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hey guys J here bringing you a topic that I'll let you guys choose on Twitter as I promised using straw poll so if you want to get involved in the channel and you want to be able to have some input on what videos you want me to make head on over there hit that follow button and start watching for the straw polls even if you do nothing but that I like to hear from you guys on what it is you want to see after all this is our Channel not necessarily my channel least that's the way that I personally see it get 10% off anything from coolermaster at the CM store see the description for details okay what we're looking at here a radiator aka a heat exchanger all it does is take temperature out of fluid that's running through this interesting thing about radiators is even if you have no fans on here there's a ton of passive cooling that goes on my nine hundred D behind me if I turn all the fans off on the radiator and put the system under full load it only runs about ten degrees Celsius hotter than if I have the fans on and it's still a shit-ton cooler than if I was doing air cooling on it so radiators just by nature are taking heat out of the coolant and exhausting it to the atmosphere because of what this core does so we're gonna talk about four aspects of the radiator the materials used to build it the core and what it does the thickness of the radiator and why it matters and how many fans you should use or how big of a radiator you should use for your system so the materials you'll see people talk about brass copper or aluminum or full copper full copper is more expensive because copper is kind of a semi precious metal however it has the best corrosive properties of radiators so it means you don't really have to worry about there being a lot of corrosion in your system because copper is very corrosion resistant in fact the only way you're going to get copper in your loop is if you introduce aluminum pretty much so full copper radiators best because it has best corrosive properties but does it mean it cools better than a brass copper absolutely not typically brass copper means you have brass end tanks which are these pieces on the end of the where and you have an aluminum fins and a copper core or something like that but fit radiators like this one here from alpha cool have all copper construction copper rose copper fins which make up the core and this is what's doing all the cooling right here in fact you can even see in the video right there it's kind of black when I go that way and copper when I go that way alpha cools concept here is that any paint applied to the fin is only decreasing its efficiency when it comes to cooling so they just do a quick dusting on the core but they do a full paint job obviously on the other parts of it so that's why as I turn it you guys may see it's like more of a bare copper you could paint this if you wanted but for the cooling capacity and set your fans typically cover it up it's not a big deal so full copper radiator if you can afford it brass coppers just fine too now let's go ahead and talk about the fpi of the core these little zigzags zigzag piece of metals here the zigzag is a weird word zigzag piece of metal really what it does is it's increasing the amount of metal that's absorbing the temperature so you have a lot of different FP is fins per inch you know 7 10 16 20 30 so what does it mean and why should you choose it rule of thumb if you can't fit a lot of radiator space in your computer let's say you can only fit a triple just this triple and you want to cool a graphics card and a CPU you're going to want a higher fpi than something like this because you can increase the surface area or the overall cooling capacity of the radiator by manipulating the core it's not just about the amount of fans that are on it this part right here matters the most so higher fpi if you have to go with a smaller radiator or you can't fit more radiator space in there or if you can fit like this monstrosity behind me here you could put three of these triples or soomi four of these triples in there if you wanted you could get away with low fpi like this alpha cool which is 10 fins per inch and run slower speed fans on them the downside of high fpi fans or radiators is that they are more noisy because there's more restriction for the air to get through it creates turbulence because the air naturally won't off a fan let's come sideways kind of at a 45-degree angle but the fins force that air back to straight and it gets very turbulent the air is bouncing around in there and it just gets noisy that's why if you take a fan and hold it in the open atmosphere it's quiet the moment you put it up to a fan grill it kind of goes you know does that's a good fan of pressure not so high fpi if you have to go with a smaller radiator low f-b-i if you can put multiple radiators in now let's go and talk about the thickness of the radiator you'll see something like this here which is a 30 mil rad thickness which is very common my radiators are 45 millimeters thick and alpha cool offers them all the way up to 80 millimeters thick that's like this that's like that big compared to this it's ridiculous I don't like it it just looks bad and it doesn't fit in that many cases and you don't gain that much cooling capacity quite honestly because there becomes a point when you are past the point of demission demission demission diminishing returns when it comes to the surface area because the rule of thumb is you really only need about one 120 millimeter space of radiator per component that you're cooling so theoretically a triple is more than enough to cool a graphics card and a CPU at stock clocks because it's all about wattage displacement and how much wattage and TDP that your cooling system can dissipate last thing we're going to talk about as I kind of already mentioned how many 120 millimeter or 140 s or 200 s that you really need well my rule of thumb is if I can fit a triple red and I can fit a 240 millimeter rad say in the front of the case and one of these in the top of the case this is a better option than just this because it allows me to run more fans more surface area at slow speeds giving you what really water cooling is really known as being beneficial for other than just amazing water to our coolant temps for your components it's also the fact that you can run slower speed fans so that's why I run in my system 45 mil thick quad radiator as well as a triple now I mean I've got some obviously I've got a lot of radiators here and you can see when it comes to the size of these radiators wrecking this about damaging anything there is quite the difference here when it comes to saw his sizes of these radiators as you can see I mean there's the bottom they're all lined up there's a lot of difference there and the amount of cooling capacity between all of these is quite massive so why do I have the stacker sitting behind me guys I'm torn and I'm kind of turning to you here on the low on some advice I love the concept of the stacker not the 945 they call it worth all of them on there just the nine three five and the nine fifteen on the bottom because I want to do I want to mod it to fit two of the four hundred and eighty millimeter rads in the bottom and then do like acrylic tubing through there it just would look really nice wouldn't offer me any benefit over the 900 II whatsoever it would just be a modding project you guys keep asking me how I feel about the stacker and what I could do with it so I'm kind of turning to you guys to tell me what do you think should I mod the stacker to fit what I feel would be the perfect cooling case so I'm just curious what you guys think put it down in the comments so what size radiators are you using are you water cooling and why what radiators are you using tell me what's your setup let everyone else see down in the comments there because you guys have been a pretty awesome community here so far 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