WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:08.000 So, I'm going to be having a look at a very exciting new product. This is the 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:10.160 Coollet Eco. It is a brand new liquid 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.599 cooling product from Coollet Systems. So, I don't know if you remember this 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:19.359 far back, but their very first liquid cooler was the Coollet Freezone. Okay, 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:23.600 so the Freezone was revolutionary. Well, not revolutionary because it wasn't the 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:28.560 first cooler to ever use a tech or a pelchier, but it was the first one to do 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:31.840 it with any commercial success with liquid cooling. So they went from there. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:36.480 They produced the Freezone Elite as well as the Pure. The Pure turned into the 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:41.120 Domino and the Domino has given birth to the Eco. So as we uh go and unbox this 00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:44.480 product, I'll tell you a little bit more about the evolution of it. But why don't 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.039 we start with what's on the outside of the box. So I'll use my handy dandy 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:52.480 remote, have a zoom in here, and I will tell you what it says, even though you 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:59.680 could probably read it just as easily yourself. So, it supports AMD, AM2, AM2 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:01.920 Plus, AM3, as well as 775, 1156, and 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:06.640 1366. So, pretty much every socket out there right now, as long as it's not a 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:11.920 server socket, it is extreme cooling, maintenancefree, and simple to install. 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:15.880 All right. Uh, what do we have on the outside here? This looks like the same 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:20.640 thing. Is it like different languages or something? What are they 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:25.600 doing? Oh, no. Oh, they've gone and they've put the same diagram on two 00:01:22.479 --> 00:01:27.840 sides of the box to confuse me. They 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:32.000 actually have different bullet points on them. So, here we go. Universal 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:36.400 retention system out of the box support provided for all of those sockets I 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:41.680 listed below. Proprietary pump with a ceramic bearing including well, not 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:43.680 including but a 5,000h hour lifetime. 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.799 Okay, so meanantime to failure. All right. Then we have a high performance 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:52.079 radiator which is custom engineered for low noise. So that generally means that 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:55.040 it has a fairly low fin per inch rating. So that means that there's less 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:58.479 turbulence as the air moves through the fan and overall less noise. It also 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:02.719 means you can get better cooling out of it with a lower airflow fan. Superior 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:06.640 cooling performance through technology and that's pretty much marketing spiel 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:09.119 right there. All right. And then on the other side, quiet work and play 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:15.760 environment. So they encourage you to use this both for work and play. It uses 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.360 ATC thermal compound and ATC stands for 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:20.879 advanced thermal compound. So, it's the advanced thermal compound thermal 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:24.879 compound. It is maintenancefree. It is pre-filled, factory sealed, and it does 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:28.879 not evaporate due to the kind of tubing they use. So, you don't have to refill 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:32.879 it. High performance fluid heat exchanger. So, there that's what they 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:39.120 call a CPU block, I suppose. All right. On the back, finally, we get quick to 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:42.640 install in any chassis. So, I will be 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:46.000 the judge of that because usually I can 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:48.239 easily find flaws in these preackaged 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:53.360 water cooling products that make it not fit in a number of chassis. So, let's 00:02:51.599 --> 00:03:01.280 get it out of the box. I haven't I mean, I saw this in person briefly at CES, but 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:01.280 I never got to actually touch one. 00:03:02.519 --> 00:03:12.800 So, all right. You can see that Koolit has attached the styrofoam inside to the 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:12.800 outer box extremely 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:19.000 well. Oh, come on. All right, here we 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:26.560 go. I found somewhere to pull on it. Sort of. Wow. This is 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:34.400 um this is one of the more difficult unboxings I've run into in quite some 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:37.680 time. Ah, here we go. Okay. Come off. 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:39.599 It's like it's box is giving birth. It's 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:45.040 a very narrow birth canal, too. All right, there we go. The box is off. And 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:49.280 uh I the first thing I find is this piece of paper, which is a quick start 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:54.480 guide. And it is a one, two, okay, it tells you what's in the box. And then 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:56.159 it's a one, two, three step uh configure 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:59.840 the retention bracket. So, as long as you get it set up for the right CPU that 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.959 you're going to be installing it on, you put on a back plate. And then you secure 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:11.680 the eco to your case and to the uh and to the CPU socket. Next, you connect a 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:12.879 fan and the pump power. So, that is kind 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:21.440 of more than three steps. I think they're cheating a little bit, but what can you 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:22.960 do? This is the AMD retention bracket. 00:04:21.440 --> 00:04:27.199 So, you can see where that secures to the block. And you can see the spacing 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:31.120 is clearly for AMD. All right. What do we have next? Actually, why don't I just 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:37.040 go ahead and kind of put those back in there. All right. Next, we have a little 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:40.880 uh elastic around our three different 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:44.479 back plates. Okay. So, we have 775, 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:46.400 1156, and 1366. It wouldn't be a bad 00:04:44.479 --> 00:04:51.199 move probably to do a universal back plate, but um maybe that's something 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:58.520 that's coming down the road for a Koolit engineering team. All right, let me just 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:01.520 see if I can get this open here. 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:03.600 Okay. And inside the styrofoam 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:08.000 clamshell, you can see this is extremely well packaged. Check that out. There is 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:12.320 nowhere for this thing to move when it's in transit. I really like that. That 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:17.759 makes me really happy to see them taking the care and attention to get you your 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:20.880 product in as good shape as possible. Here, I'm going to show you the other 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:24.400 side of this, too. So, it's completely enclosed in there. Very nice job, 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:28.720 Coollet. Okay. So, it comes in a little baggie, 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:34.560 and that'll prevent any incidental scratches or dings from happening to 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:40.320 your cooler here. So, let's uh get this removed here. All right. So, why don't 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:44.800 we start with the radiator, which is what the uh the DIY water cooling guys 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.080 would call this particular piece. So, it's got a Coollet branded fan on the 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:51.680 back. I'm just going to zoom in a little bit closer so you can see this thing 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:55.039 better. Okay, we've got a coollet branded fan on the back that spins at, 00:05:53.759 --> 00:06:01.520 you know what? They never actually gave us that in the specs for this thing, did they? Oh, yeah. There we go. 1,800 RPM 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:05.360 max. It's right there on the box. I just didn't see it before. All right. So, 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:10.720 1,800 RPM max. You can see it is configured for exhaust. So, while 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:15.520 Corsair has a comparable product in their um the Corsair H50, Corsair 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:19.360 actually recommends that you configure the fan blowing air into the chassis. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:24.240 Now, there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. This 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:29.520 one takes hot air from inside your case and removes it. So, that means that 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:31.680 rather than taking all that CPU heat and 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:35.840 then pumping it back into your case, it actually removes it from the case. Now, 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:41.919 the disadvantage is it means that you're not using the coolest possible air to 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.720 cool your CPU. So, in a case like the 00:06:41.919 --> 00:06:48.000 Corsair Obsidian 800D, there's an advantage to turning this fan around, 00:06:46.400 --> 00:06:51.280 which you can actually do on the coolant unit or on the Corsair. It doesn't 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:55.360 really matter. And then you could use those top three fans to blow all the air 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.720 out. And then you could just bring in extra air. It doesn't really even matter 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:02.080 at that point. So, if you bring air from the outside, you're using the coolest 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:06.000 possible air to keep your CPU cool. You've got a four pin PWM fan connector 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.560 here. So, that'll take care of making the fan spin. All right. This radiator 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:14.880 looks fairly bog standard, although they have made a couple small improvements 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:19.759 over ones I've seen in the past. First of all, this may seem minor, but you see 00:07:17.599 --> 00:07:25.120 this uh this notch right here. Most water cooling radiators have the these 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:29.039 uh these end tanks go right from the side of the rad up and then over. And 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:33.120 also, they can tend to be quite a bit larger. So, on the bottom and the top, 00:07:31.599 --> 00:07:36.960 Coolid has made a little bit of extra space here. That right there is going to 00:07:35.039 --> 00:07:41.840 give them compatibility with way more cases right off the bat. I've also seen 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:45.360 all-in-one liquid coolers that are more than the width of a fan. Now, you can 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:50.240 see when you look at the Eco, the radiator is exactly flush with the fan. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:55.039 So, for cases that have, say, for example, a side window that goes right 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:58.879 next to the rear 120 mm fan. If your radiator's a little wider, it can hurt 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.720 your compatibility there. So, the Eco is pretty much as close as I've ever seen 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:06.720 to something that can actually achieve universal compatibility. All right. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:11.599 Koolite uses their standard plastic tubing here, which is uh it's good and 00:08:09.039 --> 00:08:15.360 bad cuz it's not very flexible, but they must use it because that's what prevents 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:19.199 the water from evaporating and that's what makes it so that you don't have to 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.560 actually fill this thing repeatedly. Oh, they've got actually Oh, these are kind 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.599 of neat. They've got rotating fittings here. This is something new. So, that's 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:31.199 going to give you a little bit better flexibility when you're installing the Eco in your system because you can kind 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:34.719 of, you know, move it this way or that way. Before it was always just putting 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:38.479 so much tension on the fittings, but now they've uh they've worked that rotation 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:41.360 in there. That's very nice. Okay. The pump is powered by a three pin 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:45.120 connector. So, as long as you've got a couple three pin motherboard connectors 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:49.200 close to your CPU socket, you'll be able to plug in both your fan and your pump 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:53.760 very easily. On the bottom of the unit, you can see a nice shiny copper base as 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:58.720 well as a pre-applied thermal compound. And then they've got little labels in 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:00.560 the bottom here that Oh, what did I do? 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:05.760 Don't think I broke it. That's good. Okay. So, how does this work exactly? It 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:07.760 looks like you lift it up and then you 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:11.279 move it. Oh. Oh, that's kind of cool. So, what you do is you actually lift 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:16.560 this up and then you move it around based on uh which mounting hole you want 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:22.560 to use. So, just like that. So, they've got 775, 1156, as well as 1366 all 00:09:20.959 --> 00:09:29.440 labeled in here. And then if you want to use AM2, I guess you just 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.440 um Oh, yeah. That's what these little 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:34.480 No, that can't be what that's for. Well, I'm sure that there's a way to do it and 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.680 it's not that hard and it's in the quick start guide. So, if you actually buy this to mount on an AM2 or AM3 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:43.920 motherboard, then I'm sure you'll figure it out. Anyway, thank you for checking 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:49.440 out my unboxing of the You know what? I guess I'm not quite done. Uh why don't I 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:51.760 just give a brief mention to the uh 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:56.399 where the pump is because it used to be that Coollet would integrate their pump 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:59.519 either next to the radiator or next to the radiator. That's where they used to 00:09:57.680 --> 00:10:03.519 put their pump and now they've moved to something that is more of an integrated 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:08.160 all-in-one unit. So the pump as well as the CPU block are both contained within 00:10:05.760 --> 00:10:12.480 this one piece here. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Coolit 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.480 Eco.