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click the link in the video description for more details welcome to a long
overdue unboxing of Cooler Master siden 120 XL and siden
240m liquid coolers now the first thing I noticed about these is check this out
Cooler Master has gone ahead and put compatibility for LGA 1150 right on the
box now it should be noted that LGA 1150
which is for Haswell or Intel Core i7 i5
and I3 fourth generation processors is
not really going to be any different from 1155 or 1156 in terms of heat SN
compatibility but I mean it's just one of those things where it's always it
always amuses me when there are coolers being announced and being shipped that
have compatibility for an upcoming socket when you actually can't buy said
socket yet so the main difference
between these two coolers is going to be in terms of the size which is a little
bit funny to me because the 120 is the
XL and the 240 is the m which in terms of North American sizing usually
indicates extra large and medium whereas the 240 mm one is definitely extra
larger than the mediumsized 120 mm one
so let's go ahead and check out what cooler Master's done in terms of
packaging here so these are liquid Co these are pre-done liquid coolers so
actually okay fine we'll start with the outside so they are maintenance free
they're designed for overclocking they use an ultra fine microchannel design
for the CPU block itself now what you're going to see right here guys is that
this is not an acch and it is not a
kolet design so Cooler Master has wanted to differentiate themselves from what
the other guys in the market are doing and they have done that by well not
doing what everyone else in the market is doing which is sort of one way to
differentiate yourself from what everyone else is doing on the back you
find I'll to find my mic channel so pretty much the same a hot durable and
Powerful water pump dissipates heat effectively and maintains temperatures
throughout the stable water circulation all that kind of good stuff okay so
let's go ahead and start with the 120 in terms of what's inside we've got some
foam on the top we've got mounting hardware which we will be unfamiliar
with because it is not the standard acch or kolet mounting hardware so let's go
ahead and see what we got here oh I love this nice solid pieces of everything see
see solid steel mounting plate so there's your AMD mounting hardware at
any rate all right there is your Intel mounting hardware so you can see that
screw is able to adjust in position see
moves over clicks into place just like that you've got a back plate for Intel
so this pops into uh different positions as well so it has full compatibility for
775 1155 1156 1150 2,1 1366 all the
sockets you could possibly want an AMD because they haven't changed their
mounting hardware in like a bajil Generations is pretty much the same as
before same thing here nice solid mounting screws these ones look like
they're for LGA oh oh they could be for
a number of different things but okay there you go again more solid pieces
here so it looks like the way it mounts is the back plate comes through the
board goes into one of these guys and then the cooler itself mounts to that
piece from the other side from the top I like this system there's a number of
different coolers that have used it in the past and I find it very solid very
sturdy and works very very well they've also included a splitter for the two
fans so there's a pwm splitter which is awesome because it means that you can
provide pwm control for both of the fans without actually or yeah without
actually um having to run one of them off of DC and I mean honestly a lot of
motherboards might have all the pwm fan connectors in the world on them but it
doesn't always work correctly uh so
there there you go it's nice to be able to split the CPU on a lot of the time
they aren't uh controllable to with the same degree of
finitude as the one for the CPU connector is so this is a nice touch
Cooler Master includes a couple of 120 mm fans and they also include a couple
of nice rubber isolating mounts for them
so you don't have to worry about any vibrations being transferred to your
case and causing your computer to be louder than necessary all right these
are intended to be installed in a push pull configuration cuz if you set them
both to push or both to pull you're going to have yourself one heck of a
problem this radiator is optimized for
um sort of I guess I'd go sort of mid-range in terms of do you have to
have high RPM do you have to can you get away with low RPM because the fin
spacing isn't particularly dense which is great for low RPM quiet operation but
it is a thicker radiator than you find on most 120 mm coolers meaning you'll
get a little bit more performance out of it but you also have to have a little
bit more static pressure to the fans in order to draw the air that you need
through it you can see how Cooler Master fills their water cooler so there's a
little warranty void if removed plug right there that shouldn't get in the
way of anything because once you go ahead and install a fan on it it's not
really any higher profile than a fan would be and they're using a/4 in
corrugated plastic tubing approach that has been in use for well years now on
these pre-filled liquid coolers and there haven't really been any notable
problems with them there's also a rotating uh fitting right here so you're
going to have the flexibility to mount it either sort of this way facing down
or if you rotate those like
that this way facing up just like that
it uses aluminum fins for the radiator itself but there are copper tubes as
well as copper tanks and a copper bottom for the block itself you can see they're
using a security bit here I actually have one of these so I could take it apart if I felt like it but they're
using a security bit to prevent users from taking apart the unit which is not
what it is intended for it is meant to be maintenance free and not opened up or
anything sort of bad like that all right so let's have a look at the 240 mm
version we've got two of the same fans uh it looks like the noise isolating
rubber mounts are not included at least on the fans themselves uh yes here they
are so those are included instead in a
very heavy I love heavy mounting hardware it makes me just feel that much
more reassured about it so there are a couple of them in with the rest of the
mounting hardware where there's thermal compound just like the 120 mm version a
fan splitter just like the 120 mm version and then just more of the same
mounting hardware so this is for um
instead of having it in two separate bags it looks like they've done just one
bag for the 240 mil version the radiator itself is a thinner
style radiator so you're going to see this one is I'd say mid thickness for
the 120 mil and then this is more like standard thickness and then there are
some that are actually larger and thicker than this one but those are
those are much more rare than these ones and that's for compatibility reasons not
all cases are compatible with the thicker style radiators this one in
order to make sure that it gets the performance it needs uses a much more
dense fin Arrangement right here so you can see that it's all about surface area
guys so if you have a thicker radiator
and you use a less dense fin Arrangement versus versus if you have a thinner
radiator and you use a more dense thin Arrangement what you've done is you've
actually in both cases increased the resistance to air passing through but
also increased your surface area and improved performance so generally
speaking the less dense the more optimized it is for low RPM fans and the
thinner it is the more optimized it is for low RPM fans whereas if you were to
put even double the density in here and put like you know jet turbine fans on it
you could squeeze more performance out of this form factor because surface area
is King and that's why the 120 dual 120
mm version will perform better than the single 120 mm version so you've got that
same fill Point here at the top that says do not tamper with or remove please
don't do that same corrugated plastic quarter inch fittings or hoses as well
as the same rotating fittings down here at the bottom attached to the same block
and pump combo this is why I did these unboxings together we've got a copper
plate at the bottom that looks looks flat anyway it's hard to oh no it's
bowed there you go I wonder if the other one is as well you can tell if you look
at them in the light just right yep they're both bowed so what that does is it increases contact pressure and
reduces temperatures uh as long as you design a mounting mechanism that's
correctly sort of optimized for it so if you have a CPU here and then you have a
bow so this is flat and this is Bowe and you have a bow surface and then you
clamp it down what can happen is you can end up with two flat mating surfaces
whereas if you take two flat mating surfaces and you clamp this down a lot at the edges you can end up with a C it
in the middle we discovered this or must have been back in around 2008 2009 dtec
figured it out with their Bode block that they were putting O-rings in in
order to to bow out the base of it and get a tighter mounting point so there's
a little water cooling history lesson for you Cooler Master is using a very
high quality sleeving on the connector so the pump is powered by a three pin
that you really can't see any of the color of the wires inside I like this it's a nice touch makes your build look
nice and they include of course detailed
instructions cooler Master's been doing liquid coolers for and just coolers in
general for a long time so I wouldn't expect anything
except nice detailed multilingual
instructions for every possible socket and everything labeled and all those
sort of good things done it looks like the same instructions for the 120 or the
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and the or see I did it there the siden 12 XL and theid in 240 m