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return of the no food bowl because we are going to be doing a teardown of another liquid cooler today this time it's the enter max TR for lick tech cooler that's used for thread Ripper the reason we're taking this apart is because it's the first liquid cooler of its kind to really exist purpose-built for thread Ripper and as such it's got a larger cold plate the question is once you're inside of the actual pump housing does the cold plate protrude into micro fins across the entire plate or just over the die coverage area have they repurposed the pump from a smaller unit that's what we're gonna be trying to answer today but before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by ifixit.com and their protec toolkit i fix it as refreshing their protec toolkit in time for the holidays you can find a link in the description below to the protec toolkit and other toolkits that iFixit sells we find the protec and essentials kits to be the most useful for DIY enthusiasts ok so we've already benchmarked these we benchmark the 240 on the 360 previously they perform pretty well actually and now we just want to learn what's inside and if the pump housing has been repurposed so to do that it's got tortes heads in the entire cold plate all around the cold plate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 of them and also we've got two large Torx screws here which I think are basically fill ports and these are more meant for the RMA Department then for people like us but it's nice to have access to them if you want it to prolong the life the cooler by refilling it once there's some permeation so first we need to remove the mounting plate which is done and then we've also got Torx screws in the top for the LED plate the nameplate I'm not sure when we're gonna have to remove those and let's I'm gonna start with the fill port or what I think is the fill port because I want to just empty as much of the liquid as possible that's always the biggest pain with doing these is the fact that they have liquid in them so we'll start there try and get as much out as we can and then go through the rest the kit that I'm using right now I think is the 64 bit kit not 64 bits like computing sixty-four as in that's how many bits there are in there you know let's just remove one of these this I think is a TR 20 that we're using right now so it's pretty mad as the first time I've had to use that one and okay that's been removed so I'm thinking liquids just gonna kind of come out at this point or is it blocked off more than that you see a drop come out yes yes okay that's all you got oh and ER Max and coolermaster are the two that use a like a neon toxic green coloured what I would assume is propylene glycol that's what everyone else uses typically it's a clear fluid but they might just add a dye to it oh there we go that one came out with a stopper or with an o-ring okay that should that should help toxic green if this comes out of you there's a problem hey I think we pretty much got it okay I put it down and a bunch more it's gonna come out almost exactly 200 milliliters so if you're gonna completely drain and refill one of these yourself it's looking like about 200 milliliters you probably want to fill a little over that because I had a couple drops miss and there's place some more in there so maybe call it like 225 or something to be safe but it should be pretty obvious once it's fall anyway okay so I'm gonna plug those back up and then start taking the cold plate off and then we'll move these again if we have to it's possible that they need to come out for disassembly so let's just dump this into the larger one for now and now for the cold plate you are 9 I think is what we want pretty good maybe a 10 let's try it 10 it's 20 for the big ones on the sides 10 right here I need a bit more torque than that we're good hopefully this is easier than the easytek ones the esoteric ones are a nightmare to get the cold blade off because they're so torqued to prevent leakage and they use well they might not use fewer screws but the placement of the screws and the torque plus the softness of the screws means that it's very easy to strip them and at that point you basically have to drill it out but this looks like it's assembled in a way that you should be able to actually use their services if you wanted to I don't think they encourage it or suggest it but it's probably for RMA purposes and then that benefits us as well Wow that's a very wide channel rubber gasket over it that clear thing is or maybe a silicone that's like a rubber so we've got a gasket and discolorations a little interesting I'm not sure why it's discolored you see that a little bit maybe maybe someone with more materials experience can tell me what that is and why it happens and if it matters the discoloration we're seeing a little bit of yellowing on the edges though of the copper so yeah copper coal blade is that just like there's like some gunk in there a little bit of gunk but nothing that's gonna really affect performance in a meaningful way that gray stuff but the interesting thing it is actually more or less the full size of the cold plate that's not what I was expecting to be honest I thought there's gonna be like a repurposed micro fin array from one of the smaller plates which would cut off around there so it does I actually take the full surface area for the most part you've got channeling on the sides for liquid flow the gasket helps with well actually I guess the channeling on the side is not for that that is it is for the oh no you get some liquid through there but it's mostly for accommodating the gasket which helps with increasing pressure of the liquid moving through the micro fins so that I can get through there more quickly and deal with any potential impedance from things like these gunked-up fins which I'm not sure why they're like that but let's take a look at this okay so you can see part of the impeller in there I think the rest of its inside the rest of the housing and we've got in and outlets over here and then the micro fins obviously in here with more of our discoloration on that side so let's let's see if we can take apart the rest of this and gain access I don't this looks kind of like a machined Laak so maybe we have to go in through the top which isn't gonna be a different size break into this one yes tr6 is what we want is that small just sounds like chemical you smell that right top of the letters toward the cable okay top two letters toward the cable I will not remember that here we have the PCB obviously so this thing this isn't just me trying to advertise for them we've had these kits since iFixit first ran ads with us and I don't know if this comes from them I think it yeah it does because this has a magnet icon in it so I only just discovered this like a week or two ago there's just a small magnet kind of you get this magnet on a stick for your car and this is the first time I've gotten to use it which is always amusing to actually have a use for a new tool nice okay sweet so there's the the impeller is going to be in here oh yeah I can actually see the impeller now cool we'll get to that in a second and got the PCB which is controlling your LEDs the RPMs rpm temperature response stuff like that if they have fed in here and a big ol ring in there which against so against the o-ring you can see it's brace in on this bit of the housing the plastic shell around the impeller magnetic there you go that looks familiar it's magnetic its polarized as all all pumps are you pull it off and there is the Impaler which actually looks pretty similar to stuff that Dyna Tron makes I don't know actually who enter max the supplier is for this this is leading me to think maybe Dyna Tron but I'm not positive pretty similar to the old Dyna Tron stuff romantic 12 50s though so yeah there's there's our impeller it's got some grooves on the outside where you can see basically the blades so you can see the grooves where it's pulling and pushing the liquid got some more in there so in this in the current state of this liquid cooler we can actually reassemble it and still use it which is really cool because there's another content idea there typically when we disassemble these things it requires destroying stuff and this one if I wanted to I could get under here but I don't want to there's no point it's hot glued on you can actually see the hot glue around the edges so I'd have to start pulling it apart further I don't want to break the bond on these cables and underneath all you're gonna see is the electromagnet you can actually see some of the copper down in there so this it's just an electromagnet in there it's nothing special we've shown them before so we're gonna stop there for this cooler let's make sure there's nothing else on here that is we're seeing they're not really this is just I don't know if I'm not sure what they used to make this housing here you guys someone someone else can tell me for this housing does this look like machines CNC diecast you know what's the appropriate term for this so if you look at it it's pretty much a unibody I think for the most part yeah so it's I mean it's either way whatever the approach is and I'd love to learn more about it the assembly is pretty high-quality we already tested it for thermals perform as well noise noise normalized performance is good and now you can see how it all goes together and other than that I mean yeah this would be trivial to refill so that's pretty much it for the NR max lick tech cooler actually I could refill this with its own liquid I guess we wanted to it's a bit contaminated but from going in a bowl it's been used before but we could do it if we wanted to because this thing I'm actually kind of excited to try and refill and use because we every time we've taken apart the haze attack ones you could refill them but it'd be a real pain to do it and it's probably not really worth it most of time we've had to drill apart the cold plate as well because there's screws strips so easily but this thing came apart easily there is a little bit of stuff in the micro fins but it's only a couple spots it kind of looks like they're all paste so I don't know how much of that got in there just from me handling it because I always have their own face on my hands versus how much was in there already but yeah if you needed to service this unit and refill it or something would be pretty easy to do so and the micro fans extend across the whole service area of the plate so that's really cool too so that's all for this one as always you get a patreon.com slash gamers nexus it helps out directly or you can go to store die cameras Nexus dot knives I pick up a shirt like this one or one of our GN stickers and again then get ifixit.com for coming back on as an advertiser you can check their link in the description below to find all the tools we used here today thank you for watching I'll see you all next time