now this is an unboxing of something that I'm very excited about I haven't
bought myself any cool new toys that are this cool in quite a while so I'm going
to be doing a small upgrade on my machine I'm not going to be changing my
graphics card I'm sticking with my GTX 480 I'm actually going to be downgrading
my RAM cuz right now I have 24 gigs um
on an MSI Big Bang X power with a oh M I
can't even remember core i7 980x and U so I'm going to be taking out
two dims and going with a quad Channel 16 gig setup with a new 2011 processor
and so I figured hey if I'm going to go 2011 maybe it's time to upgrade the old
water block oh swifttech released the coolest water block ever so today I will
be unboxing the swifttech apple G HD
limited edition 24K goldplated water
block these are individually numbered
and very limited addition they only produced a few hundred of them that's
apparently my number so let's go ahead
and get this baby opened up so here's the CPU it's going to be working on so
it comes with first and foremost an installation guide which is by the
appearances okay in color sort of certain parts are in color so they show
you how to put the thing on the thing and line it up with the other thing and put the goop on the other thing okay
next we've got a back plate of some sort
so this might be 2011 it might be 1366
not 100% sure what it is um oh yeah mounting hardware that's included here
this is a good way to know for sure so it includes uh 1155 and 56 1366 and 2011
you can request free upon demand uh
775 and AMD hold down plate and hardware
for any of their given sockets so there you go so it only includes uh of the
more modern Intel sockets okay here we've got the uh just
general General oh no this is the 2011
kit okay so cool so what's in here so we've got uh four big thumb hold down
screws I'm going to put these on here so you guys can see them a little bit better swifttech does such a good job of
their mounting hardware they're true Pioneers when it comes to mounting
hardware and um hold on I'm just going to make sure I
don't lose these uh these washers so there's a couple washers here to hold
them in place and I really hope I haven't lost one although it would
appear that I may have whatever I'll
find it I'll find it oh there it is okay good okay so I got four of those I got
four of those really sharp just nice big thumb screws and then there there's
Phillips heads on the inside if you do want to do that these Springs so this is
one of the things that swifttech is so good at they designed their mounting
hardware to apply the exact right amount of pressure no more no less and there
were one of the first ones to well not really one of the first ones but they're
one of the only ones in the water cooling space that really pay attention
to the actual spec for a given socket and then adhere to it and then uh we've
got a couple of uh clamps so those are your Worm Drive clamps for your for your
Barb so you want to you know go ahead use a slot screwdriver to tighten those
up I don't like these I prefer compression fittings uh these are the
compressions I'll be using with this block we got some included thermal goop
some pk1 really they're using they're bundling PR Tech thermal goop
fascinating pk1 as far as my understanding goes is basically pretty
much the same thing as mx1 although I could be wrong about that um either way
I've heard that pk1 is very good I mean if they're going to compare it to mx1
then yeah it's pretty good anyway so um
here we go uh socket 2011 installation kit how to use so you take off these you
put on those you follow the instructions and nobody gets hurt okay
now let's get to the water block itself
which hold on needs some unveiling here we need like drum
roll yes that's right dead sexy goldplated
water block that I saw and simply had to have
there's a limited edition with the engraved number on
it so like I said they only did a few hundred of these so um I and one of my
co-workers actually bought uh two of the
first three that NCIX has sold one guy pre-ordered it so he got one right away
and then uh when they arrived in the warehouse this afternoon uh I I ordered
one up and I went down and uh I grabbed one cuz yeah these are like for sure the
shizel so uh in terms of mounting options the uh Apple ghd actually has a
couple of different choices so you can either use these guys as the inlet in
the outlet or you can use these ones as the inlet in the outlet I'll be using
these two since I'll be using compression fittings here I'm just going to take uh one of my compression
fittings out and I'll show you guys I'll do a quick test fit here show you guys
what it's going to look like with a big goldplated compression fitting so these
are bits power unfortunately swifttech includes um goldplated Barb fittings I'm
not much of a Barb fitting guy I really do prefer compressions so I'm uh going
to go ahead and replace these and wow those are on pretty tight so you know
what I'll be back in a sec sorry guys so here's a trick that I use whenever I
have a delic delicate equipment is I'll take whatever tools I have and I'll put
a cloth between them and uh what I'm
applying them to so here's the Barb
coming out of the block you can actually here you can have a look at the socket there so you can see the gold plating
goes all the way into the block itself and you can actually see the innards of
the Apple ghd so this is Swift Tech's latest Generation Um highest performance to
date water block so let's go ahead and see how closely these gold platings
match um the bits power one's a little bit more yellow but it should still look
pretty tbling when I go
ahead and throw that on
there there we go so that should give
you guys some idea how this is going to look once it's got a couple of
compressions on it so I wouldn't I'd be remiss if I didn't uh give you sort of
the obligatory reflecting shot to show you
what a mirror it is here you can see my cat in it hey
Rumble come here see can you see the cat
look at that that's a water block yeah that's right okay so yeah there you guys
here I'm actually just going to fingerprints when you buy something for
the whole like and the whole point is that it's like super beautiful last
thing you want to do is cover it in ugly fingerprints and get Scrat on it so you
can see the gold plating goes here and the copper base starts here and uh then
there's the hold down which can be replaced so that's uh black um what I
imagine someone will probably do is they'll buy this Block they'll strip the
paint off the hold down and they'll get it goldplated too so the whole thing will just like look like ah shiny and
gold and ridiculous but
um I think we're pretty much done here thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look at the Apple ghd so as I said before this is Swift Tech's new
flagship block this is a goldplated version of it so this is about as high
performing and about as low flow because that's really what they've been focusing
on uh achieving since way back in the storm days uh when uh when impingement
blocks were cool and then after that they went to the appoi so the pin Matrix
uh high flow low restrictions type design so we've got
uh yeah whatever I'm not going to say much more about it cool block looks
amazing I am very much looking forward to getting it
cooling this CPU which will go here and
will be cooled and it will be awesome and it will be gold and yeah and don't
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computer videos so my assistant here is giving me a hard time as some of you may
or may not know I use blue tubing in my system and the comment was oh that's not
going to look good with blue tubing and I said well are you sure because
personally I think it's going to look great with blue tubing so I'll let you
guys be the judge does it look good with blue tubing you tell me