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today I have an unboxing of a product that holds a special place in my heart this is my personal favorite water cooling pump this is the Swift AK m CP 6 v 5 so what makes it my favorite water cooling pump well a couple of different things first of all in my experience both as a end user of this product and as a reseller of this product it is phenomenally reliable these pumps almost never die they come with a one-year warranty but I can tell you with a fair amount of confidence you pretty much won't need it number two the performance is awesome this is one of the best performing pumps on the market yes you might be looking at you know this pump with through this aftermarket adder that on-paper outperforms it but the reality of it is once you have a good high performance pump that's pushing water through the blocks you're talking about maybe a half a degree tops a performance difference between this and something else that that outperforms it in a synthetic test so I really do love this particular product and I do use one in fact my MCP 6 5 5 is a few years old and still going strong in my personal water-cooled machine so what a swift I have to say for themselves here ultra-quiet ok fair enough i buy that no maintenance compact design and adjustable speed extreme performance reliability of five years mean time between failures yea I buy that for sure quick and easy installation which is also true and yeah that pretty much summarizes it doesn't it here's a little diagram of what the pump looks like on the inside although you've pretty much shouldn't need to disassemble it for any for any reason ok packing let's all it uses Universal 4-pin molex which is great so you can plug it into your system no matter what pump speed is adjustable from 4800 rpm down to 1,800 rpm now this is key this is the most silent pump out there on the market that I would consider reliable there have been other silent pumps but this one is the one that won't fail you and there's no nonsense you're just turning down a very reliable very high-performance pump to a lower speed here we go operating voltage range 12 volts yep that's good plugs and relax here are all of the technical specifications which personally I'm not going to worry too much about because when it comes down to is it silent it performs great and it looks a little something like this this is I can actually can't stress enough to silence there's two versions of this pump there's the mCP 655 and the mCP 6 v 5b which stands for basic now the basic version does not come with the adjustable rpm to me that makes that pump not nearly as attractive an option because I basically just take this I turned it all the way down to one and it is dead silent now I've tried I've tried testing this on my loop has a CPU block a GPU block radiator reservoir and this pump and I go okay I'm gonna turn it all the way up to five I'm gonna turn it all the way down to one how much of a temperature difference is there nada it's not measured by the thermal probe on my CPA which means it's probably somewhere in the 0.5 to 1 degree range like within that margin of error it's much more silent and it's also a very convenient feature because when you're first filling your loop in order to get air bubbles out it can be very useful to turn it all the way down to the bottom then crank it up to the top then turn it all the way down to the bottom what that can do is it will alter the flow of the water through your loop in order to dislodge air bubbles that might be trapped in your CPU block or your radiator so that's gonna mean that that annoying sound of air being sucked through the pump that makes like a yeah that kind of noise can be eliminated much faster with a new build if you have a pump that has a variable speed like this one accessory-wise it comes with a double-sided sticky mounting pad looks a little something like that you've got some noise isolation vibration isolation dampening foam in between and then two stickers on either side so you can stick it down you can also screw it down that's what these holes here are for okay so it comes with screws as well as in a little instruction manual now how does the pump work nice long molex connector recommends leaving that if you're gonna run it anywhere like far because it's kind of ugly but that's okay okay molex connector on the end and then you've got your inlet and your outlet so this is the inlet for the pump goes right into I hope you can see in there I'm not sure if you'll be able to see can you see okay well it goes into the pump one way or another and then it spins inside and then pumped the water out the top so a couple things when you're installing a pump that are very important number one you always want your pump to be lower because gravity works then your reservoir so the reservoir water will feed into the pump without any effort you also want to make sure there's no restriction around the inlet of the pump so if you have a really tight you bend right before the inlet that's that if you wanted to limit the flow rate of your pump by using tight curves in the tubing or whatever the case may be you should limit it at the outlet rather than at the inlet the inlet should be as restriction free as possible from the reservoir okay and that's pretty much it terms of importance Oh another one never let your pump run dry ever never let it run with no water coming into it that's very very bad never take a pump and you know you know I don't have my other water cooling components but I want to find out if it works and plug it in bad bad bad bad you will destroy your pump guarantee okay next this pump includes half-inch fittings so you can see these are half-inch barbs and they are not removable so what that means is in my case when I want to use 3/8 inch tubing I have to dip it in boiling water and then stretch it over the fittings in order to make it fit now there are aftermarket pumps for the D file although I see no particular reason to use them because once you stretch a smaller tubing like a 7/16 or a 3/8 inch tubing over it it will never ever leak I will personally guarantee that if you get it all the way over to the end so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the mCP 6 5 5 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos