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the iPhone success the entire internet seems to agree this is one fast little mother and in fact when the first performance results started to surface we found articles like this cropping up all over the place saying that in Geekbench in particular the iPhone 6s outperforms in some cases the 2015 MacBook certainly an impressive feat but as we demonstrated in this video here where we water-cooled the 2015 MacBook a part of the problem with the performance of that particular device is that it drastically thermal throttles so you're not getting all the performance that you should have out of it which led my inquisitive mind to go whoa hold on a second is there potentially then even more performance under the hood of the iPhone 6s what would happen if we were to water cool it stay tuned the Logitech G 303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with delta0 technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your setup check out the link in the video description to learn more ok so first order of business then is to establish a baseline while it's being air-cooled so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna run Geekbench continuously for 10 minutes recording the scores each time it finishes and then tracking how the scores change over time as the device heats up from being put under a continuous load so we've got our first number 44 46 boom let's run it again and record that so this is gonna be kind of boring to watch you guys can tune out for a bit 44 24 so this is interesting at a controlled room temperature of 24 degrees Celsius the iPhone 6s does not throttle appreciably at all over a course of about 10 minutes so yeah this kind of makes the water cooling experiment a foregone conclusion but what the hey I'm gonna give it a shot anyway so here goes now while the rumour mill does indicate that the iPhone 6s is indeed quite waterproof I do not intend to submerge it directly in the liquid because I still need this iPhone 6s to work for my review of aforementioned device so I'm just going to be using an ice water bath to maintain it at the coolest possible temperatures and then I will be putting the iPhone inside a bag and sealing it up using my patented vacu seal technique notice your videos suck today they do Wow can the touch sensor work through the plastic do you think ah look at that it did cool so now we're gonna have to do another 10 minutes of runs here and we will be back 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 holy this is really consistent 4 more runs and then we are through our 10 minutes of testing and the only real takeaway here is that water cooling the iPhone 6s makes it run ever so slightly like like part of a percent more consistently from run to run impressive so the iPhone 6s basically when running CPU intensive benchmarks anyway doesn't thermal throttle at all which brings up a couple more questions is our testing methodology then even relevant so in order to validate that we've brought in some other devices we've got the HTC One m9 featuring the infamous Snapdragon 810 we've got the Samsung Galaxy s6 edge featuring the Exynos 7420 and we've got the LG g4 featuring the Snapdragon 808 this should give us a good cross-section of other devices to compare the thermal throttling performance of the iPhone 6s against I'm going to run these phones for 10 minutes and observe how their scores track over that period of time this is going to take some pretty rapid data entry in order to achieve but I think the galaxy s6 edge is going to come up first here 52:24 ok so as expected the s6 edge with the Exynos 7420 fell about 10 to 12 percent over time ok who saw that coming the g4 didn't thermal throttle at all and kept its performance extremely consistent across the board but the one m9 was all over the map like all over the place like our first score was higher than any score I can find online anywhere for the one m9 in Geekbench and then hour later scores were way lower so we're gonna do two things here we're gonna rerun the one m9 I'm gonna I'm letting it get back to room temperature now I'm not running anything and we're gonna throw the ZTE axon into the mix also a Snapdragon 810 powered device so that'll give us two different data points for this and two separate devices for Snapdragon 810 let's see how that goes all right so it's clear as mud now the one m9 didn't go as high and didn't fall as low on the second run and the axon started out much lower and fell as low as the one m9 did on our first run showing us if nothing else that the Snapdragon 810 is all over the fucking map as far as performance is concerned which I guess isn't telling you guys anything you didn't already know if you've been keeping up with the fiasco that is the Snapdragon 810 now let's find out how everything fares in the ice water so Brandon asked a great question off-camera about our testing methodology here does having the phone's next to each other affect the results of the benchmark because of the temperature of the water potentially changing to which I replied no we should actually be fine because as long as there's still ice in the water it will be give or take a little bit zero degrees so we're just going to load it up with the four phones here and go ham oh come on now everything just stopped auto-rotating for like I guess I could turn it off okay I think that Minority all our phones are in the ice water so I'm gonna let them all cool down be run nice and optimally cold and then we will do another 10 minutes of benchmarks on all the phones in ice water all right the time is now 1:16 we have four water-cooled phones and we are ready to go try not to get too excited okay s6 edge up first 55 22 wowza who's gonna be next looks like it's gonna be the m9 wow that's surprising 3901 all right 35 10 for the g4 38 61 alright well we'll keep doing this for 10 minutes 54:13 so it took a little kind of staring at it I'm waiting for numbers to pop out of the screen to me but I think we've got some pretty interesting conclusions so number one the iPhone 6s is freaking awesome running just CPU intensive tasks the CPU does throttle if you load up the GPU it basically doesn't throttle at all under air cooling and what's cool and I can't say this about every Snapdragon 808 device but I can say it about the g4 is that it also gives 0 craps about whether it is air cooled or whether it is in a bag surrounded by ice water this puppy performs exactly the same under all scenarios for us everything else was a little bit different it looks like the Exynos processor and the s6 edge performs about 10% better under ice water and the Snapdragon 810 enabled devices both the axon and the one m9 were a little bit all over the place but if we consider our first one m9 run a bit of it Wow the one m9 is actually still a little bit warm even though it's in water that is definitely cold that's amazing so right so if we throw out that first run with the 9 it looks like it actually stays at about peak performance when it's in ice water and the axon destroys its air-cooled performance under water across the board showing that the Snapdragon 810 has a lot of potential but that it has to be unlocked by some kind of a design that can cool it whether that's a heat pipe or water cooling or whatever the case may be so you know what kind of sites that you could view on any of the phones we tested today sites made on Squarespace all of their awesome templates feature responsive design which means they'll look good on a monitor like this or they'll look good on anything down as small as a phone and their plans start at only $8 a month including hosting they've got a bunch of other great benefits as well so you pick your template then whether you want to build a blog or a store or like a company information website or I mean really any reason you could possibly want to build a website you go ahead you get started you use there 24/7 tech support you insert your own pictures and text and boom 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