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buy an unlocked Intel 4th gen core i7 or core i5 processor and get a free copy of

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roam 2 total war click now to learn more all right so there's not much innovation

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left in the whole pre-filled liquid coolers thing basically you're gonna

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have to have a CPU block a pump a radiator tubing

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and coolant inside that's okay i guess you'll also need some fans on it to

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actually take the heat away but that didn't stop antec from trying here guys

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okay so this my friends is the cooler h2o 1250 a truly unique if nothing else

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all-in-one liquid cooling unit so unlike many of the products on the market this

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is not a coolant or an acetech rebrand

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this is an antec design that is very different from some of the other stuff

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that we've seen on the market that much will be apparent just

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looking at the thing so let's start with the features that really stand out so

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number one is that it uses a dual radiator so not all liquid coolers out

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there use a dual rad most of them still use single 120 or at the very most

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single 140 millimeter it's a standard thick radiator with a fairly high fin

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density so it is definitely going to perform optimally in a push-pull style

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configuration which is why ntec actually shipped the unit with not only the fans

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that are pre-installed but also a couple of extras although we will be testing in

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our standard configuration which is two fans not push pull so there you go guys

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it also has integrated fans so integrated fans and shrouds these are in

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a push configuration by default and because of the bulk of the tubing and

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pumps on the one side of the fan here it does only go in one way so compatibility

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may be a little bit more of a challenge with this one than with other ones

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versus having one larger tank at one side and then a smaller tank at the

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other side it has two medium sized tanks at each side to accommodate the extra

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tubing all right so the next thing i actually mentioned this briefly already

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is the dual pump design so it has two

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pumps built in one on each of the fan hubs here this again adds bulk but it

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also adds potentially performance but more importantly redundancy if one of

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these pumps were to fail the other one would be able to keep operating the unit

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regardless this is one of the things that i dislike about all-in-one liquid

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cooling units and that is that they add more points of failure with a heat sink

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you got a fan on it there's one point of failure with an all-in-one liquid

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cooling unit you've got usually one fan and one pump which is two points of

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failure so two ways for the unit to die it also has what they're calling a

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sophisticated micro channel cold plate designer and why they insist on calling

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them cold plates come on the entire water cooling community calls them water

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blocks why can't we just call them that anyway so the water block has a pre-applied thermal compound on it and

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hooks into your system in pretty much the manner that we've come to expect

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from any of these pre-filled liquid cooling units that does have a built-in

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control so you've actually got oh my goodness look at all the wires okay here

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we go and they're all black so you should be able to hide them relatively easily so we have power so you can go

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ahead and plug that into your CPU fan header then we have usb so you're

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actually going to use antex grid software in order to configure things

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like the customizable RGB led on the top as well

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as things like pump speed and fan speed you can monitor your coolant

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temperatures and all that good stuff and then finally also coming out of the unit

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here we have two wires that head into y-splitters so we can power the two fans

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that are built into the unit and then two additional fans directly off of the

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pump right here so that's pretty much

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the summary i guess all that's left to it oh yeah it has a coolant inside

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that's water based with glycol so pretty pretty typical stuff although it's a

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proprietary blend or something like that so all that's really left now is how

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does the thing perform well i guess we'll find out is it worth

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the compatibility disadvantages and the customizability disadvantages of not

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being able to swap in your own fans in order to have that redundancy and

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potentially better performance i'll leave that to luke to determine for you

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guys on our standard test bench i'm running a 3930k at 4.0 gigahertz with a

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voltage of 1.3 and that processor is

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crunching numbers in prime95 i also have an NVIDIA gtx 580 running combustor and

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overclocked a little bit just to add some more heat to this system for

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installation problems we didn't actually have any unless we wanted to put more

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fans on top of the radiator in which it would not have worked in our case

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configuration at all if you're looking to buy this product just make sure that

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your case and motherboard combination is going to be compatible with the configuration you're going to want this

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cooler in because you might have trouble with how your case has the radiator

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aligned and how your heatsinks on your motherboard stand out i was informed

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that i couldn't swap out the stock fans but i wanted to try anyways just because

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i love you guys and i got that off but i found that once the fan was off i

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couldn't actually put a new fan on realistically because the power for the

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pumps was ran through the fans so i didn't bother and we ran with the stock

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fans and we ran the stock fans at 100 RPM just like we normally do our knock

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to a fan so there is a little bit of a variable here as all the other coolers

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are tested with Noctua and ff12s and these ones are not but it's as close as

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we could get it in a market awash with lookalikes the cooler 1250 didn't do

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quite as well as its competition that being other 2x120 all-in-one liquid

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coolers but it's an interesting innovative cooler and i'm excited to see

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where they go with it if you like this style of cooler or if you don't like

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this style of cooler be sure to comment below and please express your most

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