AMD FX 120mm Liquid Cooling Unit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the AMD FX 8
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core processor Black Edition with liquid CPU cooling system however I should tell
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you guys now that this is a sample of the liquid cooling system that does not
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have a CPU inside so there you go overclock and don't overheat liquid CPU
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cooling system easy Bend tubes for maximum flexibility quiet high performance pulse width modulation I
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think they mean pwm radiator fans brilliant customizable RGB LED okay
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that's kind of cool custom fan speed control software as well as ah more
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about the CPU that is not in here because this box includes an AMD
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processor that is not in here installation instructions limited warranty information and a liquid CPU
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cooling system designed for use in a desktop PC so let's have a look at what
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is just the liquid cooling system from
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AMD so you can see right here who the o M for this particular liquid cooling
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system might happen to be acch shows you how to install it okay cool
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beans next we have the liquid CPU
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cooling chill Control software which you should not use you should download the
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latest from someone's website whether it
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happens to be uh AMD or acch okay it includes mounting hardware
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for AMD systems there you go
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so we got screws for the fans screws for the hold down plate as well as a little
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ring that goes here apparently or go
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somewhere okay and then mounting
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clips it is compatible with am2 am2 plus
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am3 and am3 plus two fans included they seem to be of some kind of reasonable
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quality cuz they don't have like a ton of flex to them these are everflow motor
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your life r121 1225 5su
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fans and there are two so you can mount
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them in push pull if you see fit or you can just put one of them on your CPU and
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like put the other one somewhere else they're reasonably nice looking you got your little AMD sticker going on there
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that's green as well as nice short uh
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four pin pwm connectors that are using all black wires and then a black
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connector so they are very aesthetically pleasing if nothing else all right as
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you can see there is no CPU in the Box although yours would have a CPU in the
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Box here we see the bottom cold plate as
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they call it or CPU block as I think we should probably be calling it with
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pre-applied thermal interface material it is a very high quality Tim that is
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installed on the bottom of these acch coolers I do know that for a fact
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changing it out with something better actually will not really net you much in
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terms of a performance gain here we have
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uh the power for the pump itself as well as the pass through that will power the
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fan so this cable right here runs to power both of your pwm fans and it can
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control the fan speeds on both of them at the same time you can see the only
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wire that is not running to the second connector is the RPM monitor so the RPM
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monitor will only work on one of the fans as long as they are both plugged
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into the radiator you would hopefully notice that the rad that one of the fans
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isn't working long before uh both of them failed and then you know your CPU
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wasn't getting any cooling because as long as one of them is going you should be fine so this uses a thick style
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radiator much like the corser h70 or h80 which means that if you are running in
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push pull it's ideal because there is a lot of resistance to the air being
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pushed or pulled through the radiator if you don't have two fans and in order to
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get the best possible performance out of the surface area you have available you
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want to make sure you're pushing lots of air flow through it now when they talk
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about super flexible tubes they are not kidding these are just like the N the
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ones on the ntech 920 where you can bend them up like this
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and you can see look ma no Kinks so you will be able to get adequate liquid flow
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to your CPU regardless of what kind of a
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you know contortionist configuration you have to do in order to get the block
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positioned correctly over your over your
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processor now the other thing that can be a bit of a challenge for these is you
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got to make sure you do have adequate room in your case most cases that accept
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a 120 mm cooling fan at the back will work with this kind of a radiator you
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can see there's a small tank at the top as well as a small tank at the bottom
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but on the sides they're fairly low profile so it's exactly the width of
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okay slightly more than the width of a
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fan I think that pretty much covers it if you want to know how it performs go
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find out how an h70 performs and it's going to be pretty much that but probably a little bit better cuz these
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are better fans and uh you got your
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unlocked FX processor thing going on on the top here that's where the RGB LEDs
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are so you can actually change the color of the FX in there I guess I'd recommend
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red I mean you can make it blue if you want but I think we all know why that
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