Classic Unboxing - Swiftech Apogee XL CPU and Komodo NV LE GPU Water Blocks
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,099 words · ~5 min read
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System. Click now to learn more. This is a momentous occasion. We actually
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haven't done an unboxing in this calendar year, but this is it. This
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will be a dual unboxing, special edition unboxing to promote an extremely
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exciting series of videos that we have coming over the next little while. Our
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whole room liquid cooling project, which you can actually see we are in the
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middle of implementing. So, we've got hardware here. We've got Luke modding
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cases out on the porch. Uh we've got hardware for five rigs all over the
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floor over in the uh Techquickie set.
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So, um, yeah, let's unbox the main event
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as far as the actual water cooling systems go. So, yes, we are going to
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have radiators hanging off the roof of the house. And, uh, that's how we're
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going to take care of actually dissipating the heat, but you have to connect something to the six core
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extreme editions, or in the case of Edel's rig, a 12 core Zeon. You have to
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connect something to the CPUs and something to the GTX Titans to remove
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the heat from the cards and put it into the water. So, that will be handled by
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on the CPUs an Apple G XL CPU block. So,
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let's go ahead and have the unboxing experience, shall we? First thing inside
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is an installation guide, which is pretty typical of SwiftTech. They
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provide it in a bunch of different languages. They're honestly their
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mounting system is pretty self-explanatory, so you probably won't need it. But it does include some
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important steps like removing the plastic film and how to install thermal
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compound. No, you do not spread it out. Even cooling experts agree. There you
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go. You install it a little something like that. All right, then. Ah, yes,
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color plates. So, you actually get a variety of different color plates. And
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because we're building five systems at once, we are going with blue because
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that's what's on by default. But you can swap it out and you can put in red,
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white, or green. Christmy.
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All right, next layer. We get some Swifttech branded thermal compound
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Timmate. All right, Tim, good eye and all that
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noise. And then you also get some mounting hardware. So, this is for AMD.
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And you'll actually swap out the stock.
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That's funny. They individually package
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each of the AMD pieces, which I guess
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shouldn't surprise me because they also individually package their compression
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fittings. There's our pile of them for the for the setup here. L All right, so
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we've got our AMD mounting hardware. Then we've got the pre-installed
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Intel mounting hardware for LG 1155, 1156, or 1150 there. So, there's a back
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plate and then spring-loaded screws on here with these uh with these nuts
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keeping them from uh you know, just spinning infinitely. You can swap that
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out with LGA 2011 mounting hardware,
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which is what we're going to need to do because that's what our rigs are going to be using. So, those are the blocks,
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and I actually have one. So, this is Edel's machine with the 12
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core Xeon already installed. We are going to install compression fittings on
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here and then it's got 64 gigs of Kingston HyperX memory on an ASUS X79
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Deluxe. And this lights up blue and it's going to look all sweet and it's going
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to be awesome. All right, so next ah yes, this is the big kahuna. This is the
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Komodo NVLE, which normally stands for light edition
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or loser edition or lame edition, but in this case it stands for luxury edition.
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So same thing, you get some pretty rudimentary instructions. Put the screws
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in the thing. Use the back plate for the other things. Okay. It's compatible with
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780 780 Ti and Titans as well as Titan
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Blacks depending on the PCB being used. And man, is that a beautiful water
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block. Look at this thing. So, you've got an acetal as well as brushed metal
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and acrylic construction. You've got uh this one also has replaceable uh light.
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Here we go. Here's the replacement ones. It also has replaceable lighting. So, it
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comes with blue and red, and I believe they have green pre-installed, although
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don't quote me on that. You get an Allen key for going ahead and installing uh
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things and stuff, taking it apart and all that noise. On the back, a Yeah,
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that nickelplated. Everything is good. You're going to want
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to take these off before installing the block. And uh then it also comes with a
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nice thick, one of the thickest I've ever seen, actually. This comes with
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some more thermal compound. Comes with stop fittings as well as all the screws
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you need. I'm surprised those aren't individually packaged. Like one bag per
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screw. All right. And then it comes with one of the thickest back plates that
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I've ever seen that has a nice brushed aluminum finish to it. Very nice. And
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then they've also they've done it so that uh the Swifttech logo will be right
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side up once the card is actually installed in your system. I can show you a finished one. So this one I have
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already assembled and installed the compression fittings on. So that's what
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it's going to look like on the Titan Black Editions that we are using for
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this whole setup. So that's what it'll
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look like actually installed in the system. Gorgeous. All right, so thanks
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