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excellent hey everyone welcome to Paul's Harbor today I'm going to be doing unboxing and overview of this thermal take water 2.0 extreme 240 millimeter closed-loop CPU cooler alright guys here's a look and I hope you can hear me okay I've kind of repositioned the microphone and I have no idea how well it's gonna work but then you can't hear me I apologize anyway here's the retail box of course let me just give a quick once-over this one we have top-line liquid cooler equipped with power and performance no refill refills needed this being a closed loop cooler of course 240 millimeter radiator doubles your cooling surface and universal socket compatibility including LGA 2011 which I will be using it for in my other video of course we have the cooler here we've got the block and the pump we got the tubes connecting them white fan accents etc let's see what else here's a chart on the side telling you what kind of performance you can expect so look here's an Intel the the stock cooler that comes with the Intel so it's kind of comparing this one to a free cooler or effectively free this is a core i7 975 at 4 gigahertz under hundred percent load running at 94 degrees Celsius and then they install this and it runs 20 degrees cooler 74 degrees Celsius lower temperatures are better which I think most of you guys already know let me run down the specifications here sorry it's a little bit crooked but we have the waterblock which is made of copper we have motor speed of 28 hundred rpms rated voltage of 12 volts and the current of 220 milliamps also the fan or 2 fans I should say the fans that are included have a fan dimension of 120 by 120 by 25 millimeters fan speed between 1,200 and 2,000 rpms noise level of 27.3 6 decibels that's maximum voltage again 12 volts current 2.5 amps maximum airflow 81.32 cubic feet per minute a four pin pwm connector which is another reason why I like the fans that are included here they are PWM of course and then for the radiator here dimensions of 270 by 120 by 38.3 it is a thicker radiator radiator than you might find for example on the H 100 made of aluminum its luminance not quite as good as copper for the actual radiator material however most of the closed-loop solutions that you find out there and now are made of aluminum also tubing length of 326 millimeters tubing material is made of rubber total weight of 1150 grams tomorrow fell here on the back of the box we have a powerful cooling fans of course two of them included fan control software also the high performance water block with a copper base high reliability pump high efficiency radiator and then some extra info here on the features I'm not going to read over all of those but I will talk about the socket support LGA 2011 1366 1156 1155 775 and then that's for Intel for AMD we have FM one am3+ a.m. 3 a.m. to + + a.m. - and since it's FM one it will also fit on FM - although let's be honest case if anyone's dropping something like this onto a an FM one or FM 2 socket processor that's not really going to be the best use of it I'll just be honest I mean maybe if you're overclocking the bejesus out of a like in the internal GPU or something like that I guess maybe but I would recommend this more for your high end overclock you know eight core AMD's or the higher end Intel overclocked processors because you're really only gonna be making use of this radiator if you're actually overclocking other than that you I mean you could have it run really really low rpms and really quiet but there's other cheaper solutions that would allow you to do that otherwise anyway let's say I get into the box all right now I'm actually already sorry I just stepped on a squeaky to it I've actually already taken this out and I've done a little messing around with it just to sort of give myself some familiarity with it before I got into the video so sorry if this is a rienne boxing I here's the user's manual lots of different languages including English of course but they're gonna walk you through the installation steps it's pretty pretty straightforward and it's also pretty blasted out right now so I'm not sure if you guys can you read it anyway there's your users manual here is the radiator and pump all in one unit now one thing I find to be pretty kind of funny I would say about these all-in-one loops is really there's like two companies that make them there's actually maybe a third now because I believe Coolermaster started actually manufacturing these themselves but up till now just about every single one of these that you will see it's made either by ACE tech or by cool it and they're just rebranded by other companies so this one is actually manufactured by H Tech rebranded by Thermaltake but they do provide the support for it they do also handle the software they're gonna be your go-to for the manufacturer if you need any you know if you need to return it or anything like that so Thermaltake is standing behind this product of course and they have done you know requested eight east tech to do some specialization with it to their specifications so not all closed-loop coolers are alike even if they may be made by the same company anyway again here nice thicker radiator this is a thirty eight millimeter radiator radiator as opposed to the I believe 25 millimeters is a bit more than standard so I like that more more surface area more cooling better overclocks more stability nice long tubing length here I like the flexible rubber tubing that they have here I find it to be a little bit more attractive than the kind of corrugated look that you see on some of them nice solid water block again this is a mounting solution I've seen in quite a few other a stick coolers it's pretty straight forward it's not like super easy but I mean the mounting CPU coolers has has always been kind of the biggest pain in the butt of any CPU installation or computer build process but here's a look at this you have a USB lead coming off of here and that's to connect to your motherboard so that you can control this via the software you also have a three pin connector there that's going to go to your CPU power it's going to provide power to the pump you also have two PWM four pin connectors coming off of that and that's a plug in the two fans so pretty straightforward as far as assembly and get getting all your connectors connected goes let's look at the rest of the components get two of these fans as far as fans goes I'm usually the ones that they provide with the closed-loop coolers are decent enough usually they provide enough static pressure to move area over the over the cooler often by upgrading the fans you can actually significantly upgrade the performance of the cooler itself I'm gonna start off using these they're black and white and they're actually gonna match perfectly with the black in my case or it's mostly a black case with some white highlights the fractal design r4 so I'm going to start off with these to see how they go and then I might end up switching them out I'm not sure again for pin connector which I always like PWM is superior to three pin connectors in most respects here's your second friend because of course there are two and last of all of course you have all your mounting hardware and stuff so longer screws there to go through and mount the fans to the case or my fans to the radiator depending what the case may be you have some longer adapters here I'm pretty sure these are the socket 2011-1 so I will be needing to use those and then here's a look at the actual retention sort of socket so this this is this is actually setup for a standard intel socket right now like an 1155 and 11:56 you put these little plastic bits here together you pop those through and then those mount straight through to the backplate backplate which is right here attorney has the adhesive strips on it again I kind of went halfway through the the installation process with this so you can see the adhesive strips there these actually make it really easy to line that up these are different holes depending on what socket you're using for 1155 or 1366 all right believe 775 yeah so 775 1155 or LM 56 and 1366 they're all labeled on there stick that on the back and then when you feed the little plunger guys down through from the socket they simply make contact with those and then you bolt it in secure everything nice and tight and these actually I'd like I do like the design on these because you can hand tighten them but really to get them down securely I would recommend grabbing a Phillips head screwdriver and actually mount that in there because I found in quite a few situations you it can feel like it's hand tightened but actually if you get a screwdriver and continue to tighten it it will drop down by another probably a couple of a couple millimeters and that is important because this will be putting the pressure on the actual block right there and the pressure with that against the actual CPU heat spreader is what gives you good contact there and good cooling performance so there's the mounting hardware what else do we have in here Audio 2.0 extreme software included on disk I imagine you can also download that from the Thermaltake website I believe that's warranty information and then here's your AMD mounting hardware which again it's pretty much the same as Intel just you get the sort of rectangular set up there so you will need to remove the backplate for an AMD motherboard and replace it with that and then apart from that your actual mounting mechanism is pretty much the same it's also easy to drop nuts to wrap it up for this video guys once again this has been the thermal take water 2.0 extreme 240 millimeter closed-loop CPU cooler just FYI I will be installing this in a build that will be featured in an upcoming build video here on my Paul's hardware YouTube channel I'm installing it a fractal r4 fractal define r4 computer case I'm hoping that the kind of black and white theme here will match up with the existing black and white theme of that computer case I'm also hoping that the thickness of the radiator and the fans that it will be able to fit in there up above my motherboard I'm pretty sure it will but who knows we'll find out in the future that's all for this one and if you'd like to find more tech videos you can find them on my pulse heart of our youtube channel don't forget to subscribe while you're there we'll see you all in the next video you