Swiftech H220-X All-in-one Liquid Cooler
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,666 words · ~8 min read
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the truly remarkable thing about the h220x all-on-one liquid cooler from
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swifttech is the value I mean okay yes it's one of the most expensive
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all-in-one water coolers on the market but the stuff that you get for your
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money is
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phenomenal the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now
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learn more so let's things off with a physical tour and while we're going
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through this I'm going to have a running total of what it would cost us to build
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something comparable as like a a DIY
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liquid cooling kit that you piece together with aftermarket parts so the
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included CPU block is the Apple gxl which features Flagship class
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performance swappable color plates to match your system and Swift Tech's
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fantastic highquality mounting hardware connecting it to the rest of the unit is
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a pair of metal swivel fittings and some black kink consistent 38 in tubing
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that's secured to the fittings with some really nice metal hose clamps onto the
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rest of the unit we find a significant departure from the traditional AO
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approach instead of putting the pump on top of the block swifttech has
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integrated their new mcp30 pump and a basic windowed acrylic Reservoir
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directly onto the copper and brass dual 120 mm radiator that will mount in the
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top of your case on the radiator we discover two of Swift's Helix pwm fans
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that are pre-installed a nice touch in a push orientation that will require no
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adjustment if you want to draw air into the top of your chassis but can be
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reversed in a couple of minutes if you prefer to use internal case air to cool
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your water loop and exhaust it in terms of accessory swifttech includes thermal
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compound all the mounting hardware that you need for LGA 1155 1150 1156 all that
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good stuff extra hardware for Intel LGA 2011 and AMD sockets and finally and
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this is a really great inclusion an a port pwm fan splitter that uses SATA for
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power and the CPU header on the motherboard to control speed so your
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whole system the pump is also pwm compliant by the way can have
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performance and noise levels adjusted dynamically according to CPU temps
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depending on how you set up the fan profile on your motherboard very very
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cool and very intuitive all right so
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some of these things were probably a little bit Overkill and actually aren't
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needed with competing allinone liquid cooler design because of how tightly
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integrated they are but the point here is not the base functionality but rather
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the fact that you're getting expandability and truly Enthusiast class
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water cooling gear in an aiio I mean most all-in-one water coolers are sealed
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because they need to be sealed the pumps wouldn't work with more components in
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the loop or a larger radiator or the tubing is permanently attached to
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plastic barbs to save the cost of the fittings and clamps not the case here
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you can install it out of the box more easily than most air coolers let alone
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other all-in ones since the that LGA 1150 hold down in back plate as well as
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the radiator fans are all pre-installed just screw the fans into the top of your
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case with the fan screws apply thermal compound and screw the block onto the
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back plate or you can tear it apart and
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go to town adding more blocks radiators and what have you because the components
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particularly the pump have performance to spare but of course all of this is a
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complete moot point if it doesn't perform the way Swift teack promises so
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we're going to throw it in our test system and let you guys know how it does
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out of the box first off I want to talk about their awesome little included fan
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controller it has to be plugged into the CPU header and it will only read the RPM
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of the first fan plugged in that's the fan that's plugged into the uh the Red
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Cap slot on the pwm fan controller it will read the RPM of that fan and then
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distribute power to each different header depending on how that fan is
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being read so if you want it giving that fan 100% power all the fans on the
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controller will get 100% power in terms of Acoustics it's actually better than I
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thought I was pretty worried about the pump being mounted on the radiator as I
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thought you would hear a lot of vibration from that but especially with
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the Noctua fans installed with their little sound dampening brown rubber
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grommets on them there wasn't really that big of a deal and even with the
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swifttech fans installed as long as you install it tightly you won't really
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notice the pump is much better than I believe it was on the original h220 and
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it doesn't make as much of an impact in terms of noise in terms of aesthetic I
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think it looks nice but due to the looks nice and extra features you may have
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problems mounting it in certain situations I wouldn't worry too much
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about stuff like motherboard compatibility because the hang-off on
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the radiator is going to be far away from your motherboard but I would worry
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about mounting it pretty much anywhere other than the very top of your case
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this probably won't be that big of a deal for you because you're probably going to mount it in the top of your
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case anyways so this probably doesn't matter
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but if you're going to do something like lonus did in the 4K ultimate build guide
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and mount it in say the front it could be a problem as you're probably not
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going to be able to mount it there in most cases the tubing will also come to
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play with compatibility again this isn't nearly as long as the tubing on the
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original 220 but I kind of like that the original 220 had some pretty ridiculous
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tubing length and this again probably will cause issues if you try to mount it
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anywhere other than the top of the case but as I see most of you are probably
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going to be installing it in the top of the case it's probably not a huge deal
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and I do really like the thickness and flexibility of the tubing at the same
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time in terms of performance we're running our standard test bench a 4820k
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with 1.3 volts applied running at 4.0 GHz and a 6870 reference card which will
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both be running Prime 95 and combuster respectively also I swapped out the
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standard fans for Noctua uh NF f12's as
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we normally do and it performed great I was a little bit worried due to the pump
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and the the like flow and stuff conflicting with air flow on the
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radiator but it didn't seem to affect it that much as the only cooler that beat
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it was a 2x1 40mm cooler which should
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have if this beat a 2x1 40 mm cooler I
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probably would have redone my testing a few more times so I happy to see it did
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really well and happy to see it is the successor of the original 220 it's good
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to see all these high performance parts in one big package all right guys thanks
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