So, at like midnight a couple weeks ago,
I just got a link from Lionus that says, "Please buy put in the B ideas list."
Okay, but hold on. Hold on. How irresistible is this thing? Okay, now
here in North America, typically our AIO liquid coolers connect to a CPU or a
GPU. This one connects to both. And it's
got great features like comet tail LED
designed with two high water flow pumps. Take heat away from hot spot and moves
to radiator. This one is going to be a good one, ladies and gentlemen.
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So, should we just start with the unboxing here? Yeah, might as well. We have this
beautiful computer over here. Yeah, the computer is a total misfit for
this thing cuz I think this thing's going to be kind of junky. I don't know how beautiful it should be
by the end. How much did we pay for this?
It was it was quite a bit. Uh, so from like the US, you're able to get it for
like 150 160 bucks thereabouts. That's
competitive. Um, especially because you're just buying one of them instead
of, you know, two of them if you wanted to use AIO's. Yeah. Getting one of them shipped to
Canada cost us a fine $260.
Oh, seriously? I hate it when that happens.
Yeah. All right. So, let's have a look at this thing. It's actually
kind of clever. So, you get some savings
because you only need a single radiator. Um, but then you negate some of your
savings because they actually went and put two pumps in the thing. So, this one
is designed, I guess, to go in either the front of your case, maybe hopefully.
I don't know if that's going to reach or the top. And then this one is supposed
to go down to your GPU. Wow, the spacing is Yeah, there's not a lot there.
Pretty tight, actually. And then this one's cute. So, I've actually seen these
kinds of mods before. It's got what looks like a pretty standard AIO block
and pump unit. And then it's just got this uh cooling fan shroud that's
attached to it with the idea being that you don't need a full coverage cooling
solution cuz this is going to cool your VRM and your RAM. Honestly speaking,
other than committing one of my favorite sins, which is to have a fan that the
frame doesn't seal against the edge of the radiator. Oh yeah. So like it just it kills your pressure.
Um, there's no obvious deficiencies in
like materials quality that I can see. Yeah. The only thing that I'd say is
this radiator is kind of small for a CPU and a GPU.
A triple would have probably been better. Yeah, they did actually show off a
triple at CES, but it never came to
actually exist. So, Oh, there you go.
Oh, boy. Um, silicone heat sink plaster.
What is heat sink plaster? Whatever it is, I think it involves putting these
little memory chip coolers onto our card possibly permanently.
Oh, I feel bad for that 1070 then.
Well, we wouldn't be having the whole experience if we didn't follow the
instructions. Should be pretty easy. Theoretically, yes. Are we AMD or Intel
here? Intel. Do you want to talk us through if there's any other amazing features while
I go ahead and power this down? Uh, so maybe my personal favorite is TDP
400 watts Intel platform, 350 watts AMD
platform. Not sure where those extra watts come from for Intel, but uh, sure.
Let's see what else we have in here. Nope. The details. It's just a couple
pictures. Uh, do you know for sure that this is
booted? Cuz I pressed it and it's not shutting down.
Uh, I don't know. Well, in our convenient and fancy new
workshop, got to move this water bottle out of the way, ltstore.com. Fortunately,
we have a very easy way to check.
Should wake up when you plug in a new thing. There we go.
Oh, heck yeah. All right. In terms of mounting hardware, honestly, it doesn't
look that much more complicated than any other AIO. The one challenge is that in
addition to your CPU mounting hardware,
right, you've also got a whack of
graphics card mounting hardware. All right.
Uh, I'm going to do the radiator to start with. Then I get Wait, what? No,
we have to like Oh, what is the best way to tackle this? I guess you kind of have
to mount the GPU to this first. Oh yeah.
And then you like mount this in the case and then this to the CPU.
They should they should clarify that cuz Wait, what the hell?
It only has a CPU guide. You're on your
own for the graphics card. Is there another piece of documentation I missed?
Yeah, the uh downloads page on their website's really helpful, too. Oh. Oh, good.
Yeah. Okay. Literally nothing there. Um, all right.
Let's figure out the GPU first, then I guess. Unreal.
Do you ever feel like NVIDIA's stock coolers are just unnecessarily difficult
to take apart? Yep. And rip.
One. No. Sure. So, I had the back plate. Um, hopefully
you weren't looking for that. Isn't this great? Check this out. We
already have a hardware destroying problem.
This right here interferes.
Oh, yep. That's a bit That's a bit of a zapper.
Well, they include fiber washers to deal with that. The problem is just that
there's no spacers, so it would crush this thing.
So, I guess what I was thinking is, do we even need this? Um, we should use one.
Well, but we can still just put the other back plate on and no one will even notice. But we could just use the back
plate now that I have spacers,
I guess. So, why do you hate my back plate?
Basically, we just need to put this puppy on now then, right?
Yeah. Should we install all the little heat sink chummies first?
It seems like a good idea. You got the alcohol? Uh, yep.
I'm afraid to put that paste on this thing. Are we really doing this?
Yep. Screw it. Fine.
I'm glad you grabbed a 1070 and on like an RTX 2080 Ti or something stupid like
that. I was kind of concerned that it just might not work like it should.
I'm pretty concerned about these. They don't really seem to be on there that much. Yeah, but I think this is glue,
I guess. So, it doesn't say anything about like how long it takes to adhere
or anything. We're flying blind. Sure.
Oh, here's some random thermal compound.
Realistically, it's probably about the same as everything else.
So, we'll cover the GPU. Yep.
And this is it then, right? Uh, should we put the thingies in there
first? Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Okay. So, that seems fine, right? Yep. Okay.
Oops.
Sure. Okay. It's a thing.
It's something. Wouldn't it just be beautiful if one of
those heat sinks just popped off and shorted it out?
No. Okay, now we need our nylon spacers
that I obtained for us. Look, I even got four matching ones.
And there we go. No interference issue. Nice.
It's too bad the instructions didn't have anything about this. Otherwise, uh,
more people might not destroy their graphics card. Well, I've seen uglier
graphics cards. Not often. Yeah, I've seen prettier ones a couple
seconds ago. Okay. Well, that's it. That's the GPU.
So, now we got to like put it in.
This is This is actually going to be a twoerson job
cuz like otherwise it's going to be all over the place.
All right. Oh jeez, these fans are like wired right
into the case.
Holy crap, Alex. Oh jeez. What happened there?
You left the wi the window open and it it was heavy enough it just
tipped it. That could have been unfortunate.
Okay. So, the good news is that our concerns about the tubing lengths seem
to be completely unfounded. You know what? I'd say going towards the
front is what they intended. I like that look more anyway.
All right. So, do you want me to hold the fans in place? Yep.
Is that like anywhere close? Yep. You're close. Thank you. All right. So, I think this is as simple
as they have just cloned the regular ASItech mounting system and I can just
pop these bad boys on here and we're pretty much ready to rock.
Perfect. In case you guys were wondering why this thing is not typically available in
North America, that would be my guess. ASET has a North American patent on
these uh CPU block and pump combo units
like this. And I can guarantee you these
guys are not paying the licensing fee. If ASICH even offers that RAM. I don't
know if they do. I wonder if that Noctua compound that we had left over would have been better
than what they have. Probably here. I can hold this. And I can put the
mounting mechanism on it, too. All right. It really is not the greatest
looking mounting mechanism. And actually, they didn't straight up clone
the ASIC system because there's no way to kind of rotate it for the most
optimal tubing runs. But the good news is that it did fit in our case just
fine. Um, it's putting a little bit more strain on this tube and this memory
stick than I'd like, but not the end of the world. Yeah, whatever. Do I have your
permission to throw this piece of paper towel off out? No, just leave it here. And then if we
need to wipe off more thermal compound, we'll have it. Don't waste. So, that's
it. It's on. I'm stoked. So, I'm going to plug this into our AIO pump header.
So, I will plug the two. Man, I just I
love how perfect all the fan header
spots are for this system. It's amazing.
Like, I've got CPU fan, CPU opt for my radiator fans. I've got AIO pump over
here. I've got chassis fan over here for this one. And then I've got W pump over
here for this pump. It's amazing. It's amazing. And it's ready to rock. You
ready? Yeah. All right. Moment of truth. Do it. Hit
it. I'm ready. Is the power supply on? I don't know. Yeah. No. Yes. Yeah.
Okay. The RGB lighting is pretty uh it's
there. Is it RGB or is it just R? It's not configurable at all. There's no
USB. It's just like that for days.
Well, but Lionus, the Cometail LED design adds to the visual enjoyment.
All right. Well, yeah. I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying it visually
right now. It's like a feast for the eyes, especially with these Royale dims.
Nice touch. Love it. All right, so what were we using for our stress test today?
So, we did Blender, we did Firmark, and we did 3D Mark. So, in this before,
after 10 minutes, we got to
uh we're already at 71°. Okay, so we got to a max of 79° after 10
minutes. What was our clock speed though? I'm not sure what the clock speed was.
We're doing 100 FPS. So, we're at 75° already, but we're at
107 FPS. So, it is still turboing higher.
Oh, I wonder if part of the problem is that we're not controlling like the pump
speed of the GPU with the GPU temperature.
It shouldn't matter. The pump should just go ham. That's what those pump
headers are supposed to do. Should we just put them to full blast? It's definitely spinning. No, it's at
81° now. Well, that's it. It's going to start thermal throttling now. 104 FPS. How can
it be that bad? Let's just double check it in the BIOS.
Let's go back. Set all the pumps to just full blast. And
I mean, it happens so fast. It can't be a fan issue. It would have to be a pump
issue. But like, it's not bad enough that like,
you know, it's clearly not doing anything.
How could it be so terrible?
Holy crap. Did we just break a graphics card?
There's no way. Uh, there is a way.
Well, there is a way, but I just don't even get it. This thing
would have to be basically a flat piece of copper to be this bad.
Well, a flat piece of copper at least wouldn't break your GPU, probably.
I mean, the cooling Oh, we're back. Okay. Well, the cooling
Thank god. The cooling fan for the back of the card
is doing its job for the most part.
Okay. AIO pump 2,000 RPM. Oh, yeah. Wump
Plus cranked. Okay.
All right. How about Blender then? Which render did you run? Uh, we did classroom.
What processor are we even running in here? Uh, 7900X.
Okay. So, 10 cores. So, last time with the
Noctua, the CPU temperature was a max of 70°, which that was after like 8 or so
minutes. But this really isn't looking that bad. So, blender just finished. Uh,
we got a max of 70°.
That's not bad. Yeah, that's exactly the same as this small cooler. That's $100 less.
I mean, where we really run into trouble, though, is if we were to try
and hit the GPU and the CPU at the same
time. Oh, the GPU is at 70° already.
Yep. How can it be so at least mostly
sufficient on the CPU and so far off on
the GPU? Doesn't make sense.
Should we just try remounting it? Like I can't think of anything else that would
like are we just missing part of the die? Do you want to try remounting it?
Like it can't hurt. Okay, I'm going to go set up Wancho
while you do that then. So, it does look like that we missed a
bit of the die here. So, I am going to try and fix that. I still don't know if
that's enough to really cause us a problem. All right. So, not all of the
GPU die was covered in paste. So, maybe that was our issue.
Okay. Right now at it's at 31°,
that's what we'd expect with good contact. So, let's just hit it and see what
happens. 45 50 512.
So, was that it? Yeah, it might have just been poor contact.
Nice. This it's run for like 10 minutes or something. Find out if it actually
does better than stock. 10-minute timer.
You know, I got to say I'm actually pretty impressed. Yeah, we got what was it? A maximum of
66° in firm mark after it's been running
for like 30 minutes. And when I didn't have a blender render
running in the background, we got 106 FPS, which is more important. That tells
us that our GPU is actually turboing higher with this cooler than it was with
the stock cooler. Now, our CPU is running a bit hotter
when you're hitting both the CPU and GPU at the same time, but at 75° on a what
is this? A seen X, Y, that's pretty reasonable for a 10 core,
not particularly efficient CPU. So overall, bad instructions, significant
risk of damaging or destroying your hardware, but for 160 bucks compared to,
you know, say buying like a regular just CPU AIO.
Yeah, not bad. Is it getting the seal of approval?
I don't know if it gets a recommendation, but it gets the like if
if it fits, it sits. If you're like kind of edgy with your
computer, yeah, it's actually not bad. I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't overclock the CPU or
anything. This is for stock operation and it's not particularly quiet or
anything, but it does make your GPU go faster. I mean, maybe you'd just be
better off getting a GPU AIO and then a CPU heatsink. Well, but also if you have like an i5,
like the overclockable one, you could chuck that on there.
Yeah, might be able to get a bit. You could overclock the GPU.
So, I wouldn't recommend overclocking the CPU. And for the money, you might be
better off just getting a heat sink and then a GPU only AIO. But hey, if you
want to be water cooled on a budget, it
is not as stupid as we thought it might be. Yeah, not bad.
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