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so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing on the antic cooler h2o 920 so this is a thicker style radiator with push-pull fans as well as a low profile CPU block slash pump unit so let's see what Antec has to say for themselves they're saying its next generation maximum performance okay you have PWM control zero maintenance as well as a quick installation system it is compatible with 775 1155 1156 1366 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 M 2 plus M 3 plus so pretty much every socket Under the Sun these days here we go fan speed here's all of your general specs which are naturally covered by a sticker thanks for that let's go in I draw move that there there we go alright so now we can see the specs so there's your fan speed from 700 to 2400 rpm radiator dimensions so the thickness of this rad is 49 millimeters that's the important one fans these are your standard 120 by 25 mil fans coldplay high tubing length okay none of this is probably gonna be that relevant that weight this is an interesting one so it's 1.6 pounds and the great thing about these self-contained liquid cooling units is that if you ever have to ship or move your system around most of that weight is strapped to the case unlike a heat sink where all the weight is going to be hanging off the CPU socket so there's a customizable RGB LED on the CPU block itself so you can actually change the color that that's pretty cool through the software PWM radiator fans okay included software provides essential tools to control and monitor the cooler h2o including coolant temperatures okay that's pretty neat and non corrugated easy Bend tubes so that's something that we have not seen before on these pre done liquid cooling setup so I'll definitely be commenting on what kind of they're using and what I think of it I've been water cooling for almost seven years so I do have a fair bit of experience with tubing blocks all right here's the insides actually one more thing on the outside of the box so the lower CPU temperatures are better okay thanks for stating the obvious mr. Graff CPU core temp so here's the intel air cooler here's a first generation liquid cooler so they're saying it's around 70 degrees and they're saying the cooler h2o is more like a 60 degrees and that's on an i7 980 X at a hundred percent load so I'm not sure exactly which first generation cooler they're comparing to but presumably it's one of the slightly thinner ones such as Mesa Tech LC LC here we have an installation guide although I should be able to figure out how this mounts relatively easily we have a chill control V version 1.0 software thing so you can probably download that from the antec website we have mounting hardware so this is pretty straightforward we've seen this before hey this is neat so Corsair had a similar system with the H 50 and the H 70 but you can see now instead of it just the plastic bits just all being black they're color coded green for AMD blue for Intel so that is a nice touch and then we've got hold downs for AMD as well as hold downs for Intel and then all of the little heart of our bit stuff you need all right let's take out the radiator CPU block and pump and let's go ahead and take out the fans one of my biggest complaints about the of course our fans was that they just didn't seem very well built they're kind of flimsy and they're pretty loud so these look a little bit better constructed I mean antics been making fans for about three million years so I'm sure they've got fans figured out overall the frame feels quite good it's more like inline with the cool it fans that they were using on the on the eco as well as the advantage so here you go another fan looks just like that lots of blades probably optimized for static pressure and the reason for that would be this so you can see it's quite a dense fin arrangement here so that means that rather than optimizing the fan for CFM that is straight airflow in an unrestricted environment you want to optimize a fan for static pressure so that is in a restricted environment how much air can it force through said restricted environment so here you can see how thick the radiator is and here why don't we do why don't we do the classic iPhone in comparison oh I think I just showed crazy Russian oh well well good he's not really that much of a secret anyway you can find pictures of him on the NZXT Facebook and I'm a bit much of a crazy either okay all right okay and tech 920 oh okay here's a hint as to who the OEM might be for this it's right on there can you get that yeah yes no yes okay all right so here are the easy flex tubes or whatever it is they're calling them and actually these are nice look at that so these are using very thick thick walled tubing so this is still one quarter inch tubing but just uses an incredibly thick wall so that gives you this crazy denned radius where you could basically take it and bend it like this and like that and all in a circle and it's still not going to collapse so this is outstanding actually that is definitely a benefit of using the cooler 920 so here is the pump and sorry just give it there we go here's the pump and block combo unit so that's where the custom RGB lighting is going to come from and there's the cooler branding these are rotatable so you can actually position it quite easily according to which way the tubing is coming in so that you don't have undue stress on the tubing or on the fittings all right here on the bottom you can see the copper base as well as the pre applied thermal compound that is a high quality thermal compound so I wouldn't feel the need to replace it unless you are taking it off and you need to reapply thermal compound to your CPU so you've got a bunch of cables coming off this guy all black thankfully that is that is excellent because the CPU socket can get very cluttered very quickly if you have a bunch of brightly colored cables around it but we've got one USB so that's going to be for the monitoring software we have and that's a USB header so that will plug directly into your motherboard and then we have hmm Oh neat okay so the whole unit gets powered off of a single three pin so what you're able to do oh this is great so check this out okay guys so here's how this works your fans use their four pin pwm plugs to plug into this splitter right here okay the PWM control is all done at the controller level within the CPU block so what that means is that the Antec software does all of that control without any intervention from the motherboard and that really provides a way for an tech to control the end-user experience much better because a lot of motherboards have control schemes that are drastically different from different from each other so this way antec can accurately report the noise level of the system as well as the temperatures from one simple interface via USB so this guy provides power to the whole deal now I probably wouldn't recommend plugging this into your CPU fan header on your motherboard I'm not sure what ntek has to say about that in the instructions but three fans and the pump seems to me like it might be a little much maybe I'm mistaken though maybe they're going to say that you should plug it into the CPU fan header yes they do okay they say the CPU fan header is perfectly capable of handling if remember USB is going to be providing power to some parts of some aspects of this as well so maybe they've got some kind of distribution system where it's not gonna affect things negatively but there you go so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Antec cooler h2o 920 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings review and other computer videos