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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel I hope you're all doing well today I'm taking a look at fractal designs very first liquid-cooled AIO here in the United States this is the Celsius s 24 there's the Celsius s 36 which is the triple 120 version and I'm dealing today with the s 24 again the 240 millimeter variant so very exciting stuff here this is more or less an ASA tech design when you're talking internally so there's nothing to innovative going on under the hood here I'm you are dealing with a DC pump pretty standard and a ceramic bearing and there's also a bit of a sound dampening material under the hood here which theoretically should make the pump quieter I have tested this already I've already plugged it in and and ran the tests is very quiet we'll take a look at the fans in just a moment how those sound from an aesthetic standpoint fractal hasn't taken too many risks here it's fairly basic and straightforward you might call it a little boring but I actually don't mind it I like some of my components to be boring like the AIO for instance the personal preference of mine but this also sort of ties in with fractals Scandinavian minimalist design or whatever you want to call it so if you look at the waterblock it's kind of a circular thing and it's glossy it's black and glossy which I don't know I prefer matte with everything there's just a personal preference of course I'll be get this is the snowflake get the nice little fractal snowflake just peaking out on the side there and then look at there's two words there's two words around the edges here Auto and PWM the hell of that so there's no software that comes included or is available for download on fraggles website there's no software at all when it's when it comes to tuning or controlling this thing so it's all hardware based and basically this circular ring the sort of soft touch circular ring that goes around the waterblock is adjustable you can move it switching it from auto to PWM you switch it between those two settings Auto basically makes the fans run at anywhere from 1900 to 2000 rpm is what I was seeing in hardware monitor which at that speed these fans are are silent not really quiet they're like I mean like I can't hear them from ten inches away on an open-air testbed they're that quiet so when I was running it at Auto initially I was like oh my god temperatures are gonna be awful it's just it's too quiet it's too quiet actually not 77 note 7600 K our core i5 which I had overclocked to four point eight megahertz we fired up gta5 1440p 2560 by 1440 PC by 9:00 and 72 no 73 degrees Celsius filthiest 73 degrees C on a fairly heavily overclocked 7600 K which I am pretty happy about with an ambient in my room of 26 degrees Celsius give or take a degree that's actually not too bad at all and then we switch it over to PWM especially at just how quiet that that noise level I was just sort of blown away unintended then PWM when you switch it over to PWM the fans cranked up to around 3000 rpm so there at that point their audible and you can definitely hear them even through a case especially if your your case isn't tailored for silence to begin with it's got a lot of open mesh and things like that then you can hear it but it's not obtrusive and it's not annoying especially if you've got any sort of in-game audio coming through your headphones or your speakers it's not going to bother you at least it didn't bother me at all so it's not too bad however temperatures when you look at the thermals running the same test in gta5 after about 20 minutes only decrease thermals on our CPU by one degree we went from 73 see with the auto setting to 72 on the PWM settings so really not worth it to go PWM in my opinion at least from my testing on the s 24 I would just leave it at Auto and never change it again just stick it in install it it's good to go but that's that's a good that's good sign this thing definitely can cool a fairly highly overclocked CPU which is honestly the most important part of any a io IMO haha now the fairly thick tubing which is rubberized is not kinky which in this case is a good thing and I really like the way it looks they've sleeved it with some nice sort of nylon or you know cloth material sleeving much better than the metal spiral crap that was on the Kelvin that was just whoo that was special but this looks really nice I will say and of course it's nice to be even if you're in a cramped case and you got to like squish things together like in the M case m1 or something like that there is not going to be too much kinkajou with this rubber material now also if we look at the ends of the tubing we see that there are these like fittings on either side going from to the water block into the radiator but only the fittings only the gene a quarter-inch fit on the radiator are removable so this is an expandable loop however you're limited in that you can only remove this end of the tubes you're pretty much stuck that means with this tubing which also means if you were to expand this and add in like a reservoir and additional radiators or GPU you might have some clashing tubing you'd be stuck with this one and you might have some just other tubing that doesn't look anything like this unless you can find this exact tubing which if you don't care about what your custom water-cooled system looks like then by all means but most of us who are going to spend the premium on custom water-cooled parts probably want to look all matching matching stuff so it's just a little confusing to me why fractal would allow this side to be removed but fix the other end I just a little a little perplexed by that now that being said fractal gets huge points for adding on this built-in pwm fan splitter straight on to the radiator it's a great idea you've got these two dynamic x2 fan tees or fractals in-house fans they're not quite been thérèse but they do a killer job anyway two of these fans that are black and white of course and they route straight on to that fan splitter the PWM connection and then you've got a third cable that actually sneekly and invisibly routes underneath thus leaving of one of these tubes straight to the water block and then all of those connections get boiled down to this one single black CPU PWM 4 pin connector I was a mouthful which plugs straight into the CPU fan header on your motherboard so really this is a very nice sort of elegant solution to clean up cable management this is all wired up good to go guys all you do is install you to screw this to the top or the front of your case or whatever you bolt this down to your CPU all the cables all the wiring is done all you got to do is plug this one cable in stands pump everything's good to go the only thing that that might scare some people or my concern them is can that one CPU fan header on the motherboard actually power and control all of these various elements yes I think it can now the fans honestly even the pump does not take much power the CPU fan header I'm sure any of those fan headers can handle the amount of voltage required to run these effectively so I don't think that's an issue until further testing shows otherwise I probably wouldn't worry about it guys but on that note let's move on to the other thing uh looks like a little bit about the radiator itself again 240 millimeters it is 30 millimeters thick and it looks to have some pretty decent fin density it's more or less standard it looks kind of like the H 100 I which is not a bad thing at all and it's going to just get a nice little finish there's some like lettering here like a model number just kind of looks I don't know it looks very industrial it looks good man this is a cool little AIO and honestly literally we don't I don't have much else to say I think of an installation installation was super easy again I keep comparing this to the H 100 I because it's sort of a direct competitor pretty much the exact same installation process as the H 100 I in fact you could even use the mounting accessories from the H 100 I with this and it would still work perfectly fun it's like the same OEM ASA Tech and all that jazz so installation is really a breeze speaking of installation I didn't mention this in the beginning of the video but this is also offering rising supports straight out of the box so that's nice I probably already included a b-roll shot of that at the beginning but just to mention it for validation yes it does support rising so that's that's cool too overall I'm 95% sure that I like this cooler granted it's got some weird quirks don't get me wrong like you know not being able to remove the tubing on this end and sort of stiff locking or the stiff mechanisms that goes around the water block for Justin PWM in auto there's a little bit weird but for the most part this does a fine job of cooling my core i5 7600 k with even some additional headroom there thermally to push it a bit further if I want to hit that nice 5 gigahertz mark I'm pretty confident that this thing could do it and and it does so while staying very quiet especially on the specifically on the auto setting just Auto it and it is super quiet it's super good it's super cool good in the end I would say this is a successful debut on fractal designs part delivering their first AO to the US and it stays fairly competitive with other offerings at its current price point but that's going to do for now guys let me know what you think of this thing in the comments below also feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff if you haven't already also check out the with ultra my ad free early access channel he thought I was going to forget didn't you haha I did not check that out it's a first weeks are completely free and it's about fifty months very cheap and all that jazz have a good one guys I'll see you all in the next video bye go edit this video hate my life now I 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