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archive where basically I don't know if

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we'll ever do this again, but like we found a video that we made a long time

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ago and never released. So, here it is.

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It's not often that I do an unboxing anymore. And the reason for that is

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actually a good one because, you know, I think there's more value to other parts

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of the experience with a review or a build guide or a build log or whatever

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else. But this product, I actually

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started opening it up and I realized how

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fun the experience was and I went, "Nah, let's put the few things we've taken out

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back in." And let's just start over. Welcome to my unboxing of the LD

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Cooling. They used to go by Little Devil. I think that's sort of unofficially what they still go as. PC

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V10 phase change cooled case. This puppy

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is going to hold your CPU, a 300 watt CPU, at

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minus30

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degrees. GFuel is the sugar-free alternative energy beverage to maintain

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focus and endurance in long days and gaming sessions. Use offer code Linus at

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the link in the video description to save some money. So, let's open it up

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and have a look at what comes inside first, shall we? You get a couple of

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boxes, each of which has, I'm assuming,

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some kind of accessories or something like that. As soon as we take out the

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foam on the top, we've got the top of

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the case that is able to house a quad 120 mm radiator. The OEM for this case

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is Lean Lee, so you'll probably recognize a lot of the design elements

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of their PC V10 case. Also in here, we

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get a a neoprene insulation boot that

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there's going to be instructions. Oh, I seem to have misplaced the instructions.

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Well, there are instructions for how to put on the phase change cooler as well

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as some looks like adhesive neoprene

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material for insulation. Yes, when you are cooling below ambient temperatures,

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you have to insulate the cold stuff in

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order to keep condensation from forming and uh getting water on your hardware.

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Now, I don't think they include the needed eraser for most people, but they

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threw that in for me. I'm actually not 100% sure about that. And then the same

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with the PCI covers. Uh they sent those for me. Those are actually an additional

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purchase. Uh this, no idea, but it's a 3 and 12 to 2 and 1/2 in drive mount. So,

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I'm not sure if that's normally included. This all is though. This is a

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bunch of mounting hardware for your phase change cooler. It's compatible

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with pretty much any socket. So, you can see they've got your AMD holes, your

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Intel holes, your other more different Intel holes, some different Intel holes,

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and then this is a piece that goes on the back to keep the back plate itself

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from frosting up and then just dripping down the back of your motherboard. Then

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we've got another one of those puppies as well. Some more screws. And then this

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looks like uh I'm not sure. I know that there's a USB module that it includes

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that monitors the temperature so that you know you don't uh boot up before

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it's working and something something whatever it's in the instructions. All

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right, so now we got to take out these pieces of

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foam. Honestly, it's kind of a miracle

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that this thing arrived in one piece because this is pretty much the worst

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kind of foam. It only has about 2 in of

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it on either on every side. So, it weighs about 50

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lb. 50 lbs without a system in

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it. All right. Which means getting out

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of getting it out of here is going to be a challenge because I'm not actually

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100% sure if this applies to all uh

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systems with a condenser and an evaporator, all phase change systems

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like refrigerators for example. I know you shouldn't flip them on their sides

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if you intend to use them anytime in the next I don't know what it is, 48 hours

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or something like that. So, I don't want to flip this baby over cuz I want to try

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it out pretty quick. And I've had it sitting upright for a while. So, I actually have to lift this straight out.

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So, let's hope this goes okay. Let's clear some space. Let's put it up

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here.

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Okay. Nothing to hold on

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to. Oh, man. That's heavy. Yeah, I'm

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going to need a hand. Kill the camera. Okay, got it.

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So, I've clearly I'm clearly out of practice at this whole unboxing thing.

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My wife's like, "Why don't you just cut the box open?" Like, I I I don't know.

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Cuz I didn't think of it. What's up, little girl? Sorry about that. Little

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Missy was getting fussy over there. So, uh on the side that we had actually left

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off on, you can see that there's a very, very large window. I think there's

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actually a larger window option as well, but then the bottom part is just

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reserved for cooling. On the back, you can see we've got 10 PCI slots, uh,

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single 120 mm fan, power supply, and wa,

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there's already a a power plug there. I guess we can start opening it, right? I

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mean, that's how this works. Unboxing. There we go. We've got another plug

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there. That's for the Oo, there's our first glimpse of the uh phase change

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cooling inside. All right, let's go ahead and come around to this side where

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we've got all just plain white here. We

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should stay over on this side so we have light. Where we've got all just plain

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white as well as another fan vent there

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that looks like an exhaust. Wow, they included a Noctua industrial fan. These

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guys are serious about, you know, quality here. I mean, I guess if you're

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going to charge €1,200 for a case, it better be nothing

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but the finest. And then finally, that brings us around to the front where

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we've got four 5 and 1/4 in bays, two

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large intakes, the USB module thing, as

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well as our front switches. All right, so let's unveil

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her. Look at that. Now, it's all

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aluminum except for the bottom plate, which is steel to hold the weight of the

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compressor unit that is installed, pre-installed in the bottom. This is

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made in Slovenia. Check that out. And I guess

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all that's left now is for us to open it up. And oh, right. No, there's one thing

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that we can definitely check out. So, that's the thing that we heard banging

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around inside the case uh before we were

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able to open it. So, it's bubble wrapped. And that is the evaporator unit

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that is going to sit directly on top of the CPU, cooling it. And then let's go

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ahead and get the bottom opened up as well, so you guys can check this out.

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All right. So, this is curious. It looks like the case comes apart completely

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with Allen keys, like like with hex

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heads. All right, here we go.

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left side panel off. So, there's our window. In spite of no protective

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covering, it's in pristine condition. It looks like they're using a

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very different It's not glass, but uh it

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seems like a seems like a better acrylic. And then they've just got it

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adhered with adhesive strips and then it

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is slightly indented so it sits just almost flush with the side panel.

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Actually quite nice. It's a very DIY, but like in a good way. Uh, in this

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case, does seem to be a crack in the corner, though, actually. Oh, there's a

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crack in the corner. Yeah, there's definitely a crack

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there. So, this case is available without the the white out option. So,

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you can see the case is painted white and

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then the actual Here we go. Everything but the

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hold down plate and the boot here is

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actually uh white as well. So this is the lines here are insulated underneath

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this white sleing. And then there's more

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insulation here. And then this piece right here is for insulating the bottom

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right here. So you're actually going to have to cut that to size. You can see

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that nice shiny copper base there.

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Absolutely beautiful. I mean, you see a lot of DIY phase builds on forums like

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extremesystems.org or wherever else, but I've never actually seen like a

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commercial grade one like a like a like a professionally done one for for

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resale. So, that is pretty that is

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pretty incredible. So, we can Oh, okay.

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I'll take this baby. Thank you. So, what else we got in here? So, behind this

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plate, we've got five of Lean Lee's

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usual sort of you put rubber grommets into the drive on either side, put them

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down, and slide them in. 3 and 1/4 in bays. Uh 3 and 1/2 in bays, excuse me.

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We've got those uh four 5 and 1/4 in bays up here. I don't see any dedicated

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SSD mounting. Although it seems like if you got even remotely creative at all,

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you could drill a hole here or there, put some double-sided Velcro here or

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there, and make SSDs happen pretty much all over the place. We got a nice big

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cutout for CPU coolers, like say for

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example, this one. Getting those mounted with the motherboard installed. Um, I've

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kind of, this is kind of funny, even though they sent me the five pack of PCI

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covers, it didn't even occur to me at the time that I was ordering that I have 10 of these and I'm not putting in two

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graphics cards and something else. So, I'm probably going to have to figure out

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another solution for that. Anyway, this is an extremely roomy chassis. So, you

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can see that an ATX motherboard is only going to go up to here with like

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mounting holes going like way the heck off to who knows what the heck. You can

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put pretty much absolutely whatever you want in here. You can mount a 140 mm fan

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between the basement and the um No, you

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can't. That Oh, that's weird. So, you could Yes, you could screw through this

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side and mount a fan on this side blowing up at a graphics card or

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something like that, but actually that's going to be for your power supply if you

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wanted to have it um have it have top

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intake or something for some reason. So, let's go ahead and open up the basement

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and get a better look at the compressor. All right, here we go. Last screw.

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And there it is. Oh, that Noctua. Okay,

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so I'm not a phase change expert by any

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stretch of the imagination. The closest I've ever been to anything like this was

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the one time I did sub-zero cooling, and that was with chilled liquids. So, I

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bought a window AC unit and then basically submerged the uh the

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evaporator in liquid and then pumped

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that liquid around to my CPU. and I believe my GPU at the time. No, it might

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have been just GPU. Anyway, the point is um this is a totally other ball of wax.

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So, the evap head is up here. We know this. So, this is all insulated very

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nicely, very professionally glued together, lippity bloop. This is the

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condenser. So this is where the Okay, so the liquid basically boils on the CPU.

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Then it gets brought back around and then this is where it has to go from a

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vapor back to a liquid. So this is the condenser. So it's a 140 mm fan on there

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that is a pressure optimized fan. The manufacturer does recommend cleaning out

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the front very frequently because this is going to do all the cooling. This is

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what does all the cooling. So then once it turns back into a liquid, it comes

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back over here and then around and bippity boop, around and around we go.

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So this is that USB control board that I was talking about before. So this is

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where we've got it looks like a K-type temp probe that goes presumably right up

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to the evaporator head. So that's going to tell it how cold things are running

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and going to tell all these other things what to do. And then over here we've

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just got general ventilation for all this down here. Now, I don't know much

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about the individual models, but I do know that Danfos is well regarded as far

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as compact compressors go. This is what it's going to make the bulk of the noise

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of this system. It should be noted that phase change cooling, especially a

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compact unit like this, like I mean, I was using a window-mounted AC unit in

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order to get similar CPU temps, actually not even as good. Whereas, this has this

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tiny little condenser, like 16 the size.

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this tiny little evaporator, this tiny little compressor. So, it tries to make

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everything really compact. So, you're gonna have to make some compromises and

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noise is definitely one of

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them. Speaking of which, Ting, the

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mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and satisfaction first,

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which shouldn't be unusual, but it really feels like it is. And the one key

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person. I mean, sure, the person says, "Press one for billing. Press two for

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sales." No, I'm just kidding. They don't say that at all. They just pick up and they're like, "Hello." Like, your mind

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kind of grumpy. So, uh, thank you guys for watching this

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unboxing of what is definitely the

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coolest thing that I feel like for me I've unboxed in quite some time. Like

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