Gadgetory

hey everyone we're at the NR max booth at Computex 2018 now and what we're doing here is starting a race to race between an enter max pump one that we've reviewed several times actually this is an ef-1 pump the same as what it was using a thread ripper coolers that we reviewed ages ago but they performed exceptionally well actually and the other pump is I don't think they're officially saying it but it's pretty identifiable it's an ace attack closed-loop liquid cooler pump so two things here that we'll be talking about one is just impedance with cold plates the other is the pump power how fast it fills me to where the reservoir as we see here before that this video is brought to you by the cable mod vehicle GPU adapter a universal kit that lets you add a vertical GPU mount to almost any enclosure the vertical GPU adapter positions video cards further back from the glass than most stock vertical GPU mounts aiding in thermals and also easily sockets into the PCIe expansions lots of compatible cases even after kit is brand new and makes it easy to show off video cards even in cases that don't include a stock vertical GPU map learn more at the link in the description below so enter max has had this ef-1 pump for a while they're just showing it off in a more tangible fashion in terms of how quickly it can fill a loop one thing here is speed for a pump can matter sometimes it doesn't it depends on what you're talking about because ultimately the speed of the pump and speed of filling something will depend on how fast the impeller moves how strong the impeller is and then also what kind of impedance does the liquid flow face when you're pushing it through the tubes through the cold plate because if you have a really dense cold plate with dense micro fins it's possible that of course you end up facing enough impedance that it's less effective at cooling than if you had say fewer micro fins so this is something we've talked about in the past it's something we'll be talking about more as a couple more products at the show are left leaving MDA so this one the EF one pumps always done pretty well in our testing just wanted to show this off because the demo is actually pretty cool it's just a hands-on demo of how quickly it fills a loop it did perform better than the AC tech pumps significantly in our thread Ripper testing part of that is because the cold plate is so much larger which is all something we talked about with our Noctua coverage larger cold plate on thread rivers always done pretty well but relevant partly because thread river 2 is coming out soon want to show it off other than that the liquid cooling stuff we'll talk about a couple of things on the other side of the booth air cooler liquid cooler this one here's a prototype so they're trying to do a white radiator and pump it's a couple things they can't do right now or might not be able to do for example the radiator is still black it's just got white housing on it so I'd really like to see the white either extend to the radiator or change the design so that it's a black and white design that way it looks like it's intentional rather than a limitation of manufacturing so I guess let them know below what your thoughts are what your demand is for white liquid coolers there aren't a lot of them and obviously it's not necessarily trivial to make because if you start powder coating the radiator then it doesn't necessarily perform as well so that is potentially limitation it looks kind of okay though I do like the white on the top it's just I'd like to see the fans match the white on the radiator so that's a potential option to look tech to prototype right now for the white version otherwise an existing cooler and other than that NR max has a new case a prototype case they have the case that we saw at CES a few times now the Sabre ray so that's come out finally the original Sabre right and they've also added a saber a advanced which has RGB LEDs so we have some b-roll of it it's a prototype right now but it's basically got two diffusers going down on the sides of the case and if you're looking at it going there's glass I don't like it keep in mind that the Sabre Ray was one of the cases we'd really like to see yes specifically because you could hold the glass out and swap it with mesh now we haven't reviewed it thermally yet that's still to come we'll look at it eventually make your purchasing decisions analyst we reviewed it but in terms of having features that actually make sense being able to swap glass and mesh panels does make sense and was something that we found interesting about the original Sabre ray so they still have that on the advance it's just they've added diffusion with LEDs basically so that's the end of it it's $20 more I think for that we put in some feedback for example I'd like the diffusers to show the LED less so right now you can see the LED behind the diffuser pretty well and hopefully because the prototype that'll be able to actually diffuse more later and you won't be able to see the literal LED as much as just the light so still prototype all that stuff there's another case presently has no name but we have footage of it and it's a smaller case targeting probably the $80 market so there's a bit Phenix case here as well it's basically a direct competitor to this they're both prototypes they're both going for $80 and they're both going for RGB LEDs the difference is just which one of them makes the one with better airflow because otherwise the cases are direct competitors so it'll be fun to see who kind of takes the mesh approach and who takes the solid panel approach now with the enter max case they were saying that there's a consideration of going with mesh for the front or swappable mesh and glass like these Sabre a case which would be great if we saw that that'd be a good move alternatively pulling out the panel forward more so that it can breathe more but it's a prototype as stated so nothing's finalized yet the $80 price point though if it comes with the three fans hasn't ended even two fans would be fine would be very competitive it's just a matter of making sure that air can get through the case so we've provided feedback but otherwise leave yours below if you have any thoughts on it and finally we have a couple of coolers over here behind the camera but we have footage of it so there is an air cooler tower cooler it's got LEDs coming down the side on both sides of the air cooler and it just looks kind of cool the only reason I wanted to bring it up is because we don't see a ton of air coolers these days that are new other than maybe Noctua and people eventually are gonna want LEDs on those too so if you really want it you can get it they have a it's a new model basically then next to it there was a liquid cooler that just has a pump plate the top of it that's got kind of a cascading design for LEDs just look kind of neat thought we'd show it off but we'll get pricing on 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