Gadgetory

hey soos a brand we all probably heard a million times very widely known for motherboards and some pretty high-end graphics car it didn't low-end as well peripherals lately but what happens when they entered the custom CPU cooling game well they've teamed up with Noctua to bring you the ROG right ryu raul growl Jin Ryu ROH so while the warships came to me with an opportunity to try their game and see how I feel about it and what they didn't know was I'd already been playing they came for a while in fact you probably even seen me tweet about it so this sponsorship was pretty much a no-brainer well the warships is free-to-play and called the thinking man's action game because it's the perfect balance of action and strategy you could command a massive fleet featuring some of the history's most iconic war vessels and as you play you can unlock new ships and dominate the oceans with seven million players worldwide world of warships uses 3d scans of the actual ship to make it as accurate and lifelike as possible with over 200 ships across 11 nations you're likely to see some pretty famous ships in each battle click the link below to play world of warships and collect a special bonus starter pack including 252 blooms 1 million credits HMS Campbeltown premium ship one premium port slot and three days of premium time by using code play warships 2018 if you guys come across me out there on the battlefield I guarantee you don't stand a chance okay so it's no surprise that asus has been building their own ecosystem they've got power supplies now like the Thor power supply which has a live power draw from the wall readout on the side of it in an OLED panel we'll be taking a look at that as well but we saw these first at Computex and they were pretty neat that OLED displays on the water cooler or the water block themselves giving you some pertinent information your system like CPU temperatures clock speed all that sort of thing but it's taken quite a while please to actually come to market because here we are now heading into December and we first saw this back in June so the particular model I have right here is the 360 it does come in a 240 and a 360 variants but I believe this is an ASA Tech patented collaboration with Asus here so we're just doing the unboxing here because what's really difficult for a ia IO a i/o aerial I hate that a IO 4 all in one or closed-loop cooling especially in the United States with the ASA tech patents is there's not a whole lot of customization you can do I mean anything on top of the pump is up to the manufacturer but you're using the same like aluminum radiators you've got either fep tubing or like in this case here sleeved rubber tubing and then there's not a whole lot you can do to really make it custom so what happened here is asus is teamed up with Noctua so we actually have three Noctua industrial PPC fans these are PWM controlled fans and this is a 2,000 rpm fan so it's got the legendary air flow performance and today I crusher performance of a knock to a fan without the ugly brown on it it's solid black so no excuse for them to not just sell black fans all the time all the coolers come with black fans that's just me though I digress but you know what's just as important as your radiator fin density and all of that junk is the actual you know performance of the fans now this is going to support all of your standard sockets all the way from a little LGA 1175 all the way up to all the standard LGA 13 you know xx processors of course your 2011 your 20 66 all that stuff basically like I said it's AIT's a tech so it has all the same mounting options but what's different here is it's got this nifty little cover and this OLED display on the cooler so as I said this is going to connect to or a sink so all of your Asus products are going to link their Ora sinks you can control things like the RGB lighting so it will sync up with the rest of your system we are using an asus motherboard here for testing obviously so that we have an ecosystem i'll be using an asus graphics card as well but then this isn't all that attractive looking so it actually has this cover that can go on top of this like somehow it goes some way now the inherent problem with water cooling a lot of people don't really think about or consider is the fact that there are still components on this top part of the motherboard that need some sort of air cooling you have your vrm blocks on here in this case this motherboard actually has a built in water block / heatsink we need air moving over that we need air moving over the RAM we need to cool the components and the chokes around the CPU these are things that have to be cooled and when you put a water block on there you're removing a lot of the airflow that's created by your air cooler when you have an air cooler whether it be a down fire or a standard-size or you know upright air cooler there is air flow hitting those parts so when you go water cooling you tend to go well my cpu temps are amazing but you might notice a rise in temps on both your RAM as well as your V RMS so asus has thought of that so if you look here it might be kind of hard to see there is a fan down in here that blows down on the socket and the air will splash out and touch all of those components in a 360 fashion now in terms of connectivity we have got a lot of wires here it's unfortunate one of my favorite things about closed-loop coolers there's no wires and stuff all coming off of the pump and stuff but as you can see in this case there is a matrix squid like spaghetti monster coming off of this which is unfortunate but I digress coming off of here you have your fan splitters so you got three here in this case because we have a triple fan our SATA power which is good to see it's nice to not see molex we have a USB 2.0 header because this has to obviously communicate with the system somehow to give you the information the screen as well as be able to control the pump itself and then we have the actual PWM power for the pump so we've got supplemental power coming through the SATA because we're not pulling all of that that wattage and amperage through one header to control the pump and the fans so we supplement that with the SATA which is whether SATA and a PWM on there so y'all we gotta do now we got to install it and see how cool it can keep our 8700 K all right so here we got a problem we've been dealing with right here the fans weren't spinning up on the radiator at all no matter what we did remember these as I showed you are connecting off of a breakout cable or a splitter that is hardwired into the pump and when I came over here I just I realized that one of these wires is actually bad like it there we go oh wow more of them are coming out loo that right there fill so you see those wires going into here well that's my hand on the fan the wires are pulling out of the very first fan hitter so let me show you so this one was the one that was just sitting here and had disconnected from the crimp you can see that I didn't even crimp on to there at all but if we look at the other side you could another ones popped out so yeah something that I would have seriously hoped for better quality out of a two hundred and eighty dollar AIO and the thing is because this is hardwired into the pump it's not even like Asus could send you a replacement cable so the more I handle this the more wires just keep pulling out because upon looking at it you can see this one's crimped you can see how the metal actually folds over and digs into the sleeve or the insulation so that it can't pull out it goes in like this you crimp it it folds over and digs into the insulation that wake the wire can't pull out that didn't happen on some of these as you can see on both of these splitters and they're just the wires are just pulling out we're gonna continue testing to see how well the unit does by just plugging this into a PWM three-way splitter onto my motherboard and then using the AI suite fan controller you know fan tuner to actually tune which means that the cooler itself is not gonna be controlling the radiator anymore it means that the motherboard will okay so I'm using Asus fan expert for to kind of get all the RPMs and stuff set on the fan so it's going to go through the pump it's going to go through the CPU headers and all that stuff and it's going to find the RPM range of the fans that way when you click silent or you know turbo and all that stuff it knows kind of where to set the RPMs this is the same thing you would do though if you were going to be tuning it for plugged in you know if you're plugged to the pump as the way it's supposed to be so the only difference now is instead of the radiator being controlled by the pump it's being controlled by the motherboard CPU and CPU optional headers have a splitter going to one of them and then one fan going to the other header because I couldn't find my 3-way splitter something I shouldn't have had to use for this video unfortunately but the little fan that's actually on the pump will show you in a second that thing is loud holy crap is that thing loud it's a really high-pitched it reminds me of the old chipset fans on the old old-school motherboards back at Vic LGA 775 stuff wait for it there goes wow that thing is so high-pitched and loud now another thing I'm not a huge fan of is the fact that you have to have a separate program for the fan control of the cooler and a separate program for the actual OLED display where you can change the display and the readout and the animation and all that stuff I don't see why a snooze couldn't combine this into one piece of software instead of going the bloatware route so live - this is how you control the little displayed if you have a motherboard an asus motherboard with an OLED you'll see live - OLED there otherwise you'll just see a Oh cooler this is where you can change the stuff you want to see so a i/o we can change your hardware monitor this tells us what things we can see imager animation custom banner and lighting controls that's how you control the lighting if it doesn't use Asus aura which technically we could but we're gonna use the built-in here you can even turn it off if you want and you can rotate it because yeah it's not always straight so you can rotate the display so it's always upright that's kind of nice this is where you select the things you want to monitor so let's see frequency CPU it's good to see voltage would be nice and temperature so these are the things we selected it's cycling through the temperature the voltage as well as the frequency so we're four point seven gigahertz we are one point three one two volts which is kind of high and we are at 27 degrees Fahrenheit on the CPU so obviously our 8700 K is doing pretty decent we can also do a custom banner a little background banner here step to type text English only that's funny how would it know okay whatever there we go J's to senses dope and the best youtuber ever lulz winning best dude 2018 so I mean it's a little bit of fun factor there okay anyway you get an idea you get the idea you can play around the display make it's a really cool things or super true things like that right there and that's all that's all fine and dandy but how does it cool so we're currently idling at 26 see it's showing 37 right now so we just load it up all right 25 see at idle let's run this and see it we get 30 57 you know I Wow it's actually doing pretty decent I'm actually pretty impressed 8700 K is a notoriously hot CPU so this tells me we have quite a bit of overclocking Headroom even though we're at 4.7 gigahertz on all cores it's technically an overclock let's see if this can handle five gigahertz what do you think go for broke blow it up alright so I've got it running at five gigahertz right now one point four volts this is a lot to ask of any a IO on an 8700 K because of how hot they run so let's see if we get you ready for I'd only at twenty nine fit are 29 C 2032 let's bounce around a little bit 28 okay here we go three two one go seventy-five eighty for number 105 is our max on this chip 85 Wow okay I'm pretty impressed I pushed more voltage and I think I would have needed I mean five gigahertz is not that hard to get on at 8700 K but it's hard to keep cool this a oh definitely can keep it cool I just would have really liked to have seen those wires not pull out I mean these are the kind of things you deal with with first round manufacturing I don't know if anyone else has reported the problem ours clearly has a non crimped cables which caused us some issues and we have to use a separate way of interacting with fans but I mean in terms of quality for two hundred and eighty dollars it's two hundred and seventy nine dollars MSRP for the ryujin 363 Noctua fans obviously the OLED display on there we've got some innovation happening getting more than just a typical boring a i/o you you do get some pretty good build quality in terms of the radiator and the extra stuff it's just unfortunately this one if for an average user would have been considered bad out of the box so guys sound off in the comments below and tell me what you think about this cooler we saw it first back at Computex it's nice to see it finally hit the market it's hard to improve upon a Sutekh patented a i/o and obviously asus is putting their spin on it what a IO coolers what a IO coolers do you guys like to use sound off in the comments below and let us know and as always guys we'll see you in the next okay so so well if effort listen to what I'm saying crossfire you know