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lineus Tech tips coverage of CES 2016 is brought to you by school wespace build

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it beautiful and on the subject of building

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it beautiful we're here in the swifttech suite and they have actually a

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surprising number of things on display they're launching not one but two

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actually no not two but three no not three but actually two times that it's

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like three times two of one type of product anyway they've got six different

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all-in-one liquid coolers everything from a dual 120 to a dual 140 to a

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triple 120 mm radiator design with a

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couple of different variants but first let's walk through all the changes that

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they've made from the HX Series so this is the H whatever number corresponds to

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the side X2 very creatively named

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congratulations you guys so first of all they have made some changes to the

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mounting system for the CPU Block in instead of being subjected to that whole

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finicky hold the back plate on or maybe get sticky residue all over your back

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plate while you try and screw it in from the front thing they've gone with a male

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to female adapter so that it right out of the box you can screw it into an LGA

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2011 socket or with the adapter you can screw it into the M3 threaded so the

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actually thinner threaded more traditional back plate with one little

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adapter and then you screw the block right into that I've seen other guys use

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this system in the past and it is legitimately better the next thing

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you'll probably notice about itely is whoa that block looks really really cool

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in addition to having LED lighting effects and more on the LED lighting

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effects later actually they've also added an acrylic top that I think looks

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absolutely Sublime especially when you see it installed in a system with the

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LEDs turned on to go with that they've changed over from their traditional sort

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of black kind of frankly sorry boring

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tubing to a clear tubing design that is going to complement very well this

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little addition now this is cool the first thing I said when swifttech told

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me hey we're going to include dieses in the Box was are they any good and the

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answer was they're mayam and I was like you got to be kidding me a you're using

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the best dies on the market best regarded dies on the Market Bar None and

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B you're actually just saying it yeah we partnered up with those guys we're

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including their dieses you mix and match any color you want and boom your clear

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tubes look like that which leads us to

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and I know this is a lot of different changes actually considering that all they called it was the X2 and not the X

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completely something different uh because there are more changes on the

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radiator they've upgraded the paint finish it is much more durable actually

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feels nicer to the touch they have completely altered the reservoir and I

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think it looks great so they've got an LED strip that actually illuminates the

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water whether it's clear or whether it's colored it is just a I don't know what

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to say about it it's clearer it's larger

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and they've managed to do all of this without making it any higher profile and

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any more likely to interfere with anything because if you look at it from

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the side actually compared to even most custom well I shouldn't say most even

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custom water cooling radiators the tanks at the end are very very short the pump

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hasn't really been altered it's still an mCP 350 so that's your your quieter

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version of the DDC it is still pwm controlled but on the subject of pwm

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control I also want to introduce you guys to this little number so I've used

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their pwm controller probably most famously in our whole room water cooling

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setup where we ran a bunch of Radiators on the roof of a house but they have

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made some changes this time so now you've got the one that controls the

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others you've got only three four pin fan headers but they've added some other

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interesting things so these little headers right here are for addressable

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LEDs which means that each individual LED is controllable and mixable and with

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the right software something they're actually working on you can actually

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create effects with them but if you're not even into effects anyway and you

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just want basic control this puppy will do that for you too there's a little

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button on board so what you got to do is you take out your case side panel you

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open it up you reach in you find your little fan controller doodad that you

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tucked away somewhere because it's a bunch of wires you press the button actually you don't have to do that so

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they've actually put a little two pin connector so that you can change your reset switch something very few people

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use and some case manufacturers don't even include or any other button you

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could wire it up yourself and you can cycle through different colors so this

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technology is going to get even better over time because it allows us to mix

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not only colors but also different brightnesses for a wide variety of

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different effects now I talked about the

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radio talked about the reservoir talked about the pump what I've ignored is the fans those aren't Helix fans those

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aren't swifttech fans at all in fact those are those are those are those are

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those are noise blocker fans those are their El Loops fans well hold on a

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second once again acknowledging that you

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know unfortunately designing widely regarded as the best if

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not one of the best fans on the market is not freaking easy swifttech has

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decided to just straight up partner with noise Blocker on these in order to

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provide the absolute finest of performance for their customers that is

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assuming that they're willing to pay so these SKS are available in a couple of

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different configurations each that's why there are actually six different models

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the Dual 120 mm version of the base model is

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$139.99 the Dual 140 comes in at $149.99 if I recall

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correctly and the triple 120 is 165 if

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you want the version with the noise blocker fans you're going to pay an additional

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$50 per skew but the good news is that

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you also get Swift teex compression fittings instead of their Barbed and

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collared fittings that although very reliable aren't as attractive looking

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especially if you're looking to expand your system in the future and expand you

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can just like the last generation it is no problem to add a video card add two

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video cards add another radiator it's an mCP 350 it is legitimately custom

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aftermarket grade and honestly with all the improvements that they've made to it

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this time around everything from improved case compatibility to improved

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CPU mounting to improved aesthetic in my opinion this is looking like a pretty

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attractive product considering that for the base model they haven't altered the

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price over the last generation and we've

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got another little treat over here this is the Apple gkf the upcoming Flagship

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Standalone Enthusiast block from swifttech they won't tell me everything

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about it necessarily like I don't know anything about the internal flow

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optimizations that they're saying are particularly badass but what they did

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tell me because the first thing I said when I saw it was holy crap those fins

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are really close together and it's it's kind of smug smile yeah they're 0.15 mm

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in thickness so about a piece of paper with that much between them like it's

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freaking unbelievable so I was like come on you got to you got to be kidding me

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here how did you do that well the answer is not by taking a hunk of copper and

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then running a bit through it to create channels the answer is through a

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technique called skying that's where the SKF uh Sky fin you know well naming

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schemes man right that's where that comes from so what's actually done is

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like a blade is used to to slice to like

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to shave the copper and then bend it up into a fin over and over and over again

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so the fins are actually like kind of curvy if you were to look at them from

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the side but that is how they are able to achieve such tiny little fins and of

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course you know the looks being able to stare at it and admire through the

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window of the block how tight they are together is cool but if it didn't

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contribute anything to Performance then I'm sure they wouldn't bother doing it

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but Swift Tech's claiming compared to their previous Flagship up to a six

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degree Improvement something I would have thought was impossible at this

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point so thanks for checking out not only this but all of our Linus techic

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