So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the antec cooler H2O 920 so
this is a thicker style radiator with push pull fans as well as a lowprofile
CPU block SL pump unit so let's see what
antech has to say for themselves they're saying it's next Generation maximum
performance okay you have pwm control zero maintenance as as well as a quick
Installation System it is compatible with 775 1155 1156 1366 am2 am3 am2 plus
am3 plus so pretty much every socket Under the Sun these days here we go fan
speed here's all of your general specs which are naturally covered by a sticker
thanks for that let's go move that there
sticker there we go all right so now we can see the specs
so there's your fan speed from 700 to 2400 RPM radiator Di so the thickness of
this rat is 49 mm that's the important one fans these are your standard 120x 25
mil fans cold plate height tubing length
Okay none of this is probably going to be that relevant that weight this is an interesting one so it's 1.6 lb and the
great thing about these self-contained liquid cooling units is that if you ever
have to ship or move your system around most of that weight is strapped to the
case unlike a heat sink where all of the
weight is going to be hanging off the CPU socket so there's a customizable RGB
LED um on the uh CPU block itself so you
can actually change the color of that that's pretty cool through the software
uh pwm uh radiator fans okay included
software provides essential tools to control and monitor the cooler H2O
including coolant temperatures okay that's pretty neat and non-corrugated
easy Bend tubes so that's something that we have not seen before on these
pre-done liquid cooling setup so I will
definitely be commenting on what kind of tubing they're using and what I think of
it I've been water cooling for uh wow I guess it's been almost like 7
years so I do have a fair bit of experience with tubing and
blocks all right here's the insides
actually one more thing on the outside of the box so lower CPU temperatures are
better okay thanks for stating the obvious Mr graph uh CPU core attempt so
here's the Intel air cooler here's a first generation liquid cooler so
they're saying it's around 70° and they're saying the cooler H2O is more
like a 60° and that's on an i7 980x at
100% load so I'm not sure exactly which first generation cooler they're
comparing to but uh presumably it's one of the slightly thinner ones uh such as
NCH lclc uh here we have an installation
guide although I should be able to figure out how this mounts relatively
easily uh we have a chill control V
version 1.0 no software thing so you can probably download that from the antech
website we have mounting hardware so
this is pretty straightforward we've seen this before hey this is neat so uh
Corsair had a similar system with the H50 and the h70 but you can see now
instead of it just the plastic bits just all being black they are colorcoded
green for AMD blue for Intel so that is
a nice touch and then we've got hold Downs for AMD as well as hold Downs for
Intel and then all of the Little Hardware bits that we need all right
let's take out the radiator CPU block and pump and then let's go ahead and
take out the fans one of my biggest complaints about the uh the Corsair fans
was that they just didn't seem very well built they're kind of flimsy um and
they're pretty loud so these look a little bit better constructed I mean
anc's been making fans for about 3 million years so I'm sure they've got
fans figured out uh overall the frame feels quite good it's more like in line
with the koolit fans that they were using on the uh on the Eco as well as
the Vantage so here you go got another fan looks just like that lots of blades
probably optimized for static pressure and the reason for that would be this so
you can see it's quite a dense fin Arrangement here so that means that
rather than optimizing the fan for CFM that is straight airflow in an
unrestricted environment you want to optimize a fan for static pressure so
that is in in a restricted environment how much air can it Force Through said
restricted environment so here you can see how uh thick the radiator is and
here why don't we do why don't we do the classic iPhone comparison oh I think I
just showed crazy Russian oh well it's all good he's not really that much of a
secret anyway you can find pictures of him on the ncx Facebook and I'm not that
much of a crazy either okay okay all right you're not c um okay an Tech 920
oh okay here's a hint as to who the OEM might for this it's right on there can
you read that yeah yes no yes okay all right so
here are the Easy Flex tubes or whatever it is they're calling them and actually
These are nice look at that so these are using very thick thick walled tubing so
this is still 1/4 in tubing but just uses an incredibly thick wall so that
gives you this crazy Bend radius where you could basically take it and bend it
like this and like that and all in a circle and it's still not going to
collapse so this is uh outstanding actually that is definitely a benefit of
using the cooler 920 so here is the pump and H sorry just
got to pull that off there there we go here
is the pump and block combo unit so that's where the uh custom RGB lighting
is going to come from and uh there's the
cooler branding these are rotatable so you can actually position it quite
easily According to which way the tubing is coming in so that you don't have
undue stress on the tubing or on the fittings all right here on the bottom
you can see the copper base as well as the pre-applied thermal compound that is
a highquality thermal compound so I wouldn't feel the need to replace it
unless you are um taking it off and you
need to reapply thermal compound to your CPU so you've got a bunch of cables
coming off this guy all black thankfully that is uh that is excellent because the
CPU socket can get very cluttered very if you have a bunch of brightly colored
cables around it but we've got one USB so that's going to be for the monitoring
software we have and that's a USB header
so that'll plug directly into your motherboard and then we
have H oh neat okay so the whole unit
gets powered off of a single three pin so what you're able to do oh this is
great so check this out okay guys so here's how this works your fans
use their four pin pwm plugs to plug
into this splitter right here okay the
pwm control is all done at the
controller level within the CPU block so what that means is that the ANC software
does all of that control without any intervention from the motherboard and
that really provides a way for ntec to control the end user experience much
better because a lot of motherboards have control schemes that are
drastically different from different from each other so this this way antech
can accurately report the noise level of the system as well as the temperatures
from one simple interface via USB so
this guy provides power to the whole deal now I probably wouldn't recommend
plugging this into your CPU fan header on your motherboard I'm not sure what
ntech has to say about that in the instructions but three fans and the pump
um seems to me like it might be a little much maybe I'm mistaken though maybe
they're going to say that you should plug it into uh
the CPU fan header yes they do okay they say the CPU fan header is uh perfectly
capable of handling it remember USB is going to be providing power to some
parts of some aspects of this as well so maybe they've got some kind of
distribution system where it's not going to affect things negatively but there
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