Cooler Master Glacer 240L CPU Water Cooler
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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welcome to an unboxing of a product that I have only good things to say about
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this is the glacier 240l liquid CPU
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Cooler from Cooler Master it was designed in collaboration with my
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favorite DIY liquid cooling brand swifttech
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and you're going to see an awful lot of swifttech DNA in this particular product
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so first is some eco-friendly packaging with some foam that I actually don't
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remember where it went I accidentally took it out last time we were trying to do the unboxing but I screwed up that
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shot next up we find the installation guide then we find the fully assembled
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guys this is a pre-filled readyto rock
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liquid cooling unit unit and then some
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assembly Hardware so you've got some
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Cooler Master thermal paste you've got some mounting brackets that are made out
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of nice solid steel extremely robust and you've got Swift techs I believe
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excellent mounting hardware while there are a lot of pieces swifttech does a
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great job of ensuring that the mounting clamping Force the pressure on the CPU
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socket is correct and within the manufacturer's specifications next up we
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find the radiator and fan unit itself
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which is wrapped in a protective bubble wrap to keep it from being damaged in
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Transit we'll start with the radiator Reservoir combo unit so on the top here
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we find a fill Port plug which you can keep closed if you're not planning to
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expand the system or swap out the coolant in it for whatever reason and
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then we find the first Cooler Master
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addition to the product these are their blade master fans designed for static
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pressure as opposed to free flowing air flow which is great because they're on a
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nice fat radiator we also find an
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extremely heavy and robustly built radiator with full Copper Brass
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construction no aluminum even on the fins what that means is Simply Better
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performance per sort of surface area
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compared to other products on the market and compatibility really hasn't been
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affected much by all of this robustness although you will need a little bit more
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space than you do for your typical radiator because the tank on the one end
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is a little bit longer than normal to account for that Reservoir and that fill
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port and then on the other side you have your typical clearance required for
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fittings speaking of fittings Cooler Master includes 38in elbow fittings that
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can actually fully rotated so if you wanted to mount the unit fully the other
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way you could definitely go ahead and do that and they can actually have the nice
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little custom clamps that are holding the tubing on removed so you can swap
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out different tubing should you see fit whether it's for aesthetic reasons or
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whether you want to expand the system to add a graphics card water block or
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something like that down the line it's fully expandable and customizable and
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you can even add more radiators and all kinds of cool crazy stuff like that one
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of the reasons that this one will actually perform a little bit better than Swift Tech's own version of it is
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the fact that Cooler Master has gone with a higher RPM on the pump so that
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leads us to the pump and CPU block combo
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unit here which has a nice little Cooler Master badge on the top of it here with
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brushed accents so the most of the magic is actually hidden away here so that
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pump I talked about before is built into the CPU block unit which is capped with
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an excellent again swifttech designed microf fin water block that has a copper
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base plate that is finished to a beautiful beautiful shine although it
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comes with some tape that we're going to leave on until we do our performance
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testing just to make sure that it is as clean as possible make sure you don't
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install it with that please there's also one mounting bracket pre-installed so if
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you're going to be installing on most Intel sockets you're going to be ready to rock just by unscrew the four screws
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that are pre-installed on it throwing that back plate on and screwing it onto
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your motherboard socket then that leads us to the fittings that are built into
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the CPU block unit which are again rotating fittings giving you a lot of
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flexibility in terms of where you mount your radiator and where you mount your tubing as well as those same removable
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clamps so you can swap out the tubing for something else should you see fit
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the last thing here that I want to show you guys is how the power works so there
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is a single lead for RPM monitoring as
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well as pwm control that goes to your CP U header and then power for the pump
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itself is provided by a SATA power connector I'm not 100% sure how I feel
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about that because normally I wouldn't route my SATA cables towards my CPU
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socket they would go towards the drive cages but the flip side of that is if
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you have an optical drive you could carry another part of the harness over
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there or you could just use a MOX TOA adapter which are inexpensive
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practically free and then you can run whatever cable you want up there so it's a quite a flexible implementation if
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nothing else in our testing rig we have a 3930k overclocked at 4.0 GHz running a
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voltage of 1.3 volts to kick some more heat out then we also have a GTX 580
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running a little bit overclocked and Running After Burner so it generates
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some heat too and the CPU is crunching numbers on Prime 95 small ffts we tested
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the cooler with its stock fans and Noctua nf12 the reason why we do this is
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we test all of our coolers with Noctua nf12 so that we have another constant
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and we're not basing the coolers on the fans necessarily but we also test it
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with stock so you can see how it'll perform right out of the box performance
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was pretty straightforward and expected it slotted basically right beside its
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brother the h220 on both tests idle and
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load we noticed with it stock fans that it was slightly worse than the n2s but
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still very solid performance on both of the tests one additional observation
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that I had was while this pump is 500 RPM faster I don't know if I would run
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it at that unless you're doing something like adding in a few graphics cards that
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pump is quite loud and I turned it down pretty much as much as much as I could
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when you're looking into water coolers in the comments below are you looking more for an all-in-one
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that you never have to change and would never be able to change easily or are
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you looking more into something like this cooler the 240l where you can add
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graphics cards or something to it like the video if you like the video dislike
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