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what's up guys JC sense here in this summer months are quickly approaching some of you are just now starting to fall out but us over here in California are already starting to smoke out I guess that sounds wrong right what are you doing shopping for a case when you build what are you looking for I want something designed for water cooling fractal design define us all the way check it out plenty of air flow plenty of open interior for water cooling radiator support it even has mounts for your reservoirs I don't have enough room for my hard drives okay fractal design r5 look at all those hard drive cages and you can fit your radiators and water cooling in here no I got a lot of hard drives but I also have an e ATX motherboard okay I'm gonna try something here okay bear with me you might wanna stand clear I never actually tried this before yeah it worth fractal design to find r6 you could fit all your radiators a crap-ton of hard drives and if it's a ATX dude this is perfect nailed it so as I was trying to say it is starting to get hot in plenty of parts of the world so we're gonna start taking a look at some a i/o cooler is some more water cooling content and first step on the chopping block is inter Max's new lick fusion which is an RGB take on there a IO what I've always liked about inter max is the fact they do they don't just go with the ASA Tech rebranded stuff they design everything in-house so we're gonna take a look at this one today we're going to slap it on our 8700 k and we are going to see how well this thing can actually handle the heat otherwise it ought to get out of the kitchen or something like that now obviously the lick stands for liquid they've always called their a iOS lick tech or lick fusion or lick whatever but the fusion is obviously the RGB and as you can tell by looking at the box they spared no RGB on this guy but we've also got a flow indicator so what makes this one a little bit different is the pump is actually in line on the tube and the block is just a flow indicator and a block so rather than having the pump crammed into the block it is separate so I've never actually seen that yet on an AI oh so that's gonna be interesting to take a look at you get a lot of stuff that comes with it though you get a here that this is some sort of a jumper interesting so it is a jumper and I guess the reason why they do that is and we'll look at this in a second here they actually provide you extra coolant so that you can top it off if you need to so it is technically a serviceable piece in fact here is that 100 milliliters of coolant right here which of course has your anti corrosive additives and all of that stuff says avoid direct sunshine exposure so this is our RGB header right here we've got a fan splitter for our fans I guess an extension cable for our fans a SATA power cable everything is detachable from this which is kind of neat we've got our brackets of course because this does support basically every socket from LGA 775 and up with the exception of tr4 it does not support the Red River so keep that in mind we have got our TV control module our thermal paste our brackets our screws we've got to RGB fans right here from interacts and I've always felt like enter max goes above and beyond in terms of their fan quality they are a lot better than you would typically find in just your run-of-the-mill AIO static pressure optimized you can tell by the swoop of the blade the number of blades the density of where the blades actually you know how close together they are they're close together the blades are the more static pressure you have because there's nowhere in between the blade to the fan air to escape so high pressure of course and then here is the obviously the entire purpose of this video the a IO little dial right here appears to be some sort of a purge valve so that's kind of neat you can purge the system of air so here is our flow indicator slash block combo this is also RGB lit so that's kind of neat you're gonna see this thing spinning as it's going so you always have that visual indicator that your AIO is running that's always a concern of people with a iOS is did it die and you didn't know until your computer shut off well you're gonna know because his little wheel is gonna spin and tell you that this is a sort of questionable move though putting the pump in line like this I can see where that makes sense but it's not aesthetically that pleasing with it being in line like this it does sort of kind of get in the view I mean and depending on where you've got this sort of arranged it's questionable about whether or not it's going to even be as aesthetically displeasing to your build so I guess that's gonna be up to you in your case but that's pretty much everything you get in the box let's go ahead and install it on our 8700 K and see how well it does so here's the look fusion all set up I want to start off with something you might notice there's no RGB showing on the pump we actually killed that RGB because we plugged it into the motherboard until we realized it's addressable five volt and not an actual 12 volt RGB address this system and it's not mentioned until page 15 of the manual regarding that so it's an important thing to point out that you need to make sure if you're gonna be plugging in directly to your motherboard which it does support it has to be a 5 volt addressable RGB something like the NZXT motherboard with cam would support that the asus boards has all 12 volt so we fried the RGB on our pump we did have it running with our controller first which we wanted to test and it looked great unfortunately we tried to sync it with the motherboard and killed it but at least you can see with the fans how that looks that's totally on us I just want to put that out there in case you're considering getting one of these that's something you definitely need to keep in mind but here's what the controller looks like it's pretty neat so it's you use the up arrow and down arrow to just cycle through the different modes and then if you want to speed up the effects let me get to enough like a changing effective they like this one which has kind of a marquee sort of a color change if you push the M button the LED turns red and then you can speed it up or you can slow down the effect so you can control this via this little control box if you don't have a motherboard that supports adjustable RGB but what about cooling right RGB is a cool thing but cooling is obviously what matters most we've been running our test here on OCC T off and on where we've been four minutes on this test and it looks like our max CPU temperature has hit 82 we are overclocked to four point seven gigahertz on all cores so it's not as far but overclock as a 8700 K could go but it is an 8700 k that has not been deleted so we are talking about a hot CPU we are sitting anywhere from the upper 60s to the low mid 70s with a couple of cores hitting the 80s again characteristic when 8700 K but far from our t.j.maxx of 105 Celsius so yeah it's definitely doing the job the fans are adjustable both through PWM which we do have it connected to a PWM on this motherboard from 500 rpm to 2,000 rpm so the temperatures you're getting right now are based on the fans completely maxed out and the pump is completely maxed as well one thing worth pointing out though the flow indicator on this moves very very slowly so if you're expecting it to see it just turn it away like a crazy looking pinwheel like you see on clothes or open loops on custom loops that's not what you're getting on this because some of the fluid does bypass the little flow indicator so even when it's running extremely low our PMS on the pump the indicator does not move very fast at all this kind of looks more like a carousel than it does a flow indicator but it's a nice visual reference if you have a window on your case you can look in and see that your pump is indeed running as long as running a hundred percent as soon as you slow it down then it definitely doesn't give you as much of the effect but it's a nice bonus it's not something I would rely on I would definitely set up warnings in your bios if your temperatures go above a certain degree that way if your pump was to die then you would definitely know now this is let's talk about the serviceable aspect of this pump real quick or this unit it is technically serviceable it has a port on the side that you can and has a sticker on there too telling you where to go in the manual to learn more about it you can add more fluid to this if you need to typically an AIO like this does not require service and does not need to be opened up this has a bleed port on the radiator making it easy to get the air out I'm just not entirely sure why that's necessary most a iOS are not going to require any sort of service so I don't know why that's an option I've never had one evaporate on me because they're sealed to the point to where the evaporation isn't really enough it's not something you deal with I think they just might be trying to appease - maybe the enthusiast but again I'm not entirely sure why maybe because you have the clear top on the block they're thinking that you might put in a fluid that is colored or something like that to make it just that much more I don't know custom but I mean at least the option is there and as long as you don't go messing with it and opening up plugs and stuff you probably don't need to serve as service this whatsoever but they do obviously give you both the jumper to run the pump so that you can bleed the system as well as additional fluid if you need to top it off for some reason so anyway guys that's been my first look here at the inner max lick fusion obviously there are GBA i/o cooler I'm personally a fan of the older lick tech coolers they used to have which were much more simple they were single you know plugs for the pump they had just a single led in their single either white or blue LED very robust beefy reliable and didn't you know have all these wires and stuff one drawback to having all this RGB is the fact that you had have a lot of wires coming off of this two plugs per fan obviously a plug for the block for the RGB and then obviously you have your wire for your pump which is now in line which makes it more difficult to actually route these wires without being seen obviously in an open test bench like this are pretty obvious in a case a little bit easier to hide but it's something definitely worth talking about so what you guys think about the inner max lik fusion let me know in the comments below and if there's any other coolers you guys want me to check out as we move into the summertime make sure you guys let me know by hitting me up either on Twitter or commenting down below again a huge thank you to inter max for sending us this cooler to take a look at we're going to get out of here and as always we'll see you guys in the next one