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Okay, so today on my video blog, I'm going to be experimenting with something

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completely new for me. I am going to be

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shooting it at myself for one thing, and

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for number two, I'm actually going to try editing something, and I'm going to

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be using Windows Movie Maker, and we'll see how epic fail this is. But the thing

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I'm going to be unboxing today is the Primochill Typhoon 3. This is a totally

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self-indulgent unboxing because I want to see this thing in person. It's a

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water cooling reservoir. So, if you're not interested in water cooling, turn it

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off now. But if you are, stay tuned because this water cooling reservoir

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actually can have a pump attached directly to it. So, it is both an

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aftermarket pump top as well as a resz.

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Okay, so let's get on with this. I'm going to open up the uh plastic here.

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Now, what's actually really unique about the Typhoon 3 is that besides being a

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reservoir, uh, which it's a dual bay reservoir, sits in the front of your

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case, it also, according to Primochill,

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dramatically improves the performance of your D5 or

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MCP655 pump. Now, the way it does this is rather counterintuitive because what

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it does is it actually allows you to take your pump and split it so that it

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can run two separate loops at the same

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time. So, I'll explain how that works in a minute, but first, let's have a look

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at what's included. First of all, you got a couple of LEDs here with a Molex

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powered connector. Not sure what color they are, but there they are. They're

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actually black wires, which is really nice to see because they're a lot easier

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to hide than uh than white ones or red and yellow ones or whatever else. We

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have some of these clear compression fittings. And these are not something

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that I think I'd really use myself, but there they are. They're there if you

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want to use them. I think it comes with 1/2 in or 3/8 in. And then let's see,

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what do we have here? Here are four mounting screws. Okay, we got some

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mounting screws. Awesome. And then we also have some stop fittings. And you

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get both metal and plastic options for these. So, it comes with a couple of PLA

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uh metal stops as well as some plastic stops. Now, for stop fittings, I have no

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problem using a um a plastic one. Oh,

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yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can see the plastic ones are actually set up to

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accept the LED inside. So, that's where you do your lighting from. Okay, that's

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pretty cool. All right, let's see what else we got in here for accessories.

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We've got uh yes, these were the 3/8 compressions. And then you have four uh

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1/2in compression fittings. Again, the plastic pumochill ones. Okay, here is

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the mounting hardware for mounting the MCP655 or D5 pump onto the res itself.

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You got a nice big O-ring. You got some heavy duty looking screws as well as

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they include the Allen key that you need. That's really nice because I mean,

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who keeps Allen keys of every particular size around at all times? I mean, I do,

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but not everyone does. So, let's take the Typhoon 3 out of its protective

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foamy wrapping here. It's kind of like a

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sort of a random packing job that's done, but it looks protective enough and

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there's a nice big layer of of nothing around this product so it won't get

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damaged in transit. So, here is what the Typhoon 3 will look like from the front

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of the case. Now, you can see these this groove down the middle of it. That is

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actually for filling it. The way the Typhoon 3 works is once you've got your

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loop all set up. You actually pour water into this groove in the top, it goes

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down the two holes in the front and then you actually use the metal fittings to

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stop up those holes. So, you have to tip the system back onto its back in order

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to fill it. It's a little bit inconvenient from what I've heard, but

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it's a very effective way of doing it and maintaining that sleek look so that

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you don't have to pull stuff out of the front. I think it was also a bit of a

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manufacturing limitation. That's the best way that they were able to do it

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without making it so that you couldn't push the reservoir in and out because

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you had to have fittings in the top. Now, here we go. This is the back. So,

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this is where the D5 or MCP 655 pump

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goes in. And you can see they've uh they've engineered the way that the pump

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is actually going to be moving the water around. And the reason that they've done

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that is this. Okay, you see you've got

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two outlets and two inlets. So that

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means you can actually run two separate loops off one pump. And the way that

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they achieve that is by the efficiency

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they're able to achieve with this top and with so little restriction because

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that's what this does. It reduces the restriction. They're able to make the

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pump perform more efficiently just by

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using the Typhoon 3. So, you've got threaded metal uh metal receptacles for

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the pump screws, those heavy duty ones I showed you before that go in here. And I

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think that pretty much wraps up my quick look at the dual 5 and 1/4 in bay

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reservoir. Thank you for checking out my

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video blog.