1 00:00:00,131 --> 00:00:06,170 (upbeat music) - This is ASUS' top tier cooler and it's huge and expensive 2 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:09,840 and I wanna to see what's inside and I hope it performs, 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,090 and it should, it's got three Noctua iPPC fans. 4 00:00:13,090 --> 00:00:16,450 It's got another fan on top of the cooler, 5 00:00:16,450 --> 00:00:19,570 for like bonus cooling, and a three and a half inch screen, 6 00:00:19,570 --> 00:00:23,750 if that's what you're into. I don't think it can play Doom though, so negative points for that. 7 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:27,300 But, hopefully it should do pretty well, and we're gonna find out 8 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:29,403 on a huge test bench I have over here. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,110 Let's see what's inside. Oh! (upbeat music) 10 00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:41,180 Okay, well, classic ROG. It is well presented and well packed. 11 00:00:41,180 --> 00:00:45,670 Got clearly the cooler right here. 12 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:49,140 Looks to be an inch thick. It's 360 millimeters. 13 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:52,410 There is a 360 mil and a 240 mil version of this. 14 00:00:52,410 --> 00:00:56,930 It is very crinkly, so I'm gonna take off these bags. (crinkling) 15 00:00:56,930 --> 00:01:01,670 Ooh! It's not particularly long, 16 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:09,630 but there's the big ol' screen there. Got pre-applied thermal paste, nice. 17 00:01:09,660 --> 00:01:12,948 And under this screen is where that bonus fan is. 18 00:01:12,948 --> 00:01:18,010 I hope I can take that off and take a look. Let's see what else is in the box first. 19 00:01:18,010 --> 00:01:21,970 Oh, comes with a fan hub. Yeet. (thudding) 20 00:01:21,970 --> 00:01:25,800 Cooler installation guide. Stickers! 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,000 Love stickers, just, well, bigger stickers. 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,163 Ah, my favorite thing in the world is in here. (crinkling) Wait for it. 23 00:01:34,530 --> 00:01:37,700 VHB. The answer to all life's problems. 24 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:40,930 Stick anything to anything, as long as it's not like gas. 25 00:01:40,930 --> 00:01:44,300 Ah, ooh, these are nice. 26 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:50,023 These are our Noctua fans. Now if you're paying this much money for a cooler, 27 00:01:50,870 --> 00:01:58,070 you better get the best of the best when it comes to fans. So these are 2000 RPM 120 mil Noctua iPPC fans. 28 00:01:58,070 --> 00:02:01,190 And it's just top tier. And they're black. 29 00:02:01,190 --> 00:02:05,590 Yeah, I remember Linus doing a video where he tested these underwater. 30 00:02:05,590 --> 00:02:09,270 These are like 30 bucks a piece. So like, here you go. 31 00:02:09,270 --> 00:02:15,800 90 bucks worth of fans. So the MSRP on the 360 millimeter version is $310. 32 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:19,720 And that's a lot of money. But it gets worse, right now on Newegg, 33 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,720 these are selling for $550. I don't know why, just don't pay that much money for this. 34 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,870 But when you add up the cost of all these parts, it kinda makes sense. 35 00:02:28,870 --> 00:02:34,470 So we have 90 bucks worth of fans here. I mean, what's a rad this big cost, Jono? 36 00:02:34,470 --> 00:02:37,750 Like $80, $90 bucks? Something along those lines. 37 00:02:37,750 --> 00:02:42,110 You got the screen, which you can't really just integrate yourself or do it this well anyway. 38 00:02:42,110 --> 00:02:46,463 You got the fan on top of an Asetek seventh gen pump. 39 00:02:46,463 --> 00:02:49,570 (clicking) And all the mounting hardware that you could dream of. 40 00:02:49,570 --> 00:02:53,290 And you don't have to buy fittings or any of that jazz, it's just sealed, it's easy. 41 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:57,520 You know, what's your time worth too, right? If you're gonna spend four hours configuring a custom loop 42 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,910 and that's on the light side, you know, if you price yourself really low at 15 bucks, 43 00:03:00,910 --> 00:03:04,590 call that another 60 bucks. So, there is a value proposition here 44 00:03:04,590 --> 00:03:08,030 for simplicity, and a screen. 45 00:03:08,030 --> 00:03:11,470 Ah, so it looks like the standard bracket 46 00:03:11,470 --> 00:03:15,100 that comes mounted on here won't fit 'cause the socket is bigger. 47 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:20,100 So we'll have to twist, is it a lock on, how does this work? 48 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:23,273 Get, there we go. Boop, that comes off. 49 00:03:24,260 --> 00:03:30,693 And I gotta be careful not to get thermal paste all over my shiny new reflective shirt from LTTstore.com. 50 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,690 Let's get to putting this thing on, shall we? I got to take off the the tried and true D15S. 51 00:03:35,690 --> 00:03:39,480 Anthony already benchmarked it for me, so I know what sort of performance to expect 52 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,260 out of a top tier air cooler. We'll see how this water cooler stands up. 53 00:03:43,260 --> 00:03:48,603 Now, we're removing SecuFirm2, which is already the best in the industry, in my opinion. 54 00:03:49,820 --> 00:03:54,530 And we'll see how this mounting system works, and how easy it is comparatively. 55 00:03:54,530 --> 00:03:58,430 The cooler has Noctua fans but the mounting hardware is not SecuFirm2. 56 00:03:58,430 --> 00:04:01,453 I would buy it immediately if it was, give it to everyone. 57 00:04:02,380 --> 00:04:05,425 We're tired, we're sick and tired of bad mounting systems. 58 00:04:05,425 --> 00:04:09,134 (somber music) (rattling) 59 00:04:09,134 --> 00:04:13,310 ASMR. (rattling) I should have probably read the instructions here. 60 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:16,560 I'm just gonna put a couple headers in here 61 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,420 so I don't lose this, and then I'm going to double check the instructions. 62 00:04:20,420 --> 00:04:25,970 So I haven't used the mounting system on one of these open bench tables for an AIO, 63 00:04:25,970 --> 00:04:31,490 so we're gonna figure out how that works. So this board has huge VRMs, fine, 64 00:04:31,490 --> 00:04:36,110 but like I can't get a screwdriver in there 65 00:04:36,110 --> 00:04:40,446 to drive the Phillips head, let alone turn the darn thing. 66 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:43,553 (calm music) It's not great. 67 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:48,338 This is not SecuFirm. Anything less than SecuFirm 68 00:04:48,338 --> 00:04:53,890 is not great in my opinion. The struggle bus is here and I am all aboard. 69 00:04:53,890 --> 00:04:58,030 Okay, Jono grabbed me some tweezers. 70 00:04:58,030 --> 00:05:03,700 Not tweezers, pliers. (calm music) Okay, well, that's as much mounting pressure 71 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:07,930 as we're gonna get today anyway. Oh! (cameraman laughing) 72 00:05:07,930 --> 00:05:13,930 Interesting, okay! - [David] Now we know. - Well, now we know, there's there's that bonus fan, 73 00:05:13,930 --> 00:05:18,493 and that would have changed, what, is that in the manual? 74 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:22,670 Yeah, it doesn't say anything about that. That that pops off. 75 00:05:22,670 --> 00:05:27,015 - [Jono] Would that solve a million problems? - Yes, absolutely, I can see the screws now. 76 00:05:27,015 --> 00:05:30,580 (David laughing) It's not funny. 77 00:05:30,580 --> 00:05:35,530 Okay, no your instructions are useless. But inside here, this is pretty cool. 78 00:05:35,530 --> 00:05:40,550 Big ol' ribbon cable, so there's gonna be a graphics driver on here somewhere. 79 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:43,233 This ribbon cable will feed the display. 80 00:05:44,070 --> 00:05:48,680 Got some pins that rest in these holes. So this is what's gonna cool all these VRMs, 81 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,760 so we're gonna get airflow down through and around out to around these Heatsink fans, 82 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:59,500 and it'll help move heat away from the VRM. So, in theory, that'll be handy. 83 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:04,369 These are PWM fans, so they're all individually controllable, I think. 84 00:06:04,369 --> 00:06:08,360 Not bad. Oh, there comes everything else. That's a big display, like three and a half inches 85 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,720 is not a tiny display to have on top of your USB. 86 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,963 And we can finally hit the power button. 87 00:06:16,490 --> 00:06:20,160 And watch these beautiful Noctuas spin up, I'm gonna turn them towards you 88 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,770 so you can see all that action. But before that, James has a message for you. 89 00:06:24,770 --> 00:06:28,790 - Today's video is brought to you by Wealthfront. We are super excited to share a service 90 00:06:28,790 --> 00:06:32,730 that makes investing feel a lot more stable. If you're someone who wants to get into investing 91 00:06:32,730 --> 00:06:37,200 or continue to diversify your portfolio, Wealthfront makes it super easy 92 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,060 and affordable to get started. 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Those fans are pushing some air, though. 102 00:07:16,910 --> 00:07:20,720 Okay, anyway, so add Idle CPU package 103 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,350 is sitting at 27 degrees, like that's low, 104 00:07:24,350 --> 00:07:27,500 that's where I'd expect it to be. Okay, we got Armoury Crate installed, 105 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:32,000 we have Blender ready to go on a Gooseberry Benchmark, we've upped the samples to 1200 from 600. 106 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,620 Should run for about 10 minutes, and we're monitoring this CPU package 107 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:38,803 and core max temperature. Let's hit F12, boop. 108 00:07:39,730 --> 00:07:43,543 Renders. Okay, big spike up to 60. 109 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:48,400 And we're down to 41, so we should hear the fans start to ramp up here. 110 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,160 So with the D15S, after 10 minutes, our hottest core was at 98 C. 111 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,160 The CPU package was at 97. Equilibrium temp is 92 to 93. 112 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,360 So we're at 69, nice. 113 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,450 Let's see how long it takes to actually like hit a good equilibrium. 114 00:08:05,450 --> 00:08:09,710 This might take a little while. CPUs pulling 205 watts. 115 00:08:09,710 --> 00:08:13,010 So I mean, it's working. I don't run Gooseberry very often, 116 00:08:13,010 --> 00:08:16,720 so I don't know this fast or slow, but regardless, 117 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,480 we're hitting it with 205 Watts, and it's sitting at 69 degrees. 118 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:27,050 Nice. This is wrong. CPU core zero, like all these cores are at 4.90. 119 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:31,480 Wait, there's our efficiency core is 3.7. 120 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,930 Like it's just sitting at 67 degrees. So I feel pretty confident saying 121 00:08:35,930 --> 00:08:40,850 that this cooler's doing its job. It's quiet, it's expensive, but it does its job. 122 00:08:40,850 --> 00:08:45,140 Inside a case, it would be a different story, so we do need to acknowledge that if this was in a case, 123 00:08:45,140 --> 00:08:49,890 it would perform way differently, you know, call it five, 10 degrees, and then you still at 70 degrees, 124 00:08:49,890 --> 00:08:52,890 which is fine, there's like headroom for overclocking there. 125 00:08:53,780 --> 00:09:01,320 Oh, I want to check the VRM temperatures. Yeah, VRM temperatures, like 45 degrees right now. 126 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,333 Nothing, I'm gonna say it, this is a good cooler. 127 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,570 It's ASUS, like, I'm not that surprised, you know, but it is expensive, 128 00:09:10,570 --> 00:09:14,570 but the time you save with it is probably worth it, and you got a big screen on it. 129 00:09:14,570 --> 00:09:17,643 Ooh, should we try to play with the screen? Is that the last thing we do? Yeah, okay. 130 00:09:17,643 --> 00:09:21,240 So we can play around with the screen. We're just gonna use the three built in graphics 131 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:26,903 unless Jono, did you get one for me? Okay, we didn't anyway, but it updates rather quickly. 132 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:30,023 And boop, there's number one. 133 00:09:32,033 --> 00:09:33,893 And number two. 134 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:39,780 And retro wave, my favorite. Yeah, so like the screen works. 135 00:09:39,780 --> 00:09:44,140 It's bright, it looks good. I mean, you can put whatever jiff or GIF, 136 00:09:44,140 --> 00:09:50,060 whatever you prefer to say it on it, and it performed really well. So if this 360 will fit in your case, go for it. 137 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:54,230 If it doesn't, use the 240. And if you can afford it that is too. 138 00:09:54,230 --> 00:10:00,490 I mean, an AERCO is obviously going to be cheaper, but this is well, chilly, it works. 139 00:10:00,490 --> 00:10:03,700 And with that, thanks for watching "ShortCircuit." Get subscribed, 140 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:07,410 check out more of our videos in our back catalog, and I'll see you on another day.