Mushkin Copperhead Liquid Water Cooled DDR3 Memory RAM Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have a product to unbox that is
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so cool that it comes in three
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boxes at the same time so this is actually I guess you
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could probably do it in only two boxes but this is the mushkin copper head
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memory kit and so I'm going to show you all the things that it comes with keep
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your eyes on the boxes which one has what inside given that you don't know
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what's inside any of them yet it's going to be very difficult to pick
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out which one has the sexy memory
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modules and which one has the water block that goes with them so the first
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thing I'm going to show you guys is what I have here these are I actually
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specifically asked for very basic memory
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um but most of the copperhead SKS are going to be very very high-end memory um
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in you know PC uh DDR3 2133 for example
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these are only DDR3 uh 1600 kits okay so
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these are 2x4 gig kits two of them for a
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total of 16 gigs of RAM and this is going to be for my ultimate uh
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extreme uh build guide okay so I'm going to have 16 gigs of mushin DDR3 now the
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reason that I ended up going with the DDR 3600 versus like a 213 33 or an 1866
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higher spec like that is that I opted for this machine to go with higher
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capacity of RAM so if I had decided to go for a 2x4 so just 8 gigs of total RAM
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then being able to get it to run at high frequencies is much easier whereas if I
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go for lower frequencies then I can bulk up and I can throw in four sticks of
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memory without worrying about any stability problems now here is where the
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magic happens this I'm going to be careful not to
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touch the top as much as possible is the mushin enhanced Copperhead water block
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so what you do is you take these two pieces right here which are spacers that
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have O-rings on them you put those spacers here okay you screw your uh your
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Barbed um your threaded Barb into the top of it and you can actually install
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any standard G1 qu fittings that you want onto the copperhead water block but
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wait there's more you take the copper head water block
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all right so we got our screws here position it over top of a copperhead
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memory module and you can actually screw in any number of copperhead modules
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whether it is three or four I think four is the max and you screw that in you put
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some thermal interface material in between the top of the copperhead module
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here which you can see is flat and the
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bottom of the water block itself and
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that is how you cool your memory using water cooling so what this allows you to
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do is it allows you to install these modules and then the block on top of it
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no matter what the spacing of your RAM slots is and it allows you to install
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three three sticks in triple Channel or
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up to four sticks in dual channel so stay tuned for my ultimate build guide
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actually if you come over here you can see my in progress Ultimate machine
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which will actually be a lot better when
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I'm done with it so don't look too closely at it right
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now and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the mushkin copper head
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liquid cooled memory kit don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for more
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