Koolance CPU-380I CPU Water Block Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Dash Drive air ae400 welcome to a product unboxing that won't be
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interesting to you if you're not into liquid cooling but if you are then it
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should be pretty interesting to you this is the coolant 380i CPU Cooler and what
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makes it 380 is the fact that it is their current gener CPU water block and
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what makes it I is that this is the Intel variant so cool an usually does a
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great job of their included instructions and this is no exception even though
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this is just printed out with what appears to be an inkjet printer it's
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full color and does seem to outline exactly what you need to do this
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particular block mounts on LGA 775 1155
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1156 1150 2011 and 1366 however for some motherboards you
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may need an adapter plate it has ah yes
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there we go all of the below included in
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the box so there is a back plate another
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more different back plate a silicone isolator so this one right here will
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keep the back plate from shorting out any of the components on your board if you have a board that that would be a
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risk for it includes 211 mounting pegs
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so you can see those will screw right into the built-in back plate around the
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edge of your LGA 2011 board it also includes tension hold Downs for
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presumably all of the other Intel sockets so those go right there a
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ginormous tube of thermal goop coolant
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branding on it okay as well as a bunch
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of other okay well those are all the knickknacks that you need to mount the thing okay so let's go ahead and move
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along to the coolant block coolant for me was always about fit and finish now
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back in the day they weren't necessarily a performance Leader by any stretch of
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the imagination but that was a long time ago these days the 380 is a topof the
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range Block in terms of the performance and they're still maintaining that fit
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and finish so it used to be they did weird stuff like gold plating and it
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looked fantastic man did it look good on
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the bottom of the block but gold actually isn't as good a thermal
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conductor as some other metals and while it didn't really hurt performance it
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certainly didn't help it and that seemed to be what they were going for was oh
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you know goldplated for best Thal no no no no no so copper and silver are both
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actually better conductors than gold these days they still have that mirror
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shine finish so we'll go ahead and do that obligatory finger shot where you
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you can see how reflective that bad boy is see I can see you right there in the
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camera it's got a bit of a bow to the base this has been in fashion ever since
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the release of the dtec fusion I believe it was the fusion V1 that initially had
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the Bode base with a with a custom o-ring you could add to it uh so it has
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a slightly bowed base this allows for it to flatten out once it is actually
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applied to the block and that smoothness
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at the actually that that shininess at the bottom doesn't necessarily affect
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performance but it certainly looks nice it's a copper based block so it uses a
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micro arrangement with a mid plate that
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I don't think you can actually quite see but there's an intake block or there's an intake uh feed right there so there's
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a mid plate and then there are microf fins in the bottom and then it uses a
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very very very thick hold down plate
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that's one of the thickest hold down plates I've ever seen you're going to be able to apply as much or as little
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pressure as you want however it should be noted that you don't want to risk damaging your motherboard for the sake
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of getting really good mounting pressure between your block and the motherboard
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itself kence has configured this block so that it'll be compatible with pretty
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much whatever G1 quarter standard fittings that you want to use even if
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they are/ in ID 3/4 in od fittings which
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is often hard to fit on something like a CPU block so Swift Tech's approach is
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that they often allow you to user config
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the inlet to move it away from the other one and this gives you a bit more Flow
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Restriction and maybe a little bit less performance but allows you to fit bigger
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fittings this one supports it out of the box no problem they're also clearly
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labeled Inlet outlet and I think that
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pretty much wraps it up other than to show you what the block will look like
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on your board if you happen to have an ASUS Z87 Deluxe so there you go man I
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love water cooling probably the best thing about it is just the sheer sex
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appeal of it thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the 380i
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