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this video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner Nvidia welcome to my unboxing and first look at the thermaltake water 2 point 0 extreme this is different from the big water SE that was my first water cooling kit so I'm actually going to take the approach with this unboxing of comparing the water 2 point 0 extreme to how far thermaltake has come in like the last eight years in terms of their pre done liquid cooling kits because let me tell you the big water SE was no easier to install than a custom loop it didn't really perform that well but it looked really cool and used quarter inch tubing so it was like not performance parts i mean the water block on that thing was like it had a channel like this and that was like it it was still way better than air though and it got me it was like sort of like that first hit that gets you into something like school just obviously what we were talking about so let's have a look at what thermaltake has to say for themselves first top-of-the-line liquid cooler equipped with power and performance no refills needed their advantage over big water SE which came with like jugs of coolant and you had to actually like fill it and then drain it and then refill it and top it up and stuff like that 240 millimeter radiator doubles the cooling surface I can tell you it more than doubles the cooling ability versus the big water se because that one was 120 ml and it had the worst radiator design I've probably ever seen in a liquid cooling unit I'm not trying to rag on thermaltake it's an old product at this point but man that thing had one tube that went through like this so the flow restriction of that radiator was terrible it also had like one of the densest thin arrays that I've ever seen and this one does not have that universal socket compatibility okay that the big water had but the mounting mechanism wasn't too great high-performance copper base plate accelerates the heat conductivity high reliability low profile pump based on an ASA tech design so you know it's not going to die or anything like that pre-filled cool introduces the liquid replenishment hassle low evaporation to reduces the loss of coolant and the high tech sealed circulation system prevents leaking issues double okay hi pump high-efficiency radiator powerful cooling fans there are two and fan control software included which is nice to see inside the box we have a manual which is in a bajillion different languages including mode d'emploi or dog toy I don't know my French is kind of rusty thank control software version 1.3 very nice to see thermaltake fans thermal takes been doing fans for a while so I figured they'd probably know a thing or two about it pwm fan so pwm control is always nice to have especially if you're going to be programming fan control curves or whatever else like that because voltage fans voltage control DC fans can be a bit of an issue if you set a very low fan speed they might not start for example so PWM fans always are running 12 volts through the fan but it just sends it in bursts so that it has enough torque to start the fan pretty much no matter what mounting hardware included a Sutekh hob has done so much of a better job on the mounting hardware versus previous generation products this clip right here is like the magic clip because it used to be you had to take the block what's this product warranty policy okay good hmm this looks like it uses a thicker radiator than most of the other 240 ml products out there that's kind of interesting imma be back in just a moment here with with a corsair h100i where is my h100i it's over here somewhere here we go I think it uses a thicker radiator and a thicker radiator would go a long way towards increasing the overall surface area because guys liquid cooling is not is not magic it's just the liquid more efficiently moves the heat away from the cpu and towards the heat dissipate or the radiator so in this case you can see aha like this okay so the big water two point O which are the big ones now I'm doing doing that the water two point O has a very very very loose fin arrangement which is great for quiet operation compared to the corsair h100i which is more dense so if you did ramp up the RPMs of the fans this kind of design would start to pull ahead of this kind of design where you can see the water channels are spaced more closely for more effective heat conduction to the fins themselves but check this out the water two point O has a significantly thicker radiator than the h100i that means that even though they are both 2 x 120 millimeter water cooling units this one is probably clapping that must be like at least twenty to thirty percent thicker which won't give you quite the same advantage as for example a dual one hundred and forty millimeter radiator but it'll fit in more cases because it's 2 x 120 although some cases will have trouble with it because it is thicker if you have any clearance issues with your mosfet coolers or anything like that that might be a problem but it gives you more surface area so that's good that's something i didn't know about the water 2 point 0 until I opened it up here I'm just going to put that away um marine right the mounting mechanism so it includes a high-quality thermal compound on the base here and all we're going to do is remove the the cover i'm going to show you guys what's so much better about this so you used to have to just take this thing and like hold it on to the retention ring and then like thread some screws through it and all that now you just take this guy clip it on oh I'm really excited about this cooler now and I was excited before but now I'm now I'm really excited I was all nostalgic about my big water SC now I'm all like oh I don't need that anymore just use a water two point oh just like better with thick radiator anyway the point is that if you have two hands and you're not trying to sort of lino like this to do it you just clip this piece on here then you take all of the mounting screws clip them through here with the included plastic brackets the instructions will cover all this and it is quite straightforward so you don't have to hold everything in place while you're fumbling around with it inside your computer case because a lot of people do upgrade existing computers with these pre done liquid cooling kits in terms of connectivity you're going to find pretty much what you'd expect so the cpu block / pump unit itself has here we go a USB connector so this is how you access the fan control software or that's how you interface with the with the unit through the fan control software it has two black harnesses coming off of it for the 24 pin pwm fans these are all using black wires which is going to look way nicer in your case then the the older generation products that did not use all black wires and finally a 3-pin connector for the fan pump itself which is inside the waterblock unit I don't know if I mentioned I don't know if I showed the thermal compound that is pre-installed so that looks like the same kind that pretty much everyone uses it's really good stuff I've actually tried replacing this with aftermarket stuff unless you're using really high-end aftermarket stuff you're not going to see any temperature improvement so I always use the pre applied one on the first installation I think that pretty much covers it it's using quarter inch tubing although i'm not entirely sold on three-eighths inch tubing making that much of a difference in terms of performance we actually ran the h100 versus the h100i and we only saw what was it like a two degree difference or something like that I think was only a couple degree difference using the same fans which could have just as easily been improvements to the cpu block and not necessarily any improvement from going from one quarter inch to three eighths inch tubing I mean the three-eighths inch tubing looks baller but it actually doesn't have quite the same type Bend radius as quarter inch tubing does I think that pretty much covers it for the water to point o make sure you're subscribed to line is tech tips so that you see our performance review where we're actually going to take the water to point o and find out how much of a performance advantage that thicker radiator gives it when we put a high quality pressure optimized silent fan on it and of course be subscribed because you don't want to miss any of our unboxings reviews or other computer videos