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hey Chris hey Kyle I have the new stylings three here I think you're gonna love them nice can't wait to check these out thanks by the way my car broke down and I was wondering if you what the whoa whoa hey hey stop it stop don't don't know what's happy hey be quiet in here Oh Kyle wasn't prepared to be blown away by the new silent wings three fans from be quiet are you for a cooler quieter system click on the link in the description for more info what's up gasp so for the sake of argument let's assume that lately you've been tossing around the idea of trying your hand at custom water quality it seems a part of you can't shake the burning desire to experience those chilly temps higher over clocks and glorious acoustics that come with a robust liquid-cooled setup you've been fantasizing about your dream loop for so long now there's hardly any room left for Emma Watson's feet at the same time you'd be treading in uncharted waters and you're still unsure if the challenges and time invested are worth the payoff not to mention the upfront cost would bleed your bank account dry and you'll need some disposable income left over in case an tech ever starts making good products again truth be told you've been sitting on the fence for so long it's starting to look kind of infected but there may still be hope for you yet because the products were testing out today offer a middle ground solution that rival the performance you might expect from a custom loop without the hassle or extreme cost from the folks over at ek comes their critically acclaimed predator ayo now offered with 280 millimeter ads and a prefilled GPU water block to easily expand that loop with quick disconnect technology in theory this should provide a seamless water-cooled solution to help you optimize your system to its fullest so today we'll be outfitting our air-cooled gaming PC here with all the predator fixes and measuring any improvements we might see in temps acoustics and overclocking personally I'm just glad there's no chance of this happening again on that note the test system will be using resides in the infamously inverted Corsair 600 C which was actually one of the few chassés I had on hand that could fit the predator 280 comfortably instead of being built into the water block the pump in wiring is positioned next to the radiator making it the biggest 280 AIO on the market if your case claims to support 280 millimeter radiators you might want to triple check the forums to make sure it can fit this one being chilled by cooler master hyper 212 evo we have a core i5 6600 K for our CPU on an ACC 170 deluxe with 16 gigs of g.skill Trident Z at 3200 our video card is the gaming x GT X 1080 from MSI which I recently did a review on powered by an EVGA 650 watt GQ and a one terabyte crucial MX 200 SSD for our OS and applications a trio of Corsair AF 140 quiet Edition fans were also used for dual intakes and a rear exhaust on this air-cooled system I was able to take the 6600 K to a stable 4.7 gigahertz at 1.3 5 volts which had a max temp of 78 degrees Celsius after 30 minutes of concurrent stress testing with a 264 and Unigine Heaven 4.0 it's a bit toastier than most gamers would like to see but honestly not half bad for the $30 hyper 212 of course chances are you won't be stress testing your CPU in the background while gaming so with just heaven 4.0 running the CPU maxed out at a much cooler 66 degrees Celsius maxing out the power and temp targets our factory overclocked GTX 1060 was pushed even further with a poor clock offset of 155 megahertz that took the max core clock frequency to 2.1 gigahertz though the chip quickly backed down to a constant 2,050 our memory clock received an offset of 370 megahertz taking it to a clock speed hovering in the 1340s the GPU hits 78 degrees Celsius leaving much room for improvement for our predator setup as for acoustics here's what the system sounds like after running Heaven 4.0 for about 15 minutes as you might have heard the noise is audible but stays fairly quiet under load and shouldn't prove distracting to even those with sensitive hearing especially if you're listening to ingame sound after conducting our air-cooled tests I went ahead and installed the predator Hardware which was actually quite easy I guess that's kind of the point after all mounting the GPU block is just like installing any of EK standard blocks which involves a bunch of screwing throwing down some thermal pads and thermal grease and more screwing I do think the screws could be a bit higher quality especially since the four screw surrounding the GPU need to be tightened as much as possible and it felt like I was close to stripping them once or twice but overall this was a straightforward procedure the CPU AIO installs much like any other competitor though the fans come pre mounted to the radiator and I had to flip them around in order to set them to intake air at the front of our chassis once everything's installed attaching the quick disconnects literally takes five seconds and is the easiest thing ever all without leaking a single drop of fluid be warned however that you're likely to end up with a lot of excess tubing unless building inside of a massive case so you may have to restrain the tubes with zip ties or velcro straps to keep them from interfering with objects like your side panel or chassis fans also what's up with that GPU sag it seems removing the air cooler leaves your PCB a bit flimsier than it was hopefully ek can solve this by including some sort of support bracket or backplate in the future because the MSI backplate I carried over from our GT X 1080 didn't seem to correct the droop egde at all so for an apples-to-apples comparison I initially ran the a 264 in Unigine stress test on our now liquid cooled PC with all the same overclock settings and look at this the better thermal conditions actually pushed our GPU boost clock to 2.1 gigahertz a 63 megahertz improvement over air without touching a single setting GPU temps fell all the way down to 59 degrees max and averaged out at around 56 degrees Celsius with an ambient temp of 81 degrees Fahrenheit pretty neat during this stress test our CPU saw less impressive temps reaching 71 degrees Celsius and only going as low as 67 degrees Celsius while gaming the temperatures here could stand to be a bit cooler so perhaps more time should be spent adjusting the fan curve to create the thermal and acoustic profiles were comfortable with before we dive into the acoustics demo I should mention the ek Bartter fans were connected to the motherboard CPU fan header which was controlled via custom fan curve I set up in the BIOS this was the same fan curve and testing methodology used for those Corsair AF 140s we heard earlier what was already a pretty quiet experience with the air-cooled system is made even quieter with the introduction of the aao it also means we could probably set a more aggressive fan curve to further improve thermals without being a nuisance to our ears so at this point it's not a huge shock but switching over to water cooling allowed us to hit the same settings with lower temps and makuu sticks but the final question remains how much more were we able to overclock the system within these cooler operating parameters well I failed to get the CPU to hit 4.8 gigahertz without exceeding unsafe voltages but I was able to maintain our 4.7 gigahertz frequency with a lower v core of just 1.32 volts although this is just a point zero three volt difference coming from air it's still a noteworthy bump in power efficiency and may even help to extend the lifespan of our CPU on the GPU side of things we gain 20 megahertz on the core clock and 30 megahertz on the memory clock giving us a constant core clock speed of 20 113 megahertz and a memory clock of 13 hundred and 50 megahertz overall switching to liquid gave us a 63 megahertz increase on the core clock which isn't spectacular but it is something I guess the takeaway here is don't expect your frame rates to skyrocket from slapping on a couple of these water blocks it seems the real gains made today we're primarily in temperatures and acoustics speaking of which here's a final back to back sound test with all three configurations we looked at today on a final note this liquid cooling duo will set you back three or four hundred dollars which I'd only consider affordable if comparing it to the cost of buying all the water cooling Hardware separately so without prolonging the inevitable question any longer is it worth it well if performance is the only thing you're after I can't say the solution is a worthwhile investment since we couldn't get the CPU to go any faster and we only saw a minor speed increase with our GTX 1080 the upshot is that if you're suffering from my video card is on fire syndrome our GPU temps drop 22 degrees Celsius coming from air which is absolutely insane CPU temps were a tad underwhelming in our set up but then again the loop runs so damn quietly there's definitely room to push the fans harder while maintaining a reasonable sound profile the final appeal here is convenience and time savings a lot of us want that custom water-cooled experience but lack the time or patience to take the plunge so EK has really done a bang-up job here to make the entire process super quick and easy if you're looking for the kind of results we saw here today and you've got a few hundos to spend then maybe you should buy this thing but that is gonna do it for now guys so before you go don't forget to test me a like on this video if you enjoyed it and feel free to check out my store for shirts in all shapes and sizes actually they're all the same shape as always thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next video