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today's video is our video review of the water 2.0 extreme now I want to spend a
little bit of time explaining our testing methodology before we go any
further all coolers we test are inside a
closed case this is a Corsair C70 we
also collect our ambient temperatures at the time of monitoring any CPU
temperatures and then we offset and correct everything to a 20° celsus room
temperature we never use the fans included with a cooler because the way
we see it there's a couple different ways to evaluate these coolers number
one is with the included kit which is what everybody else is doing and it
gives you a certain amount of information but not necessarily the
story about the cooler itself because it
throws an additional variable in so you've got sound as a variable no uh uh
pressure as a variable CFM as a variable and the cooler itself as a variable too
many variables you can't tell what's going on so we have standardized our
test bench on only NF F12 and NF A14 flx
fans from nocta these are pressure optimized fans and we'll actually give
every cooler available able to us the opportunity to perform its best so the
water 2.0 uses Quin tubing it uses an ASAC platform so you've probably seen
this mounting hardware before but what makes this guy unique is it's thicker
than normal radiator so you can see that most radiators are actually about the
same thickness as a fan whereas this one adds probably another 20 30% to the
thickness that contributes a real world performance difference to the water 2.0
compared to its lower performing dual 120 mm Brethren now how much of a
difference you might ask uh well here let's let's oh yeah the system right so
the system inside here is a 3930k that
is overclocked so it's a six core processor we keep a GTX 580 in here and
we run firmar when we're doing our load tests just to let you or combuster
rather there kind of the same thing but we run combuster just so that the system
is generating what would be sort of an unrealistically high but but an extreme
use case scenario load and then we always use our single 120 mm exhaust and
the two 120 mm intakes that are right here stock on the
C70 we have created this test bench
because it represents what we consider to be an optimally cooled and still very
quiet gaming system well that's what I think anyway slick thinks it could be
louder but I don't so whatever um all
right so let's move on to Performance we take idle performance at the desktop we
let it heat up and Achieve equilibrium then we take load performance with prime
95 small fft running must be 12 yeah 12
threads on that CPU and combuster running in the background so here we go
water 2.0 extreme so here are these are the two columns that you guys want to
look at right here and you can check the uh the link to this graph in the video
description but the water 2.0 extreme beats out the h110 even so remember guys
cooling is all about surface area however it should be noted this is sort
of within margin of error like we can safely call that pretty much a tie but
the h110 and the water 2.0 extreme come out ahead of everything else our Kraken
we think there must be something wrong with it so we're going to try and get
our hands on another one because it should perform pretty much the same as
the h110 okay so why does the water 2.0
extreme perform the same as a 2X 140 mm
cooler which has more surface area because of the larger fan simple answer
because we're using pressure optimized fans which we do for all of our test
benches that means that adding thickness to the radiator doesn't hurt as much as
it does if you're not using pressure optimized fans so that means adding an
extra 20 to 30% of thickness gives us
the same effect as adding an extra 20 to
30% of wideness so there you go thank
you for checking out our overview of the thermal take water 2.0 extreme don't
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