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hey what's going on Tech fans you're watching Jase - since I am Jay if we've never met before that's who I am and you are used now that we've got that out of the way let's go ahead and talk about what today's topic is and that is the EK cool stream PE triple radiator you guys asked me for some more water cooling reviews so that's exactly what we're gonna do today and we're gonna give it you guessed it the old j's two cents you got to do it with the fists it doesn't have the fist it's not J's two cents it's just your two cents the fists makes it J's yeah now one of the things I've said in previous EK videos is that I love their packaging like they've got so much color and stuff going on and if you'd like to play with the boxes and the packages and stuff then you're certainly going to like this nice I can't get out of the sleeving it doesn't want to come out ah it would actually help if you open the box but anyway when you take it out of the sleeve then it just turns into a boring white box and then all the fun is gone then until you open it up where in this case we're going to find that brand new cool stream radiator now to make sure that you don't lose any of the contents in there they've got a ziplock baggie with all the screws on there which include pass-through screws for mounting your fans as well as short screws for mounting it to your case and they're taped right on there so you don't lose it and inside the fancy bubble wrapping here which you know you've got a top it something I'm really pop okay so once you realize that you really suck at popping bubble wrap you can go ahead and take the radiator out of the packaging and you'll see that you have a very minimalistic design here which is exactly what they were going for with this radiator it's very square actually has aluminum plating on here to give it this nice appeal and this nice look to it it has brass and tanks and 90% copper core on here as well as copper fins so you have a nice mixture here of metals that give it the aluminum doesn't touch the water so you don't worry about any of the corrosion issues that come along with aluminum but you do have brass and copper on here which are very good conductors of heat and gives you very good heat dissipation now one of the things that they do also offer here is what they call their double stacked fin design basically what it is to split fin they're not the first company to offer this but there are not very many companies out there that are offering this where instead of having a single piece of metal that zigzags all the way across between the different rows of the core you have two sets that are basically opposing where their points touch which gives you a massive surface area but also very low hydraulic retention which they call it where you don't need super high static pressure fans or high speed fans to push air through this in fact if I just breathe right now I can feel my breath it's kind of gross actually you can feel the air on the other side just barely blowing so what we're going to go ahead and do here is I'm just going to show you some of the other features of this radiator and I'm going to put fans on here and I'm put some paper on the other side there 100 no 100 god that'd be incredibly slow fans there 1000 rpm fans that I'm going to hook up on the fan controller and we're going to see at what rpm do we start to see the paper move on this so you can see whether or not this split fin or this stacked fin design is really all it's cracked up to be now they do advertise that this radiator is only for 120 millimeter fans so I don't think they have a 140 version as of yet this is the triple as I mentioned one to three fans on there you've got your you know your fittings here that are mounted through this really nice-looking nickel-plated threading basically I know it's kind of a new I'll just say it's a nipple but other than that it's very minimalistic and it looks very very good which is exactly what they're going for with this radiator design it says right on their website but this is this is intended for a minimalistic yet stylish look so the powder coating on here is really really good it's very satiny dust it's kind of a dusted finish unfortunately it picks up like dirt and things really easy so you kind of not want to handle it a whole lot when you put it in your build and then you know wipe it clean when you're done it looks like when I look at the screws on here the screw holes might slightly just barely line up with the edge of the radiator rows on here which I would have liked them to have maybe made it so that it didn't even have a chance of protruding into the tube if you accidentally screw down in there too far but you do have at least a quarter inch before you get there so if you've miss measured the screws by that far if you're not using their included screws then you really did it wrong so I'm just going to go ahead and say that so but I mean as you can see we can we can kind of see through there not too bad and considering the amount of fins that are actually on this thing it's actually quite impressive one thing that they also do advertise is the fact that this is apparently best-in-class for 40 millimeter thick radiators so it is a 40 millimeter thick rat so enough talking about this let's just go ahead and put some fans on here and see how this thing performs at low rpm fans which inevitably means that you can have a very silent system without sacrificing any performance of your radiator all right so for this air test here are the parts that we're using I'm using three of my phobia NBD eel oops these are the noise blocker fans there are 1000 rpm fans of course we've got the radiator that we're talking about because it would just be dumb to do a review about one radiator and then do it about another so obviously we're looking at the cool stream PE here still from ek I've got three pieces of paper they're taped on here and as you can see they're just sort of dangling on there see whew just so you guys can see there's no shenanigans they are completely just dangling there now you guys may be saying why are they kind of off to the side slightly well I didn't put them in the very center of the fan because we all know the center of the fan is sort of the dead zone so I've got them slightly off to the so that the air coming through the radiator is hitting directly on the piece of paper so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and flip this a little bit sideways so you guys could see the paper and we're going to go ahead and flip on my fan controller here so you guys can see just how much air is actually coming through this radiator without it making any sound this thing is completely silent okay so just one last little thing I'm going to do just for fun as I've got this little piece of paper here that I've set in front of the radiator so that you guys can see how the fact that this thing is truly moving air for quite a ways in front of it so check it out yeah it's moving that much air guys at a thousand rpm through this radiator so that's pretty damn awesome I can only assume that the cooling of it's going to be just as good so guys this has been the ek LC solution cool stream PE I don't really know the PE stands for you're gonna have to go look that one up they link to the product is down in the description make sure you guys go and check them out and give ek a big thank you for sending me this to check out for you guys so if you're looking for a radiator make sure you go and check that out I think it blew all the way off the table yes it did guys this thing moves a ton of air considering the fact that it's high density it's got high fin density on there so good job ek on that one I've just got to say keeps the noise down you can use low speed fans which means less dust less noise and it's a win-win all around so guys it's been Jays two cents here taking a look at this ek radiator you know where to go 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