WEBVTT 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:13.599 buy an unlocked Intel 4th gen core i7 or core i5 processor and get a free copy of 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.600 roam 2 total war click now to learn more all right so there's not much innovation 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:21.760 left in the whole pre-filled liquid coolers thing basically you're gonna 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:26.160 have to have a CPU block a pump a radiator tubing 00:00:23.439 --> 00:00:30.560 and coolant inside that's okay i guess you'll also need some fans on it to 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:36.320 actually take the heat away but that didn't stop antec from trying here guys 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:45.040 okay so this my friends is the cooler h2o 1250 a truly unique if nothing else 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:50.239 all-in-one liquid cooling unit so unlike many of the products on the market this 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:53.039 is not a coolant or an acetech rebrand 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:56.480 this is an antec design that is very different from some of the other stuff 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.719 that we've seen on the market that much will be apparent just 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:04.799 looking at the thing so let's start with the features that really stand out so 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.240 number one is that it uses a dual radiator so not all liquid coolers out 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.880 there use a dual rad most of them still use single 120 or at the very most 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:17.840 single 140 millimeter it's a standard thick radiator with a fairly high fin 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:21.840 density so it is definitely going to perform optimally in a push-pull style 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.960 configuration which is why ntec actually shipped the unit with not only the fans 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.119 that are pre-installed but also a couple of extras although we will be testing in 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:34.560 our standard configuration which is two fans not push pull so there you go guys 00:01:31.759 --> 00:01:39.520 it also has integrated fans so integrated fans and shrouds these are in 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:44.079 a push configuration by default and because of the bulk of the tubing and 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:48.079 pumps on the one side of the fan here it does only go in one way so compatibility 00:01:46.479 --> 00:01:52.000 may be a little bit more of a challenge with this one than with other ones 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.200 versus having one larger tank at one side and then a smaller tank at the 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.000 other side it has two medium sized tanks at each side to accommodate the extra 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:05.119 tubing all right so the next thing i actually mentioned this briefly already 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:07.840 is the dual pump design so it has two 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:12.480 pumps built in one on each of the fan hubs here this again adds bulk but it 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:16.560 also adds potentially performance but more importantly redundancy if one of 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:20.319 these pumps were to fail the other one would be able to keep operating the unit 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:24.560 regardless this is one of the things that i dislike about all-in-one liquid 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:28.480 cooling units and that is that they add more points of failure with a heat sink 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:33.040 you got a fan on it there's one point of failure with an all-in-one liquid 00:02:30.239 --> 00:02:38.080 cooling unit you've got usually one fan and one pump which is two points of 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:42.800 failure so two ways for the unit to die it also has what they're calling a 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.160 sophisticated micro channel cold plate designer and why they insist on calling 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:48.800 them cold plates come on the entire water cooling community calls them water 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:55.760 blocks why can't we just call them that anyway so the water block has a pre-applied thermal compound on it and 00:02:53.519 --> 00:02:58.879 hooks into your system in pretty much the manner that we've come to expect 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:04.000 from any of these pre-filled liquid cooling units that does have a built-in 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.800 control so you've actually got oh my goodness look at all the wires okay here 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:11.280 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 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:14.879 ahead and plug that into your CPU fan header then we have usb so you're 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:17.519 actually going to use antex grid software in order to configure things 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:23.200 like the customizable RGB led on the top as well 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:26.239 as things like pump speed and fan speed you can monitor your coolant 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:30.959 temperatures and all that good stuff and then finally also coming out of the unit 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:34.959 here we have two wires that head into y-splitters so we can power the two fans 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:40.480 that are built into the unit and then two additional fans directly off of the 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:42.319 pump right here so that's pretty much 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:46.480 the summary i guess all that's left to it oh yeah it has a coolant inside 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:50.000 that's water based with glycol so pretty pretty typical stuff although it's a 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:54.159 proprietary blend or something like that so all that's really left now is how 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:59.640 does the thing perform well i guess we'll find out is it worth 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:03.840 the compatibility disadvantages and the customizability disadvantages of not 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:07.840 being able to swap in your own fans in order to have that redundancy and 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:11.280 potentially better performance i'll leave that to luke to determine for you 00:04:09.519 --> 00:04:17.680 guys on our standard test bench i'm running a 3930k at 4.0 gigahertz with a 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:20.160 voltage of 1.3 and that processor is 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:24.560 crunching numbers in prime95 i also have an NVIDIA gtx 580 running combustor and 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.840 overclocked a little bit just to add some more heat to this system for 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:31.440 installation problems we didn't actually have any unless we wanted to put more 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:34.320 fans on top of the radiator in which it would not have worked in our case 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:38.320 configuration at all if you're looking to buy this product just make sure that 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.280 your case and motherboard combination is going to be compatible with the configuration you're going to want this 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:47.520 cooler in because you might have trouble with how your case has the radiator 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:51.199 aligned and how your heatsinks on your motherboard stand out i was informed 00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:54.960 that i couldn't swap out the stock fans but i wanted to try anyways just because 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:58.720 i love you guys and i got that off but i found that once the fan was off i 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:02.880 couldn't actually put a new fan on realistically because the power for the 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:06.880 pumps was ran through the fans so i didn't bother and we ran with the stock 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.840 fans and we ran the stock fans at 100 RPM just like we normally do our knock 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:13.520 to a fan so there is a little bit of a variable here as all the other coolers 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:17.199 are tested with Noctua and ff12s and these ones are not but it's as close as 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:20.639 we could get it in a market awash with lookalikes the cooler 1250 didn't do 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:25.919 quite as well as its competition that being other 2x120 all-in-one liquid 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:29.440 coolers but it's an interesting innovative cooler and i'm excited to see 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:32.639 where they go with it if you like this style of cooler or if you don't like 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.320 this style of cooler be sure to comment below and please express your most 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:41.640 profound feelings with the like and dislike button and as always also please 00:05:39.039 --> 00:06:03.600 subscribe 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.680 you