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welcome to something very exciting here guys we have gabriel shawn who is the
president ceo whatever title he wants to give himself of swift tech now normally
when i do these videos you guys know i know a thing or two about water cooling
so i would normally do all the talking but this guy makes everything i know
look kind of stupid so i'm gonna let him do most of the talking about their brand
new product in fact a few brand new products that according to the
conversation we've had and the demo slick's already seen is going to just
blow the doors off of the prefab water cooling market well we're going to try
to yes what we have here is the h.220
CPU liquid cooling system and that product is
the intention of that product is to bridge the gap
between all-in-one entry-level budget products
such as those made by thermaltake ante Corsair and all of
these guys and the custom loop
systems what we are offering here is the ability
we offer a product that is pre-filled
entirely plug-and-play for novice builders
where they only have to it only comes already pre-installed with the fans
and all they have to do is stick it up the top of the case and
screw in the four screws for the CPU uh cooler and they're essentially done it
comes let me jump in sure a second guys we've never seen this before rather than
having you fuss around with the stupid fans and the screws and they go through
the case and the thing and you gotta align it it comes with the wires already
kind of tied away for you so the cable management is sort of done the fans are
pre-attached to the unit so you actually don't have to bother with that you just
screw it into your case and even this is
pre-attached so it's just a matter of undoing a couple screws and doing a
couple screws back in so sorry
no problem no problem now the unit is plug and play
and we use included with this unit is an eight-way
pwm splitter oh i'm sorry
yeah so you just connect your pump and your
fans to this this one goes to the CPU header on the
motherboard and this goes to the power supply and
now your motherboard sees the entire
CPU cooler as just a regular air-cooled Intel stock
cooler and can manage it just the same way a couple of uh you know couple of
settings in the motherboard and now your system is entirely managed by the
motherboard now guys remember something like an m-cubed t-balancer would have
been required to have the level of control we're gonna have over the number of fans we're going to have because
we're adding power from the power supply we don't have to worry about the limitations of what the header is
capable of providing we're relying on the psu for that and because guys like
ASUS are including fan expert in their ai suite now you can take setting custom
fan curves which you always had a limitation how many how many headers you
have on the motherboard did they give you pwm did they give you three pin now
you can do eight you can just mount it with two screws or if you really don't
feel like it you don't want to diy this at all you can just stick it to your
case with tape comes with beautiful sleeving on it so you can see you can
hardly see the color of the wires behind that at all okay go ahead take it no
problem the last thing but most important thing in this static
presentation here is that pump when i say we wanted to bridge the gap
between all-in-one and custom
cooling loops we needed a pump and we have for the
past three years worked on that pump we now manufacture that pump in our own
factory okay and we've designed it from the ground up
that pump is six watts
okay compare this for reference to the
other all-in-one systems that have a pump rated at about 1.2 watts so it is
six times more powerful than other
all-in-one systems which means that we are capable of driving
multiple devices in the loop for any
custom loop and we will show that later on during that presentation
also that pump because we've spent so
much time in developing it has an excellent
mtbf which is the reliability the
measure of reliability that pump is rated for 60 000 hours mtbf whereas
the mcp35x that we use in the apogee hive
for example is 50 000 hours but notice
something else notice that the base
of these two units is actually exactly
the same it is the same copper base so you're going to get the same type of
thermal performance from this product that you get from the mcp30 or from the
apogee drive 2 which retails for over
110 dollars so guys uh something that i
want to talk about a little bit here as well is the fact that i if you've ever
watched any of my videos about swiftech products i know we don't do too much on
custom water cooling because it's kind of well it used to be kind of niche
i guess here we are um is that their mounting mechanism our mounting
mechanisms are second to none they've always done a phenomenal job i
think even going back to i'd say probably the last one that was somewhat
difficult to mount would have been apogee
apogee was a little bit that was a long
time ago with a lot of the uh the later project i mean even anything in the last
four or five years it's been down to a spec where there's tensions here that
are calibrated specifically for the Intel specification they always pay
special attention to this when other water cooling manufacturers in ages past
have been cheating by actually applying too much pressure and a bow to the base
and kind of funny tricks like this swift goes with the stock mount it's always
got a stopper you see the way if i unscrew that it actually goes right up
against the back plate you can never accidentally screw a swiftech block in
too far if you have anything that they've manufactured in the last few years correct
so i think we can move on to the rest i think the static presentation is done
let's you didn't show the fittings these are awesome what fittings oh i forgot
yes sorry well it's because for me now it's i've
taken them for granted well we we've installed
we've designed these products with swivel fittings so that
it makes it absolutely very easy to install the unit into a case and to
bend the tube we also have a very specific and sweet tubing that is very
nice to work with it is relatively soft
but it works without uh kinking and so
the fact that it's a little softer than usual allows
it's more comfortable to work with essentially so it doesn't put too much
strain on the fittings and anything like that and obviously the fact that they
all swivel uh essentially makes it so easy to install so expansion wise
remember we mentioned or well gabe mentioned that there is a there's a pump
that's capable of driving more components than just the CPU so you take
these off as simply as undoing a phillips head screwdriver no nonsense no
trickery they're not trying to prevent you from emptying the thing and doing your own thing with it because swift is
a custom water cooling company not uh you know a heat sink company turned
water cooling company you can drain this thing you can make a custom loop out of
it if you want it really does bridge the gap between diy and not diy you can also
see here that there's a flange that prevents this custom
this custom clamp from actually going in this direction and you can see right
here that it's manufactured to a precision that it's actually not capable
of slipping in the other direction as well and much like the CPU block itself
this goes down all the way so when you install any component in this kit you
screw it in all the way now i like to think that i'm pretty credible as far as
sources of information go and i told you guys that gabe is extremely credible but
obviously if we're gonna tell you something like blow the doors off of or
if we're gonna tell you something like you know huge mean time between failure
and so much more powerful than every other pump whatever whatever we're telling you we better sort of
prove it so this is the practical demo component right now we have three
identical systems running competitor t
competitor c and swiftech so that represents the oems
that are out there so there's an asetek premium unit there's a coolit premium
unit and there is a swiftech premium unit because there is no oem for a
swiftech all-in-one water cooling unit so gabe tell us what you've done to
level the playing field in such a way that we are seeing how they compare
directly to each other what we're doing here is that we have three plus one
since we are also showing the h2o with graphic screen capabilities but
essentially what we're doing for the CPU cooling section
the asset the acetate the Corsair and the swift tech is that we let
uh ron we let the systems run at 1400
RPM which is the lowest level we can go to with both the
thermaltake and the Corsair units and we
place the swiftech unit also at 1400
it can go lower it can go from 800 to 18
but we put them all at 1400 we put the same load we have the same overclock
they're all running at 4.6 gig same voltage which is set by the one touch
button on the ASUS software guys these are 3770ks running on maximus 5 formulas
just so you know yes i also want to thank ASUS and their beautiful board for
sponsoring this as well as nanoxia for sponsoring the cases and evga for
sponsoring the graphics and kingston for
the hyperx and ssds
they have been beautiful in helping us as well as
master for all these beautiful power supplies that are running nice and low
okay now going back to the setup 1400 rpms
for all four systems so three CPU
cooling and one h220
running as well two gtx 680s provided by evga
using the hydro copper cooler as well as the via cooling on the ASUS so we are
all loaded up let's go take a look at the temperature results now let's go
guys we're not even going to cut this shot because i want you guys to see that there's no monkey business going on so
where do we where do we see all four of them here right here
on that laptop laptop right there
all right so here we go guys so system one which is the here we go that's a
swift let me comment maybe it'll be easier for you
the swift deck h220 here uh we have the average for the past 10
minutes okay on in the right hand side column
here and the average temperature for the past 10 minutes it's 76.81
at full load the same load same operation same fan
speed Corsair h100 is running at 82.5
compared to 76.8 the thermaltake unit we
can see here is running at 78.3
versus the 76 and then the swift ech220
also calling two gtx 680s
and the chipset and vr which gets pretty hot and the full load CPU
is running at an average of 81.3
centigrades so now now that we've covered the
temperatures we are going to cover maximum noise
level as well as minimum noise levels so
let's get started with maximum maximum noise level on the
swiftech h220 and
let me just explain how i'm going to position the microphone here guys rather
than positioning it right next to the vent where it's going to be mostly the
noise of the air brushing up against our windscreen i'm going to position it
right here on the other side of this flap because that way we're finding out
more accurately how much noise is actually being transmitted through the
case to an end user agree with this okay
so we're going to start with swift tech
next we're going to move over to this was the yes this is the Corsair h100i okay
i think that's enough i think that's all we need to know
and now let's move to the thermaltake unit
so diesel's comment he's uh he's monitoring the sound in his earbuds is
that that's a big difference so this is representing the maximum noise that
these units can make so now what we are going to do to demonstrate the minimums
the minimum noise level we're shutting down everything else and we're going to
keep that CPU h220 CPU calling
at its what we call the silent mode which is a minimum
uh fan speed and minimum pump speed and
it's still at full load and you can hear it humming so that's
still that's at 800 RPM right right and regular regular viewers know that i
refuse to run fans any higher than a thousand RPM so this is pretty much how
i'd use the unit
i'm gonna cheat a little bit i'm gonna put it even closer
i'm gonna put it right next to the vent
diesel can't hear it i'm gonna put it right next to the rear fan
very impressive you can't hear it it's inaudible
essentially so and that's you know the proof is in the
pudding right uh and that's all we have to say about this show me show me the
most impressive pudding which is the one over there oh well
we did something a little different here because we wanted to breach that gap
with the custom custom
custom loops right so we
built starting from the h220
we added a couple of Radeon 7970s cooled
by our komodo water block and then we added a couple more
radiators so we have a dual 120
millimeter it's an mcr 220 and we have a
dual 140 millimeter which is the mcr-240
in the front so that pump of us is
running two water blocks three water blocks CPU
GPU and three radiators which demonstrates pretty much what the
enthusiast guys do out there and it's capable of doing it and now if you want
to take a shot on the screen you can see
the type of temperatures that we have running the heaven benchmark
here we go guys so GPU temperatures are
53 degrees for for 79.70 which is ridiculous
and then CPU temperatures are under
this is this is an overclocked 3930k to 4.5 gigahertz so guys temperatures of
under 50 degrees 50 degrees on that CPU very very impressive
have you got that diesel oh he says no not yet you know we got to
prove it here we can't just say it we got to show you guys what kind of temperatures we're running and i just
want to thank i want to thank gabe from swift for walking us through this demo
this has been very impressive and very eye opening thank you thank you thank
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