now this this is a cool product now i'
there have been quite a few liquid cooled uh memory kits in the past but I
have never actually seen one in person
this is the first one that I've gotten to check out so this is a hyperx
Performance Kit from Kingston and it is liquid cooling ready you see those barbs
right there those appear to be 1/4 in barbs which I will explain how you can
actually make practical use of even in a custom liquid cooled setup so these are
DDR 3 2,000 MHz C9 modules it's a 6 gig
kit so that means it's optimal for core i7 on the LGA 1366
platform let's open it up and have a look oh yeah and there's a joke there's
a joke in this episode that is just like the funniest thing ever but you have to
wait till the end have you have to wait till the end
to find out what the joke is it's really funny though okay so here
it is hyperx H2O so I'm just going to lift it out by the barbs here
here there we go so I'm not sure exactly
how this heat spreader works but you can see it's got like blue accents on it oh
I like that check that out so it's got like blue hyperx style accents and then
over top of that there's kind of like a black and red and white themed uh heat
spreader here so let me sort of let's
look closer at this and see if we can figure out exactly how the whole thing
Clips together so you can see there's screws here and here okay and those go
all the way through so presumably that's clamping the entire heat spreader down
on uh on top of what seems to be like a a
sub heat spreader I can't tell if the black one and the blue one are actually
like permanently attached or if they're just clamped together and then you've
got a thermal interface material between the uh the heat spreaders and the dim
itself they're not that heavy actually I'm I'm a little bit surprised they're
really not that heavy it looks like uh these barbs just go straight through so
you can see right there so there's no um there's no winding around through the
water block I mean really RAM doesn't produce a lot of heat so if you're even
just giving it some contact with cool water it should cool it more than
adequately and uh okay that was pretty much it for the unboxing and checking
out the hyper xh2o uh the next part is
check out the uh wait wait for the wait for the joke wait for the joke it's funny okay this is the joke this is the
joke so um here on the hyperx H2O page
it says it's delivers high speeds and Extreme Performance features a unique
extreme cooling option that uses liquid to dissipate heat so that's all great
and fine and then down at the very bottom notice all Kingston products are tested to meet our public published
specifications Kingston does not recommend that any user attempt to run
their computers faster than the published speed overclocking or
modifying your system timing may result in damage to computer components so it's
I don't know I just I okay maybe it's not that funny now that I look at it
again but um I just thought it was kind of funny that
Kingston's selling you like liquid cooling ready memory with a warning not
to overclock it because uh yeah you're
pretty much going to do that oh yeah and uh the way that I would recommend
running this memory if you want if you're running like a 38 or a/ in water
cooling system and you want to make it compatible with the/ qu in barbs on the
hyperx H2O is what I would do is I would get like a a three-way splitter or a
four-way splitter and then just plug up one of the ends and then actually split
your 38 in tubing or your half in tubing into 3/4 in go into your triple Channel
memory from the top come out the bottom meet into another splitter and then meet
up with the rest of your Loop that way you don't lose a whole lot of flow going
through these uh tight quarter inch barbs and you're still able to get all
the extra performance out of these dims now that's not to say these won't run
just fine without water cooling if you just want to run them air cool that's
fine too thank you for checking out my unboxing of the hyperx H2O and don't
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