 So at like midnight a couple weeks ago I just got a link from Linus that says please buy put in the B ideas list. Okay, but hold on hold on How irresistible is this thing? Okay? Now here in North America typically our AIO liquid coolers connect to a CPU or a GPU This one connects to both and it's got great features like Comet tail LED designed with two high water flow pumps take heat away from hotspot and moves to radiator this one is gonna be a good one ladies and gentlemen and Today's video is brought to you by glasswire with glasswire You can instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device Use offer code Linus to get 25% off at the link below So should we just start with the unboxing here? Yeah, might as well. We have this beautiful computer over here Yeah, the computer is a total misfit for this thing cuz I think this thing is gonna be kind of junky I don't know how beautiful should be by the end. How much did we pay for this? Oh It was it was quite a bit so from like the US you're able to get it for like 150 160 bucks thereabouts that's competitive Yeah, especially because you're just buying one of them instead of you know, two of them if you wanted to use AIOs Yeah, getting one of them shipped to Canada cost us fine 260 dollars Hate it when that happens. Yeah. All right. So let's have a look at this thing. It's actually actually kind of clever so you get some savings because you only need a single radiator But then you negate some of your savings because they actually went and put two pumps in the thing So this one is designed I guess to go in either the front of your case Maybe hopefully I don't know if that's gonna reach or the top and then this one is supposed to go down to your GP Wow, the spacing is yeah, there's not a lot there pretty tight actually And then this one's cute. So I've actually seen these kinds of mods before it's got what looks like a pretty standard AIO block and pump unit and then it's just got this cooling fan shroud that's attached to it with the idea being that you don't need a full coverage cooling solution because this is gonna cool your VRMs and your ramp honestly speaking other than committing one of my favorite sins Which is to have a fan that the frame doesn't seal against the edge of the radiator Oh, yeah Kills your pressure There's no obvious deficiencies in like materials quality that I can see Yeah, the only thing that I'd say is this radiator is kind of small for a CPU and a GPU a triple would have probably been better yeah, they did actually show off a triple at CES, but It never came to actually exist. So oh Oh boy Silicon heat sink plaster. Oh, what is heat sink plaster? Whatever it is I think it involves putting these little memory chip coolers onto our card positively permanently No, I feel bad for that 1070 then Well, we wouldn't be having the whole experience if we didn't follow The instructions should be pretty easy Theoretically, yes, are we AMD or Intel here Intel? Do you want to talk us through if there's any other amazing features while I go ahead and power this down? So maybe my personal favorite is TDP 400 watts Intel platform 350 watts AMD platform not sure where those extra watts come from for Intel but Sure. Let's see. What else we have in here Nope, the details is just a couple pictures Do you know for sure that this is booted because I pressed it and it's not shutting down I Don't know Well in our convenient and fancy new workshop Got to move this water bottle of the whale tt store calm fortunately We have a very easy way to check Should wake up when you plug in anything There we go. Heck. Yeah. All right in terms of mounting hardware, honestly It doesn't look that much more complicated than any other AIO the one challenge is that in addition to your CPU? mounting hardware You've also got a whack of graphics card mounting hardware I'm gonna do the radiator to start with then I get wait what no we have to like oh What is the best way to tackle this? I guess you kind of have to mount the GPU to this first Oh, yeah, and then you like mount this in the case and then this to the CPU They should they should clarify that cuz wait What the hell? It only has a CPU guide You're on your own for the graphics card Is there another piece of documentation I missed? Yeah, the downloads page on the website is really helpful, too Oh, okay. Yeah, okay literally nothing there. All right. Let's figure out the GPU first then I guess unreal You ever feel like Nvidia stock coolers are just Unnecessarily difficult to take apart. Yep Sure, so I had the back plate Hopefully you weren't looking for that. Well, why is great check this out. We already have a hardware destroying problem This right here interferes oh Yep, that's a bit. That's a bit of a zapper Well, they include fiber washers to deal with that. The problem is just that there's no spacers. So it would crush this thing So I guess what I was thinking is do we even need this? We should use one well, but we can still just put the other back plate on and no one will even notice But we could just use the back plate now that I have spacers. I Guess so Why do you hate my back? basically, we just need to Put this puppy on now then right? Yeah, should we install of a little heat sink chemise first? It seems like a good idea. You got the alcohol Yep I'm afraid to put that paste on this thing. Oh, we're really doing this. Yep screw it fine I'm glad you grabbed a 1070 and not like an RTX 2080 Ti or something do it like that I was kind of concerned that it just might not work like it should Well, I'm pretty concerned about these they don't really seem to be on there that much yeah, but I think this is glue I Guess so it doesn't say anything about like how long it takes to hear or anything We're flying blind sure Here's some random thermal compound Realistically, it's probably about the same as everything else. So we'll cover the GPU. Yep And this is it then right should we put the thingies in there first? Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely Okay, so that seems fine right? Yep, okay Sure, okay, it's a thing It's something Wouldn't it just be beautiful if one of those heat sinks just popped off and shorted it out? No, okay. Now we need our nylon Spacers that I obtained for us. Look I even got four matching ones And there we go no interference issue nice It's too bad the instructions didn't have anything about this otherwise More people might not destroy their graphics cards. Well, I've seen uglier graphics cards Not often. Yeah, I've seen prettier ones a couple seconds ago Yeah, okay. Well, that's it. That's the GPU. So now we got to like put it in This is this is actually gonna be a two-person job Cuz like otherwise it's gonna be all over the place All right. Oh geez these fans are like wired right into the case Oh Holy crap Alex, oh geez what happened there you left the window open It was heavy enough. It just tipped it that could have been unfortunate Okay, so the good news is that our concerns about the tubing lengths seem to be completely unfounded You know what I'd say going towards the front is what they intended. I like that look more anyway All right, so you want me to hold the fans in place? Yep Does that look anywhere close? Yep, thank you. All right So I think this is as simple as they have just cloned the regular ace attack mounting system And I can just pop these bad boys on here and we're pretty much ready to rock Perfect in case you guys were wondering why this thing is not typically available in North America That would be my guess ace attack has a North American patent on these CPU block and pump combo units like this and I can guarantee you these guys are not paying the licensing fee if ace attack even offers that program I don't know if they do I wonder if that knocked to a compound that we had left over Would have been better than what they have probably I I hear I can hold this and I can put the mounting mechanism on it, too All right. It really is not the greatest looking mounting mechanism and actually they didn't straight-up clone the ace attack system because There's no way to kind of rotate it for the most optimal tubing runs But the good news is that it did fit in our case just fine It's putting a little bit more strain on this tube and this memory stick that I'd like but not the end of the world Whatever do I have your permission to throw this piece of paper towel off? No, just leave it here. And then if we need to wipe off more thermal compound, we'll have it Don't waste so that's it. It's on I'm stoked. So I'm gonna plug this into our AIO pump header So I will plug the two Man, I just I love how perfect all the fan header spots are for this system It's amazing. Like I've got CPU fan CPU opt for my radiator fans I've got AIO pump over here I've got chassis fan over here for this one and then I've got W pump over here for this pump. It's amazing It's amazing and it's ready to rock you ready? Yeah. All right moment of truth do it hit it. I'm ready It's a house plan. I don't know. Yeah. No, yes. Yeah Yeah Okay, the RGB lighting is pretty it's there is it RGB or is it just our it's not configurable at all There's no USB It's just like that for days. Well, but Linus the comet tail LED design adds to the visual enjoyment All right, well, yeah, I don't know about you but I'm enjoying it visually right now it's like a feast for the eyes Especially with these Royale dims. Nice touch. Love it All right. So what were we using for our stress test today? So we did blender we did firmark and we did 3d mark. So in this before after 10 minutes we got to We're already at 71 degrees. Okay, so we got to a max of 79 degrees after 10 minutes. What was our clock speed though? I'm not sure what the clock speed was. We're doing 100 FPS So we're at 75 degrees already about we're at 107 FPS. So it is still turboing higher Oh, I wonder if part of the problem is that we're not controlling like the pump speed of the GPU with the GPU temperature It shouldn't matter The pump should just go ham. That's what those pump headers are supposed to do. Should we just put them to full blast? It's definitely spinning. No, it's at 81 degrees now. Well, that's it. It's gonna start thermal throttling now Yeah, 104 FPS. How can it be that bad? Let's just double check into the BIOS Let's go back set all the pumps to just full blast and I mean it happens so fast. It can't be a fan issue It would have to be a pump issue But like it's not bad enough that like, you know, it's clearly not doing anything How could it be so terrible Holy crap did we just break a graphics card? There's no way There is a way Well, there is a way but I just don't even get it This thing would have to be basically a flat piece of copper to be this bad Well, a flat piece of copper at least wouldn't break your GPU probably. I mean the cooling fan. Oh, we're back. Okay Thank God The cooling fan for the back of the card is doing its job for the most part Okay, AIO pump 2000 rpm. Oh, yeah W pump plus Cranked okay All right, how about blender then which render did you run? Oh, we classroom what processor are we running in here? 7900 X so 10 cores So last time with the Noctua the CPU temperature was a max of 70 degrees Which that was after like eight or so minutes, but this really isn't looking that bad. So blender just finished We got a max of 70 degrees. That's not bad. Yeah, it's exactly the same as this small cooler That's $100 less. I mean where we really run into trouble though is if we were to try and hit the GPU and The CPU at the same time. Oh the GPU is at 70 degrees already Yeah, how can it be so At least mostly sufficient on the CPU and so far off on the GPU Doesn't make sense. Should we just try remounting it? Like I can't think of anything else that would Like are we just missing part of the die? Do you want to try remounting it? Like it can't hurt. Okay I'm gonna go set up Wanshow while you do that So it does look like that we missed a bit of the die here So I am going to try and fix that. I still don't know if that's enough to really Cause us a problem. All right, so not all of the GPU die was covered in paste So maybe that was our issue. Okay right now it's at 31 degrees Yeah, that's what we'd expect with good contact. So let's just hit it and see what happens 45, 50, 51, 52. So was that it? Yeah, it might have just been poor contact Nice. Let's run for like 10 minutes or something find out if it actually does better than stock 10 minute timer You know, I gotta say I'm actually pretty impressed Yeah, we got what was it a maximum of 66 degrees in firm arc after it's been running for like 30 minutes And we got a maximum of 60 degrees in firm arc after it's been running for like 30 minutes And when I didn't have a blender render running in the background, we got 106 FPS, which is more important That tells us that our GPU is actually turboing higher with this cooler than it was with the stock cooler Now our CPU is running a bit hotter when you're hitting both the CPU and GPU at the same time But at 75 degrees on a what is this a 7900X? Yep That's pretty reasonable for a 10 core not particularly efficient CPU. So Overall bad instructions significant risk of damaging or destroying your hardware But for 160 bucks compared to you know, say buying like a regular just CPU AIO Yeah, not bad. Is it getting the seal of approval? I don't know if it gets a recommendation, but it gets the like if If it fits it sits if you're like kind of edgy with your computer. Yeah, it's actually not bad It's actually not bad. I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't overclock the CPU or anything This is for stock operation and it's not particularly quiet or anything But it does make your GPU go faster I mean, maybe you'd just be better off getting a GPU AIO and then a CPU heatsink Oh, but also if you have like an i5 like the overclockable one you could chuck that on there Yeah Might be able to get a bit you could overclock the GPU. So I wouldn't recommend overclocking the CPU And for the money you might be better off just getting a heatsink and then a GPU only AIO but Hey, if you want to be water-cooled on a budget It is not as stupid as we thought it might be. 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Oh, yeah, that one's good, too Uh, that's oh, that's actually a cheaper way to get yeah great cooling on both. Whatever check it out Let's roll the thermal siphon down there, too And i'm gone To the wancho