Kingston HyperX H20 Liquid Cooling Ready DDR3 Memory Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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857 words · ~4 min read
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now this this is a cool product now i'
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there have been quite a few liquid cooled uh memory kits in the past but I
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have never actually seen one in person
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this is the first one that I've gotten to check out so this is a hyperx
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Performance Kit from Kingston and it is liquid cooling ready you see those barbs
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right there those appear to be 1/4 in barbs which I will explain how you can
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actually make practical use of even in a custom liquid cooled setup so these are
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DDR 3 2,000 MHz C9 modules it's a 6 gig
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kit so that means it's optimal for core i7 on the LGA 1366
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platform let's open it up and have a look oh yeah and there's a joke there's
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a joke in this episode that is just like the funniest thing ever but you have to
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wait till the end have you have to wait till the end
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to find out what the joke is it's really funny though okay so here
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it is hyperx H2O so I'm just going to lift it out by the barbs here
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here there we go so I'm not sure exactly
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how this heat spreader works but you can see it's got like blue accents on it oh
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I like that check that out so it's got like blue hyperx style accents and then
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over top of that there's kind of like a black and red and white themed uh heat
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spreader here so let me sort of let's
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look closer at this and see if we can figure out exactly how the whole thing
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Clips together so you can see there's screws here and here okay and those go
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all the way through so presumably that's clamping the entire heat spreader down
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on uh on top of what seems to be like a a
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sub heat spreader I can't tell if the black one and the blue one are actually
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like permanently attached or if they're just clamped together and then you've
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got a thermal interface material between the uh the heat spreaders and the dim
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itself they're not that heavy actually I'm I'm a little bit surprised they're
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really not that heavy it looks like uh these barbs just go straight through so
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you can see right there so there's no um there's no winding around through the
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water block I mean really RAM doesn't produce a lot of heat so if you're even
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just giving it some contact with cool water it should cool it more than
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adequately and uh okay that was pretty much it for the unboxing and checking
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out the hyper xh2o uh the next part is
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check out the uh wait wait for the wait for the joke wait for the joke it's funny okay this is the joke this is the
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joke so um here on the hyperx H2O page
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it says it's delivers high speeds and Extreme Performance features a unique
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extreme cooling option that uses liquid to dissipate heat so that's all great
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and fine and then down at the very bottom notice all Kingston products are tested to meet our public published
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specifications Kingston does not recommend that any user attempt to run
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their computers faster than the published speed overclocking or
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modifying your system timing may result in damage to computer components so it's
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I don't know I just I okay maybe it's not that funny now that I look at it
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again but um I just thought it was kind of funny that
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Kingston's selling you like liquid cooling ready memory with a warning not
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to overclock it because uh yeah you're
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pretty much going to do that oh yeah and uh the way that I would recommend
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running this memory if you want if you're running like a 38 or a/ in water
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cooling system and you want to make it compatible with the/ qu in barbs on the
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hyperx H2O is what I would do is I would get like a a three-way splitter or a
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four-way splitter and then just plug up one of the ends and then actually split
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your 38 in tubing or your half in tubing into 3/4 in go into your triple Channel
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memory from the top come out the bottom meet into another splitter and then meet
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up with the rest of your Loop that way you don't lose a whole lot of flow going
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through these uh tight quarter inch barbs and you're still able to get all
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the extra performance out of these dims now that's not to say these won't run
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just fine without water cooling if you just want to run them air cool that's
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fine too thank you for checking out my unboxing of the hyperx H2O and don't
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