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thank you yeah okay so idle temps this week because we were curious how Swift text helix fans performed because we've never really used them before we decided to run the Swift deck age 220 at full pump speed with the stock fans to see how performed it was right in there with an air cooler and some single 120 millimeter and single 90 millimeter radiators so we were a little concerned about that however when we ran it with n FF 12s we've got some of the best idle temperatures that we've ever seen even when we turn the pump down to a fraction of its full speed making near-silent the pump was a little bit on the loud smoke the pump was loud when it was running at full speed but the good news is you don't have to now let's head into low temperatures so when we say correct it 220 degrees the reason we say that is because we run all of our fans at a fixed rpm so basically if the room temperature goes up five degrees the CPU temperature will go up exactly five degrees if you want to know how our setups going to perform where you live measure your room temperature and then just add or minus two so so this is sort of standard room temperature now into the juicy low temperature results guys so the first thing we noticed about the low temperatures was the H 220 at full speed with the stock fans was among the least performing of the coolers that we've tested in the past right down there with you know single 120 millimeter radiator coolers and even our Silver Arrow Xtreme air cooler so that was that was very disappointing it was also quite loud with the pump at full speed so what we didn't necessarily realize at the time was the H 220 needs a little bit of TLC and optimization and once you do that it destroys everything else so with full pump speed again the pump speed was yeah full pump speed was a little on the loud side for our taste but a lot of people probably wouldn't care it was the best performing cooler on our test bed by a significant margin we attribute this to the copper radiator as well as the much much better CPU block that Swift tech integrates I mean a CPU block can make a 5 degree difference and then a copper radiator versus an aluminum radiator is worth a couple degrees as well there so that's very exciting to see and we were even more excited to see that when we turned the pump down it was still our top performing cooler by a good 4 degree margin so we can explain the rest of the results pretty easily as well the water 2.0 has a thicker radiator than the H 100 I which is why it performs better even though it's a dual 120 the H 110 uses a dual 140 millimeter rad so that's why that performs better than an H 100 I and H 100 is pretty standard it performs about the same as the as you know any other dual 120 millimeter radiator cooler a touch plus you get course their link software and I think that pretty much covers it so in conclusion the age to 20 if you make the correct optimizations which is to turn down the pump which is easy you can use your motherboard pump control CPU fan control utility to just turn that baby down and if you get some awesome fans to put on it in our case nff twelves from Noctua which are freaking awesome it is far and away the best pre-done liquid cooler that you can put on your cpu and it has the advantage of actually being able to be expanded with multiple blocks when you're ready for it in the future thanks for checking out this video on - tech tips what oh the - blow yeah okay slick wanted me to mention that the stock tube length is a little bit on the long side and he's right if you come look at it they're they're pretty long I mean the good news is it well it doesn't even look that long when you put it on this side but you had on the other side before and that was a bit of like they were sticking out so like that the good news about those tubes though is it's as simple as cutting them putting them back together and you can have exactly the length you need so I would rather Swift tack where you can actually adjust it err on the side of tubes that are too long than err on the side of tubes that are not long enough thanks for watching - tech tips and don't forget to subscribe