1
00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,000
the Kraken G10 is probably the third time that NZXT has really blown me away

2
00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:25,160
with an inexpensive product that just makes the lives of system Builders

3
00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:28,840
easier so the first one was their little USB internal header Hub that allowed you

4
00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:34,079
to add additional headers if you didn't have enough on your motherboard this was back in the days when most boards had

5
00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:38,960
like two or even one internal header the second one was the grid which is a

6
00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:43,680
little fan power hub that allows you to simplify your cable management and

7
00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:49,079
simplify your fan speed management and the third is this what this does is it

8
00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:54,199
takes your existing there's many of them on the market acitech based liquid

9
00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:58,559
cooler a CPU liquid cooler and allows you to mount it to your graphics card

10
00:00:56,239 --> 00:01:03,559
effectively water cooling your video card but at a fraction of the cost of

11
00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:08,320
what it would what it would cost you to go with a full custom liquid cooling

12
00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:12,640
solution for your card which is really the only other option out there for

13
00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:17,799
video card water cooling inside the excellent but completely unnecessary uh

14
00:01:15,479 --> 00:01:22,200
soft closed cell foam packaging I mean none of this stuff is uh fragile or

15
00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:27,040
anything we find the bracket itself which is available in black white and

16
00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,520
red we find a back plate that has a variety of different mounting holes we

17
00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:36,360
also find a variety of mounting hardware to go through it we find a 92 mm fan

18
00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:40,240
which actually just screws onto the bracket itself and then blows air

19
00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,960
directly at the back of the video card where the vrm and actually some of the

20
00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:47,960
memory typically are in order to make sure that the card doesn't run overly

21
00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:51,479
warm and finally we find an instruction manual with some included zip ties this

22
00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:55,479
is a nice touch just cuz you know cable management is never a bad thing so why

23
00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:59,000
would you want to liquid cool your graphics card well number one is it

24
00:01:57,039 --> 00:02:03,560
gives you something to do with your you know your old aaack CPU liquid cooler

25
00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,079
that you're not using anymore because frankly they're just not that great for

26
00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:13,480
CPU cooling CPUs kick out a lot more heat than gpus overall number two is the

27
00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,760
fact that gpus genuinely perform better

28
00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:19,519
if you're able to keep them running cooler GPU Boost 2.0 and AMD's latest

29
00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:24,360
power tune will actually turn up the frequency of your graphics card higher

30
00:02:21,959 --> 00:02:27,720
if you are able to keep it cooler now the only things to watch out for here

31
00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:32,040
are things like case compatibility you're going to have to have positions

32
00:02:29,239 --> 00:02:38,319
in the case for fan mounts that are either 120 mm 90 mm like the h90 from

33
00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:43,519
Corsair as well as the Kraken x40 from NZXT and you're going to have to have

34
00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:47,319
ample tubing length to reach your graphics card the last thing to watch

35
00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,640
out for is that just because a fan fits somewhere doesn't mean that you're

36
00:02:48,519 --> 00:02:53,239
actually going to be able to screw a radiator in there sometimes screwdriver

37
00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:57,319
clearance is going to be more of an issue for you than the actual fan

38
00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:01,159
clearance so ncxt has some compatibility charts for cases a lot of their cases

39
00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:07,200
are compatible with it so go check that out the other thing that they have compatibility lists for is coolers now

40
00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:10,480
you'd expect NZXT to just say oh well it's compatible with the cracken this

41
00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:15,799
and the cracken that no they're not they're coming out and they're saying look here's all the coolers from all the

42
00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:19,440
brands that will work with our product go nuts use someone else's cooler with

43
00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,879
that and I think that's very cool of them and then card compatibility is

44
00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,799
being updated constantly but it's compatible with like the latest stuff

45
00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:33,200
because of its very modular design so GTX 780 uh 780 Ti Titan uh 290 290x all

46
00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,760
of these are supported and you can check out NZXT site for some you know updates

47
00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:40,560
in the future about that so without further Ado let's get this baby

48
00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:46,959
installed in something and we're going to take a crack at the Radeon r9290 and

49
00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:51,680
see how much better it can perform with our normal standard overclock so just

50
00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:56,239
letting it ramp up as high as it can with better cooling versus the stock

51
00:03:54,200 --> 00:04:00,040
cooler installing the G10 really wasn't that bad it's pretty daunting when you

52
00:03:58,079 --> 00:04:03,519
first look at it because it's very new and when I first started strapping it to

53
00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:08,720
the card I was kind of getting frustrated but when I stopped trying to

54
00:04:05,599 --> 00:04:10,519
align the words properly due to my OCD I

55
00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:13,120
found it actually to be fairly easy if you there's there's a specific way

56
00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:17,880
you're supposed to have the tubes going they're supposed to be kind of aligned near the top of the card so they can be

57
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,919
routed more easily and I was trying to have them turn towards the fan which

58
00:04:19,479 --> 00:04:24,360
doesn't really work just because of how the name would have been aligned up

59
00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,160
performance- wise the graphs pretty much say it all we saw this coming with an

60
00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,680
r9290 we knew that water cooling it would help a lot because it got so

61
00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:35,000
freaking hot so once we strap a water cooler on it like we just did we knew we

62
00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:40,520
would see improvements like this but it's still kind of surprising to see how much it improved I can tell you right

63
00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:45,600
now even though it's not on the graph our 780 bench marks which used to be

64
00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,400
above the R9 290 are now below once this water cooled although that's not

65
00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,440
entirely Fair because the 780 isn't water cooled itself well we're back to

66
00:04:50,199 --> 00:04:56,600
me guys here we're going to cheat a little bit we unfortunately didn't have time to install it in an actual case so

67
00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:01,600
we just ran it on the test bench but if you want to see what it looks like in a case here's some footage of the last

68
00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:06,320
time we were in NZXT suite and we were actually checking this out with not one

69
00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:11,240
but two Kraken g10s installed in a single chassis so yes guys it is SLI and

70
00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:14,400
Crossfire compatible as long as you have adequate spacing between your PCI

71
00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,880
Express slots and you don't need a ton of additional expansion cards so what is

72
00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,600
there left to say about it well it makes your graphics card perform better

73
00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,960
whether you're overclocking or not in many cases because stuff like the R9

74
00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:31,440
290x and the r9290 actually throttle a fair bit even at stock speeds it makes

75
00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:35,759
your graphics card run cooler which will lead to better life and it's relatively

76
00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,720
inexpensive especially if you have an older liquid cooling unit just kind of

77
00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:44,199
lying around already even a 120 mm liquid cooler although I prefer a 140 mm

78
00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:48,720
is going to be more than adequate for cooling something like a GPU so this is

79
00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,560
a fantastic product at a low price and I think it's fantastic thank you for

80
00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,199
checking out this video like it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if you have feelings

81
00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,479
that just can't be expressed by thumbs up or thumbs down and finally don't

82
00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:03,100
forget to subscribe

83
00:06:07,479 --> 00:06:10,479
he