WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.040 This video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:13.440 NVIDIA. Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Thermaltch Water 2.0 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:19.039 Extreme. This is different from the Big Water SE that was my first water cooling 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:25.199 kit. So, I'm actually going to take the approach with this unboxing of comparing 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:28.560 the Water 2.0 no extreme to how far 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:31.519 Thermaltch has come in like the last 8 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:36.880 years in terms of their pre-done liquid cooling kits. Cuz let me tell you, the 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:39.840 Big Water SE was no easier to install 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:44.480 than a custom loop. It didn't really perform that well, but it looked really 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:48.079 cool. It used quarterinch tubing, so it was like not performance parts. I mean, 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:52.879 the water block on that thing was like it had a channel like this, and that was 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:57.120 like it. It was still way better than air though. And it got me. It was like 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:03.199 sort of like that first hit that gets you into something like um 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.799 school, which is obviously what we were talking about. Um so let's have a look 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.240 at what Thermaltch has to say for themselves first. Top-of-the-line liquid 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.479 cooler equipped with power and performance. No refills needed. there 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:20.080 advantage over big water SE which came with like jugs of coolant and you had to 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:24.960 actually like fill it and then drain it and then refill it and top it up and 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:28.960 stuff like that. 240 mm radiator doubles the cooling surface. I can tell you it 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:32.880 more than doubles the cooling ability versus the big water SE because that one 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:36.159 was 120 mil and it had the worst radiator design I've probably ever seen 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.240 in a liquid cooling unit. I'm not trying to rag on Thermaltch. an old product at 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:43.759 this point, but man, that thing had one tube that went through like this. So, 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:48.320 the flow restriction of that radiator was terrible. It also had like one of 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:52.079 the densest fin arrays that I've ever seen. And this one does not have that. 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:56.880 Universal socket compatibility. Okay, that the big water had, but the mounting 00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:59.520 mechanism wasn't too great. Uh, high performance copper base plate 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.040 accelerates the heat conductivity. High reliability, lowrofile pump based on an 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:07.439 asetch design, so you know it's not going to die or anything like that. Pre-filled coolant reduces the liquid 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:13.120 replenishment hassle. Low evaporation tube reduces the loss of coolant and the high-tech sealed circulation system 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.720 prevents leaking issues. Double okay high reliability pump, high efficiency 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:21.360 radiator, powerful cooling fans, there are two, and fan control software 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:26.920 included, which is nice to see. Inside the box, we have a manual, which is in a 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:30.400 bajillion different languages, including 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:33.519 moa or I don't know, my French is kind 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.680 of rusty. Um, fan control software 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:41.040 version 1.3. Very nice to see Thermaltch 00:02:38.519 --> 00:02:45.360 fans. Thermaltch's been doing fans for a while, so I figured they probably know a 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:47.360 thing or two about it. Uh PWM fans, so 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:50.720 PWM control is always nice to have, especially if you're going to be 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:55.440 programming fan control curves or whatever else like that because voltage 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:58.879 fans, voltage control, DC fans can be a bit of an issue. If you set a very low 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:03.840 fan speed, they might not start, for example. So PWM fans always are running 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.920 12 volts through the fan, but it just sends it in bursts so that it has enough 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:12.800 torque to start the fan pretty much no matter what. Uh mounting hardware 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:12.800 included. 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:21.280 Ascounting hardware versus previous generation products. This clip right 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.760 here is like the magic clip because it used to be you had to take the block uh 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:29.200 what's this? Product warranty policy. Okay, good. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:34.239 Oh, this looks like it uses a thicker radiator than most of the other 240 mil 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:40.120 products out there. That's kind of interesting. I'mma be back in just a 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:42.280 moment here with uh with a Corsair 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:47.760 H100i. Where is my H100i? It's over here somewhere. Here we 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:56.080 go. I think it uses a thicker radiator. And a thicker radiator would go a long 00:03:53.760 --> 00:04:00.799 way towards increasing the overall surface area. Because guys, liquid 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:03.840 cooling is not is not magic. It's just 00:04:00.799 --> 00:04:06.480 the liquid more efficiently moves the 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:11.840 heat away from the CPU and towards the heat dissipator or the radiator. So in 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:15.599 this case, you can see ah like this. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.639 Okay. So the big water 2.0 which big now 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:21.120 I'm doing doing that the water 2.0 to 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:26.000 has a very very very loose spin arrangement which is great for quiet 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:27.759 operation compared to the Corsair H100i 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:32.160 which is more dense. So if you did ramp up the RPMs of the fans, this kind of 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:36.000 design would start to pull ahead of this kind of design where you can see the 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:41.680 water channels are spaced more closely for more effective heat conduction to 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:43.280 the fins themselves. But check this out. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:48.560 The water 2.0 has a significantly thicker radiator 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:55.680 than the H100i. That means that even though they are both 2x 120 mm water 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.479 cooling units, this one is probably I 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:04.800 mean that must be like at least 20 to 30% thicker, which won't give you quite 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:08.080 the same advantage as for example a dual 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.880 140 mm radiator, but it'll fit in more 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:13.840 cases because it's 2x120. Although some cases will have trouble with it because 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:16.720 it is thicker. If you have any clearance issues with your MOSFET coolers or 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:20.320 anything like that, that might be a problem. Um, but it gives you more 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:24.240 surface area. So, that's good. That's something I didn't know about the Water 00:05:21.919 --> 00:05:28.320 2.0 until I opened it up here. I'm just going to put that away. Um, where were 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:31.360 we? Right. The mounting mechanism. So, it includes a high quality thermal 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:34.880 compound on the base here. And all we're going to do is remove the uh the cover. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.759 And I'm going to show you guys what's so much better about this. So, you used to have to just take this thing and like 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:43.280 hold it on to the retention ring. and then like thread some screws through it 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:48.800 and all that. Now you just take this guy, clip it on. Oh, I'm really excited 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:51.759 about this cooler now. And I was excited before, but now I'm now I'm really 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:56.080 excited. I was all nostalgic about my Big Water SE. Now I'm all like, "Oh, I 00:05:54.479 --> 00:05:59.199 don't need that anymore. Just use a water 2.0, which is like better with 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.400 thick radiator." Anyway, the point is that if you have two hands and you're 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.080 not trying to sort of lean over like this to do it, you just clip this piece 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:09.520 on here. Then you take all of the mounting screws, clip them through here 00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:12.560 with the included plastic brackets. The instructions will cover all this and it 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:15.600 is quite straightforward. So you don't have to hold everything in place while 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:21.360 you're fumbling around with it inside your computer case because a lot of people do upgrade existing computers 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:24.880 with these pre-done liquid cooling kits. In terms of connectivity, you're going 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:31.919 to find pretty much what you'd expect. So the CPU block/pump unit itself has uh 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:36.720 here we go, a USB connector. So this is how you access the fan control software. 00:06:35.039 --> 00:06:41.360 um or that's how you interface with the with the unit through the fan control 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.520 software. It has two black uh harnesses 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:47.440 coming off of it for the two four pin PWM fans. These are all using black 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:51.600 wires, which is going to look way nicer in your case than the uh the older 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:56.560 generation products that did not use all black wires. And finally, a three pin 00:06:53.840 --> 00:07:00.400 connector for the fan pump itself, which is inside the water block unit. I don't 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:05.039 know if I mentioned I don't know if I showed the thermal compound that is 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:06.240 pre-installed. that looks like uh the 00:07:05.039 --> 00:07:10.720 same kind that pretty much everyone uses. It's really good stuff. I've actually tried replacing this with 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.520 aftermarket stuff. Unless you're using really high-end aftermarket stuff, 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:17.960 you're not going to see any temperature improvements. So, I always use the 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:21.759 pre-applied one on the first installation. I think that pretty much 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:26.080 covers it. It's using quarterinch tubing. Although, I'm not entirely sold 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:30.479 on 38 in tubing making that much of a difference in terms of performance. We 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:33.840 actually ran the H100 versus the H100i and we only saw a what was it like a two 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:39.199 degree difference or something like that. I think it was only a couple degree difference using the same fans 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:43.039 which could have just as easily been improvements to the CPU block and not 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:47.680 necessarily any improvement from going from 1/4 in to 38 in tubing. I mean the 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:52.080 38 inch tubing looks baller but it actually doesn't have quite the same 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:55.919 tight bend radius as quarterinch tubing does. I think that pretty much covers it 00:07:54.080 --> 00:07:58.960 for the water 2.0. 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