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overview of the swifttech h220 liquid cooler so this is an all-in-one liquid

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cooling kit sort of because unlike the other ones there it is fully expandable

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and uses high performance components so by high performance components I mean a

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swifttech designed base plate I mean a high-powered pump that is capable of

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running multiple radiators multiple blocks 3/8 in tubing that can be

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replaced and upgraded and added to and a

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copper fin radiator rather than the aluminum fin radiators that competitors

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are using it also comes with swiftex Helix fans pre-attached so installation

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is a snap you basically just take the thing and then screw some fans into your

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dual 120 mm Mount and you are pretty much ready to go upgrades and

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maintenance can be performed via the fill Port here on the radiator itself so

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that acts as a reservoir while the pump is built into the CPU block swifttech

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does a great job of their mounting mechanisms as always so it comes pre pre

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ready for you although we've taken it off now at this point because we've tested it and it comes with screws for

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LGA 2011 to go directly into the back plate on your motherboard as well as a

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back plate and additional mounting screw for the other Intel sockets you even get

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an AMD bracket included yay and it's not like a Cheesy AMD bracket that's sort of

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weird compared to everything else so there's been a lot of hubub about the

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h220 which is why we're releasing this review a little bit out of order we

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filmed some other ones already but we want to get this one out to you guys um

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how does it actually perform so let's start with introducing our standard test

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benion methodology so we have a Corsair C70 case that we close up all the side

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panels on and then we measure ambient temperature using our thermometer at the

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intake so that gives us a good idea of what the room temperatures are like well

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not a good idea an exact idea of what the room temperatures are like we use a

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GTX 580 to generate a heat load because we don't want to give the CPU Cooler any

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unnecessary advantages that it would get on an open test platform this is a we're

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pretending this is a real case with a real gaming rig inside which means

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there's other heat generating components so we run this with combuster for our

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load test and then we leave it for our idle test we have a 3930k CPU we've

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chosen that for a number of reasons Intel really is the platform of choice

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for most enthusiasts out there right now and the fact that it's a six core

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processor means that it generates oh yeah overclocked too means that it

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generates a ton of heat load and allows us to really differentiate the coolers

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for you guys so you know which ones are genuinely better um we use IC Diamond

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thermal compound on all the coolers to eliminate as many variables as we can

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and also in the spirit of variable elimination we we test all coolers with

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Noctua NF F12 fans using their seven bolt adapters the reason for this is

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that we were able to get the system to a noise level that we feel is appropriate

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so you can actually listen to it there

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slick that is a quiet gaming

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rig and then we know how at a noise

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level that we appreciate that cooler will actually perform so let's move

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along to sort of the performance numbers here which is uh right here so our idle

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temperatures I have no idea what you're talking about we use a boom mic for the

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audio test oh yeah there's a boom mic on the camera that slick stuck the camera

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into the case to thank you CU usually you use a lapel yeah uh okay so idle

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temps this we because we were curious how swiftex Helix fans performed because

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we'd never really used them before we decided to uh run the swifttech h220 at

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full pump speed with the stock fans and see how it performed it was right in

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there with an air cooler and some single 120 mm and single 90 mm radiators so we

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were a little concerned about that um however when we ran it with nf12 we got

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some of the best idle temperatures that we've ever seen even when we turn the

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pump down to a fraction of its full speed making it near silent the pump was

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a little bit on the loud well the pump was loud when it was running at full

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speed but the good news is you don't have to now let's head into load

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temperatures so when we say corrected to 20° the reason we say that is because we

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run all of our fans at a fixed RPM so basically if the room temp

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temperature goes up 5° the CPU temperature will go up exactly 5° if you

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want to know how our setup's going to perform where you live measure your room

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temperature and then just add or minus to it so so this is sort of standard

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room temperature now into the juicy load temperature results guys so the first

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thing we noticed about the lad temperatures was the h220 at full speed

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with the stock fans was uh among the

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least performing of the coolers that we've tested in the past uh right down

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there with you know single 120 mm radiator coolers and even our Silver

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Arrow extreme air cooler so that was uh

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that was very disappointing it was also quite loud with the pump at full speed

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so what we didn't necessarily realize at the time was the h220 needs a little bit

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of TLC and optimization and once you do

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that it destroys everything else so with

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full pump speed again the pump speed was

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full pump speed was a little on the loud side for our taste but a lot of people

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probably wouldn't care um it was the best performing cooler on our test bed

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by a significant margin we attribute this to the Copper radiator as well as

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the much much better CPU block that

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swifttech integrates I mean a CPU block can make a 5 degree difference and then

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a copper radiator versus an aluminum radiator is worth a couple degrees as

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well there so that's very exciting to see and we were even more excited to see

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that when we turned the pump down it was still our top performing cooler by a

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good 4° margin so we can explain the rest of the results pretty easily as

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well the water 2.0 has a thicker radiator than the h100i which is why it

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performs better even though it's a dual 120 the h110 uses a dual 140 mm rad so

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that's why that performs better than an h100i and h100i is pretty standard it

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performs about the same as the um as you know any other dual 12 mm radiator

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cooler a touch better plus you get Corsair link software and I think that

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pretty much covers it so in conclusion

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the h220 if you make the correct optimizations which is to turn down the

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pump which is easy you can use your motherboard pump control CPU fan control

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utility to just turn that baby down and if you get some awesome fans to put on

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it in our case nff 12s from noct which are freaking awesome it is Far and Away

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the best preone liquid cooler that you can put on your CPU and it has the

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advantage of actually being able to be expanded with multiple blocks when

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you're ready for it in the future thanks for checking out this video on lineus

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Tech tips what two BL oh the tube oh

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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

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you come look at it um there they're pretty long I mean the

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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

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they were the good New tubes it's asle as

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cutting putting back together and you can have exactly the length you need so

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I would rather swifttech where you can actually adjust it air on the side of

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tubes that are too long than air on the side of tubes that are not long enough

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thanks for watching L's Tech tips and don't forget to subscribe