Okay, so today on my video blog, I'm going to be experimenting with something
completely new for me. I am going to be
shooting it at myself for one thing, and
for number two, I'm actually going to try editing something, and I'm going to
be using Windows Movie Maker, and we'll see how epic fail this is. But the thing
I'm going to be unboxing today is the Primochill Typhoon 3. This is a totally
self-indulgent unboxing because I want to see this thing in person. It's a
water cooling reservoir. So, if you're not interested in water cooling, turn it
off now. But if you are, stay tuned because this water cooling reservoir
actually can have a pump attached directly to it. So, it is both an
aftermarket pump top as well as a resz.
Okay, so let's get on with this. I'm going to open up the uh plastic here.
Now, what's actually really unique about the Typhoon 3 is that besides being a
reservoir, uh, which it's a dual bay reservoir, sits in the front of your
case, it also, according to Primochill,
dramatically improves the performance of your D5 or
MCP655 pump. Now, the way it does this is rather counterintuitive because what
it does is it actually allows you to take your pump and split it so that it
can run two separate loops at the same
time. So, I'll explain how that works in a minute, but first, let's have a look
at what's included. First of all, you got a couple of LEDs here with a Molex
powered connector. Not sure what color they are, but there they are. They're
actually black wires, which is really nice to see because they're a lot easier
to hide than uh than white ones or red and yellow ones or whatever else. We
have some of these clear compression fittings. And these are not something
that I think I'd really use myself, but there they are. They're there if you
want to use them. I think it comes with 1/2 in or 3/8 in. And then let's see,
what do we have here? Here are four mounting screws. Okay, we got some
mounting screws. Awesome. And then we also have some stop fittings. And you
get both metal and plastic options for these. So, it comes with a couple of PLA
uh metal stops as well as some plastic stops. Now, for stop fittings, I have no
problem using a um a plastic one. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can see the plastic ones are actually set up to
accept the LED inside. So, that's where you do your lighting from. Okay, that's
pretty cool. All right, let's see what else we got in here for accessories.
We've got uh yes, these were the 3/8 compressions. And then you have four uh
1/2in compression fittings. Again, the plastic pumochill ones. Okay, here is
the mounting hardware for mounting the MCP655 or D5 pump onto the res itself.
You got a nice big O-ring. You got some heavy duty looking screws as well as
they include the Allen key that you need. That's really nice because I mean,
who keeps Allen keys of every particular size around at all times? I mean, I do,
but not everyone does. So, let's take the Typhoon 3 out of its protective
foamy wrapping here. It's kind of like a
sort of a random packing job that's done, but it looks protective enough and
there's a nice big layer of of nothing around this product so it won't get
damaged in transit. So, here is what the Typhoon 3 will look like from the front
of the case. Now, you can see these this groove down the middle of it. That is
actually for filling it. The way the Typhoon 3 works is once you've got your
loop all set up. You actually pour water into this groove in the top, it goes
down the two holes in the front and then you actually use the metal fittings to
stop up those holes. So, you have to tip the system back onto its back in order
to fill it. It's a little bit inconvenient from what I've heard, but
it's a very effective way of doing it and maintaining that sleek look so that
you don't have to pull stuff out of the front. I think it was also a bit of a
manufacturing limitation. That's the best way that they were able to do it
without making it so that you couldn't push the reservoir in and out because
you had to have fittings in the top. Now, here we go. This is the back. So,
this is where the D5 or MCP 655 pump
goes in. And you can see they've uh they've engineered the way that the pump
is actually going to be moving the water around. And the reason that they've done
that is this. Okay, you see you've got
two outlets and two inlets. So that
means you can actually run two separate loops off one pump. And the way that
they achieve that is by the efficiency
they're able to achieve with this top and with so little restriction because
that's what this does. It reduces the restriction. They're able to make the
pump perform more efficiently just by
using the Typhoon 3. So, you've got threaded metal uh metal receptacles for
the pump screws, those heavy duty ones I showed you before that go in here. And I
think that pretty much wraps up my quick look at the dual 5 and 1/4 in bay
reservoir. Thank you for checking out my
video blog.