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I'll be the first to admit that I have not done a whole lot of AI Oh water cooling loop reviews on this channel that's probably because I'm a bit of a water cooling snob who's all caught up in his own little world thinking everyone should have a fully custom loop we'll just go ahead and put aside naive J for a little bit here and we'll bring it back down to earth because I know not everyone's comfortable with doing a complete custom loop that is why a iOS exists in the first place they're inexpensive they're easy to install and they're maintenance free well at CES EVGA showed off some of their new water cooling products you have a companies from making greps cards power supplies and motherboards it's now making water cooling loops they've been making cases eventually you'll be able to have an entirely EVGA built system maybe Jay sent me over to of their closed-loop CPU coolers so they're actually called even says so on the box closed-loop CPU cooler and UPS wasn't very kind for this one so I've got the 120 right here and the 280 sitting on the test bench let's go ahead and take a look at how well their first implementation of an AIO actually went so what's a thing you know I'll be honest I'm a kind of impressed by its proportionate I know right all right let me show you something here I kind of like the thin one but this one about form-factor yeah but mine can fit in tight spaces with girth you can open tight spaces it's like a master key whether you like thick or thin the ITX lineup from fractal design is sure to have something that tickled your fancy remember it's not the size that matters it's all about how you use it not exactly the Gertz open variegated skirts is no contest though there's content good I immediately unbox the 280 and stuck it on my x99 system with the 59 30 K that's currently overclocked to 4.3 gigahertz and then I kind of put the 120 aside we'll talk about this one yeah it's good we're going to see how good the packaging is like I said UPS was not very kind to this one so I've not actually opened this one up yet it could be a leaky mess in there I doubt it we'll see but anyway yeah the 280s on the system and that's the one I actually benchmark I didn't really feel that putting a 120 on an overclock 59 30 K with six cores and 12 threads with hyper threading was was very fair but this is a perfect cooler for something like an i3 or an i-5 with a mild to moderate overclock the EVGA did partner with ASA tech for this so the radiator is going to be pretty familiar it's actually a high fpi radiator it's going to give you pretty good heat capacity for a smaller size now the 120 I'd be pretty comfortable with putting this on something like an i3 and i-5 or even an i7 if you didn't put a high overclock on that keep your AMD sockets pretty cool especially things like apple ons and sm socket CPUs I have no doubt that this would have a pretty good job at cooling most CPUs I just did not feel like it was very fair to put this cooler on my 59 30 K which is overclocked we're gonna go ahead and let the big brother take care of that one but I will be using this probably in a future small form-factor build because this is this is just worth using one of the things I really hate about a lot of the all-in-one coolers that are on the market is everyone uses that god-awful ugly fep tubing you know I'm talking about the one that looks like it's ribbed for her pleasure yeah I hate that stuff it's stiff when you when you twist it it tends to want to pop on the cover off here I don't want to hurt the thermal compound but when you twist it it tends to kind of want to go its own way EVGA uses a paracord sleeved rubber tubing it's the same tubing that they use on their hybrid coolers starting back with the GTX 980 hybrid that they launched it's extremely flexible and you can see that I can practically knot this thing if I wanted and it doesn't kink it's so friendly when it comes to installing if you guys have ever built with an a IO and fep tubing you know that once you start to twist it I just hit myself in the face with the cables which you can see here with the rubber tubing I can practically not this thing and it still won't King clue that it just wants to straighten itself back out before it kinks is so amazing I love that I'm not going to pull on too hard though I don't want to I want to pop the damn thing out that would actually probably make a significant anyway then moving on I'm not convinced about this fan we're going to do another video in the future about these fans it's it's a very radical design where they basically took the sides of the fan shroud here and cut it out I don't know if they're trying to pick up air from the sides of the fan or if they're trying to create a more directional airflow without it being a normal like conical shape I really have no idea now when the fans are running I could feel a bit of back splash but the temperatures don't really seem to show that there's any sort of issue when it comes to that so what I'm curious about is if later on and do another test where I put another fan on here and see if it actually improves temperatures I don't know we'll just have to see but anyway the block right here is a pump block combo what would you expect from an AI oh and it's very very basic now it's all kerlick on the top right here has a glowing EVGA logo that is RGB that has some pretty nifty modes if you will can flash it can breathe it can be CPU temperature indicator it is a full spectrum RGB so you can customize the color you're not just stuck with like the basic seven but yeah so the software though it's still very beta it's running behind me right now but I'm not even going to show it because it's not even fair to show that because it's still not in its full form yet hasn't gone super saiyan or taken on its final form so we'll talk about that a little bit later on when it's more matured unfortunately it wasn't ready in time for this video so all I had with screenshots to go by on what it will look like when it's done but it looks a lot like precision does for your graphics card if you have an EVGA graphics card or any Nvidia graphics card it looks a lot like precision now the neat thing is because this is RGB you are going to be able to sync your cooler with your graphics card if you have an argue being equipped EVGA graphics card so that they are in sync and not doing two different things and looking like a disco puke of RGB rays going on inside your computer if you want that you can do it more power to you I won't judge now when it comes to powering this thing EVGA has kept it simple we've got a single three pin what looks like a fan plug on here that powers the pump the LEDs and the fan will about that the second end fans in the case of multi fan units but you need to make sure that you have a header that you're plugging this into on your motherboard that's capable of at least at most a one amp draw most CPU and CPU optional headers on your motherboard or me PWM so they're going to be able to handle this level of power draw that should be fine just start to definitely check your manual though if you want to plug it into something like a system fan header or a optional fan header or a chassis fan header sometimes those don't have as much of a power draw capability as the CPU fan headers do so I would plug this into CPU if you can otherwise consult your manual if you want to plug it in somewhere else now coming off the pump here you have a PWM fan splitter now the CPU cooler is going to kind of control these fans but you could plug these also into your motherboard directly or a fan controller if you wanted to say screw the software all together you have that flexibility it's not some sort of a proprietary plug but because there's also optional software to control this as a system if you want it to it means there's a mini USB plug on the side of the pump now that means it terminates into a USB 2.0 motherboard header plug on one end if you don't have enough headers on your motherboard you could actually replace this with a standard mini USB cable from a charger like a GoPro or something and plug it into the back of your motherboard by routing it through like a grommet hole or something and you can control it that way might not be as tidy but there's at least option ok so that's a lot of talking and a lot of glamor shots but what about performance we all know it's how you do in the long run the early matters well Ben stress testing all day after getting around some temperature reading bugs which I found out was the problem with hardware monitor we'll talk about that in a separate video because it's a very important topic to talk about using a 264 to monitor temperatures on the stress test dressing CPU FPU and cache which is literally a torture test not just a stability test as a torture test pumping as much heat as it possibly can into the system I put one point three five volts on here just to see what would happen we saw a package temp of 79 C that's warm we'll talk about that in a second 79 CE and core temps ranging anywhere from 65 to about 75 C on the course now yeah that's a lot and so is 1.35 volts I wouldn't actually recommend running that on an a io 24/7 I want to see if the worst case scenario is going to be so now that I know what that stupid voltage on a high overclock was going to get me in temperatures that are still below t.j.maxx on that's not just department store guys especially what they call the maximum temperature allowed on a CPU before throttling starts to happen anyway yeah it's not just a place where you buy shoes it's also takes care of your CPU we saw that we were under that so now I went okay what happens when you put in a voltage that's more appropriate for everyday 24/7 driving of this overclock will still maintain four point three at one point to five volts completely stable doing the same a 264 tests we saw a Mac at a Mac äj-- we saw a Mac's package temperature of 65 C it came down 14 C just by bringing the voltage down a little bit and we saw core temps averaging in the mid to upper 50s perfect that I would run that all day long and be completely comfortable with this cooler again that's at these stock fan curve you can manually adjust the fan curve and get it even cooler at the sacrifice of sound but again I was testing it with as it shifts now we're about games though games obviously are not as stressful as a dress what about games though games are obviously not as stressful as a torture test like a 264 so I loaded up GTA 5 put all of the draw distance and everything max I want to draw the world out as far as we could do because that's going to put more stress on the CPU as well it is a very CPU centric game lots of stuff to load and yeah temperatures guys well in check high forties on the package and the cores we're sitting in the mid to upper 40s and then some of the higher core is hitting as high as the low 50s so that's that's awesome now putting this thing all the way down to stock settings though I saw max temperature package of 44 C and then the cores were actually staying in the upper 30s to low 40s definitely well within check now not only does it support all the current sockets both on AMD and Intel both brackets are included they are going to be providing a free am 4 upgrade kit with the bracket that's needed for that once Rison actually launches if you get one of these and you upgrade to rise in later you will get one of those brackets for free upon request you have to contact them so anyway there you go guys I think EVGA first attempted a i/o is actually pretty good but they didn't have to do a whole lot they've worked with ASA Tech in the past on the hybrid coolers they just had to come up with their block design some of the software and implement it I think they actually did a pretty good job a iOS are what they are I mean they are good ways to get your foot wet no pun intended with water cooling and then if you feel like using this as a gateway drug to the you know bigger and better full custom loops you can do that so don't forget they also have what they showed up at CES their quick release design where you can actually add radiators and add graphics cards and stuff we will be taking a look taking a look at that in the future when it becomes available it's not available yet but it's available you know they're going to send it to me I'm such a water cooling core it's not even funny so thanks for watching guys if you enjoy today's video going hit that like button if you guys want to also help out the channel there will be a link to this product once available on Amazon down in the description this video if it's not available at the time making this video I'll go back and add it later but it helps the channel more they don't ever know by using those affiliate links so if you want to use it do it if not no problem that's okay too but it's time to go yeah I've got 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