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hey everyone today we're tearing apart some liquid coolers some of these were dismantled a few years ago for those of you who've been following since maybe 2012 or 2013 or there abouts but today we're also gonna be tearing apart one of the liquid coolers found on the hybrid cards that we've been building lately before getting to the teardown this coverage is brought to you by MSI and a new msi gtx 1060 gaming X video card with three pre overclocked settings so the coolers we have here on the table I've got the EVGA hybrid cooler that's on their official hybrid models but that we've been putting on pretty much every video card coming out lately and we'll talk about more about this design in a moment this one is not open so I'll be taking that apart on camera haven't taken one of those apart before we've also got the H 110 this is a few years old now this is already torn apart a few years ago in one of our older videos the H 110 I believe is a Gen 3 ASA tech cooler and then we've also got the enttec which haven't said that name a long time an tech cooler also torn apart and this one is not a stack this one's built by Dyna Tron I believe and instead of having the pump on the the blah or the pump on the cold plate which would be here the pumps are actually located in these in the chambers above the fans so that's pretty unique and different we'll talk about that as well and why they made those decisions so with liquid coolers we've already done a video about the manufacturers and suppliers of liquid coolers and how there's really not a lot out there it's basically either your coolers made by a ASA tech who make this one and this one and the NZXT x-series coolers or it's made by cool it's or a cool IT they make some of course hair as coolers and they've also been involved legally with ASA tech and then Dyna Tron's another option they made these antique ones there is a swift tech booted out of the US market with their H to 20 by ASA Tech but they make coolers as well and there's also of course cooler master not it sounds like there's a good amount of people but there's really not considering how many manufacturers there are verses suppliers coolermaster just as reference made the fury x cooler that AMD uses and also made the cpu stock coolers included with FX 9000 series CPUs and cooler master also makes the Intel stock heatsink but that's not liquid cooler so we won't talk about that so let's talk about this one first this is the H 110 this is a few years old it's been torn apart there's no liquid really left in here for the most part and you can see it's it's kind of dried up in some places because it's been exposed to air sitting in a box for years but the design here is very simple this is where the cold plate used to reside I actually have got the bottom half of it here there's the cold plate taped to the bottom half of the pump block and this is just like a foam basically to kind of dam that area and so what happens a liquid comes in one tube and it goes out the other this is a I think this is loose yeah there's a secured by magnet sits in there and this will spin that's your actual pump that's creating their propulsion so it's a little propeller pushes the liquid around if we were to put these back together that goes over the pump like this some somewhere like that and when it spins it'll pull liquid in when we look at this from one chamber so you can see this little chamber here goes under almost like a tunnel they go tunnels under this chamber where the pump or the propeller is located so that's one chamber that's another chamber between them you have an in and out effectively valve setup for the liquid cooler so that is the corsair h 110 that's built for CPUs can of course be used pretty much anywhere but that's a basic idea we've already taken that apart let's put that aside this is the antec cooler which I also took apart years ago at the same time as that one this one's a similar design but it's more complex so first of all this is the coldplay I've actually taken this cold plate out it looks pretty much the same as what you'll find on the other side of this one but basically these are micro fins so that's a copper cold plate it's flat copper on the bottom and then little copper protrusions on the inside dozens of them if not more than that but tons of copper fusions the liquid runs through these micro fins and so what happens is your heat gets transferred from the IIHS to this bottom of the cold plate the fins will of course heat kind of disperses across surface area depending on where heat will travel where there's where it's cold so it'll go up into these fins liquid runs through the fins and the fins mount to this block here and this one we don't have a propeller mounted inside of this sort of CPU block instead the liquid runs through there's an in and out right here and an out valves or pass throughs I should say goes in one out the other cools it and the sort of warmed liquid will travel up and go up the tube eventually arrive at the pump block which is mass into the fans and this unique cooler by Dino Tron and Antec and once it gets here to the to this block this little thing lives in there like that so that goes in there and if we look at it this is similar to a fan this is almost exactly what you would see if you open one of your case fans these are our little magnetic poles so there's four poles on this and this is secured by magnet or magnetism right there so you can see it's pulled down by magnetism and that's the actual propeller for the Antec unit so that spins same thing that pushes liquid around so it'll pull liquid up here and push it down there and then once once it's been pushed down very simple just like any radiator works in a car or anywhere else the liquid kind of this is a tank this contains a good amount of water the liquid travels down these little longer tubes right here it goes down to the other tank and gets cycled eventually you end up there's another I believe there's another pump here that I haven't opened that one eventually you end up back in the cold plate area on the CPU block and these aluminum fins siphon all the heat off of that tube as the liquid is traveling data so the idea is as liquid runs down the sort of metal tubes in there got Arenas falling out as liquid travels down those tubes the warm liquid is being is having its heat conducted away by all the aluminum fins then these fans push cold air through the fins and dissipate the heat out somewhere else ideally out the case so what you end up with of course is cooled liquid which then cycles back through the whole system so that's the idea that's how a liquid cooler works and same idea with this Dyna Tron one as this gen 3 A's attack as that's newer H Tech one so let's look at this one now this is the 120 millimeter GPU version of a liquid cooler as we've discussed in the past the reason it is a GPU version of a cooler is because the cold plate has this protruded copper in the middle of it so we compare the two you can see a pretty clear difference obviously this is a dyno Tron cold plate but same idea so flat plate built for CPUs are mostly flat versus this completely flat protrusion so what's going on here this is the theory these I don't know if it's the case for this an Tek one but if you measure a Sutekh coolers and some of the other coolers on the market what you'll see is that the cold plate has a very slight curvature to it and that's to better fit and accommodate an IHS whether it's Andy or Intel so the IHS is slightly curved and it's also got hot spots on it a GPU is perfectly flat it's just silicon there's no exposed there's no IHS sort of conducting heat away from the silicon to wherever it's going so it's just exposed silicon that's it no IHS so for that reason a GPU is flat and for that reason you want a flat cold plate because it'll be more efficient in conducting the heat away because this can make better contact and we've actually tested that if you look up our 980ti hybrid versus Seahawk coverage you'll find that so this thing pretty sure has copper protrusion it sinks more heat and then the liquid will cool as normally tubes are a bit different on the outside but same idea internally as different types of tubes we'll talk about that later maybe so let's let's take this thing apart I'm gonna start with just pulling the the cold plate off and this will leak hot illiquid quick note here if you think you want to do this on your own note that your liquid cooler will be basically useless afterwards so these are things that for us will get shelved and never used again because once you've drained the liquid you really can't get it back in there it's supposed to be a closed loop for a reason first of all the design of these things these are pump caps they can actually be removed if you find the right place to pull on them we've shown that in the past they're guys so that's a cap you can actually get a custom one of these made I'm not sure where you'd do that but you could certainly have one done that covers the pump so we've got the copper coiling going on and the pump itself with the propeller is gonna be on the inside but that's the outside so that's kind of what we're looking up there you can see in and out or actually there you go arrows indicate this pretty well so that's the end so liquid comes in this tube and it goes out this tube and then back to the radiator and the tank this is the sort of bracket to mount to whatever socket you're working with and you're going to need a different one of those for each type of cooler and/or each type of socket rather GPU CPU or otherwise so I'm not sure if if we can separate that completely from the rest of the unit or not and put a different bracket on there but we'll find out okay so there we go there's the bracket that could be removed if you had a different bracket in mind it looks like you could actually mount one to there not sure I don't have the crack and cooler bracket next to me but that may be compatible much not entirely sure on that but that you can remove the bracket so there's that let's go ahead and take the rest of the pin apart I did I think I might have felt a little bit of some leakage out of there but I'm not positive it doesn't release oh yeah definitely okay so there's a bit of liquid coming out see right there there's a liquid so in that case I would actually as as we stated with one of our hybrid built I'd be very careful that replacing the bracket so I kind of take some of that back because yep so uh don't take that off if you want a different bracket on there by a different cooler that's the that's the answer to the heck question I thought it was gonna be more versatile than that all right so this is this let me let me show you this before we take this apart this is a much newer generation of ASA tech cooler I am NOT I'll top my head I'm not positive if it's a Gen 4 or 5 this is a gen 3 if this is from the H 110 so I there not many obvious differences on this side of the cooler but you can see they're both vasotec design obviously so let's you've got this sort of padding here in and out as previously through one chamber in the other chamber and then this there's your little spindle propeller which now appears to be yellow mounts in there to one feels like maybe a two pole set up yeah I mean it is a two pole because you can even look up here so that's that let's pull the let's pull the cold plate off just to look inside of that see how that looks like I've gotta have a better screwdriver for this stuff is not pleasant come on thank you so it was a little difficult to get the cold plate out hopefully that's all cut through and you don't have to see the trip to Louis but we this is just the number one Philips I just needed a longer one so we get some leverage so these are in they're really pretty good and they're small screws so we got all of them out with the number one Philips and then that one got pretty rounded out so I could not remove that it's also when they're very tight so you'll notice it's still in there I actually just pried this pried it off with a flathead yeah the hole just I think it was this one because you can I don't know if you can see that on camera but it's huh it's all effed up now so that's where the screw used to be but we've exposed the rest of the pump so here's here's what we've got this one does not actually have the micro fins I was expecting that we see on the other ones well it does but they're they're much different so what we've got is this little rubber sort of washer basically just helps keep it air tight so liquid doesn't leak out or anything so that goes on there piece of rubber and once you take that off you can you might be able to see very tiny micro fins in there plenty b-roll on that but I'll hold it still so very tiny as much remove the antique ones where they're a lot farther apart so that's the fins that help dissipate all the heat when the liquid passes through it got that and to be honest I'm not sure what this little aluminum fitting does on top of it maybe it just protects them have to ask a to talk about that but okay so this is kind of interesting there's a little channel on either side when we take that metal off so that shows this channeling and we can now see pretty well higher set of fins higher set of fins and lower and so the liquid just shoots straight through that way and that's it and then this goes C goes like that so that's on top here's your in and out areas maybe not in that order but in and out for sure and then I'm not sure what these little plastic things are for I think that's just a hook into the rubber but I'm not sure to be honest let's see that goes like that and then pull it away and that's what we've got so that is the inside of a couple of different liquid coolers the Corsair one you saw that it's a bit different than the new EVGA model cold plates pretty cool though definitely it's definitely a neat piece of copper the way it's designed there's those fins I really they're very tiny let's see if we can show them next to each other you can see how first of all the imperfections on this one those were there since I opened it so that's not a that's not from our reverse engineering that's just poor quality control but you can see it's kind of got the same channels flanking it like if I hold them like that maybe it's easier and you can see that a deck friends are way tinier that does mean more surface area because it's more copper right so there's more copper more surface area you can wick more heat and the antique ones are taller though but yeah that's the idea so those are a couple different liquid coolers this if I kind of hold this up here it's now useless one note on this so liquid coolers first of all it's not water in there but liquid coolers are not meant to be sort of completely airtight I think that's kind of a common misconception so we talked about in a couple videos now how the tubes on liquid cooler should be mounted if it's a nasal tech pump way with if you've got a rear-mounted team should be on the bottom not the top and the reason for that is so you reduce pump noise when the the tubes are at the top there's a good chance that the pump will suck air through and create some gurgling noise and that is because they're not airtight which is by design because when if you filled it completely with liquid when it's sort of in the sock configuration and hook it up to a system and run the cpu at you know 70 60 Celsius something like that suddenly the the liquid of course will expand that's the nature of how these things work so how heat transfer works so it expands it'll sort of fill in some of that space that's why there's the extra air in there and it's not just filled completely one of the reasons anyway so that's all for this one check out more videos on liquid coolers I need to wash my hands to stuff is it's not great we have a pretty cool hybrid series with our X 480 to 1080 and a 1060 if you want to see one of these things used in action check those videos out as always subscribe for more content patreon like the post or video I'll see you all next time hey everyone today we're tearing apart some liquid coolers have actually already torn some of these apart a couple of years ago for those of you you have