the sleeve they're
pw4 pin fans and based on the performance and noise characteristics
that we saw in the swifttech suite at CES I am expecting these fans to be just
freaking awesome I mean you can tell the way that they're designed they are
optimized for pressure not necessarily for free airflow but uh that is exactly
the application that they're being used in although this radiator does use a
fairly um like not a super dense fin Arrangement so it is optimized for quiet
operation as opposed to being optimized for extreme performance with like Delta
fans on it for example now I'd be remiss
if I didn't do the obligatory uh finger shot of the base I mean Swift Tech's
been doing water blocks for as long as pretty much anybody else out there so
they do know a thing or two about designing a water block um a thing two
or two about Precision manufacturing them and a thing or two about making it
difficult to remove the plastic covering until you've actually unscrewed the base
plate so there you go I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys how
reflective that surfaces I mean remember reflectivity is not necessarily an
indication of performance but you got that diesel yeah he says he's got it uh
but it can't hurt swifttech also includes a highquality thermal compound
this looks like a shinetsu tube but I actually have no way of knowing for sure
it could also be an MX uh derivative of some po some some sort I mean most of
the thermal compounds out there are sort of a few different brands but uh
swifttech assured me this is one of the better ones out there and I think that
pretty much covers it in terms of the unboxing so what's good about this in
the swifttech booth they had their custom pump running not only the CPU
block and the radiator that was included but also additional blocks such as
graphics card blocks or even a built-in water block like something you might
find on a Maximus 5 formula which we happen to have over on the test bench
over there with Slick's empty drink glass next to it way to go slick mind
you he didn't know we were going to point the camera over there um so you can actually Plum up additional blocks
they had an additional radiator running through it and it was still holding up
just fine that's the reason why the other manufacturers don't want you to
expand your pre-done liquid cooling Loop because the pump isn't capable of
powering it well this one can and it actually runs off of a four pin pwm
connector speaking of fan connectors swifttech also includes this guy right
here which is freaking sweet so this is
actually an eight-way so channel one is labeled and it's got a red little thing
on it so this is actually an eight-way pwm fan splitter what it does is you
just plug in Molex power and then you plug it up plug it into a pwm fan
controller for monitoring and you can hook up up to eight fans and just run
them all somewhere in your case I've seen this included on cases here I'm going to give a closeup for diesel to
have a look at I've seen this included on cases like the Phantom 630 from NZXT
but swifttech figures well why should that be tied to a case go ahead strap it
to something screw it into something not those screws different screws these
screws screw it into something whatever you want hook up all your fans to one
place because it makes it easier for monitoring and controlling thank you for
checking out my unboxing and first look at the swifttech
h220 prefilled prefabbed pre-installed
almost with the fans on there liquid cooling system stay tuned guys we are
going to do a performance review on this one in our standard test bench and see
how it Stacks up away from swifttech testing setup although based on how
closely I looked at their testing setup I think we're going to get pretty much
the same results but uh hey that's what third party validation is for don't
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