Gadgetory

now this is an unboxing of something that I'm very excited about I haven't bought myself any cool new toys that are this cool in quite a while so I'm gonna be doing a small upgrade on my machine I'm not gonna be changing my graphics card I'm sticking with my GTX 480 I'm actually gonna be downgrading my RAM cuz right now I have 24 gigs on an MSI Big Bang X power with a a I can't remember core i7 980 X and so I'm gonna be taking out two dims and going with a quad channel 16 gigs set up with new 2011 processor and so I figured hey if I'm gonna go 2011 maybe it's time to upgrade the old waterblock Oh Swift Tech release the coolest waterblock ever so today I will be unboxing the Swift Tech Apogee HD limited edition 24k gold-plated waterblock these are individually numbered and very limited edition they only produced a few hundred of them that's apparently my number so let's go ahead and get this baby opened up so here's the CPU it's gonna be working on so it comes with first and foremost an installation guide which is by the appearances ok in color sort of certain parts are in color so they show you how to put the thing on the thing and line it up with the other thing and put the goop on the other things ok next we've got a backplate of some sort so this might be 2011 it might be 1366 not hundred percent sure what it is oh yeah mounting hardware that's included here this is a good way to know for sure so it includes ah 11 55 and 56 1366 and 2011 you can request free upon demand 775 and AMD hold down plate and hardware for any of their given sockets so there you go so it it only includes sort of the more modern Intel sockets okay here we've got the just general general memo oh no this is the 2011 kit okay so cool so what's in here so we've got four big thumb hold down screws I'm gonna put these on here so you guys can see them a little bit better so if AK does such a good job of their mounting hardware they're true pioneers when it comes to mounting hardware and hold on I'm just gonna make sure I don't use these uh whose washers so there's a couple washers here to hold them in place that I really hope I haven't lost one although it would appear that I may have whatever I'll find it I'll find out there it is okay good okay so I got four of those I got four of those really sharp just nice big thumb screws and then there there's Phillips heads on the inside if you do want to do that these Springs so this is one of the things that Smith Tech is so good at they design their mounting hardware to apply the exact right amount of pressure no more no less and they were one of the first ones - well not really one of the first ones but they're one of the only ones in the water cooling space that really pay attention to the actual spec for a given socket and then adhere to it and then we've got a couple of clamps so those are your worm drive clamps for your for your Barb's so you want to you know go ahead and use a slot screwdriver to tighten those up I don't like these I prefer compression fittings these are the compressions I'll be using with this block - got some included thermal goop some pk-1 really they're using their bundling Pro Lima tech thermal goop fascinating pk-1 as far as my understanding goes is basically pretty much the same thing as mx1 although I could be wrong about that either way I've heard that pk-1 is very good I mean if they are gonna compare it to MX one then yeah it's pretty good anyway so here we go socket 2011 installation kit how to use so you take off these you put on those you follow the instructions and nobody gets hurt okay now let's get to the water block itself which fella needs some unveiling here we even drumroll that's right dead sexy gold-plated waterblock that I saw and simply had to have there's a limited edition with the engraved number on it so like I said they only did a few hundred of these so I and one of my co-workers actually bought two of the first three that NCIX is sold one guy pre-ordered it so he got one right away and then when they arrived in the warehouse this afternoon I ordered one up and I went down and I grabbed one because yeah these are like for sure this chisel so in terms of mounting options the Apple GHD actually has a couple of different choices so you can either use these guys as the inlet and the outlet or you can use these ones as the inlet the outlet I'll be using these two since I'll be using compression fittings here I'm just gonna take all one of my compression fittings out and I'll show you guys I'll do a quick test fit here show you guys what it's gonna look like with a big gold-plated compression fitting so these are bits power unfortunately swift tech includes gold-plated barb fittings I'm not much of a barb fitting guy I really do prefer compression so I'm gonna go ahead and replace these and while those are on pretty tight so you know what I'll be back in a sec sorry guys so here's a trick that I use whenever I have delicate delicate equipment is I'll take whatever tools I have and I'll put a cloth between them and what I'm applying them to so here's the barb coming out of the block you can actually here you can have a look at the socket there so you can see the gold plating goes all the way into the block itself and you can actually see the innards of the Apple GHD so this is Swift Tech's latest generation highest performance to date water block so let's go ahead and see how closely these gold platings match the bits power ones a little bit more yellow but it should still look pretty Ted bling when I go ahead and throw that on there there you go so that should give you guys some idea how this is gonna look once it's got a couple of compressions on it so I wouldn't I'd be remiss if I didn't give you guys sort of the obligatory reflecting shot to show you what a mirror is here you can see my cat in it Hey Rumble come here see can you see the cat look at that that's a water block yeah that's right okay so yeah there you guys here I'm actually scanning fingerprints ah when you buy something for the whole like and the whole point is that it's like super beautiful the last thing you want to do is cover it and ugly fingerprints and get scratches on it so you can see the gold plating goes here and the copper base starts here and then there's the hold-down which can be replaced so that's black what I imagine someone will probably do is they'll buy this block they'll strip the paint off the hold-down and they'll get a gold-plated - so the whole thing will just like look like shiny eagle ridiculous but I think we're pretty much done here thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the a bougie HD so as I said before this is Swift Tech's new flagship block this is a gold-plated version of it so this is about as high-performing and about as low-flow because that's really what they've been focusing on achieving since way back in the storm days when when impingement blocks were cool and then after that they went to the apogee so the pin matrix High Flow low restrictions type design so we've got yeah whatever I'm not gonna say much more about it cool block looks amazing I am very much looking forward to getting it cooling this CPU which will go here and will be cooled and it will be awesome and it will be gold and yeah and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos so my assistant here is giving you a hard time as some of you may or may not know I use blue tubing in my system and the comment was oh that's not gonna look with blue tubing and I said well are you sure because personally I think it's gonna look great with blue tubing so I'll let you guys be the judge does it look good with blue tubing you tell