 Welcome to Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013. Our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair, maker of quality PC components and peripherals. Our trusted storage partner is Seagate Technology, and our trusted networking partner is Linksys. Welcome to something very exciting here guys. We have Gabriel Chon, who is the President, CEO, whatever title he wants to give himself of Swift Tech. Now, normally when I do these videos, you guys know, I know a thing or two about water cooling, so I would normally do all the talking, but this guy makes everything I know look kind of stupid. So I'm gonna let him do most of the talking about their brand new product, in fact a few brand new products that, according to the conversation we've had and the demo Slick's already seen, is gonna just blow the doors off of the prefabbed water cooling market. Well, we're gonna try to, yes. What we have here is the H220 CPU liquid cooling system, and that product is, the intention of that product is to bridge the gap between all-in-one entry-level budget products, such as those made by Thermaltake, Antec, Corsair, and all of these guys, and the custom loop systems. What we are offering here is the ability, we offer a product that is pre-filled, entirely plug-and-play for novice builders, where they only have to, it only comes already pre-installed with the fans, and all they have to do is stick it up the top of the case and screw in the four screws for the CPU cooler, and they're essentially done. It comes... Let me jump in for a second. Guys, we've never seen this before. Rather than having you fuss around with the stupid fans and the screws, and they go through the case and the thing, and you've got to align it, it comes with the wires already kind of tied away for you, so the cable management is sort of done. The fans are pre-attached to the unit, so you actually don't have to bother with that, you just screw it into your case, and even this is pre-attached, so it's just a matter of undoing a couple screws and doing a couple screws back in. So, sorry. No problem. Now, the unit is plug-and-play, and we use, included with this unit is an 8-way PWM splitter. I'm sorry. Yeah, so you just connect your pump and your fans to this. This one goes to the CPU header on the motherboard, and this goes to the power supply, and now your motherboard sees the entire CPU cooler as just a regular air-cooled Intel stock cooler, and can manage it just the same way, a couple of, you know, a couple of settings in the motherboard, and now your system is entirely managed by the motherboard. Now guys, remember, something like an M cubed T balancer would have been required to have the level of control we're going to have over the number of fans we're going to have, because we're adding power from the power supply, we don't have to worry about the limitations of what the header is capable of providing. We're relying on the PSU for that, and because guys like ASUS are including fan expert in their AI suite, now you can take setting custom fan curves, which you always had a limitation. How many headers you have on the motherboard? Did they give you PWM? Did they give you 3-pin? Now you can do 8. You can just mount it with two screws, or if you really don't feel like it, you don't want to DIY this at all, you can just stick it to your case with tape, comes with beautiful sleeving on it, so you can see, you can hardly see the color of the wires behind that at all. Gabe, go ahead, take it away. No problem. The last thing, but most important thing in this static presentation here, is that pump. When I say we wanted to bridge the gap between all-in-one and custom cooling loops, we needed a pump, and we have, for the past three years, worked on that pump. We now manufacture that pump in our own factory, okay, and we've designed it from the ground up. That pump is 6 watts, okay, compare this for reference to the other all-in-one systems that have a pump rated at about 1.2 watts. So it is 6 times more powerful than other all-in-one systems, which means that we are capable of driving multiple devices in the loop for any custom loop, and we will show that later on during that presentation. Also, that pump, because we've spent so much time in developing it, has an excellent MTBF, which is the reliability, the measure of reliability. That pump is rated for 60,000 hours MTBF, whereas the MCP35X that we use in the Apogee drive, for example, is 50,000 hours. But notice something else, notice that the base of these two units is actually exactly the same. It is the same copper base, so you're going to get the same type of thermal performance from this product that you get from the MCP35X or from the Apogee drive too, which retails for over $110. So guys, something that I want to talk about a little bit here as well is the fact that, if you've ever watched any of my videos about Swift Tech products, I know we don't do too much on custom water cooling because it's kind of, well, it used to be kind of niche, I guess, here we are, is that their mounting mechanisms are second to none. They've always done a phenomenal job. I think even going back to, I'd say probably the last one that was somewhat difficult to mount would have been Apogee. Apogee was a little bit, that was a long time ago, with a lot of the later projects, I mean, even anything in the last four or five years. It's been down to a spec where there's tensions here that are calibrated specifically for the Intel specification. They always pay special attention to this when other water cooling manufacturers in ages past have been cheating by actually applying too much pressure and a bow to the base and kind of funny tricks like this. Swift Tech goes with the stock mount. It's always got a stopper. You see the way if I unscrew that, it actually goes right up against the back plate. You can never accidentally screw a Swift Tech block in too far if you have anything that they've manufactured in the last few years. So I think we can move on to the rest. I think the static presentation is done. You didn't show the fittings. These are awesome. What fittings? Oh, I forgot. Sorry. It's because for me now, I've taken them for granted. Well, we've installed, we've designed these products with swivel fittings so that it makes it absolutely very easy to install the unit into a case and to bend the tube. We also have very specific and sweet tubing that is very nice to work with. It is relatively soft, but it works without kinking. And so the fact that it's a little softer than usual allows, it's more comfortable to work with essentially so it doesn't put too much strain on the fittings and anything like that. And obviously the fact that they're all swivel essentially makes it so easy to install. So expansion-wise, remember, we mentioned, or well, Gabe mentioned that there is a pump that's capable of driving more components than just the CPU. So you take these off as simply as undoing a Phillips head screwdriver. No nonsense, no trickery. They're not trying to prevent you from emptying the thing and doing your own thing with it because Swift Tech's a custom water cooling company, not a heat sink company turned water cooling company. You can drain this thing. You can make a custom loop out of it if you want. It really does bridge the gap between DIY and not DIY. You can also see here that there's a flange that prevents this custom clamp from actually going in this direction. And you can see right here that it's manufactured to a precision that it's actually not capable of slipping in the other direction as well. And much like the CPU block itself, this goes down all the way. So when you install any component in this kit, you screw it in all the way. Now I like to think that I'm pretty credible as far as sources of information go. And I told you guys that Gabe is extremely credible. But obviously, if we're going to tell you something like blow the doors off of, or if we're going to tell you something like huge mean time between failure and so much more powerful than every other pump, whatever we're telling you, we better sort of prove it. So this is the practical demo component. Right now we have three identical systems running competitor T, competitor C, and SwiftTech. So that represents the OEMs that are out there. So there's an Asetek premium unit, there's a Coolit premium unit, and there is a SwiftTech premium unit because there is no OEM for a SwiftTech all-in-one water cooling unit. So Gabe, tell us what you've done to level the playing field in such a way that we are seeing how they compare directly to each other. What we're doing here is that we have three plus one, since we are also showing the H2O with graphics cooling capabilities. But essentially what we're doing for the CPU cooling section, the Asetek, the Corsair, and the SwiftTech is that we let the systems run at 1,400 RPMs, which is the lowest level we can go to with both the Thermaltake and the Corsair units. And we placed the SwiftTech unit also at 1,400. It can go lower, it can go from 800 to 18, but we put them all at 1,400, we put the same load, we have the same overclock, they're all running at 4.6 gigs, same voltage, which is set by the one-touch button on the Asus software. Guys, these are 3770Ks running on Maximus V formulas, just so you know. Yes, I also want to thank Asus and their beautiful board for sponsoring this, as well as Nanoxia for sponsoring the cases, and EVGA for sponsoring the graphics, and Kingston for the HyperX and SSDs. They have been beautiful in helping us, as well as Cooler Master for all these beautiful power supplies that are running nice and low. Now, going back to the setup, 1,400 RPMs for all four systems, so three CPU cooling and one H2O220 running as well, two GTX 680s provided by EVGA using the Hydro Copper Cooler, as well as the VR cooling on the Asus. So we are all loaded up, let's go take a look at the temperature results now. Let's go guys. I'm going to cut this shot because I want you guys to see that there's no monkey business going on. So where do we see all four of them here? Right here. Just here on that laptop. Laptop, right there. Alright, so here we go guys. So system one, which is the, here we go. That's a Swift Tech, let me comment, maybe it'll be easier for you. The Swift Tech H2O220 here, we have the average for the past 10 minutes, okay, in the right hand side column here, and the average temperature for the past 10 minutes is 7681 at full load. The same load, same operations, same fan speed, Corsair H100 is running at 82.5 compared to 76.8. The thermal tech unit, we can see here, is running at 78.3 versus the 76. And then the Swift Tech H2O220, also cooling, two GTX 680s, and the chipset and VR, which gets pretty hot at a full load, CPU, is running at an average of 81.3 centigrade. So now that we've covered the temperatures, we are going to cover maximum noise level as well as minimum noise level. So let's get started with maximum noise level on the Swift Tech H2O220. Let me just explain how I'm going to position the microphone here guys. Rather than positioning it right next to the vent, where it's going to be mostly the noise of the air brushing up against our windscreen, I'm going to position it right here on the other side of this flap, because that way we're finding out more accurately how much noise is actually being transmitted through the case to an end user. Agree with this? Okay. So we're going to start with Swift Tech. Next we're going to move over to, this was the... Yes, this is the Corsair H100i. Okay. I think that's enough. I think that's all we need to know. And now let's move to the Thermaltake unit. So Diesel's comment, he's monitoring the sound in his earbuds, is that that's a big difference. So this is representing the maximum noise that these units can make. So now what we are going to do to demonstrate the minimum noise level, we're shutting down everything else and we're going to keep that CPU, H220 CPU cooling at what we call the silent mode, which is a minimum fan speed and minimum pump speed. And it's still at full load and you can hear it humming. So that's still, that's at 800 RPM, right? Right. And regular viewers know that I refuse to run fans any higher than a thousand RPM. So this is pretty much how I'd use the unit. I'm going to cheat a little bit. I'm going to put it even closer. I'm going to put it right next to the vent. Diesel can't hear it. I'm going to put it right next to the rear fan. Very impressive. You can hear it. It's inaudible essentially. So, and that's, you know, the proof is in the pudding, right? And that's all we have to say about this. Show me, show me the most impressive pudding, which is the one over there. Oh, well, we did something a little different here because we wanted to bridge that gap with the custom, custom, custom loops, right? So we built, starting from the H220, we added a couple of Radeon 7970s cooled by our Komodo water block. And then we added a couple of more radiators. So we have dual 120 millimeter. It's an MCR 220. And we have a dual 140 millimeter, which is the MCR 240 in the front. So that pump of ours is running two water blocks, three water blocks, CPU, GPU, and three radiators, which demonstrates pretty much what the enthusiasts guys do out there. And it's capable of doing it. And now if you want to take a shot on the screen, you can see the type of temperatures that we have running the Heaven benchmark. Here we go, guys. So GPU temperatures are 53 degrees for 7970s, which is ridiculous. And then CPU temperatures are under, this is an overclocked 3930K to 4.5 gigahertz. So guys, temperatures of under 50 degrees, 50 degrees on that CPU, very, very impressive. Have you got that, Diesel? Oh, he says no, not yet. You know, we got to prove it here. We can't just say it. We got to show you guys what kind of temperatures we're running. And I just want to thank, I want to thank Gabe from Swift Tech for walking us through this demo. This has been very impressive and very eye opening. Thank you. 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