Gadgetory

hey Ron Rock copy tax 2018 at the knock to a booth now and I've basically taken their entire booth and put it in front of me here knocked oh it has a ton of stuff for the show we're going to go through about 50% of it most of it's on the PC side a couple of updates on the chrome ax line D fifteens actually fan sizes for the new fan that everyone's been talking about so we go about all that today along with a couple of prototypes that they've printed or they've CNC milled before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the air flow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 so let's start with the chromatics line everybody is always making fun of Knoxville for the fan colors it's an old joke at this point so they said alright you know what fine we'll make a black fan so they made a black fan everyone wanted the black fan so naktu ran into a problem where people are buying their coolers with the brown fans and replacing them with the black ones and you end up with just excess fans so now they're going to be selling all the same coolers from the rest of the char they're three of them d15 is one of them and selling it just like the original no changes to anything except it's all black out in terms of thermal performance adding powder coating to it shouldn't really matter you're talking less than one degree of difference so if you're worried if you're if you're down in the comments already typing angrily about the performance just stop because it's powder coated it's a really thin powder coating typically the change in thermal performance is minimal so basically if you wanted a complete blackout everything blackout fan clips blackout fan blackout fins blackout mounting points and mounting hardware they're gonna be making them in the chromatic series pretty easy update there other than that couple of updates on things like actually this cooler here behind me so Knox what has a fantastic set up right now it's I mean we're not in a lab so it's not perfect but these are Ben's top power supplies we've showed you them with our fantastic so been sought PS use here and then right here are just too many chambers that are just acrylic chamber so they have a d15 and they have the next generation you 12 behind me so basically what Knox was showing is a 120 millimeter with the new fan and some redesign on the heatsink versus the D 15 as we all know it no changes to that one between them there's they're both sitting on top of dummy heaters so it's just like a plate metal plate basically with a heating element in it pretty standard way to approach a thermal test for coolers because having a whole computers way too many variables can't really control it so they just have heating elements in here they're heated to the same temperature I'd say more than 200 watt heat load so it's a substantial amount of heat load and then a k-type thermocouple reader behind me so the K types are hooked up to the plates and Beach right now it's forty nine point one versus forty eight point seven degrees within variance K types have a an error of two point two degrees variance Perfect's error basically between them manufacturing tolerances so I don't know if they've calibrated but either way let's say they did you're within a one degree of reason given it's a non lab environment so they've more or less achieved d15 performance with the new u 12 with a 200 plus y heat load it's significant it's sort of a EDT area except maybe the thread Ripper two might be a bit higher at 250 watts which i think of this is pretty close to so yeah that's impressive it's basically using new fans where's old fans and then in terms of the heatsink design it's 37 percent more surface area so it's fatter that's where a lot of your performance comes from it's got more dissipation area and then the airflow obviously from the new fan helps out so that's a next-generation you 12 don't have pricing or anything like that on it it might be about a hundred dollars and what I'm told it comes with two fans but that's all I know right now hopefully launches before end of year for the next-gen you twelve might be early next year but that's kind of what they're looking at right now other things that you might be interested in would be this so this clear piece of plastic here in front of me is the new fan for the 120 except printed in 140 millimeter format or CNC stations so everyone's been asking out where's the 140s from what I understand it's not quite as simple as just scaling up you could scale up a fan design nakta what tells me that they're pushing for the most possible performance out of it so they're more or less refactoring the design for every size that they make and it's taking so long to make 140 so things that have to change our curvature of the blades the account of blades what's an optimal amount of blades on it and material properties material exact material should all stay the same from the 120s so that's good they get to carry over all that R&D for years it's just scaling up to 140 size so that it actually performs at I guess peak performance trying to squeeze out every percent of improvement they can out of it so this is coming they've made prototypes of it if you've wanted a 140 it's just it's not here yet there's also a low profile version so this is also 140 it's just thinner not much to say other than that a couple of there updates on coolers the Redux line here is basically a slightly cheaper version of the normal line with a gray fan so it's reduced packaging fewer accessories drives down the MSRP and that's the Redux nhe 12 which is coming out soon and then this one here is a next-generation 140 millimeter you type cooler so we've talked about you 14s before I think the last time we talked about EU 14 OCT 12 was thread Ripper probably and/or am 4 maybe and with the u 14 it's about 30% more service area so just like this u 12 behind me except not 37 percent 30% more and I think they're going with new fans on it so it'll be expensive because the new fans are expensive don't have a price yet don't have a release date yet but basically it's just a really fat u14 cooler with a new fan like really fat substantial cooler so that'll be new and then the next-gen D 15 is also here in front of me also going to be using new the new fans and also a bit of changes it's got one more heat pipe on it don't have any idea what the price is gonna be on that and I think this there's one more to talk about here this will only interest a few of you I think in our audience but this is a C type course is this a 140 millimeter C type it's a couple millimeters shorter than the vs1 that's the change for this current generation and I think that pretty much covers all the knock to a stop so as always subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow and exits outside directly click the link in the description below for more information thank you for watching I'll see you all next time