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AMD FX 120mm Liquid Cooling Unit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2012-04-04
welcome to my unboxing of the AMD FX 8 core processor black edition with liquid CPU cooling system however I should tell you guys now this is a sample of the liquid cooling system that does not have a CPU inside so there you go overclock and don't overheat liquid CPU cooling system easy vent tubes for maximum flexibility quiet high performance pulse width modulation I think they mean PWM radiator fans brilliant customizable RGB LED ok that's kind of cool custom fan speed control software as well as aa more about the CPU that is not in here because this box includes an AMD processor that is not in here installation instructions limited warranty information a liquid CPU cooling system designed for use in a desktop PC so let's have a look at what is just the liquid cooling system from AMD so you can see right here who the OEM for this particular liquid cooling system might happen to be ASA tech shows you how to install it ok cool beans next we have the liquid CPU cooling chill control software which you should not use you should download the latest from someone's website whether it happens to be AMD or ASA tech ok it includes mounting hardware for AMD systems there you go so we got screws for the fans screws for the hold down plate as well as a little ring that goes here apparently there goes somewhere ok and then mounting clips it is compatible with a.m. 2 a.m. 2 + a.m. 3 a.m. 3 + 2 fans included they seem to be of some kind of reasonable quality because they don't have like a ton of flex to them these are ever flow motor your life are 1 to 1 2 to 5 su fans and there are two so you can mount them in push-pull if you see fit or you can just put one of them on your CPU and like put the other ones somewhere else they're reasonably nice-looking we've got you a little AMD sticker going on there that's green as well as nice short for pin pwm connectors that are using all black wires and then a black connector so they are very aesthetically pleasing if nothing else all right as you can see there is no CPU in the box although yours would have a CPU in the box here we see the bottom cold plate as they call it or CPU block as I think we should probably be calling it with pre applied thermal interface material it is a very high quality Tim that is installed on the bottom of these ASA tech coolers I do know that for a fact changing it out with something better actually will not really net you much in terms of a performance gain here we have the power for the pump itself as well as the pass-through that will power the fan so this cable right here runs to power both of your PWM fans and it can control the fan speeds on both of them at the same time you can see the only wire that is not running to the second connector is the RPM monitor so the RPM monitor will only work on one of the fans as long as they are both plugged into the radiator you would hopefully notice that the radio that one of the fans isn't working long before both of them failed and then you know your CPU wasn't getting any cooling because as long as one of them is going you should be fine so this uses a thick style radiator much like the course are each 70 or H 80 which means that if you are running in push-pull it's ideal because there is a lot of resistance to the air being pushed or pulled through the radiator if you don't have two fans and in order to get the best possible performance out of the surface area you have available you want to make sure you're pushing lots of airflow through it now when they talk about super flexible tubes they are not kidding these are just like the end the ones on the enttec 920 where you can bend them up like this and you can see look ma no kinks so you will be able to get adequate liquid flow to your CPU regardless of what kind of a you know contortionist configuration you have to do in order to get the block positioned correctly over your over your processor now the other thing that can be a bit of a challenge for these is you got to make sure you do have adequate room in your case most cases that accept a 120 millimeter cooling fan at the back will work with this kind of a radiator you can see there's a small tank at the top as well as a small tank at the bottom but on the sides there fairly little profiles so it's exactly the width of okay slightly more than the width of a fan I think that pretty much covers it if you want to know how it performs go find out how in each 70 performs and it's gonna be pretty much that but probably a little bit better because these are better fans and you got your unlocked FX processor thing going on on the top here that's where the RGB LEDs are so you can actually change the color of the FX in there I guess I'd recommend red I mean you can make it blue if you want but I think we all know why that would be wrong so don't forget to subscribe to honest tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and thank you for checking out this video of the AMD FX series liquid cooler
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