{"video_id":"XVNuN0UcYUQ","title":"Swiftech H220 Liquid Cooler Review Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":471,"segments":[{"start_s":0.68,"end_s":6.64,"text":"this video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel for a limited time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.839,"end_s":11.36,"text":"only with the purchase of any unlocked Core I5 or core i7 Intel CPU get a free","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.679,"end_s":15.4,"text":"Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard valid for Canadian and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.48,"end_s":19.32,"text":"US customers only some restrictions apply for complete details visit Intel","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.68,"end_s":24.64,"text":"gaming promo.com welcome to my full product","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.039,"end_s":29.4,"text":"overview of the swifttech h220 liquid cooler so 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tube length is a little bit on the long side and he's right if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.039,"end_s":446.8,"text":"you come look at it um there they're pretty long I mean the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":445.199,"end_s":452.08,"text":"good news is it well it doesn't even look that long when you put it on this side but you had it on the other side","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":451.479,"end_s":457.84,"text":"they were the good New tubes it's asle as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":455.8,"end_s":461.879,"text":"cutting putting back together and you can have exactly the length you need so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":459.4,"end_s":465.319,"text":"I would rather swifttech where you can actually adjust it air on the side of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":463.68,"end_s":468.879,"text":"tubes that are too long than air on the side of tubes that are not long enough","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.639,"end_s":472.039,"text":"thanks for watching L's Tech tips and don't forget to subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"this video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel for a limited time only with the purchase of any unlocked Core I5 or core i7 Intel CPU get a free Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard valid for Canadian and US customers only some restrictions apply for complete details visit Intel gaming promo.com welcome to my full product overview of the swifttech h220 liquid cooler so this is an all-in-one liquid cooling kit sort of because unlike the other ones there it is fully expandable and uses high performance components so by high performance components I mean a swifttech designed base plate I mean a high-powered pump that is capable of running multiple radiators multiple blocks 3/8 in tubing that can be replaced and upgraded and added to and a copper fin radiator rather than the aluminum fin radiators that competitors are using it also comes with swiftex Helix fans pre-attached so installation is a snap you basically just take the thing and then screw some fans into your dual 120 mm Mount and you are pretty much ready to go upgrades and maintenance can be performed via the fill Port here on the radiator itself so that acts as a reservoir while the pump is built into the CPU block swifttech does a great job of their mounting mechanisms as always so it comes pre pre ready for you although we've taken it off now at this point because we've tested it and it comes with screws for LGA 2011 to go directly into the back plate on your motherboard as well as a back plate and additional mounting screw for the other Intel sockets you even get an AMD bracket included yay and it's not like a Cheesy AMD bracket that's sort of weird compared to everything else so there's been a lot of hubub about the h220 which is why we're releasing this review a little bit out of order we filmed some other ones already but we want to get this one out to you guys um how does it actually perform so let's start with introducing our standard test benion methodology so we have a Corsair C70 case that we close up all the side panels on and then we measure ambient temperature using our thermometer at the intake so that gives us a good idea of what the room temperatures are like well not a good idea an exact idea of what the room temperatures are like we use a GTX 580 to generate a heat load because we don't want to give the CPU Cooler any unnecessary advantages that it would get on an open test platform this is a we're pretending this is a real case with a real gaming rig inside which means there's other heat generating components so we run this with combuster for our load test and then we leave it for our idle test we have a 3930k CPU we've chosen that for a number of reasons Intel really is the platform of choice for most enthusiasts out there right now and the fact that it's a six core processor means that it generates oh yeah overclocked too means that it generates a ton of heat load and allows us to really differentiate the coolers for you guys so you know which ones are genuinely better um we use IC Diamond thermal compound on all the coolers to eliminate as many variables as we can and also in the spirit of variable elimination we we test all coolers with Noctua NF F12 fans using their seven bolt adapters the reason for this is that we were able to get the system to a noise level that we feel is appropriate so you can actually listen to it there slick that is a quiet gaming rig and then we know how at a noise level that we appreciate that cooler will actually perform so let's move along to sort of the performance numbers here which is uh right here so our idle temperatures I have no idea what you're talking about we use a boom mic for the audio test oh yeah there's a boom mic on the camera that slick stuck the camera into the case to thank you CU usually you use a lapel yeah uh okay so idle temps this we because we were curious how swiftex Helix fans performed because we'd never really used them before we decided to uh run the swifttech h220 at full pump speed with the stock fans and see how it performed it was right in there with an air cooler and some single 120 mm and single 90 mm radiators so we were a little concerned about that um however when we ran it with nf12 we got some of the best idle temperatures that we've ever seen even when we turn the pump down to a fraction of its full speed making it near silent the pump was a little bit on the loud well the pump was loud when it was running at full speed but the good news is you don't have to now let's head into load temperatures so when we say corrected to 20° the reason we say that is because we run all of our fans at a fixed RPM so basically if the room temp temperature goes up 5° the CPU temperature will go up exactly 5° if you want to know how our setup's going to perform where you live measure your room temperature and then just add or minus to it so so this is sort of standard room temperature now into the juicy load temperature results guys so the first thing we noticed about the lad temperatures was the h220 at full speed with the stock fans was uh among the least performing of the coolers that we've tested in the past uh right down there with you know single 120 mm radiator coolers and even our Silver Arrow extreme air cooler so that was uh that was very disappointing it was also quite loud with the pump at full speed so what we didn't necessarily realize at the time was the h220 needs a little bit of TLC and optimization and once you do that it destroys everything else so with full pump speed again the pump speed was full pump speed was a little on the loud side for our taste but a lot of people probably wouldn't care um it was the best performing cooler on our test bed by a significant margin we attribute this to the Copper radiator as well as the much much better CPU block that swifttech integrates I mean a CPU block can make a 5 degree difference and then a copper radiator versus an aluminum radiator is worth a couple degrees as well there so that's very exciting to see and we were even more excited to see that when we turned the pump down it was still our top performing cooler by a good 4° margin so we can explain the rest of the results pretty easily as well the water 2.0 has a thicker radiator than the h100i which is why it performs better even though it's a dual 120 the h110 uses a dual 140 mm rad so that's why that performs better than an h100i and h100i is pretty standard it performs about the same as the um as you know any other dual 12 mm radiator cooler a touch better plus you get Corsair link software and I think that pretty much covers it so in conclusion the h220 if you make the correct optimizations which is to turn down the pump which is easy you can use your motherboard pump control CPU fan control utility to just turn that baby down and if you get some awesome fans to put on it in our case nff 12s from noct which are freaking awesome it is Far and Away the best preone liquid cooler that you can put on your CPU and it has the advantage of actually being able to be expanded with multiple blocks when you're ready for it in the future thanks for checking out this video on lineus Tech tips what two BL oh the tube oh yeah okay slick wanted me to mention that the stock tube length is a little bit on the long side and he's right if you come look at it um there they're pretty long I mean the good news is it well it doesn't even look that long when you put it on this side but you had it on the other side they were the good New tubes it's asle as cutting putting back together and you can have exactly the length you need so I would rather swifttech where you can actually adjust it air on the side of tubes that are too long than air on the side of tubes that are not long enough thanks for watching L's Tech tips and don't forget to subscribe"}