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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers access net and today we're talking about who makes what in the world of liquid cooling solutions for CPUs and GPUs so we're talking about CLC's closed-loop liquid coolers also known as a iOS all-in-ones and specifically talking about who makes the actual underlying pump solution provided to the brands with which you are all familiar this topic came about following some of our coverage of asa tech cooler master and cool IT lately when readers and viewers asked who is asa tech who is cool IT and why do I not see their liquid pumps liquid coolers on sale on newegg and Amazon so the reason for that is because they are OEM s or original equipment manufacturers and they are effectively suppliers in this market they supply the complete liquid cooling solution to brands that exist like Corsair NZXT and several other companies AMD intel they supply the cooler to those companies and those companies provide some level of design input and then effectively brand it as their own and sell it as a finished product there are many other suppliers in this space as well so OMS would include at the top of things we have sort of the main aisa tech cool IT and cooler master cluster of suppliers and to give an idea of what they produce what you've seen them in a syntax pumps their blocks are normally circular and those are sold through Corsairs product line up the odd numbered ones like the h110 the h100i gtx emotes odd-numbered end or odd numbered 10 digit it's still the GTX model which is an AC tech thing of course there's line is pretty confusing but you can see on the chart that these are the products that ace tech makes now of course are also sources supply from cool itu make a slightly different pump and cooling solution but not different enough to avoid a settlement with haste attack so it's it's sort of similar at a top level at least and those products would include things like the h-60 the h80i the h100i GT and similar products so those are the actual suppliers of the solution now where does coarser in this instance come out to play well a company like Corsair enermax ndx he any of these companies Silverstone not to single anyone out any of these companies can approach the CLC supplier the OEM and provide a spec sheet they can say we want LEDs we want variable pump speed we want things like this certain type of fan that we already make which by the way is supplied from another company like dynatron often and then the CLC supplier will take all that data they'll modify whatever their existing offerings are they have a list of existing supply that they can modify tune and customize the manufacturers liking and then hopefully that differentiates them enough to produce a noticeable performance Delta and testing it's not always the case and we were there within a couple of degrees of each other but sometimes there's a big difference so the manufacturer does actually matter even though this feels like it's all the same product and that's because things as simple as fan choice can greatly impact the dissipation ability of the radiator if you choose a fan that produces a lot of turbulence within the fins it's not going to work very well so it does matter and the company is like the manufacturers and the brands do put in some level of testing depending on who it is so we've toured some of their labs we've seen that they test these things and the reason I bring this up is because I don't want to ruin the mysticism of the hardware industry for any of you yes at the end of the day power supplies cases coolers GPU heat pipes all that stuff it comes from sort of a small list of people the companies that we see every day on newegg and amazon aren't necessarily actually engineering the very low-level details of these products that doesn't mean they don't have input so there is still an important differentiation to be made especially when you look at things like support warranties testing validation all that stuff but at the same time it's important to note that a select few group of suppliers are the ones actually contributing the base product which is what impacts the core performance of that product to the industry so to run through a few of them very quickly for liquid cooler specifically assotech makes a lot of the corsair units that would include the h 110 the h100i some of the GT suffix products and cool ite also makes some Corsair units including the even 10 digit models like the h-60 the h80i h100i and things along that nature the suffix GTX models and then you have other companies NZXT their x 61 x 41 x 31 the x 30 x 40 x 60 those are all ASA tech products they've differentiated themselves from competing asa tech products like Corsairs by doing different LED setups they have an RGB LED they plug into the crack and software and they have a variable pump speed so that's sort of what they're selling point is in that specific instance then you have the sort of smaller but boutique companies like Silverstone and fractal design they have their suppliers as well there OMS and silver stones is a pal tech and they make enermax coolers as well they make epic coolers which is an animatics brand so it's sort of all the OEMs get around with these companies you can see all their products from all the different manufacturers and those lists or the table should detail who makes what and hopefully that demystifies things a bit without ruining the the infatuation that everyone sort of has about their favorite brands if if they do have that so that's the content for who makes what on liquid coolers check the article link to the description below if you just want the table to get a look at who is actually selling me the product I like at the end of the day and as I said manufacturers do still matter so don't just sort of rule them out as relevant to the process because it doesn't matter it's more than just a sticker operation it's more than just putting their brand sticker on it that said you can buy unbranded ones three companies like system integrators high power cyberpower those folks will sell unbranded supplied liquid coolers to reduce their costs and compete more directly with the DIY pricing that's one of the ways they can compete with the price and the DIY world so that's all for this time if you like the stove cons hit that patreon link in the post well video like comment subscribe all that stuff and I will see you all next time