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welcome to another unboxing this is the swiftech MCR 420 XP so this is part of their XP series of radiators which is their higher performance hier Finn density versus the QP quiet power series of radiators and this is also their largest radiator to date so out of all of the radiators both tech has produced this one has the highest overall cooling capacity so you can see this is an MCR although I guess it'll also work for XP oh yeah okay MCR and it'll also work for XXX dash you know x.x series radiators make sure the screws do not hit the water channels this is a very good warning you should heat it because if you go all the way through to the water channels you will puncture your radiator and you will have no warranty whatsoever for doing that because it is your own fault all right here in this little box we find the only real accessories that come with a product like this and that is mounting screws wow these are I've been here pretty good difficult to remove that's ok we have unboxed things before on this channel we will unbox things again we will not be stymied alright so here you have these are the correct length for going through 25 millimeter fans into the threading on the radiator itself so you'll see here on the rad there are threaded holes just like that so you go through the fan into that and you see there's quite a gap in between the thread and the fins themselves just make sure you don't go all the way through into that you should actually have enough extra thread left over on a screw like this to even do a fan grill but it'll be tight we've also got a couple here for mounting the radiator directly to the case if you do not have a fan in between so those are the mounting options that are included next we've got the radiator itself so this is a very high thin density radiator so what does Finn density mean basically radiators all work the same basic way you bought fittings up at the top okay so here you can see we've got g one quarter threaded holes ok and then you've got a tank two tanks the top just like this usually there's a little bit of a spill over between the two tanks that decreases the overall restriction of the radiator without dramatically affecting the performance so what happens is it goes in this tank it goes down the tubes that are attached to this tank so these tubes right here all the way down to the bottom where there is another tank you can see this tank is quite small but it is attached this tank is attached to all of the tube so it goes down these tubes into the reservoir tank at the bottom up these tubes and then out the other g one quarter fitting so what determines the cooling performance of a radiator basically surface area water cooling is all about taking something like this and cooling your CPU with it which is something that you cannot realistically do with an air cooling heatsink because you can't fit this directly on your CPU so you've got a ton of surface area you've also got water which is an extremely efficient way to move heat around so you move the heat away from your CPU which has a cpu block on it you move it into the radiator where the idea is you have this enormous surface area so how does the surface area happen when all you've got is these little tubes well these tubes are soldered to aluminum fins so when I say high thin density what I mean is you see how these fins are folded on themselves they're just folded folded folded fold it fold it all the way down the length of the radiator well a loaf in density radiator will have fewer folds so like a bigger S shape whereas a high-density radiator or fpi fins per inch high FBI raided radiator will have many little folds there's disadvantages and advantages to each this one has more surface area which means more cooling capacity than a QP series radiator which has bigger s shapes however if you're going to use low rpm quiet fans you're actually better off with laufen density so this radiator is for high CFM high static pressure fans which can blow a bunch of air through it regardless of the restriction that is causing by being so dense whereas if you have low rpm fans you're actually going to be better off to have less restriction to the airflow less density in order to get the most cooling potential out of it so particular radiator takes 4 120 millimeter fans on one side for 120 millimeter fans on the other side although you do not have to install 8 fans on it you can do just one and actually get this question a lot too how do i install fans on a radiator so I might as well answer it since I'm here you can either install them blowing air down through it you can install them flip to the other way pulling air through the radiator from the one side and then pushing it out away from it or you can do push-pull which is to install 8 fan so you blow away this way and suck in this way personally my preferred way of installing fans on a radiators to do one bank of fan so for fans down the one side pulling air through the radiator and then pushing it away from it why do I do this the reason is very simple because i am lazy if you have fans blowing air down into the rad so you've screwed them in what happens is you're going to get dust buildup all along this surface because that's where the air is pushing down on to the rad in order to clean it you have to either blow compressed air at it okay which won't even do that great of a job because there are fans in the way or you have to unscrew all your fans blow it off put the fan back on so the reason that I always install fans sucking air through the radiator and pushing it away is that then all the dust accumulates on this surface so I could just go clean it off and I am done so this particular radiator is available in a variety of sizes you can get it with single 120 dual 120 triple 120 and quadruple 120 the advantages and disadvantages of each are that the smaller the sides radiator you go the better your case compatibility is going to be and the larger size radiator you go the better your cooling performance is going to be so there are very few cases that can internally mouth a quadruple radiator like this but I will be installing this in the Silverstone TJ 11 for my ultimate liquid-cooled machine and I hope you guys stay tuned to my NCIX clown channel to enjoy that particular video here's the little swiftech logo on the other side I didn't show you guys yet so thank you for checking this out and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from Rowan boxing's reviews and other computer videos