Swiftech APOGEE HD Gold Plated Limited Edition Water Block Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,665 words · ~8 min read
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now this is an unboxing of something that I'm very excited about I haven't
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bought myself any cool new toys that are this cool in quite a while so I'm going
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to be doing a small upgrade on my machine I'm not going to be changing my
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graphics card I'm sticking with my GTX 480 I'm actually going to be downgrading
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my RAM cuz right now I have 24 gigs um
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on an MSI Big Bang X power with a oh M I
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can't even remember core i7 980x and U so I'm going to be taking out
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two dims and going with a quad Channel 16 gig setup with a new 2011 processor
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and so I figured hey if I'm going to go 2011 maybe it's time to upgrade the old
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water block oh swifttech released the coolest water block ever so today I will
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be unboxing the swifttech apple G HD
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limited edition 24K goldplated water
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block these are individually numbered
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and very limited addition they only produced a few hundred of them that's
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apparently my number so let's go ahead
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and get this baby opened up so here's the CPU it's going to be working on so
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it comes with first and foremost an installation guide which is by the
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appearances okay in color sort of certain parts are in color so they show
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you how to put the thing on the thing and line it up with the other thing and put the goop on the other thing okay
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next we've got a back plate of some sort
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so this might be 2011 it might be 1366
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not 100% sure what it is um oh yeah mounting hardware that's included here
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this is a good way to know for sure so it includes uh 1155 and 56 1366 and 2011
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you can request free upon demand uh
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775 and AMD hold down plate and hardware
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for any of their given sockets so there you go so it only includes uh of the
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more modern Intel sockets okay here we've got the uh just
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general General oh no this is the 2011
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kit okay so cool so what's in here so we've got uh four big thumb hold down
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screws I'm going to put these on here so you guys can see them a little bit better swifttech does such a good job of
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their mounting hardware they're true Pioneers when it comes to mounting
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hardware and um hold on I'm just going to make sure I
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don't lose these uh these washers so there's a couple washers here to hold
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them in place and I really hope I haven't lost one although it would
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appear that I may have whatever I'll
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find it I'll find it oh there it is okay good okay so I got four of those I got
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four of those really sharp just nice big thumb screws and then there there's
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Phillips heads on the inside if you do want to do that these Springs so this is
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one of the things that swifttech is so good at they designed their mounting
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hardware to apply the exact right amount of pressure no more no less and there
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were one of the first ones to well not really one of the first ones but they're
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one of the only ones in the water cooling space that really pay attention
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to the actual spec for a given socket and then adhere to it and then uh we've
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got a couple of uh clamps so those are your Worm Drive clamps for your for your
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Barb so you want to you know go ahead use a slot screwdriver to tighten those
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up I don't like these I prefer compression fittings uh these are the
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compressions I'll be using with this block we got some included thermal goop
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some pk1 really they're using they're bundling PR Tech thermal goop
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fascinating pk1 as far as my understanding goes is basically pretty
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much the same thing as mx1 although I could be wrong about that um either way
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I've heard that pk1 is very good I mean if they're going to compare it to mx1
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then yeah it's pretty good anyway so um
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here we go uh socket 2011 installation kit how to use so you take off these you
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put on those you follow the instructions and nobody gets hurt okay
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now let's get to the water block itself
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which hold on needs some unveiling here we need like drum
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roll yes that's right dead sexy goldplated
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water block that I saw and simply had to have
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there's a limited edition with the engraved number on
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it so like I said they only did a few hundred of these so um I and one of my
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co-workers actually bought uh two of the
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first three that NCIX has sold one guy pre-ordered it so he got one right away
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and then uh when they arrived in the warehouse this afternoon uh I I ordered
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one up and I went down and uh I grabbed one cuz yeah these are like for sure the
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shizel so uh in terms of mounting options the uh Apple ghd actually has a
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couple of different choices so you can either use these guys as the inlet in
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the outlet or you can use these ones as the inlet in the outlet I'll be using
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these two since I'll be using compression fittings here I'm just going to take uh one of my compression
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fittings out and I'll show you guys I'll do a quick test fit here show you guys
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what it's going to look like with a big goldplated compression fitting so these
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are bits power unfortunately swifttech includes um goldplated Barb fittings I'm
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not much of a Barb fitting guy I really do prefer compressions so I'm uh going
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to go ahead and replace these and wow those are on pretty tight so you know
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what I'll be back in a sec sorry guys so here's a trick that I use whenever I
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have a delic delicate equipment is I'll take whatever tools I have and I'll put
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a cloth between them and uh what I'm
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applying them to so here's the Barb
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coming out of the block you can actually here you can have a look at the socket there so you can see the gold plating
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goes all the way into the block itself and you can actually see the innards of
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the Apple ghd so this is Swift Tech's latest Generation Um highest performance to
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date water block so let's go ahead and see how closely these gold platings
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match um the bits power one's a little bit more yellow but it should still look
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pretty tbling when I go
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ahead and throw that on
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there there we go so that should give
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you guys some idea how this is going to look once it's got a couple of
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compressions on it so I wouldn't I'd be remiss if I didn't uh give you sort of
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the obligatory reflecting shot to show you
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what a mirror it is here you can see my cat in it hey
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Rumble come here see can you see the cat
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look at that that's a water block yeah that's right okay so yeah there you guys
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here I'm actually just going to fingerprints when you buy something for
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the whole like and the whole point is that it's like super beautiful last
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thing you want to do is cover it in ugly fingerprints and get Scrat on it so you
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can see the gold plating goes here and the copper base starts here and uh then
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there's the hold down which can be replaced so that's uh black um what I
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imagine someone will probably do is they'll buy this Block they'll strip the
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paint off the hold down and they'll get it goldplated too so the whole thing will just like look like ah shiny and
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gold and ridiculous but
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um I think we're pretty much done here thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look at the Apple ghd so as I said before this is Swift Tech's new
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flagship block this is a goldplated version of it so this is about as high
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performing and about as low flow because that's really what they've been focusing
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on uh achieving since way back in the storm days uh when uh when impingement
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blocks were cool and then after that they went to the appoi so the pin Matrix
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uh high flow low restrictions type design so we've got
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uh yeah whatever I'm not going to say much more about it cool block looks
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amazing I am very much looking forward to getting it
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cooling this CPU which will go here and
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will be cooled and it will be awesome and it will be gold and yeah and don't
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forget to subscribe to L techtips for more unboxings reviews and other
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computer videos so my assistant here is giving me a hard time as some of you may
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or may not know I use blue tubing in my system and the comment was oh that's not
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going to look good with blue tubing and I said well are you sure because
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personally I think it's going to look great with blue tubing so I'll let you
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guys be the judge does it look good with blue tubing you tell me