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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is Linksys welcome to something very exciting here guys we have Gabe rushan who is the president CEO whatever title he wants to give himself of Swift tech now normally when I do these videos you guys know I know a thing or two about water cooling so I would normally do all the talking but this guy makes everything I know look kind of stupid so I'm gonna let him do most of the talking about their brand new product in fact a few brand new products that according to the conversation we've had and the demo slicks already seen is going to just blow the doors off of the prefabbed water cooling market well we're gonna try to yes well what we have here is the h2 20 C PU liquid cooling system and that product is the intention of that product is to bridge the gap between all-in-one and three level budget products such as those made by thermal take on take off and all of these guys and the custom loop systems what we are offering here is the ability we offer a product that is pre filled entirely plug-and-play for novice builders where they only have two it only comes already pre-installed with the fans and all they have to do is stick it up the top of the case and screw in the four screws for the CPU cooler and they are essentially done it comes guys we've never seen this before rather than having you fuss around with the stupid fans and the screws and they go through the case and the thing and you got to align it it comes with the wires already kind of tied away for you so the cable management is sort of done the fans are pre attached to the unit so you actually don't have to bother with that you just screw it into your case and even this is pre attached so it's just a matter of undoing a couple screws and doing a couple screws back in so sorry no problem no problem now the unit is plug-and-play and we use included with this unit is an eight-way PWM speeder I'm sorry yeah so you just connect your pump and your fans to this this one goes to the CPU header on the motherboard and this goes to the power supply and now your motherboard sees the entire CPU cooler as just a regular air-cooled Intel stock core and can manage it just the same way couple of you know couple of settings in the motherboard and now your system is entirely managed by the motherboard now guys remember something like an M cubed T balancer would have been required to have the level of control we're gonna have over the number of fans we're gonna have because we're adding power from the power supply we don't have to worry about the limitations of what the header is capable of providing we're relying on the PSU for that and because guys like a soos are including fan expert in their AI suite now you can take setting custom fan curves which you always had a limitation how many how many headers you have on the motherboard did they give you PWM did they give you 3 pin now you can do eight you can just mount it with two screws or if you really don't feel like it you don't want to DIY this at all you can just stick it to the your case with tape comes with beautiful sleeving on it so you can see you can hardly see the color of the wires behind that at all Gabe go ahead take no problem the last thing but most important thing in the static presentation here is that pump when I say we wanted to bridge the gap between onion 1 and custom cooling loops we needed a pump and we have for the past 3 years worked on that pump we now manufacture that pump in our own factory ok and we've designed it from the ground up that pump is 6 watts ok compare this for reference to the other all-in-one systems that have a pump rated at about 1.2 watts so it is 6 times more powerful than other all-in-one systems which means that we are capable of driving multiple devices in the loop for any custom loop and we will show that later on during that presentation also that pump because we've spent so much time in developing it has an excellent MTBF which is the reliability the measure of reliability that pump is rated for 60,000 hours and TBF whereas the mCP 35 X that we use in the apogee drive for example is 50,000 hours but notice something else notice that the base of these two units is actually exactly the same it is the same copper base so you're gonna get the same type of thermal performance from this product that you get from the mCP 30 or from the apogee drive - which retails for over $110 guys something that I want to talk about a little bit here as well is the fact that if you've ever watched any of my videos about Swift tech products I know we don't do too much on custom water cooling cuz it's kind of well it used to be kind of nice I guess here we are is that their mounting mechanism our mounting mechanisms are second to none they've always done a phenomenal job I think even going back to I'd say probably the last one that was somewhat difficult to mount would have been a poogie Apogee was a little bit that was a long time ago with a lot of the the later prod I'm even anything in the last four or five years it's been down to a spec where there's tensions here that are calibrated specifically for the Intel specification they always pay special attention to this when other water cooling manufacturers in ages past have been cheating by actually applying too much pressure in a bow to the base and kind of funny tricks like this Swift tech goes with the stock mount it's always got a stopper you see the way if I unscrew that it actually goes right up against the back plate you can never accidentally screw a swift tech block in too far if you have anything that they've manufactured in the last few years so move on to the rest I think the static presentation is done let's what fittings oh I forgot sorry yeah it's because for me now it's I've taken them for granted well we've installed we've designed these products with swivel fittings so that it makes it absolutely very easy to install the unit into a case and to bend the tube we also have very specific and sweet tubing that is very nice to work with it is relatively soft but it works without kinking and so the fact that it's a little softer than usual allows it's more comfortable to work with the century so it doesn't put too much strain on the fittings and anything like that and obviously the fact that they're all swivel essentially makes it so easy to install so expansion wise remember we mentioned our well Gabe mentioned that there is a there's a pump that's capable of driving more components than just the CPU so you take these off as simply as undoing a Phillips head screwdriver no nonsense no trickery they're not trying to prevent you from emptying the thing and doing your own thing with it because swift acts a custom water cooling company not you know a heat sink company turned water cooling company you can drain this thing you can make a custom loop out of it if you want it really does bridge the gap between DIY and not DIY you can also see here that there's a flange that prevents this custom this custom clamp from actually going in this direction and you can see right here that it's manufactured to a precision that it's actually not capable of slipping in the other direction as well and much like the CPU block itself this goes down all the way so when you install any component in this kit you screw it in all the way now I like to think that I'm pretty credible as far as sources of information go and I told you guys that gave is extremely credible but obviously if we're gonna tell you something like blow the doors off of or if we're gonna tell you something like you know huge mean time between failure and so much more powerful than every other pump whatever whatever we're telling you we better sort of prove it so this is the practical demo component right now we have three identical systems running competitor t competitor C and Swift Tech so that represents the OEMs that are out there so there's an ASA tech premium unit there's a kulit premium unit and there is a swift tech premium unit because there is no om a swift tech all-in-one water cooling unit so Gabe tell us what you've done to level the playing field in such a way that we are seeing how they compare it directly to each other well what we're doing here is that we have three plus one since we are also showing the h2o with graphics screen capabilities but essentially what we're doing for the CPU cooling section the asset the asset tag the cursor on the swift tag is that we let huh we let the system run at 1,400 rpms which is the lowest level we can go to with both the Thermaltake and the cross air units and we placed the Swift tech unit also at 1400 it can go lower it can go from 800 to 18 but we put them all at 1400 we put the same load we have the same of a clock they're all running at 4.6 Geeks same voltage which is set by the OneTouch button on the asus software guys these are 3770k is running on Maximus 5 formulas just so you know yes I also want to thank a sous and their beautiful board for sponsoring this as well as the Nokia for sponsoring the cases and EVGA for sponsoring the graphics and Kingston for the hyper axe and SSDs they have been beautiful in helping us as well as Coolermaster for all these beautiful power supplies that are running nice and low ok now going back to the set up 1,400 rpms for all four systems so three CPU cooling and 1 h2 220 running as well two gtx 680 s provided by EVGA using the hydro copper cooler as well as the via cooling on the Asus so we are all loaded up let's go take a look at the temperature results now let's go guys we're not even gonna cut this shot because I want you guys to see that there's no monkey business going on so where do we where do we see all four of them here right here laptop right there all right so here we go guys so system one which is the here we go the sweep deck age 220 here we have the average for the past ten minutes okay in the right hand side column here and the average temperature for the past 10 mins it's 76 81 at full load the same lord same operations same fan speed cursor h 100 is running at eighty two point five compared to seventy six point eight the thermal tech unit we can see here is running at seventy eight point three versus 276 and then the swift a cage 220 also cooling two gtx 680 s and the chipset and via which gets pretty hot and a full load CPU is running at an average of eighty one point three centigrades so now that now that we've covered the temperatures we are going to cover maximum noise level as well as minimum noise levels so let's get started with maximum maximum noise level on the swift take h 220 and let me just explain how i'm gonna position the microphone here guys rather than positioning it right next to the vent where it's going to be mostly the noise of the air brushing up against our windscreen i'm gonna position it right here on the other side of this flat because that way we're finding out more accurately how much noise is actually being transmitted through the case to an end-user agree with this okay we're gonna start with swift tech next we're gonna move over to this was the yes this is the go CH 100 I okay I think that's all we need to know and now let's move to the thermal tech unit so Diesel's comment he's he's monitoring the sound in his ear buds is that that's a big difference so this is representing the maximum noise that these units can make so now what we are going to do to demonstrate the minimums the minimum noise level we're shutting down everything else and we're going to keep that CPU h2 20 C P you calling at it's what we call the silent mode which is a minimum fan speed and minimum pump speed and it still at full load and you can hear it humming so that's still that's at 800 rpm right and regular regular viewers know that I refuse to run fans any higher than a thousand rpm so this is pretty much how I'd use the unit gonna cheat a little bit I'm gonna put it even closer I'm gonna put it right next to the vent diesel can't hear it I'm gonna put it right next to the rear fan very impressive so you know the proof is in the pudding right and that's all we have to say about this show me show me the most impressive pudding which is the one over there here because we wanted to bridge that gap with the custom custom custom loops right so built starting from the h2 20 we added a couple of Radeon 7970 is cooled by a komodo water block and then we had hid a couple more radiators so we have dual 120 millimeter it's an MC r 220 and we have a dual 140 millimeter which is the MC r 240 in the phone so that pump of ass is honing to water blocks three water blocks cpu GPU and three radiators which demonstrates pretty much what the enthusiast guys do out there and it's capable of doing it and now if you want to take a shot on the screen you can see the type of temperatures that we have running the heaven benchmark and here we go guys so GPU temperatures are 53 degrees for 479 70s which is ridiculous and then CPU temperatures are under this is this is an overclocked 3930k to 4.5 gigahertz so guys temperatures of under 50 degrees 50 degrees on that CPU very very impressive have you got that diesel oh he says no not yet you know we could we got to prove it here we can't just say it we got to show you guys what kind of temperatures were running and I just want to thank I want to thank Gabe from Swift tech for walking us through this demo this has been very impressive and very eye-opening thank you thank you thank you for coming - don't forget to catch all of our CES 2013 coverage and make sure that you're subscribed to Linus tech tips you