welcome to an unboxing of a product that I have only good things to say about
this is the glacier 240l liquid CPU
Cooler from Cooler Master it was designed in collaboration with my
favorite DIY liquid cooling brand swifttech
and you're going to see an awful lot of swifttech DNA in this particular product
so first is some eco-friendly packaging with some foam that I actually don't
remember where it went I accidentally took it out last time we were trying to do the unboxing but I screwed up that
shot next up we find the installation guide then we find the fully assembled
guys this is a pre-filled readyto rock
liquid cooling unit unit and then some
assembly Hardware so you've got some
Cooler Master thermal paste you've got some mounting brackets that are made out
of nice solid steel extremely robust and you've got Swift techs I believe
excellent mounting hardware while there are a lot of pieces swifttech does a
great job of ensuring that the mounting clamping Force the pressure on the CPU
socket is correct and within the manufacturer's specifications next up we
find the radiator and fan unit itself
which is wrapped in a protective bubble wrap to keep it from being damaged in
Transit we'll start with the radiator Reservoir combo unit so on the top here
we find a fill Port plug which you can keep closed if you're not planning to
expand the system or swap out the coolant in it for whatever reason and
then we find the first Cooler Master
addition to the product these are their blade master fans designed for static
pressure as opposed to free flowing air flow which is great because they're on a
nice fat radiator we also find an
extremely heavy and robustly built radiator with full Copper Brass
construction no aluminum even on the fins what that means is Simply Better
performance per sort of surface area
compared to other products on the market and compatibility really hasn't been
affected much by all of this robustness although you will need a little bit more
space than you do for your typical radiator because the tank on the one end
is a little bit longer than normal to account for that Reservoir and that fill
port and then on the other side you have your typical clearance required for
fittings speaking of fittings Cooler Master includes 38in elbow fittings that
can actually fully rotated so if you wanted to mount the unit fully the other
way you could definitely go ahead and do that and they can actually have the nice
little custom clamps that are holding the tubing on removed so you can swap
out different tubing should you see fit whether it's for aesthetic reasons or
whether you want to expand the system to add a graphics card water block or
something like that down the line it's fully expandable and customizable and
you can even add more radiators and all kinds of cool crazy stuff like that one
of the reasons that this one will actually perform a little bit better than Swift Tech's own version of it is
the fact that Cooler Master has gone with a higher RPM on the pump so that
leads us to the pump and CPU block combo
unit here which has a nice little Cooler Master badge on the top of it here with
brushed accents so the most of the magic is actually hidden away here so that
pump I talked about before is built into the CPU block unit which is capped with
an excellent again swifttech designed microf fin water block that has a copper
base plate that is finished to a beautiful beautiful shine although it
comes with some tape that we're going to leave on until we do our performance
testing just to make sure that it is as clean as possible make sure you don't
install it with that please there's also one mounting bracket pre-installed so if
you're going to be installing on most Intel sockets you're going to be ready to rock just by unscrew the four screws
that are pre-installed on it throwing that back plate on and screwing it onto
your motherboard socket then that leads us to the fittings that are built into
the CPU block unit which are again rotating fittings giving you a lot of
flexibility in terms of where you mount your radiator and where you mount your tubing as well as those same removable
clamps so you can swap out the tubing for something else should you see fit
the last thing here that I want to show you guys is how the power works so there
is a single lead for RPM monitoring as
well as pwm control that goes to your CP U header and then power for the pump
itself is provided by a SATA power connector I'm not 100% sure how I feel
about that because normally I wouldn't route my SATA cables towards my CPU
socket they would go towards the drive cages but the flip side of that is if
you have an optical drive you could carry another part of the harness over
there or you could just use a MOX TOA adapter which are inexpensive
practically free and then you can run whatever cable you want up there so it's a quite a flexible implementation if
nothing else in our testing rig we have a 3930k overclocked at 4.0 GHz running a
voltage of 1.3 volts to kick some more heat out then we also have a GTX 580
running a little bit overclocked and Running After Burner so it generates
some heat too and the CPU is crunching numbers on Prime 95 small ffts we tested
the cooler with its stock fans and Noctua nf12 the reason why we do this is
we test all of our coolers with Noctua nf12 so that we have another constant
and we're not basing the coolers on the fans necessarily but we also test it
with stock so you can see how it'll perform right out of the box performance
was pretty straightforward and expected it slotted basically right beside its
brother the h220 on both tests idle and
load we noticed with it stock fans that it was slightly worse than the n2s but
still very solid performance on both of the tests one additional observation
that I had was while this pump is 500 RPM faster I don't know if I would run
it at that unless you're doing something like adding in a few graphics cards that
pump is quite loud and I turned it down pretty much as much as much as I could
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that you never have to change and would never be able to change easily or are
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