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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.samhsa.gov/dtac sage 220 now it turned out there were a number of different issues including us using fan controller inline modules that weren't compatible with these particular PWM fans as well as the fact that our unit was an engineering sample unit that had a bit of a problem with it so we have been working with Swift TAC on what the heck happened where our test unit performed terribly with Swift Tech's own helix fans and performed admirably with third-party fans like the Noctua n FF 12s and we committed to Swift tech as well as to our viewers to redo our testing much more in depth and take a very close look at how the H 220 performs on our test bench with all the variables being eliminated as best as possible so I'm gonna start with a look at our cooling test bench we use a closed platform we do not use an open test bench for cooler reviews anymore because this is more of a real-world scenario alright so we use a corsair c 70 case which represents an above average case for cooling hey there's my screwdriver i was looking for that dang it slick alright I guess I'll leave it here but anyway okay we use a real system inside with a GTX 580 that runs fir mark during our load tests that we create heat inside the system so that it's more like a real system would be if you're actually playing a game we have two fans here that run at 1100 our rather at crap I forget the rpm but they run at 7 volts we have a fan back here that runs at 1100 rpm and is held on with rubber washers so that's why it just popped off just now 16 gigs of RAM we found our coolers in the top or the back depending on what kind of coolers they are you can see we've got swift Tex PWM splitter over here making sure we're running everything properly power supply 32 gig SSD because that's all you really need we collect our ambient temperatures here at the front of the case and then we we log them with this and then we correct all of our results - as if the room was 20 degrees Celsius the last thing that's of note is when we're not running fans at full speed we're using this variable resistor in here in order to run our fans at 1,100 rpm we can dial them into exactly eleven hundred rpm using software rpm monitoring and this guy right here however it should be noted running pwm fans such as the helix ones there could be adverse effects to the longevity of the fan running it using voltage control so we're only doing that for the sake of eliminating variables not because we actually recommend running them this way alright so back to the age to 20 we did idle and load comparison so idle is at idle giving it time to equalize and load is that load giving it you know 15 20 minutes to equalize and normalize the temperature we ran corsair SP series fans though so those are on there right now that was the last one we did but this is what they look like okay they're quiet addition fans not performance addition we ran Swift Texan helix fans in both push and pull / swift text requests because they ship them in pole configuration but we test all of our cool are they ship them in push rather but we test all of our configurations in pull because I believe it's better because it's easier to clean whereas when you have them in push the dust all accumulates under the fans so you have to take the fans off in order to clean them what we discovered is they performed exactly the same in push and pull which is what I've said was going to happen so we didn't even need a different data point on the graph to show those two results but they were exactly the same so consider these poll results or push results whatever you want we ran switch over stones new ap 123 air penetrator fans with the three different blade sizes that should make them more optimized for quiet hey slick how are they in terms of acoustics super quiet awesome okay good I mean I guess I kind of expected that and we ran our golden standard our well our brown and tan standard I suppose not to a 10 ff12 s which are the ones that we use as our standardized test bench for testing fans because we believe that they're awesome and as your about to see they're just freaking awesome so what we saw the first time around was that at load our n FF 12s were outperforming the hilux fans by like ten or fifteen degrees or something like that we looked at it we were like this is impossible we retested it and we got the same results so we published it but we were wrong we made some mistakes so these are the proper results we've tested our fans at full speed as well as at 1,100 rpm and we've included some other coolers for reference as well so the best-performing solution was the h2 20 with n FF twelves running at full speed bear in mind these only run at around 1400 1450 rpm at full speed whereas the Hilux is rendered around 1800 rpm at full speed so the fact that they outperformed the helixes is very admirable the Hilux is however did pull ahead of the air penetrators as well as Corsairs static pressure fans but those ones also run at lower rpm than the hilux fans so the hilux fans have a very wide range of RPM in part due to their pwm design as well as due to the design of the motor overall which is able to start up at very low speeds as well as run at very high speed which is a great flexible option it's good to have alright so at full speed it goes 54.5 n FF 1256 h2 2050 8.5 for both of the other fan solutions then we took all the fans and we put them on a level playing field 1,100 rpm only the n FF twelves won by almost three degrees about two and a half degrees which is outstanding considering that they're running at the same rpm as everything else they're very pressure optimized they perform incredibly well up against a radiator in addition to being very quiet so we're going to be continuing to use the n FF 12s as our Brown and tan standard well golden standard fan next up was Corsairs static pressure fans which were tied with the air penetrators again at a lower rpm so those we can consider very equivalent designs and then bringing up the rear was the helix fans but they were only one degree away from the static pressure and air penetrator fans and we can consider about one degree to be not that significant of a difference in terms of performance however the three two and a half degree victory is a clear victory for the n FF twelve after that we finally find other coolers so get this you guys the age to twenty regardless of which fans you put on it performs better than anything else because are the water 2.0 extreme from Thermaltake is our next best performing cooler three degrees behind the worst configuration for the h2 20 then there's the H 110 which is another almost a degree behind that then there's the H 100 I which is another almost degree behind that and then we get down to the single 120 millimeter coolers like the H atir sorry that was another 4 degrees or 5 degrees behind the H 110 and then the H Adi brings up the rear at like 95 degrees so not all liquid coolers are built equal not all fans are built equal but it's very clear to me that no matter how in equally built your fan is the h2 20 is the best prefilled liquid cooler on the market almost no matter how hard you try to cripple it I mean we didn't cripple it by using the included fans but we didn't give it a huge advantage like we do with every other cooler by putting some of the best fans on the market on them thank you for checking out this corrected edition of Linus tech tips on the you know I don't even held up the product at all so here's the box is what it's actually gonna look like if you buy it see we have a retail sample now of the h2 20 from Swift tech don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from boxing's reviews and other computer videos and if you haven't seen it already we did a build log a little while ago and a silverstone TJ 10 where we used the h2 20 we expanded it we added a GPU block as well as another radiator and that is the other advantage of the h2 20 so 3 year warranty expandability and the best performance on the market in spite of the fact that it's using a dual 120 millimeter fan radiator instead of a dual 140 millimeter fan radiator like the H 110 which still gets outperformed by at least 4 degrees and with the same fans it looks like 110 is about 8 degrees Wow