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what is going on all you tech addicts J here with Jays two cents and if you live on planet Earth like most of the people on planet Earth chances are you'd love to get your hands on some water cooling but you just can't afford it you work your ass off you get very little in return and you just can't afford what it cost to get a custom water cooling loop but you sure as hell would like to have that kind of performance so what do you do well you take a look at the coolermaster glacier 240 L now let me just go ahead and start by saying that no the glacier 240 L is not new to the market in fact some might even say Jay you're a little behind on this video well I'm gonna point out that even though it doesn't say it anywhere on this box this is actually v2 or version 2 of the glacier - 40 L when they took some customer feedback of the original model and they've made some enhancements to it so that's exactly what we're gonna take a look at here today now the glacier - 40 L sports a two-year warranty this is a fully sealed ready to go all in one water cooling solution but if you've never seen this cooler before maybe you recognize the H - 20 from Swift tech well this is pretty much a rebranded Swift tech H 220 with some of cooler masters features and flare put in here to give it a little bit more oof if you will now the box is pretty much straight forward it's a box you've got some cooling dimensions and stuff back here whatever we don't care about the box at least I don't care about the box if you do here you can have the Box now as far as cooling dimensions go this is a 240 millimeter radiator so that fits to 120 millimeter fans and the packaging inside is very basic in fact you've got some egg crepe type material right here on top where you immediately see this now right off the bat you're gonna notice that the tubing on this is quite a bit different than the all-in-one cooling units that you're used to seeing which have the very hard rigid plastic you know riff ruffled ruffled up remember they're called the tubing that actually has all the in them you got your users guide right here the installation instructions and the unit is already completely preassembled in fact the fans are even on it which makes it quite a bit different than some of the other units out there where you have to install the fans the only thing you have to do is select your appropriate mounting bracket for your platform whether the AMD or Intel and pick your right socket set install it in your system mount the fans essentially and you're good to go now what makes this radiator different than the H 100 I'm gonna kind of keep wrench mentioning the H 100 because that would be the closest comparison in terms of price and performance I think now the fans on here are preassembled which i think is really cool the very high static pressure fans which is what you want on a radiator like this and they are two thousand plus rpm fans now before you freak out over the RPMs in the noise level these do have a very wide rpm range I believe 600 rpm to 2,000 rpm all control through PWM headers so if we hook these up to the CPU PWM fan header on your motherboard you can control these through the load of your CPU so they're nice and slow when they're not doing anything and as your computer and the temperature ramps up the CPU performance it ramps up the fan speed as well so it doesn't have any proprietary software controlling the actual unit however you can allow your CPU to control it through BIOS settings by plugging it into your motherboard or you can plug it into your favorite fan controller if you prefer that as well but they are already installed they are installed in a push configuration so obviously it's meant to go this way now the fittings as you can see they are rotatable so you regardless of where you're mounting this row that we may be side mounted in a stacker or you've got it on the top or even the bottom of the case you can make sure that you have the fittings point in the right directions young crazy kinks or bends in there the tubing is 3/8 inch tubing it is a gloss black I kind of wish it was a dull like a matte black sort of like the EK tubing or like on the h ati that comes from corsair because I think the matte black looks a lot better it doesn't show all the dust and fingerprints on it nearly much that would be my only gripe when it comes to the tubing plenty long so you can run it wherever you need but this is the kind of the powerhouse of the unit right here the pump now the pump features a fully copper block it is powered by a single SATA power connector and at this point you might be asking yourself well what exactly is different then because it's all seeming exactly the same well the difference guys is right here in this plug they have decided to make the cables actually unplug a bowl that way it's easier to install this without the cables in the way and also to you don't have an issue where these cables could potentially break off because of moving it around you know they're pretty thin cables so you want to make sure that you don't damage them so you can unplug them get them out of the way when you're installing it plug it in and then install it into your motherboard power and your rpm wire right here that controls the pump speed rpm and PWM wire right there now the cooling of this unit is superior to the other brands and pretty much all the benchmarks on all the various reputable tech sites have proven this because this is an all copper radiator copper is a much better conductor of heat than aluminum is and all of the other all-in-one units tend to be aluminum now it does have a bit of a weight disadvantage to it for being copper but you know what the cooling capacity of it more than makes up for the added weight I mean most of the time you're not gonna be moving your computer around too much anyway so that shouldn't be a problem now what makes this different than other cooling units well all in one cooling units are not designed to be serviced so that means they're completely sealed in fact if you were to drain the coolant out of an all-in-one unit you typically will void the warranty but in this case you actually have AG quarter thread right here a plug that allows you to drain and refill this unit because this unit packs enough power in the pump that you could add multiple radiators and multiple blocks to this so if you decided that you wanted a custom loop but you can't afford it up front you buy a unit like this and then it's designed to be expandable over time so you could add a second radiator you could add a graphics card to the loop if you wanted so you start out on the cheap and you expand to grow to your needs and it's got the same quality radiator as any standalone radiator that you would be using if you built your own loop but it's got the added benefit of having a very contained block and pump unit which makes things very very easy for installation all right so enough talking about this let's go ahead and throw it in my test bench I'm actually getting ready to rebuild my test bench in one of my fractal cases because I kind of like to change things up and I just want to test some temperatures inside a regular case rather than an open-air test bench so we're gonna put this inside my fractal Ark XL we're gonna seal it up and we're gonna see how the temperatures are right here with the glacier to 40 L or Glaser acupuncture I think glacier cuz glaciers are cold right they're ice so they're very cold I don't really know what a glacier is maybe someone could tell me what a glacier is but glacier sounds a hell of a lot colder to me than glacier so we're gonna call it the glacier to 40 L coolermaster you can you send me your hate mail if you like but anyway there you go guys it's going to install this and see just how well this thing performs all right cooler masters glacier 240 L how does it compare and how does it perform well you know I think if you have to give credit where credit is due it is by far the closest temperature that you could get to a full custom loop with the comparable radiator size I could not build a 240 millimeter custom loop that could get any better performance than this kit is I'm being just perfectly honest out here I have all the parts to do it but I know better because I've built enough systems to know what temperature should look like in the glacier to 40 L is right on par with a custom loop at just a fraction of the cost I mean this encompasses a bill I don't even if that's really a word guys somebody help me out here I keep trying to say it's customizable yeah upgradeable expandable all that stuff and it doesn't break your bank it's basically a custom loop that's preassembled for you now the core of the glacier 240 L the design of it pretty much is implemented by Swift tech with cooler masters key touches on there as I mentioned earlier in the video now Swift tech is one of the older companies that have been building standalone custom loop parts for years and years so you know you're getting a nice heritage built in to this loop right now I kind of want to call them a custom I want to call this a custom loo because really it gets the exact same performance as any 240 millimeter custom lupica to Bill I mean that's the awesome part about it but it comes in a fraction of the cost I couldn't have bought a block in a pump and a radiator and fans and tubing and fittings and all of and fluid and all of that for anywhere near the cost of what this is in fact I did a video about building a your own custom water cooling loop on the cheap months back and that still came in at about $200 $50 more than this thing cost so it really you just cannot beat the price for performance and if you're on a cooling budget and you want custom loop but you can't afford it now but you want to upgrade in the future you've got to skip like the things from Corsair and NZXT and and and all of those companies you just you've got to go with this 100% because of the fact that it gives you a place to go now let's go and talk about temperatures and why you should go with this cooler I took the 4770k which is notoriously hot because of Intel's horrible integration of their heat spreader and the thermal compound and it's just it's just bad which is why I on the new case key refresh they're gonna be reefs are during the heat spreader thank God for that isn't over cooling enthused over clocking enthusiasts I thank you thank you Intel for finally listening to us after 3 years of garbage if you know anything about Intel and has well you know that 1.3 to 5 volts is kind of that threshold where things are like ok you better have some really good cooling on hand or you're gonna have one really badly melted chip in the long run so one point three to five volts on there with a 2.0 5 v Rin or V V roll to voltage input oh my god I hate the Haswell setting so you have voltage input and all that crap anyway and you guys are probably begging right now for a hassle overclocking video I don't know if it's gonna happen it's just too finicky but anyway so 2.0 5 volts into the CPU and a 1.3 to 5v core and all the V cache and all that stuff not gonna get into my settings bottom line was I was pushing some heat loaded up a 264 put on the CPU extreme test and the sink capped out and then in the 80 degrees Celsius range on an all-in-one cooler that cost around 105 d dollars so this cooler right here gets two thumbs that actually gets three or four thumbs up if I had more thumbs I'd be sticking them up because you just cannot get a better cooler for the money I'm sorry the aluminum all-in-one coolers from Corsair and the other brands and even even cooler masters own aluminum coolers they're good but you're not gonna get anywhere near this thing so if you guys are considering like an H 100 or an H 110 please look at other videos on this besides just mine get reviewers inputs on this go to NN Tech overclocked forms hard o CP Tom's Hardware anywhere that reviews hardware look at the reviews and you'll see that this thing just smashes everybody when it comes to the competition so there you go guys cooler masters glacier 240 l version 2 with the removable plug on the pump bringing you probably the best cooling that you can get in a box so guys make sure you check out my other videos and stick around because you guys have been asking for some more mainstream type reviews rather than the extreme high end which I've been doing a lot of lately so we're gonna be taking a look at gigabytes win force 270x graphics card right here we originally were going to do a - ATX we decided to do a 270 X to see how much performance you can pull out of a mid-range card like this it doesn't come anywhere near breaking your bank so guys when Jays two cents follow me on Twitter if you'd like to talk about this video or other videos that I've done or you just want to talk and chat about tech and as always 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