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what's up guys J soos ends here and you know over the years I have talked about some of the most expensive water cooling parts that you can buy at even done a a guide back in 2013 that was like the eight hundred dollar loop which is actually pretty cheap by today's standards but I digress you know what I've never actually talked about is some of the cheapest water cooling stuff that you can buy and that's why today we're gonna take a little water block that I bought off Amazon for $17.99 it's $19.99 now went up two bucks since since I got it believe this we're gonna talk about whether or not a super cheap water block for 19 bucks can actually handle something like an 80 700 k today's video is brought to you by precision camera and video and their new YouTube video kids step up your online presence with these hand-picked kits tailored specifically for various price points which include everything you need to get started in video creation right now if you use promo code J's two cents at checkout you get an extra hood man 32 gig steel card with the purchase of any kit for all your camera and video needs head to precision - video calm water blocks are one of those things where a lot of science has gone into them lately with things like micro channels and flow plates and jet plates and this and that I think what that is all about is just trying to make sure you get an even flow of water over the plate but there's only one thing contacting the CPU heat spreader and that's obviously the base and as you can see on this one here it's definitely made in China no doubt about it this is just a cover that's all right there it's not exactly the prettiest looking copper but it's pretty smooth let's take a look at the inside here it's got of course it's gonna have an o-ring has have an o-ring but what's interesting about this block is the fact that it has integrated Intel and AMD bracket on it okay so here's what it looks like right here it's pretty basic you've got your base you got your plate right here which interestingly enough the the micro channels here look like they're milled very well but they they're milled into the plate instead of some plates which are raised higher and then they mill down the outside to do the micro channels so that the micro channels are actually raised this has to go down through the plate and back out so it's a little bit different than say something like your EK water block we've got an o-ring right here which has a hair in it that's weird the long blonde hair okay whatever so yeah but it's got a channel that it fits in right here here's the pot I think this is palm like a palm material I doubt it's an acetal I guess it could be but you can see it sort of forces the flow there's not a labeled Inlet and outlet because as you can see it's just a square the flow is identical it's symmetrical so that is the that is the engineering behind this block now let's talk about why I had these motherboards laid out here and although this looks like an a sponsored video I swear it's not it's just the only motherboards I have for Z 370 which is what my 8700 K obviously needs but I wanted to talk about compatibility with motherboards because they have all the prongs mounting for a m3 this is not a m4 compatible by the way so if you guys are running Rison sorry but am3+ and backwards and Intel all pretty much all the Intel LGA 775 and up sockets are going to be supported the issue is because it sticks out so far I was concerned about it impacting with various things so take a look at our Strix z 370 right here you can see we have no problems we don't impact on the heatsink there or there flip it around the other way if you want to do a horizontal it again doesn't impact with anything and it's sitting on the CPU it's not touching any of the chokes so we're good now if we move on over here to the Maximus X apex board you can see we've got the cover on there but as you can see we do start to impact right here so we technically might be able to fit nope that doesn't fit that way so if we turn it this way we actually can mount it we actually will be fine like that although once we take the cover off right here I might as well do that now but yeah with the CPU in place we still cleared just fine so the only way that the block can mount on this guy is with the and that's really close actually might even be slightly crooked because it impacts right there on that heatsink so you're gonna have to mount this one vertical with the fittings on top of each other you're not going to be able to do it this way because as you can see it impacts there now that's not to say you can't just take a dremel and hack it off well it looks like we have to use a Strix borer after all because once we get the posts in place right they ate sinners itself no matter what based on where it's going to go right we can't move it along this rail but it is impacting right there like I mean we're talking like a half a millimeter I could bust up my file and file that and make it fit no problem you want to be able to see that once its installed and if we cared about it that much we could flatten out all the other four so it matches but it's a 22 all our water block what do you expect ha ha modified see I can't mod stuff he's a file something else I just noticed too and some of you might have noticed when I was showing it earlier is if you turn it this way these tabs over hang onto the memory sticks so you're probably gonna be hack sawing drilling stuff anyway so just expects that an all the one fit like this is going to require some level of modification this is supposed to be just a stupid block review not a tool what is open I never mounted this down because I was like I don't want it to always be mounted to the table so that's why I never ended up using it I think that this is a very accurate representation though of what a buyer will be going through so that's why this stuff is always left in do as I say not as I do I don't have any safety glasses here so I have to do it this way most important parts I expect nothing more for a $20 block but all the times you always recommend it's sharpie it was like we should just sharpie I know especially a proud moment for you it's like a crab we've got the ek supremacy block on here which is like my go-to block and it has been for a while now and we've been running a 264 trial version because my ki expired apparently but as you can see we actually haven't been climbing at all now we've got a 360 millimetre radiator on here which is a lot for a single CPU 8700 K runs hot and we are overclocking it to 4.9 gigahertz and as you can see these are the temps and where they've equalized so this is max right here ADC 79 81 81 77 79 now a TC is 25 Celsius away from thermal Junction max so what that tells us is we have quite a bit of headroom obviously what's interesting the how is it it freaked out at some point because we've been letting this run long enough looking for temperature fluctuations or a stabilization of temps and as you can see we've achieved that okay at some point decided it had been running for one point well just just under 1.2 million hours but okay can't say I didn't run it long enough I'm going to go ahead and install this little guy one of the thing worth pointing out too is the fan profile on this is set to turbo and PWM so we do have the 360 radiators with three fans on they're not there they're not set to silent by any means so every now and then I have a video and I'm like this will be easy piece of cake easy video get it done actually get home in time for dinner for once and yeah inevitably what happens the same is every single time so what I learned is when I was like I'm just going to use the same standoffs and stuff as EK block is EK blocks hanging down below their bracket a little bit more than these then this guy does so once it came down and hit that the plate didn't push down against the CPU and as I said at the beginning of this video I lost the hardware that came with this so now here I am having to fashion my own mounting mechanism fortunately though because it's Intel it's pretty easy so what I'm gonna do here is I'm taking these these are six 32nd screw right here so what I'm doing is I'm just threading them through the back plate for the ek supremacy block for the intel socket sets and this is gonna push up through the motherboard which I can then take the spring-loaded retentions because the springs and the caps are also 630 second which is extremely common in the PC realm usually m34 metric or six thirty Seconds per standard or what you're gonna find so I'm now making my own back plate so it's no doubt that this is a pretty block but you know I actually really like the look of this one too with the the four silver screws on there with the hardware that we kind of Jimmy rig together ourself so anyway you know what we got to do now these are our initial temps right here looks like we're in the low 30s to mid 30s at idle which is pretty much identical to what we were seeing with the ek block four point nine gigahertz still all identical settings all voltage same thermal paste same fans they set up same everything so you know the routine we're gonna start the test where let it run for a while and see what happens you see the initial temperatures though not bad the second it starts up what happens when we let it take a little while alright just like before you can see we're not having any steady temperature climb for the moment we started the test moving forward now eleven minutes in there's no client fact I started to start to decline a low right there if we look at our temperatures from left to right we've got an 82 81 83 82 79 and 79 if we compare that to before it's an average of 2 to 3 C higher per core except for the last core it's exactly the same 2 to 3 C difference if you look right here look this is the distance of t.j.maxx that's how much more we would have to rise before we actually start to thermal throttle now remember these are Peaks those are max temperatures that means for a split second it might have hit that temp and come back depending on the test that's being done we are stressing CPU pew n cash so this right here is more demanding and more taxing on a CPU than just about any process you could give it doing normal workflows and day to day work so it's going to be a lot lower when you're doing your normal workflow than something like this but look at the actual real time temperatures we're sitting in the 60s to the 70s dropping down to the 50s on a $19 waterblock from Amazon obviously if we were running stock speeds it would be much lower into the 40s and 50s I'm not gonna bother even doing that test because this shows you what the worst-case scenario would be aesthetically I think it looks pretty damn good given the price build quality it's not leaking I mean as long as that Oh ring doesn't disintegrate by any means I still don't know what the red oh ring is made out of you know put in the comments below but guys I think there's no doubt about it the takeaway from this is when you're buying water blocks yeah there's a lot of technology and stuff that goes into them but you know I think it really comes down to maybe just buying the block that aesthetically meets your build more so than thinking one brand is superior to another because really like I said they're chasing they're chasing tenths of a see now anyway links to this block are gonna be down the description below like I said 19 bucks on Amazon you can't beat it the reason why I have this block is I'm putting together the cheapest possible loop that I can using old-school methods from like Home Depot and old radiator cores from cars and stuff to try and do it the old-fashioned way and the only piece I was planning on buying is that trying to make from scratch is a water block so I got this one for 19 bucks but stay tuned for that video anyway like I said link down below thanks for watching guys and as always I'll see you in the next one man that was just leave it on there you