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alright guys Jay here with Jays two cents it's summertime it's hot and I promise you guys videos on how to keep things nice and cool now the computer we have behind us might look a little bit familiar this is actually my old switch 810 case and we have transplanted all of coconut monkeys computer parts over there and look at this awesome cable management whoo who built this computer I wonder who built this computer like I said it is really hot where we live in fact today it was actually kind of cool it was only in the upper 90s yeah was only in the upper 90s but we're looking at 110 degree temperatures coming did you know that this weekend 110 yeah so we need to keep this thing cool now this is what he's been using hand me that Hemi that over there would you now his i7 this is an X 58 platform it's a 960 i7 yeah it's prior to the Sandy Bridge series and it gets really freakin hot now this is the cooler that came with it it it's just a dinky little 120 millimeter cooler and without an overclock or any overbuilt here take it it burns without any overclocks or anything on this thing he was still getting up into the upper 80s lower 90s on temperature way too freakin hot so I decided you know what why don't we go ahead and do a cooling video where I throw in this bad boy right here this is an alpha cool complete water cooling kit they have a whole bunch of different kits and this is one of their upper end models and I figured why don't we go ahead and pull out all the stuff so this one is one of their premium kits now why am i doing a kit review you guys are constantly asking me for parts that I recommend in your water cooling loops you guys want to do custom loops but you don't know what parts to buy it gets really confusing if you've shopped on aqua tunings website or you've checked out frozen CPU or any of those other retailers you guys know there are a metric crap ton of parts and it gets very confusing now unless you're doing some sort of a super custom build like I did for red mist or like I tend to do for myself or you've been doing this for a long time and you just know parts compatibility because you've done it so much I don't actually recommend that you guys piece together your own loops because kits like this are available now this is a custom loop in a box this is not downgraded parts that they just kind of put into it into a kit this alpha' cool has a whole range of kits as I mentioned that go from the lower end to the upper end this happens to be on the upper end spectrum but these are hand-picked parts put in a box the exact same part so if you bought them individually through the retailer they're the exact same packaging inside they just put all of the guesswork or they take all of the guesswork out of it and put it in here for you so that's why we're taking a look at one of these kits now we're going to go ahead and unbox this we're going to put it in his system and we're going to see how the temperatures perform now the cool thing about these kits is as I mentioned they have everything including the little adapter you need to plug into your power supply unit to jumper it and bleed your system because that's actually the part people seem to have the most trouble with is figuring figuring out how to bleed their system now when you open the box you can see you're greeted with a bunch more packaging in there imagine that like I said guys this thing is completely custom loop in a box now reservoirs this is a square box obviously we're not going with a tubular how do you do that oh yeah turbulence we are going with a bae res now ebay res basically does just that it sits back here in the bay the cool thing about that is typically at least with the output cool kits they have an integrated pump mount in the back so the d5 pump which is in my opinion one of the best pumps you can get on the market it's a Lange pump it's actually an industrial pump basically mated to work for PCs it's going to mount right here in the back so you know you have to think about the loop order the most important loop border which is pump and res is a singular combo so this thing's got the little screw mounts on the side it just slides right into the reservoir and in fact he'll be able to see all the fluid and stuff from the front he can even put an LED bar right here on the top and light up his reservoir if he wanted there's an indentation there it's filtered it's got flow control in there it's actually a like a little I know how you describe that basically like an anti turbulent fitting on each the intake and the outtake and they this is actually the upgraded version the old had the it was like a copper looking decal guy go this way there's like a copper looking decal on there and a copper fitting here but they've made these black and blue to match the output cool theme I think that looks an awful lot better so that's the reservoir that comes in there the it even comes with the fluid which is important - it comes with an entire leader of their CKC cape Kelvin catcher I don't really know what that means to be honest I think they might have to rethink the name of the fluid basically guys this is just an ultra enhanced and tight corrosive antimicrobial fluid it's pre-mixed you have to add anything to it you can't add color to this if you want in fact we might do that I don't know we'll see so it's already pre-mixed and ready to go for you this is the pump right here as I mentioned it's just a plain old d5 variable speed so we can control the speed on there this is essentially the exact same thing that I replaced on the red mist build when we had the pump go bad and they sent me the replacement pump this is pretty much what they send you Ek Swift tech alpha cool XSP see anything that's labeled d5 it's just a rebranded Lang pump so they're all exactly the same our CPU block we are using the nexxus cooler here it's essentially the same thing that is in my computer behind me only this is the acetal version not to be confused with the asshole version um so it's kind of stretched jokes there it is a copper base solid copper base and then it's nice and light though because it's not the brass top which mine is has all the mounting hardware everything you need no guesswork set that right over there now tube this is a 3/8 inch tubing here so it's not 1/2 inch tubing but there's I just want to put a myth to rest real quick there's absolutely no difference whatsoever between 3/8 tubing and 1/2 inch tubing when it comes to cooling capacity in fact you wanting a technical the acrylic bit tubing that I put in red mist is even smaller than this so yeah this has already come this already comes a 10-foot length I believe there you go so what else do we get in the box here oh yeah fittings you got to have your fittings these are already all picked out for you they are compression fittings they are not Barb's these happen to be kind of a dust black the fittings are already there compression Tunisia dealing with Barb's and clamps piece-of-crap of course you have to have your fans so they come with three and this is the cool part you guys know that these are not cheap fans these are the nbe loops now you guys may think these look an awful light a lot like the noise blockers and some of you guys might even be going oh those are just noise blocker ripoffs well guess what alpha cool was actually the one that designed this fan in conjunction with noise blocker so the exact same fan with the exact same rubber styling that we all love about the noise blocker fans only there in blue because alpha cools blue and they are 1,200 rpm fans great static pressure that's why they include them in the kit I highly highly recommend them as I mentioned earlier we have our little jumper here this is just a piece that goes on the end of your 24 pin for the power supply you plug that in and when you turn on your power supply switch or you plug it into the wall this will send power to your pump so you can bleed your system without turning on anything else new system this is only a few bucks but this is invaluable when you do this sort of thing definitely pick one of these up if you're looking at doing a custom build for yourself or custom looping you don't have one of those now the radiator as I mentioned earlier this is one of their upgraded kits so this is a 360 millimetre radiator but it is also a 60 millimeter thick radiator so this is one of the reasons why we converted coconut monkeys case over to the NZXT because look at the thickness of this thing that's what she said say it say yes look at that 60 millimeters thick by 360 millimeters 10 fins per inch you can see right through the thing multiple port outputs on there so you can pretty much set this up anywhere you need but I just want to point out I'm going to have to remove this little side panel right here this is going to go right up in there like that and it's barely going to fit in fact we're going to have to put the fans up in the top part in that little cubby because there's no way these would fit without hitting the motherboard with the fans on there so it's gonna be kind of stealth up in there a little bit it's going to be a nice clean look and you know you have to admit the Alpha cool radiators these are just gorgeous don't you think I mean look at this but if this radiator is not big enough for you well maybe you just like to get yourself one of these bad boys maybe go with a 560 yeah yeah now this is actually my radiator for skunkworks coming up so here go ahead and hold on just yeah I you thought was gonna throw it did she I got him you should see yeah so yeah that's everything in the box of course it does have some instructions on there it's really really simple guys there's only a couple of connections you know hook the reservoir to the pump or the reservoir to the CPU CPU to the radiator radiator back to the reservoir it's really simple we're I'm going to go ahead and maybe time-lapses build I'm not going to do a how-to because it's so basic in fact I've got other videos you guys need to check out like somewhere maybe there and there on the screen go check those videos out but we're gonna go ahead and install this thing fire it up we're going to see what the temperatures look like while we check out this alpha cool custom loop in a box so don't go anywhere I meant to hit the monitor the lens and I completely missed handed to me I'm going to I'm going to reset member member alright guys so it comes to installing the Alpha cool all-in-one kit it's pretty straightforward I mean the compression fittings are easy to use you just screw them in and make sure they're nice and tight don't use a wrench on them because you might actually destroy the threads on the plastic parts but screw down the compression may give you plenty of hose I mean the hose be plentiful and that joke was bad blend coconut monkeys when it gave it to me and as you can see we only use we actually use less than half of what we needed because it's such a small run as you can see I mean it's just from the reservoir to the radiator to the CPU block and back when it comes to cooling it sure as hell destroys this I mean if you remember from the other video we were getting 90 we were hitting about 90 degrees Celsius with this thing under load yeah right now we're running we've been running prime95 now for 20 minutes the cpu coolant is pretty much equalized and we're sitting at low 70s high 60s with an overclocked by the way this thing's at almost 4 gigahertz with an overclock I have no idea what the voltage is I'm not a monitoring voltage I'm just letting it Auto volt which you know is typically a bit higher and the other temperatures that you saw before were with no overclock whatsoever now there are some things I don't like about this kit I love the design of the bay reservoir but it has got the stupidest filling mechanism I have ever seen I just got to say the mechanism has a nipple that pulls out it has a little hole in it that you've got to try and finagle the coolant through that's too small for any funnel to fit so we actually had to like finagle a like a cake icing thing that you squeeze like the tip off of that into the hole and a funnel into that and then coconut monkey had to hold that while I filled it with the bottle and even though the bottle has like a little nipple and squirter thing it doesn't fit down in that hole it's too small so most of these Bay reservoirs that you see on the market have a fitting on the top that you pull out slightly unscrewed you put a funnel right in the top this mechanism on here it's got to go I mean it looks nice the the bay reservoir on this looks fantastic but the filling mechanism on it it's just I don't know what they were thinking you can't possibly fill it higher than 75% now considering 75% on this is above the import the intake port for the pump it's not going to be a problem it's just why even labeled 100% that is about 10mm meters higher than the actual fill port I mean the physically that's not possible the other problem we had is because this is one of the massive massive 60 mil rads we actually use the entire bottle of coolant and it still wasn't full I had to actually thin it out some with distilled water now the still water added to this it's not going to be a problem to the coolant I mean the cool it has some anti corrosive and antimicrobial stuff built into it but I don't think I don't believe it's going to be a problem and if you're looking at getting one of the bigger kids like the 480 rad that they sell you're going to have to get another exhilarate Alif coolant that that's just not enough one liter is not enough for systems this size I mean the bae res is pretty big with a big rad it's just not enough those are really the only complaints I had about the system other than that the system is straightforward it's easy to install and I really don't have any other complaints about it I mean it's keeping the temperatures perfect on this thing if I go ahead and stop the stress test which has been running for like I said 22 minutes now our temperatures drop right back down into the 40s in fact once the coolant equalizes it'll be down to the 30s and this is a closed off room right now there is no air flow in or out of this room and it was actually sitting in the mid to low 60s when we started the test so the temperatures actually rose as the temperature in the room goes up it's one of the things about water cooling they go up in a one-to-one ratio if your temperature in the room Rises 5 degrees temperature new computers are going to rise 5 degrees if your water cooling that's pretty much how it goes so guys this has been the Alpha cool all-in-one kit they've got a bunch of different sizes from 120-millimeter all the way up to 480 ml different size thicknesses of radiator different pump styles even read different reservoir styles so guys make sure you go over to the website aqua tuning dot de if you're in europe opportunity at us if you're in the Americas here and they do ship pretty much globally you can save 5% by using Jason Jay's 2 cents 2014 discount code it's down in the description as well and as always guys I hope to see you on Twitter or the Facebook if that's more your thing and I will see you guys in the next one