How to keep Intel's newest CPU COOL! - ASUS ROG Ryujin II AIO Cooler
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,818 words · ~9 min read
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(upbeat music) - This is ASUS' top tier cooler and it's huge and expensive
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and I wanna to see what's inside and I hope it performs,
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and it should, it's got three Noctua iPPC fans.
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It's got another fan on top of the cooler,
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for like bonus cooling, and a three and a half inch screen,
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if that's what you're into. I don't think it can play Doom though, so negative points for that.
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But, hopefully it should do pretty well, and we're gonna find out
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on a huge test bench I have over here.
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Let's see what's inside. Oh! (upbeat music)
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Okay, well, classic ROG. It is well presented and well packed.
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Got clearly the cooler right here.
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Looks to be an inch thick. It's 360 millimeters.
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There is a 360 mil and a 240 mil version of this.
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It is very crinkly, so I'm gonna take off these bags. (crinkling)
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Ooh! It's not particularly long,
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but there's the big ol' screen there. Got pre-applied thermal paste, nice.
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And under this screen is where that bonus fan is.
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I hope I can take that off and take a look. Let's see what else is in the box first.
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Oh, comes with a fan hub. Yeet. (thudding)
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Cooler installation guide. Stickers!
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Love stickers, just, well, bigger stickers.
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Ah, my favorite thing in the world is in here. (crinkling) Wait for it.
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VHB. The answer to all life's problems.
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Stick anything to anything, as long as it's not like gas.
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Ah, ooh, these are nice.
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These are our Noctua fans. Now if you're paying this much money for a cooler,
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you better get the best of the best when it comes to fans. So these are 2000 RPM 120 mil Noctua iPPC fans.
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And it's just top tier. And they're black.
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Yeah, I remember Linus doing a video where he tested these underwater.
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These are like 30 bucks a piece. So like, here you go.
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90 bucks worth of fans. So the MSRP on the 360 millimeter version is $310.
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And that's a lot of money. But it gets worse, right now on Newegg,
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these are selling for $550. I don't know why, just don't pay that much money for this.
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But when you add up the cost of all these parts, it kinda makes sense.
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So we have 90 bucks worth of fans here. I mean, what's a rad this big cost, Jono?
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Like $80, $90 bucks? Something along those lines.
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You got the screen, which you can't really just integrate yourself or do it this well anyway.
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You got the fan on top of an Asetek seventh gen pump.
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(clicking) And all the mounting hardware that you could dream of.
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And you don't have to buy fittings or any of that jazz, it's just sealed, it's easy.
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You know, what's your time worth too, right? If you're gonna spend four hours configuring a custom loop
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and that's on the light side, you know, if you price yourself really low at 15 bucks,
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call that another 60 bucks. So, there is a value proposition here
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for simplicity, and a screen.
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Ah, so it looks like the standard bracket
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that comes mounted on here won't fit 'cause the socket is bigger.
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So we'll have to twist, is it a lock on, how does this work?
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Get, there we go. Boop, that comes off.
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And I gotta be careful not to get thermal paste all over my shiny new reflective shirt from LTTstore.com.
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Let's get to putting this thing on, shall we? I got to take off the the tried and true D15S.
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Anthony already benchmarked it for me, so I know what sort of performance to expect
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out of a top tier air cooler. We'll see how this water cooler stands up.
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Now, we're removing SecuFirm2, which is already the best in the industry, in my opinion.
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And we'll see how this mounting system works, and how easy it is comparatively.
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The cooler has Noctua fans but the mounting hardware is not SecuFirm2.
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I would buy it immediately if it was, give it to everyone.
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We're tired, we're sick and tired of bad mounting systems.
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(somber music) (rattling)
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ASMR. (rattling) I should have probably read the instructions here.
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I'm just gonna put a couple headers in here
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so I don't lose this, and then I'm going to double check the instructions.
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So I haven't used the mounting system on one of these open bench tables for an AIO,
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so we're gonna figure out how that works. So this board has huge VRMs, fine,
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but like I can't get a screwdriver in there
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to drive the Phillips head, let alone turn the darn thing.
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(calm music) It's not great.
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This is not SecuFirm. Anything less than SecuFirm
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is not great in my opinion. The struggle bus is here and I am all aboard.
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Okay, Jono grabbed me some tweezers.
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Not tweezers, pliers. (calm music) Okay, well, that's as much mounting pressure
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as we're gonna get today anyway. Oh! (cameraman laughing)
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Interesting, okay! - [David] Now we know. - Well, now we know, there's there's that bonus fan,
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and that would have changed, what, is that in the manual?
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Yeah, it doesn't say anything about that. That that pops off.
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- [Jono] Would that solve a million problems? - Yes, absolutely, I can see the screws now.
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(David laughing) It's not funny.
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Okay, no your instructions are useless. But inside here, this is pretty cool.
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Big ol' ribbon cable, so there's gonna be a graphics driver on here somewhere.
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This ribbon cable will feed the display.
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Got some pins that rest in these holes. So this is what's gonna cool all these VRMs,
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so we're gonna get airflow down through and around out to around these Heatsink fans,
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and it'll help move heat away from the VRM. So, in theory, that'll be handy.
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These are PWM fans, so they're all individually controllable, I think.
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Not bad. Oh, there comes everything else. That's a big display, like three and a half inches
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is not a tiny display to have on top of your USB.
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And we can finally hit the power button.
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And watch these beautiful Noctuas spin up, I'm gonna turn them towards you
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- And we're back. Power on, whoa!
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It's not that bad. Those fans are pushing some air, though.
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Okay, anyway, so add Idle CPU package
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is sitting at 27 degrees, like that's low,
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that's where I'd expect it to be. Okay, we got Armoury Crate installed,
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we have Blender ready to go on a Gooseberry Benchmark, we've upped the samples to 1200 from 600.
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Should run for about 10 minutes, and we're monitoring this CPU package
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and core max temperature. Let's hit F12, boop.
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Renders. Okay, big spike up to 60.
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And we're down to 41, so we should hear the fans start to ramp up here.
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So with the D15S, after 10 minutes, our hottest core was at 98 C.
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The CPU package was at 97. Equilibrium temp is 92 to 93.
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So we're at 69, nice.
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Let's see how long it takes to actually like hit a good equilibrium.
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This might take a little while. CPUs pulling 205 watts.
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So I mean, it's working. I don't run Gooseberry very often,
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so I don't know this fast or slow, but regardless,
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we're hitting it with 205 Watts, and it's sitting at 69 degrees.
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Nice. This is wrong. CPU core zero, like all these cores are at 4.90.
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Wait, there's our efficiency core is 3.7.
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Like it's just sitting at 67 degrees. So I feel pretty confident saying
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that this cooler's doing its job. It's quiet, it's expensive, but it does its job.
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Inside a case, it would be a different story, so we do need to acknowledge that if this was in a case,
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it would perform way differently, you know, call it five, 10 degrees, and then you still at 70 degrees,
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which is fine, there's like headroom for overclocking there.
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Oh, I want to check the VRM temperatures. Yeah, VRM temperatures, like 45 degrees right now.
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Nothing, I'm gonna say it, this is a good cooler.
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It's ASUS, like, I'm not that surprised, you know, but it is expensive,
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but the time you save with it is probably worth it, and you got a big screen on it.
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Ooh, should we try to play with the screen? Is that the last thing we do? Yeah, okay.
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So we can play around with the screen. We're just gonna use the three built in graphics
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unless Jono, did you get one for me? Okay, we didn't anyway, but it updates rather quickly.
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And boop, there's number one.
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And number two.
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And retro wave, my favorite. Yeah, so like the screen works.
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It's bright, it looks good. I mean, you can put whatever jiff or GIF,
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whatever you prefer to say it on it, and it performed really well. So if this 360 will fit in your case, go for it.
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If it doesn't, use the 240. And if you can afford it that is too.
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I mean, an AERCO is obviously going to be cheaper, but this is well, chilly, it works.
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