Swiftech MCR320 Stack Water Cooling Radiator Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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790 words · ~3 min read
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so I've got another self-indulgent unboxing here to do I'm unboxing the MCR
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320 QP stack so there's actually two
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different MCR 320 QPS and I'll get into what that is in just a moment it comes
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in a plain brown box and yes this is yet
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another water cooling item I'm actually working on a on a new water cooling
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build right now so this is all stuff that I've actually bought for a system
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that I'm building in the Corsair obsidian 800d so for starters let's get
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into what comes in the accessory package first of all we have a wide variety of
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rubber O-rings looks like it comes with six we
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have these are great four little tiny
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stubby fittings so these are half inch are they all/ in yes they are all halfin
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fittings so how this is designed to work is if you have two of these stack
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radiators or a stack and a non-stack you
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would actually so these O-rings are for all the fittings that you would need to
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stack two radiators together with two
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fans sandwiched in between you use the little stubby fittings in here and the
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water actually Flows In Parallel between
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the two RADS and you use two of these
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um Worm Drive clamps in order to make
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sure that the tubing doesn't slip off in between not that I would worry too much
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about that but it also prevents leaks if you use a worm dried clamp okay so we
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have a stackable series radiators informational guide now I'm
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probably going to throw this unboxing up on the product pages for both of the two
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different RADS however uh this is obviously the stackable one so there are
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some specific instructions including how to attach one stackable and one normal
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rad in order to get the benefit of additional cooling capacity there's also
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a quick guide here on how to use the little fasteners for attaching fans to
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the radiator and that's about it okay
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and then there's your standard MCR XXX
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so whichever MCR series rad you're using uh installation guide so that shows you
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how to use a screw to attach the fan to the radiator and caution do not poke the
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screws too far and Pierce the radiator fins is probably what that is cautioning
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you not to do yes it is okay so in this
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little cardboard thing ofama Jiggy it's protected by cardboard so that these
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screws won't Bounce Around and puncture the radiator in transit we've actually
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got 12 Long screws and four short screws so the 12 Long screws would be used to
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attach three fans uh to each mounting point on the rad and then the four short
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screws will be used to attach this entire radiator and fan assembly up into
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the top of the 800d case which I will likely show at some point in the future
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and I'll make an annotation here if I ever get around to it so here we have a
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nice sort of uh papery clothy shroud
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over for a tissue paper shroud over the radiator itself so
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swiftex MCR series RADS are a quiet
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radiator so what that means is that there's a low fpi or fins per inch count
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so that means that it is optimized to work best with quiet fans versus any a
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competing radiator which might have more densely packed fins which will perform
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better if you have high CFM fans but not nearly as well if you have low flow fans
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so I'm I'm going to be using relatively low airflow fans some y loons so this is
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definitely the optimal setup for me you can see we've got our threaded mounting
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points uh sorry excuse me 12 uh six
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aside okay and then we have the same thing on the other side of the rad now
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what you may or may not have noticed when I flipped that over is that there are actually mounting spots for the
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barbs on both sides of the stackable radiator so that's what I was talking
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about before where I was saying you can actually use either two stackables or
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one stackable and one non-stackable in order to set up two radiators next to
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each other with just fittings in between a normal radiator would only have
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fittings on one side so thank you for checking out my video blog and unboxing
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on the swifttech MCR 320 quiet power
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stackable or non-stackable depending which product page you're looking at
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radiator