WEBVTT 00:00:00.131 --> 00:00:06.170 (upbeat music) - This is ASUS' top tier cooler and it's huge and expensive 00:00:06.790 --> 00:00:09.840 and I wanna to see what's inside and I hope it performs, 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:13.090 and it should, it's got three Noctua iPPC fans. 00:00:13.090 --> 00:00:16.450 It's got another fan on top of the cooler, 00:00:16.450 --> 00:00:19.570 for like bonus cooling, and a three and a half inch screen, 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. 00:00:23.750 --> 00:00:27.300 But, hopefully it should do pretty well, and we're gonna find out 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:29.403 on a huge test bench I have over here. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:35.110 Let's see what's inside. Oh! (upbeat music) 00:00:35.110 --> 00:00:41.180 Okay, well, classic ROG. It is well presented and well packed. 00:00:41.180 --> 00:00:45.670 Got clearly the cooler right here. 00:00:45.670 --> 00:00:49.140 Looks to be an inch thick. It's 360 millimeters. 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.410 There is a 360 mil and a 240 mil version of this. 00:00:52.410 --> 00:00:56.930 It is very crinkly, so I'm gonna take off these bags. (crinkling) 00:00:56.930 --> 00:01:01.670 Ooh! It's not particularly long, 00:01:01.670 --> 00:01:09.630 but there's the big ol' screen there. Got pre-applied thermal paste, nice. 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:12.948 And under this screen is where that bonus fan is. 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. 00:01:18.010 --> 00:01:21.970 Oh, comes with a fan hub. Yeet. (thudding) 00:01:21.970 --> 00:01:25.800 Cooler installation guide. Stickers! 00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:29.000 Love stickers, just, well, bigger stickers. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.163 Ah, my favorite thing in the world is in here. (crinkling) Wait for it. 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:37.700 VHB. The answer to all life's problems. 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:40.930 Stick anything to anything, as long as it's not like gas. 00:01:40.930 --> 00:01:44.300 Ah, ooh, these are nice. 00:01:44.300 --> 00:01:50.023 These are our Noctua fans. Now if you're paying this much money for a cooler, 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. 00:01:58.070 --> 00:02:01.190 And it's just top tier. And they're black. 00:02:01.190 --> 00:02:05.590 Yeah, I remember Linus doing a video where he tested these underwater. 00:02:05.590 --> 00:02:09.270 These are like 30 bucks a piece. So like, here you go. 00:02:09.270 --> 00:02:15.800 90 bucks worth of fans. So the MSRP on the 360 millimeter version is $310. 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:19.720 And that's a lot of money. But it gets worse, right now on Newegg, 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. 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:28.870 But when you add up the cost of all these parts, it kinda makes sense. 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? 00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:37.750 Like $80, $90 bucks? Something along those lines. 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. 00:02:42.110 --> 00:02:46.463 You got the fan on top of an Asetek seventh gen pump. 00:02:46.463 --> 00:02:49.570 (clicking) And all the mounting hardware that you could dream of. 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. 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 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, 00:03:00.910 --> 00:03:04.590 call that another 60 bucks. So, there is a value proposition here 00:03:04.590 --> 00:03:08.030 for simplicity, and a screen. 00:03:08.030 --> 00:03:11.470 Ah, so it looks like the standard bracket 00:03:11.470 --> 00:03:15.100 that comes mounted on here won't fit 'cause the socket is bigger. 00:03:15.100 --> 00:03:20.100 So we'll have to twist, is it a lock on, how does this work? 00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:23.273 Get, there we go. Boop, that comes off. 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. 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. 00:03:35.690 --> 00:03:39.480 Anthony already benchmarked it for me, so I know what sort of performance to expect 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:43.260 out of a top tier air cooler. We'll see how this water cooler stands up. 00:03:43.260 --> 00:03:48.603 Now, we're removing SecuFirm2, which is already the best in the industry, in my opinion. 00:03:49.820 --> 00:03:54.530 And we'll see how this mounting system works, and how easy it is comparatively. 00:03:54.530 --> 00:03:58.430 The cooler has Noctua fans but the mounting hardware is not SecuFirm2. 00:03:58.430 --> 00:04:01.453 I would buy it immediately if it was, give it to everyone. 00:04:02.380 --> 00:04:05.425 We're tired, we're sick and tired of bad mounting systems. 00:04:05.425 --> 00:04:09.134 (somber music) (rattling) 00:04:09.134 --> 00:04:13.310 ASMR. (rattling) I should have probably read the instructions here. 00:04:13.310 --> 00:04:16.560 I'm just gonna put a couple headers in here 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.420 so I don't lose this, and then I'm going to double check the instructions. 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, 00:04:25.970 --> 00:04:31.490 so we're gonna figure out how that works. So this board has huge VRMs, fine, 00:04:31.490 --> 00:04:36.110 but like I can't get a screwdriver in there 00:04:36.110 --> 00:04:40.446 to drive the Phillips head, let alone turn the darn thing. 00:04:40.446 --> 00:04:43.553 (calm music) It's not great. 00:04:44.820 --> 00:04:48.338 This is not SecuFirm. Anything less than SecuFirm 00:04:48.338 --> 00:04:53.890 is not great in my opinion. The struggle bus is here and I am all aboard. 00:04:53.890 --> 00:04:58.030 Okay, Jono grabbed me some tweezers. 00:04:58.030 --> 00:05:03.700 Not tweezers, pliers. (calm music) Okay, well, that's as much mounting pressure 00:05:03.700 --> 00:05:07.930 as we're gonna get today anyway. Oh! (cameraman laughing) 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, 00:05:13.930 --> 00:05:18.493 and that would have changed, what, is that in the manual? 00:05:19.380 --> 00:05:22.670 Yeah, it doesn't say anything about that. That that pops off. 00:05:22.670 --> 00:05:27.015 - [Jono] Would that solve a million problems? - Yes, absolutely, I can see the screws now. 00:05:27.015 --> 00:05:30.580 (David laughing) It's not funny. 00:05:30.580 --> 00:05:35.530 Okay, no your instructions are useless. But inside here, this is pretty cool. 00:05:35.530 --> 00:05:40.550 Big ol' ribbon cable, so there's gonna be a graphics driver on here somewhere. 00:05:40.550 --> 00:05:43.233 This ribbon cable will feed the display. 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, 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:53.760 so we're gonna get airflow down through and around out to around these Heatsink fans, 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. 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:04.369 These are PWM fans, so they're all individually controllable, I think. 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 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.720 is not a tiny display to have on top of your USB. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.963 And we can finally hit the power button. 00:06:16.490 --> 00:06:20.160 And watch these beautiful Noctuas spin up, I'm gonna turn them towards you 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.770 so you can see all that action. But before that, James has a message for you. 00:06:24.770 --> 00:06:28.790 - Today's video is brought to you by Wealthfront. 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Okay, we got Armoury Crate installed, 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. 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.620 Should run for about 10 minutes, and we're monitoring this CPU package 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:38.803 and core max temperature. Let's hit F12, boop. 00:07:39.730 --> 00:07:43.543 Renders. Okay, big spike up to 60. 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. 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:54.160 So with the D15S, after 10 minutes, our hottest core was at 98 C. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.160 The CPU package was at 97. Equilibrium temp is 92 to 93. 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.360 So we're at 69, nice. 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.450 Let's see how long it takes to actually like hit a good equilibrium. 00:08:05.450 --> 00:08:09.710 This might take a little while. CPUs pulling 205 watts. 00:08:09.710 --> 00:08:13.010 So I mean, it's working. I don't run Gooseberry very often, 00:08:13.010 --> 00:08:16.720 so I don't know this fast or slow, but regardless, 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:21.480 we're hitting it with 205 Watts, and it's sitting at 69 degrees. 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:27.050 Nice. This is wrong. CPU core zero, like all these cores are at 4.90. 00:08:27.050 --> 00:08:31.480 Wait, there's our efficiency core is 3.7. 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.930 Like it's just sitting at 67 degrees. So I feel pretty confident saying 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. 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, 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, 00:08:49.890 --> 00:08:52.890 which is fine, there's like headroom for overclocking there. 00:08:53.780 --> 00:09:01.320 Oh, I want to check the VRM temperatures. Yeah, VRM temperatures, like 45 degrees right now. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.333 Nothing, I'm gonna say it, this is a good cooler. 00:09:06.680 --> 00:09:10.570 It's ASUS, like, I'm not that surprised, you know, but it is expensive, 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. 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. 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 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. 00:09:28.190 --> 00:09:30.023 And boop, there's number one. 00:09:32.033 --> 00:09:33.893 And number two. 00:09:35.100 --> 00:09:39.780 And retro wave, my favorite. Yeah, so like the screen works. 00:09:39.780 --> 00:09:44.140 It's bright, it looks good. I mean, you can put whatever jiff or GIF, 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. 00:09:50.060 --> 00:09:54.230 If it doesn't, use the 240. And if you can afford it that is too. 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. 00:10:00.490 --> 00:10:03.700 And with that, thanks for watching "ShortCircuit." 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