 This video is brought to you by CM Storm, preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of Curse Gaming. Visit www.coolermaster-usa.com slash team underscore curse for more details. So we made a mistake a little while ago. We had some hiccups in our testing method- Well, no, our methodology was fine. We just had some hiccups in our testing of SwiftX H220. Now, it turned out there were a number of different issues, including us using fan controller inline modules that weren't compatible with these particular PWM fans, as well as the fact that our unit was an engineering sample unit that had a bit of a problem with it. So we have been working with SwiftX on what the heck happened, where our test unit performed terribly with SwiftX own Helix fans, and performed admirably with third-party fans like the Noctua NFF12s. And we committed to SwiftX as well as to our viewers to redo our testing much more in depth and take a very close look at how the H220 performs on our test bench with all the variables being eliminated as best as possible. So I'm going to start with a look at our cooling test bench. We use a closed platform. We do not use an open test bench for cooler reviews anymore because this is more of a real world scenario. All right, so we use a Corsair C70 case which represents an above average case for cooling. Hey, there's my screwdriver. I was looking for that. Dang it, slick. All right, I guess I'll leave it here. But anyway, okay, we use a real system inside with a GTX 580 that runs FurMark during our load test so that we create heat inside the system so that it's more like a real system would be if you're actually playing a game. We have two fans here that run at 1100 or rather at... crap, I forget the RPM, but they run at 7 volts. We have a fan back here that runs at 1100 RPM and is held on with rubber washers. So that's why it just popped off just now. 16 gigs of RAM. We mount our coolers in the top or the back depending on what kind of coolers they are. You can see we've got SwiftX PWM splitter over here making sure we're running everything properly. 1000 watt power supply, 32 gig SSD because that's all you really need. We collect our ambient temperatures here at the front of the case and then we log them with this and then we correct all of our results to as if the room was 20 degrees Celsius. The last thing that's of note is when we're not running fans at full speed, we're using this variable resistor in here in order to run our fans at 1100 RPM. We can dial them into exactly 1100 RPM using software RPM monitoring and this guy right here. However, it should be noted running PWM fans such as the Helix ones, there could be adverse effects to the longevity of the fan running it using voltage control. So we're only doing that for the sake of eliminating variables, not because we actually recommend running them this way. All right, so back to the H220. We did idle and load comparison. So idle is at idle giving it time to equalize and load is at load giving it, you know, 15-20 minutes to equalize and normalize the temperature. We ran Corsair SP series fans. So those are on there right now. That was the last run we did, but this is what they look like. Okay, they're quiet edition fans, not performance edition. We ran Swift-Tex own Helix fans in both push and pull per Swift-Tex request because they ship them in pull configuration, but we test all of our cool, or they ship them in push rather, but we test all of our configurations in pull because I believe it's better because it's easier to clean. Whereas when you have them in push, the dust all accumulates under the fan, so you have to take the fans off in order to clean them. What we discovered is they performed exactly the same in push and pull, which is what I said was going to happen. So we didn't even need a different data point on the graph to show those two results, but they were exactly the same. So consider these pull results or push results, whatever you want. We ran Silverstone's new AP123 air penetrator fans with the three different blade sizes that should make them more optimized for quiet. Hey, how were they in terms of acoustics? Super quiet? Awesome. Okay, good. I mean, I guess I kind of expected that. And we ran our golden standard, or well, our brown and tan standard, I suppose, Noctua NFF12s, which are the ones that we use as our standardized test bench for testing fans because we believe that they're awesome. And as you're about to see, they're just freaking awesome. So what we saw the first time around was that at load, our NFF12s were outperforming the Helix fans by like 10 or 15 degrees or something like that. We looked at it. We were like, this is impossible. We retested it and we got the same results. So we published it. But we were wrong. We made some mistakes. So these are the proper results. We've tested our fans at full speed as well as at 1100 RPM. And we've included some other coolers for reference as well. So the best performing solution was the H220 with NFF12s running at full speed. Bear in mind, these only run at around 1400, 1450 RPM at full speed. Whereas the Helix is running at around 1800 RPM at full speed. So the fact that they outperform the Helix is very admirable. The Helix is, however, did pull ahead of the air penetrators as well as Corsair's static pressure fans. But those ones also run at lower RPM than the Helix fans. So the Helix fans have a very wide range of RPM in part due to their PWM design, as well as due to the design of the motor overall, which is able to start up at very low speeds as well as run at very high speeds, which is a great flexible option. It's good to have. All right. So at full speed, it goes 54.5 NFF12, 56 H220, 58.5 for both of the other fan solutions. Then we took all the fans and we put them on a level playing field, 1100 RPM only. The NFF12s won by almost three degrees, about two and a half degrees, which is outstanding, considering that they're running at the same RPM as everything else. They're very pressure optimized. They perform incredibly well up against a radiator in addition to being very quiet. So we're going to be continuing to use the NFF12s as our brown and tan standard, well, golden standard fan. Next up was Corsair's static pressure fans, which were tied with the air penetrators again at a lower RPM. So those we can consider very equivalent designs. And then bringing up the rear was the Helix fans, but they were only one degree away from the static pressure and air penetrator fans. And we can consider about one degree to be not that significant of a difference in terms of performance. However, the three two and a half degree victory is a clear victory for the NFF12s. After that, we finally find other coolers. So get this, you guys, the H220, regardless of which fans you put on it, performs better than anything else because the water 2.0 Extreme from Thermaltake is our next best performing cooler, three degrees behind the worst configuration for the H220. Then there's the H110, which is another almost a degree behind that. Then there's the H100i, which is another almost degree behind that. And then we get down to the single 120 millimeter coolers like the H80i, or sorry, that was another four degrees or five degrees behind the H110. And then the H80i brings up the rear at like 95 degrees. So not all liquid coolers are built equal, not all fans are built equal, but it's very clear to me that no matter how in equally built your fan is, the H220 is the best pre-filled liquid cooler on the market, almost no matter how hard you try to cripple it. I mean, we didn't cripple it by using the included fans, but we didn't give it a huge advantage like we do with every other cooler by putting some of the best fans on the market on them. Thank you for checking out this corrected edition of Linus Tech Tips on the, you know, I haven't even held up the product at all. So here's the box is what it's actually going to look like if you buy it. See, we have a retail sample now of the H220 from Swift Tech. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos. And if you haven't seen it already, we did a build blog a little while ago in a Silverstone TJ-10 where we used the H220. We expanded it. We added a GPU block as well as another radiator. And that is the other advantage of the H220. So three-year warranty, expandability, and the best performance on the market. In spite of the fact that it's using a dual 120 millimeter fan radiator instead of a dual 140 millimeter fan radiator like the H110, which still gets outperformed by at least four degrees. And with the same fans, it looks like H110 is about eight degrees. Wow.