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one of the quickest ways to add cooling potential to your system is to add an all-in-one water cooling loop so today we're going to talk about a iOS and particular how to choose the right size for you because the summer months are coming winter was coming and it came in it went and was kind of like yeah but summer is coming and you know you're gonna melt but your computer doesn't have to so let's talk about is take overclocking reliability to the next level with the new z3 90 dark motherboard from EVGA the z3 90 dark is built for extreme overclocking utilizing features such as a 10 layer PCB 17 phase power delivery triple BIOS and 150 percent more gold content meaning you get more of what you need to build the ultimate Intel based PC to learn more about the z3 90 dark in its world-class features visit EVGA calm ok so what I've got here are four different coolers from Corsair they sent these over specifically for us to do this talking head piece but what we're going to talk about is not features we're not talking about RGB we're not gonna talk about any of the like RGB fans or software we're gonna talk specifically about the two components that matter most in an all-in-one water cooling loop that being the radiator and the fans now the pump and all four of these is pretty much the same they are based off of an ASA tech design so there's there's a lot of similarities between all four of these but what you're gonna find here is that what we're going to talk about today is going to apply to most brands so you can take some of the confusion out of about being like well Jed I'm not getting a Corsair cooler that's okay because we're gonna talk about here on the specifics in terms of sizing is going to carry over with the only difference really being the fan designs the RPM static pressure and that sort of stuff so let's get started it's what we have here is a small medium and large offering from Corsair but the information I'm gonna tell you today or at least provide you today is not specific to Corsair themselves but they were of course kind enough to send over the the visual aids for me to talk about this so we've got here's the h-60 the H 100 I Pro and the H 150 I pro and as you can see obviously as you move from your left to right this is a single 120 a dual 120 and a triple 120 this is kind of the norm now we've seen other sizes sort of pop up 280 s which are 40-millimeter fan and variants and stuff but that's just because we have seen we're seeing a lot more cases start to support 140 millimeter radiators that you're starting to see that but the information I'm gonna give you here regarding 120s is applicable to 140 millimeter fans as well now one of the things you have to keep in mind before you can start to decide which cooler is best for you is what case are you using those are the two things that are more responsible and compatible with each other in terms of you know picking out your parts then the CPU why people might go well I've got a 90 100 case so this isn't gonna get the job done because that's a hot CPU well no to be honest this would actually do a great job at cooling a stock speed 90 900 K and keeping it well below t.j.maxx the issue here is going to be if you try and get a 360 millimeter radiator but cram it into some sort of an ITX case or a mid tower that is not going to be able to support a 360 or it's not going to have the space between the top of the case and the motherboard or even on the front then it doesn't really matter what cpu are you running because it's not going to fit now the other thing that you want to keep in mind when it comes to these is their Max wattage that they're capable of dissipating or their max rating this is one of those formulas that you kind of have to take with a grain of salt because just like fan statistics a lot of companies will like to show the best possible rating which is usually going to be in a non-restrictive open environment where the fan has nothing in front of it nothing behind it no case no radiator it's just sitting here on a table and the amount of static pressure and airflow that it can move max rpm under those conditions once you stick it in a case or you put in a fan on a radiator or you have any sort of resistance that number can fall off sharply and quickly if the fan is not up to par when it comes to the task being given to it so what you're gonna need to keep in mind though and that what seems like a digress conversation does tie in is because the fan in all of these plays a very big part interestingly enough all three of these do not have the same fan attached to them you could also have a low rpm low static pressure fan that would cause the temperatures in this h 6d to climb versus having a high static pressure high rpm fan at the sake of noise is going to then bring the temperatures down so what you're going to find other ratings on the Box are usually going to be dependent on the fan that comes with the kit added to max rpm which is also gonna be its most noisy you'll find 120 s to be the most common a iOS that are included with things like graphics cards and hybrids and stuff like that because I've always found that a single 120 millimeter radiator is more than enough to cool off a single non overclocked component the age 60 is also going to be a great solution for small form-factor cases ITX cases or anywhere where you can't get a large air cooler the thing with single 120 millimeter radiators is because you have to run a fan at higher speeds with higher noise to get you know max Cape cooling capability of this heat exchanger you start to encroach into the area where big air coolers cool just as well if not better something like a knock - a big cooling tower versus a single 120 millimeter radiator the difference is you're much more likely to be able to fit Vic's this in an ITX case then like a knock to a D 14 or whatever so this is where sizing is more important with your chassis than the actual CPU itself now if you've got the room and you want to step up and maybe deal with it a little bit of overclocking and you want to kind of push your CP a little farther maybe apply the turbo clock to all your cores without increasing the clock speed you're gonna find that the 240 millimeter variant or two 120 millimeter fans is going to be the sweet spot this is where most people shop this is the most common size you're gonna find for any a i/o regardless of the brand because you most cases on the market very few do not support a 120 millimeter double or a 240 millimeter radiator now what you're gonna find here is that this is not double the cooling capacity of this there is a diminishing return as you move up in sizing it's a diminishing return exponentially flattening would you say what he said asymptotic interestingly enough the 240 variant of all three of these although they both belong to the same family of cooler the 240 has the highest rpm rating of the fans although all three of the fans look alike they have the gray blades they're like a static pressure optimized fan this one is PWM controlled up to 2400 rpm so what that means is if you're able to say I don't care about the noise I care about the cooling then you could set this to its max rpm and just go balls to the wall with cooling and also balls to the wall with volume so there's that something you want to keep in mind what we've seen kind of come to market more over the last couple years are the three hundred and sixty millimeter variants now what you're gonna find with this is a lot more cases are supporting 360s on the top many of which are now supporting 360s on the front what this allows you to do is gain more cooling capacity more thermal capacity of the actual heat exchanger with a three sixty millimeter radiator you are capable of running the fans at a lower speed a lot less intrusive but you have more air volume going through the heat exchanger which means better cooling it's slower to heat up it's quicker to cool down and you can allow yourself to have bigger overclocks without having to intrude in your space in terms of volume so the actual heat exchanger size itself is only part of the formula and I think a lot of people get caught up on that where they care more about the radiator size itself than the fans which are responsible for moving air through the radiator if you were just to let these radiator sit static or passive and no air is moving through them whatsoever all three of these would eventually overheat because if you don't have air moving through this taking the heat out of this which is taking the heat out of the fluid and exhausting it to the atmosphere what's then being dissipated these do nothing so fan choice is just as important fortunately with the Corsair coolers here they are a standard pwm plug so you don't have to worry about any sort of proprietary connector with changing out your fans and so what a lot of people will often do is they'll take their favorite a i/o that has features that they want where there be RGB or expandability or whatever then what they'll do is they'll take their favorite fan back in the day one of the most popular fans out there for water cooling where the gentle typhoon unfortunately they're not made me more there are other brands that are similar but the gentle typhoon was king that was the fan to have on your radiators if price was no object and cooling was the most important you know desire of your water cooling loop now all three of these coolers are designed with either a push or pull config and that's another thing we're not going to really get too in-depth on on this video we've talked about push-pull in the past we'll do another test moving forward where we do a push-pull configurable variables that can impact those results so it's kind of hard to come up with anything that's concrete but all of these are designed with either a push or pull whether it's pulling the air through the red or pushing the air through you're only gonna have enough fans for one side with the radiator but one thing you're going to find that really varies between brands in terms of a iOS are going to be the features now Corsair features the IQ software which allows you to control your pump and it can integrate with all your other corsair products fortunately they do have standard plugs for the pwm circuit we've got RGB on the pumps which are integrated into any other RGB setup that is in your particular system the order the 280 the H 159 now these this one actually features RGB fans as well where all three of these just feature a basic static pressure pwm fan with just a great blade but this one here actually is it's kind of the newer line it's the Platinum line so you can get this in various sizes as well it's just a different family of cooler that features as I said earlier 140 millimeter fan so you can you can get a lot of cooling capability out of your AIO and reduce the cost if you're not interested in all the RGB features and such something else that can kind of impact the price of your cooler is also the the quality of the materials that are used so the h-60 because it's designed to be more of an entry-level get the job done not as many extra features to keep the cost low features just a rubber quarter inch tube like this it's it's highly flexible as you can see I mean flexibility is important that was the cover not that nothing broke I promise the weight like that on the cover a way besides player you have a rubber tubing as you can see here it's very very flexible I'm not a fan of fep tubing and it a cooler that's got Fe Fe P where it's just a flexible pipe and it's very rigid looking those are very stiff they kind of wanted to do their own thing you can't twist them up as much which makes it's my least favorite tubing on the market but as you move up the product line you get a little bit more premium feature like the 240 here or the H 100 I Pro features a sleeved tube so it's basically the same tube is this but it's got a sleeving on top of it this is like a paracord type of sleeve so it just gives it more of a premium look and feel get the same flexibility as you would expect so you can mount this however you need it and you know get the cables to where you want them to be all the coolers feature a rotatable fitting on the pump so you're not putting extra excess pressure on the barbs which could crack you don't want that over time and then the H 150 I Pro is the same as the 100 only it's a 360 millimeter cooler as we already talked about but I've got a lot of emails lately asking me specifically about a iOS and which one should they buy because if there's one thing that is apparent is the a i/o market is heavily saturated and not just by the fluids that are contained in these Oh bad joke but everything there's there are tons and tons of brands there are brands that are just rebrands of other manufacturers like ASA Tech there are brands that are featuring bringing in their own features that tie in with other systems that are available like Corsair but there are so many different brands from both very entry-level basic companies to brands they've been doing it for years there's a lot of confusion out there on what people need so in terms of priority for me it is making sure you get the largest size that will fit in your chassis comfortably you might be able to fit a 240 but you may not be able to do it comfortably as I mentioned not all cases will give you enough room between the top of the case and where your motherboard sits and if you're using any sort of overclocking or gaming motherboard it's probably gonna have a tall heatsink where the VRMs go which could impact on the fan because it's not just the thickness of the radiator that matters it's the thickness of the red plus 25 more millimeters to clear the actual fans so you have to keep that in mind whether they be on or they'd be on the bottom so you might hold this up into your case and go oh yeah that fits no problem it clears until you put the fans on and guess what now you can't mount your radiator in there if you're going with ITX case one thing to keep in mind as well is although you may be able to fit the radiator and the fan are you going to be supplying enough intake to the to the case to be able to supply the amount of air that this needs so this is exhausting a 100 and you know a 20 millimeter fan it's an exhaust is there any intake on the front of the ITX case or on the bottom or on the top or whatever these are the types of things you have to think about prior to installing your coolers so hopefully this has been food for thought and it gives you some things to think about when you're shopping for your next AIO they are all pretty much created equally in terms of what the heat exchangers themselves are capable of doing these are all aluminum units that are featuring copper plates on the blocks with aluminum radiators they all feature a non corrosive coolant that's not something to worry about we've cut open a radiator that's been sitting for years with the same fluid in there with mixed metals and aluminum these sealed units are designed to run that way so don't forget about that that's a whole different conversation not something you need to worry about so when it comes to a IO is what is it you guys often find confusing comment down below if you guys have any answers to some of the comments you see down below then feel free to have a civilized conversation about all-in-one coolers oftentimes you'll find that a premium AIO does not outperform a custom high-end water-cooled loop because of 360 to 360 almost any way you look at it different metals this is an aluminum rad versus a copper 360 you might find a couple of degrees of difference we tend to find in custom water cooling loops though is just the customized look you can make it much more premium product and it usually will last longer in terms of serviceability these are not designed to be serviced an open-loop is but that's another conversation we'll have another video later this summer because you know I like to do summer months are water cooling once around here on this channel so if you have any topics who wants to talk about make sure you let us know and as always guys we'll see you in the next one