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welcome to Linus tech tips at ces 2013. our trip to the show this year is

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powered by Corsair maker of quality pc components and peripherals our trusted

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storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is

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linksys

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welcome to something very exciting here guys we have gabriel shawn who is the

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president ceo whatever title he wants to give himself of swift tech now normally

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when i do these videos you guys know i know a thing or two about water cooling

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so i would normally do all the talking but this guy makes everything i know

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look kind of stupid so i'm gonna let him do most of the talking about their brand

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new product in fact a few brand new products that according to the

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conversation we've had and the demo slick's already seen is going to just

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blow the doors off of the prefab water cooling market well we're going to try

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to yes what we have here is the h.220

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CPU liquid cooling system and that product is

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the intention of that product is to bridge the gap

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between all-in-one entry-level budget products

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such as those made by thermaltake ante Corsair and all of

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these guys and the custom loop

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systems what we are offering here is the ability

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we offer a product that is pre-filled

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entirely plug-and-play for novice builders

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where they only have to it only comes already pre-installed with the fans

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and all they have to do is stick it up the top of the case and

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screw in the four screws for the CPU uh cooler and they're essentially done it

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comes let me jump in sure a second guys we've never seen this before rather than

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having you fuss around with the stupid fans and the screws and they go through

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the case and the thing and you gotta align it it comes with the wires already

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kind of tied away for you so the cable management is sort of done the fans are

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pre-attached to the unit so you actually don't have to bother with that you just

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screw it into your case and even this is

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pre-attached so it's just a matter of undoing a couple screws and doing a

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couple screws back in so sorry

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no problem no problem now the unit is plug and play

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and we use included with this unit is an eight-way

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pwm splitter oh i'm sorry

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yeah so you just connect your pump and your

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fans to this this one goes to the CPU header on the

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motherboard and this goes to the power supply and

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now your motherboard sees the entire

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CPU cooler as just a regular air-cooled Intel stock

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cooler and can manage it just the same way a couple of uh you know couple of

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settings in the motherboard and now your system is entirely managed by the

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motherboard now guys remember something like an m-cubed t-balancer would have

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been required to have the level of control we're gonna have over the number of fans we're going to have because

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we're adding power from the power supply we don't have to worry about the limitations of what the header is

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capable of providing we're relying on the psu for that and because guys like

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ASUS are including fan expert in their ai suite now you can take setting custom

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fan curves which you always had a limitation how many how many headers you

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have on the motherboard did they give you pwm did they give you three pin now

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you can do eight you can just mount it with two screws or if you really don't

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feel like it you don't want to diy this at all you can just stick it to your

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case with tape comes with beautiful sleeving on it so you can see you can

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hardly see the color of the wires behind that at all okay go ahead take it no

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problem the last thing but most important thing in this static

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presentation here is that pump when i say we wanted to bridge the gap

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between all-in-one and custom

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cooling loops we needed a pump and we have for the

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past three years worked on that pump we now manufacture that pump in our own

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factory okay and we've designed it from the ground up

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that pump is six watts

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okay compare this for reference to the

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other all-in-one systems that have a pump rated at about 1.2 watts so it is

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six times more powerful than other

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all-in-one systems which means that we are capable of driving

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multiple devices in the loop for any

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custom loop and we will show that later on during that presentation

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also that pump because we've spent so

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much time in developing it has an excellent

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mtbf which is the reliability the

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measure of reliability that pump is rated for 60 000 hours mtbf whereas

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the mcp35x that we use in the apogee hive

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for example is 50 000 hours but notice

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something else notice that the base

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of these two units is actually exactly

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the same it is the same copper base so you're going to get the same type of

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thermal performance from this product that you get from the mcp30 or from the

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apogee drive 2 which retails for over

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110 dollars so guys uh something that i

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want to talk about a little bit here as well is the fact that i if you've ever

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watched any of my videos about swiftech products i know we don't do too much on

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custom water cooling because it's kind of well it used to be kind of niche

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i guess here we are um is that their mounting mechanism our mounting

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mechanisms are second to none they've always done a phenomenal job i

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think even going back to i'd say probably the last one that was somewhat

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difficult to mount would have been apogee

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apogee was a little bit that was a long

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time ago with a lot of the uh the later project i mean even anything in the last

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four or five years it's been down to a spec where there's tensions here that

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are calibrated specifically for the Intel specification they always pay

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special attention to this when other water cooling manufacturers in ages past

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have been cheating by actually applying too much pressure and a bow to the base

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and kind of funny tricks like this swift goes with the stock mount it's always

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got a stopper you see the way if i unscrew that it actually goes right up

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against the back plate you can never accidentally screw a swiftech block in

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too far if you have anything that they've manufactured in the last few years correct

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so i think we can move on to the rest i think the static presentation is done

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let's you didn't show the fittings these are awesome what fittings oh i forgot

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yes sorry well it's because for me now it's i've

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taken them for granted well we we've installed

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we've designed these products with swivel fittings so that

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it makes it absolutely very easy to install the unit into a case and to

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bend the tube we also have a very specific and sweet tubing that is very

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nice to work with it is relatively soft

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but it works without uh kinking and so

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the fact that it's a little softer than usual allows

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it's more comfortable to work with essentially so it doesn't put too much

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strain on the fittings and anything like that and obviously the fact that they

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all swivel uh essentially makes it so easy to install so expansion wise

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remember we mentioned or well gabe mentioned that there is a there's a pump

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that's capable of driving more components than just the CPU so you take

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these off as simply as undoing a phillips head screwdriver no nonsense no

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trickery they're not trying to prevent you from emptying the thing and doing your own thing with it because swift is

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a custom water cooling company not uh you know a heat sink company turned

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water cooling company you can drain this thing you can make a custom loop out of

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it if you want it really does bridge the gap between diy and not diy you can also

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see here that there's a flange that prevents this custom

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this custom clamp from actually going in this direction and you can see right

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here that it's manufactured to a precision that it's actually not capable

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of slipping in the other direction as well and much like the CPU block itself

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this goes down all the way so when you install any component in this kit you

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screw it in all the way now i like to think that i'm pretty credible as far as

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sources of information go and i told you guys that gabe is extremely credible but

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obviously if we're gonna tell you something like blow the doors off of or

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if we're gonna tell you something like you know huge mean time between failure

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and so much more powerful than every other pump whatever whatever we're telling you we better sort of

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prove it so this is the practical demo component right now we have three

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identical systems running competitor t

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competitor c and swiftech so that represents the oems

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that are out there so there's an asetek premium unit there's a coolit premium

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unit and there is a swiftech premium unit because there is no oem for a

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swiftech all-in-one water cooling unit so gabe tell us what you've done to

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level the playing field in such a way that we are seeing how they compare

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directly to each other what we're doing here is that we have three plus one

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since we are also showing the h2o with graphic screen capabilities but

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essentially what we're doing for the CPU cooling section

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the asset the acetate the Corsair and the swift tech is that we let

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uh ron we let the systems run at 1400

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RPM which is the lowest level we can go to with both the

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thermaltake and the Corsair units and we

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place the swiftech unit also at 1400

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it can go lower it can go from 800 to 18

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but we put them all at 1400 we put the same load we have the same overclock

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they're all running at 4.6 gig same voltage which is set by the one touch

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button on the ASUS software guys these are 3770ks running on maximus 5 formulas

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just so you know yes i also want to thank ASUS and their beautiful board for

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sponsoring this as well as nanoxia for sponsoring the cases and evga for

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sponsoring the graphics and kingston for

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the hyperx and ssds

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they have been beautiful in helping us as well as

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master for all these beautiful power supplies that are running nice and low

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okay now going back to the setup 1400 rpms

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for all four systems so three CPU

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cooling and one h220

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running as well two gtx 680s provided by evga

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using the hydro copper cooler as well as the via cooling on the ASUS so we are

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all loaded up let's go take a look at the temperature results now let's go

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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

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where do we where do we see all four of them here right here

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on that laptop laptop right there

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all right so here we go guys so system one which is the here we go that's a

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swift let me comment maybe it'll be easier for you

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the swift deck h220 here uh we have the average for the past 10

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minutes okay on in the right hand side column

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here and the average temperature for the past 10 minutes it's 76.81

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speed Corsair h100 is running at 82.5

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compared to 76.8 the thermaltake unit we

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can see here is running at 78.3

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versus the 76 and then the swift ech220

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also calling two gtx 680s

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is running at an average of 81.3

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centigrades so now now that we've covered the

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temperatures we are going to cover maximum noise

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level as well as minimum noise levels so

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let's get started with maximum maximum noise level on the

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let me just explain how i'm going to position the microphone here guys rather

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than positioning it right next to the vent where it's going to be mostly the

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noise of the air brushing up against our windscreen i'm going to position it

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right here on the other side of this flap because that way we're finding out

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more accurately how much noise is actually being transmitted through the

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case to an end user agree with this okay

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so we're going to start with swift tech

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next we're going to move over to this was the yes this is the Corsair h100i okay

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i think that's enough i think that's all we need to know

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and now let's move to the thermaltake unit

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so diesel's comment he's uh he's monitoring the sound in his earbuds is

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that that's a big difference so this is representing the maximum noise that

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these units can make so now what we are going to do to demonstrate the minimums

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the minimum noise level we're shutting down everything else and we're going to

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keep that CPU h220 CPU calling

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at its what we call the silent mode which is a minimum

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uh fan speed and minimum pump speed and

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it's still at full load and you can hear it humming so that's

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still that's at 800 RPM right right and regular regular viewers know that i

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refuse to run fans any higher than a thousand RPM so this is pretty much how

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i'd use the unit

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i'm gonna cheat a little bit i'm gonna put it even closer

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i'm gonna put it right next to the vent

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diesel can't hear it i'm gonna put it right next to the rear fan

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very impressive you can't hear it it's inaudible

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essentially so and that's you know the proof is in the

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pudding right uh and that's all we have to say about this show me show me the

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most impressive pudding which is the one over there oh well

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we did something a little different here because we wanted to breach that gap

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with the custom custom

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custom loops right so we

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built starting from the h220

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we added a couple of Radeon 7970s cooled

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by our komodo water block and then we added a couple more

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radiators so we have a dual 120

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millimeter it's an mcr 220 and we have a

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dual 140 millimeter which is the mcr-240

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in the front so that pump of us is

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running two water blocks three water blocks CPU

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GPU and three radiators which demonstrates pretty much what the

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enthusiast guys do out there and it's capable of doing it and now if you want

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to take a shot on the screen you can see

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the type of temperatures that we have running the heaven benchmark

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here we go guys so GPU temperatures are

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53 degrees for for 79.70 which is ridiculous

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and then CPU temperatures are under

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this is this is an overclocked 3930k to 4.5 gigahertz so guys temperatures of

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under 50 degrees 50 degrees on that CPU very very impressive

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have you got that diesel oh he says no not yet you know we got to

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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

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want to thank i want to thank gabe from swift for walking us through this demo

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this has been very impressive and very eye opening thank you thank you thank

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