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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
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