Thermaltake Water Extreme 2.0 Video Review Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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today's video is our video review of the water 2.0 extreme now I want to spend a
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little bit of time explaining our testing methodology before we go any
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further all coolers we test are inside a
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closed case this is a Corsair C70 we
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also collect our ambient temperatures at the time of monitoring any CPU
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temperatures and then we offset and correct everything to a 20° celsus room
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temperature we never use the fans included with a cooler because the way
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we see it there's a couple different ways to evaluate these coolers number
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one is with the included kit which is what everybody else is doing and it
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gives you a certain amount of information but not necessarily the
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story about the cooler itself because it
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throws an additional variable in so you've got sound as a variable no uh uh
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pressure as a variable CFM as a variable and the cooler itself as a variable too
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many variables you can't tell what's going on so we have standardized our
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test bench on only NF F12 and NF A14 flx
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fans from nocta these are pressure optimized fans and we'll actually give
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every cooler available able to us the opportunity to perform its best so the
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water 2.0 uses Quin tubing it uses an ASAC platform so you've probably seen
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this mounting hardware before but what makes this guy unique is it's thicker
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than normal radiator so you can see that most radiators are actually about the
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same thickness as a fan whereas this one adds probably another 20 30% to the
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thickness that contributes a real world performance difference to the water 2.0
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compared to its lower performing dual 120 mm Brethren now how much of a
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difference you might ask uh well here let's let's oh yeah the system right so
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the system inside here is a 3930k that
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is overclocked so it's a six core processor we keep a GTX 580 in here and
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we run firmar when we're doing our load tests just to let you or combuster
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rather there kind of the same thing but we run combuster just so that the system
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is generating what would be sort of an unrealistically high but but an extreme
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use case scenario load and then we always use our single 120 mm exhaust and
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the two 120 mm intakes that are right here stock on the
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C70 we have created this test bench
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because it represents what we consider to be an optimally cooled and still very
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quiet gaming system well that's what I think anyway slick thinks it could be
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louder but I don't so whatever um all
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right so let's move on to Performance we take idle performance at the desktop we
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let it heat up and Achieve equilibrium then we take load performance with prime
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95 small fft running must be 12 yeah 12
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threads on that CPU and combuster running in the background so here we go
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water 2.0 extreme so here are these are the two columns that you guys want to
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look at right here and you can check the uh the link to this graph in the video
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description but the water 2.0 extreme beats out the h110 even so remember guys
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cooling is all about surface area however it should be noted this is sort
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of within margin of error like we can safely call that pretty much a tie but
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the h110 and the water 2.0 extreme come out ahead of everything else our Kraken
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we think there must be something wrong with it so we're going to try and get
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our hands on another one because it should perform pretty much the same as
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the h110 okay so why does the water 2.0
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extreme perform the same as a 2X 140 mm
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cooler which has more surface area because of the larger fan simple answer
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because we're using pressure optimized fans which we do for all of our test
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benches that means that adding thickness to the radiator doesn't hurt as much as
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it does if you're not using pressure optimized fans so that means adding an
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extra 20 to 30% of thickness gives us
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the same effect as adding an extra 20 to
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30% of wideness so there you go thank
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you for checking out our overview of the thermal take water 2.0 extreme don't
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