I should have used this a LONG time ago!

It's been a

long

time

since I did any kind of basic unpacking and first looked at a radiator and you know what

this

is. This is a little nostalgic for me. You see the mark here that kills the heat. This is a brand that's been around for a

long

time

and you know, it's a brand that in the past I could never afford or anything, so it would be fitting that the first time I

used

a key killer I went into the build of my friend and not mine EK nucleus series aios water blocks are a closed-loop, maintenance-free way to keep your CPU nice and cool for maximum performance compatible with the latest Intel and AMD CPUs.

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this

radiator because it's reminiscent of the Mega Man version. I've been slowly but surely working on this and now I'm trying to get back into this now that I'm back to work.

I needed radiators for this bill, but I wanted a white radiator to allow me to continue tying in the color theme I'm trying to do with the whole Mega Man build, but I wanted something different on this channel. on this channel, what is the channel?, this whole water cooling adventure that I've been on for over two decades and over a decade just on the channel. I've really only

used

a handful of brands that I've always enjoyed using EK. Water block radiators and

have

changed a lot over time and that's usually because they were the most aesthetically pleasing.

I

have

used many cold alpha radiators that are much more budget oriented and high performance low fpi which are fins. per inch, which means that although it is not as high performing because less fins means less cooling surface area, it is like the fins on a heat sink, less fins means less timing, but it also means less cooling drop. pressure through a rod, which means less noise, less air. RPM's are needed with fans, there are a lot of trade-offs, maybe I'll make another video on this sort of thing, but anyway, moving on, I've only used a handful of brands.

I think I use, what were the Nemesis radiators from Hardware Labs like? in a build iteration of mine, heat killer has been around for a long, long time and they were always like a boutique brand and I never could afford to make water blocks for the 600 series graphics and video cards like my 680 and all that, they made blocks for it, they made CPU blocks and they made components, but they were just if I were to spec and build a Heat Killer Loop instead of using even EK at the time, it would cost a few hundred dollars more.

Choose Heat Killer. Well, times have changed and there has been competition, so Killer is not the super expensive and expensive brand that it was for me. That became EK lately, where EK charges a premium for everything. Now BK is a fantastic brand. and it has very high quality components, but you know what happens when you set the bar that high, other brands have to meet it, but they also have to lower it if they want the business, so normally I wouldn't do an unpacking of a radiator, they have past years. since it does something like that, but I already unboxed one due to the fact that it was such a high quality and we were like, while we were looking at it, I thought I

should

share it with you guys, the killer is another one of those German brands, so I feel like all the water cooling stuff, with the exception of bikes, skiing and cold loans or borrowed loans, technology whatever they're called now borrowed, I think you know by now, basically, those are all Chinese versions of the things that were designed in Europe and then the Chinese brands make their own version, that's why they exist now, but they are all based on designs that have been designed all over the world, but anyway, this is the German brand like Alpha, cool. is a german brand Aqua tuning is a german brand phobia is a german brand actually Aqua tuning Alpha cool and phobia are all the same company and whether you guys know it or not but anyway we move on and I think the other one was Aqua Computer , which was like a super high-end German boutique brand, like everything was in German, with that one like you barely had an English manual, but anyway, moving on to the heat killer, this is the killer red or the 360 white, so the s stands for thin, it's white for this build, um, you can get it in a presentation that's also thicker and they get thicker and bigger and longer as you size them based on what you need from Anyway, let's go ahead and unpack now.

I have spoken enough. This is the target. Version in which I already explained why I bought it, but you can also get it in black and I think there might be other colors available. Very basic packaging which I agree with and to be honest it looks like it could be recycled cardboard. It is so light that it has the same bubble wrap that you would find on almost any radiator, but look at this, you can already see the multiple materials used in this, so the construction of this radiator is a copper core radiator, so what? what does that mean? they are the end tanks and the rows and fins are copper and the reason they use copper is better heat transfer, it has faster heat transfer when it comes to absorbing heat from the fluid, so the job of the radiator is to take the heat from the fluid that passes through it, transfers it to these fins and then it is the radio, the radiator, the work of the fan to move that heat away from the red in that way it has capacity, but in the past everything it had it was just a black painted radiator and maybe some people like the tapered ends or something, but now we have these extra pieces here, so if I took it apart, which I think I'll do in this video, you would find that the radiator is very , very basic and then what they have done now.

Have they added these final pieces here that are powder coated in various colors and to be fair, EK does the exact same thing? I'm not sure who came first in EK or Heat Killer, but I feel like Heat Killer's implementation of this is actually better than ek's, while eks is like this end cap piece that goes on the extremes. and then the side pieces come apart and can be painted and all that. I used the EK version as these multi-panel radiators on my personal. build I just finished I almost wish I had gone with the killers now, but anyway, moving on, I already have a pet peeve that I learned with the other radiator, so you know, radiators can work like that with the appropriate ends. here are the ports pointing down or in this case, in this case, I'm going to have a 360 on top, it won't mount out of the case, it's just resting here, here's the one I already had that already put fans in , so That's why I've already figured it out, so I'm going to have one on top, which will be nice because if you look, it's got this metal plate here that says Heat Killer and they even went so far as to bleed the side panel so it's on the flush and doesn't stick out any further than the radiator which would actually cause fitment issues in a very tight space like for example here where I have the tank and pump combo because it barely fits in there if it stuck out any more than the rad then it probably wouldn't fit , but anyway that logo says that he killed her, you would be very proud of that, but as soon as you turn it to the right, if we have the accessories on the left side, if we turn it this way.

There's another badge that has the accessories on this side, so it says Heat Killer, but when you flip it over, if you're putting the radiator on the bottom, it says, so now it doesn't matter if it's this way or this way. . way it still says it, so what I'm debating now is using a heat gun to heat it up nice and then using my plastic spudger tools to see if I can't lift it without bending it. My fear is this is metal, if I go to pick it up and it's stuck and like the adhesive is too strong it'll start to bend it and then it'll never lay flat again and then I'll be mad at myself, before we take the radiator apart let's talk.

About the hardware, this is the other side of the taper head machined screws, which is interesting to me due to the fact that you would normally want a flat head and what I mean by taper head is that you have this kind of cone shape . So if you wanted to put this on wood, it would stay on the wood and be solid. The thing is, if you're going to use metal, like let's say panels on a box or whatever, it might not lay flat, it might lift up a little bit. so I feel like even though they've stopped giving us stainless steel hardware it's good, not having that flat bottom of the head is going to be a problem.

The other thing to keep in mind as well is the fact that there is a very small screw head here, so depending on your fans, if the holes are really big, it may go right through the fan and not tighten it, which is very possible now that the fans we are using here are the Lien Leaf fans. uh, my friend really likes Liam Lee, he's never had them and he wants to wear them. You can see that they look very good. They are actually recessed into this fan, so you can't see them at the bottom. I could do it if they were like this, they barely and I mean barely bite into the hole because the hole here is a little bit instead of being perfectly round on these fans, they're a little bit oblong.

I'm not sure why. They are oblong, but they are barely oblong, so the head of this screw tends to bite just barely there, so that would be my only complaint. Those two things with these is the conical head and then I feel like the head needs to be a little bit bigger, but in terms of hardware, they are very nice, take your work gaming experience to the next level with the ViewSonic high-end ultra wide screen xg340c2k. The xg340c2k 34-inch 100-hertz ultrawide monitor features HDMI 2.1. AMD freesync premium Pro 1000r curved screen. Visa HDR 400 display and one millisecond response time to enjoy the ultimate immersive gaming experience and take control of multiple devices with KVM support while taking full control of your display via the Elite display controller to view the Full list of specifications and features, follow the sponsored link in the description below.

This is the radiator bracket for the top of this case and you can see here that it has slots and the slots are also a little bit recessed and they're also quite wide, so like these screws, see how it fell out? Look, they barely hold up if they're straight, but the minute they start to like to spin, they can fall off, so what this means is that if you tighten this thing too much, you could just with that tapered head take that thin metal and just bend it. . down and then the heads will drop so that's why I say you need a bigger screw head for this so what I'm going to do now is mount it down because I just need to see now.

At this point, a screw is just like a loose tooth that has that little speck of flesh still hanging off of it, so in my opinion you would absolutely have to make all the screws just to make sure of that, because here's the thing when the rat is full of liquid, it's pretty, it's pretty heavy, like it's heavier than you think, this is what people might say, but Jay, you're clearly riding it and it doesn't fall off and the screw doesn't go through , you are absolutely OK, this is just this example, if your case is a little bigger then that would be a problem.

The same goes for the fan screws or the fan holes, if they are a little bigger that will cause a problem, so I would make two. on the ends and then four total in the middle, I mean it's connected, it's not going anywhere, but if you look down you can see these screws are barely hanging so I'm going to leave this one aside for now because I'm not totally sure I'm going to leave the fans in that direction or those ports in that ink and that side I want to take this apart because I want to see what the construction is like underneath, let's see if Linus's screwdriver has what I need, otherwise I'll have to pass in my eye, fix it right, fix it, time to rescue it, it really doesn't have Torx bits, no, there are no Torx bits here.

Torx T8 is the size is the size of these accessories right here and now the reason I'm showing this is so you know what this is the perfect time to use my handy dandy, they're not magnetic, right? It could be like this, what I started to say before I was so rudely interrupted with the magnetism is that this allows you to take it apart and custom paint it if you want, like I do. I could paint this to go along with the Mega Man theme I chose white but if there's too much white here then the idea with this build was that the case would pay off and the build itself would look like a level and then obviously I have the character from Mega Manstanding. behind me on GPU guard.

I'm still trying to figure this out as I go. One thing I want to point out that is also important and the early radiation companies didn't realize this and by the way, computer radiators for water cooling were actually not computer specific, they were just radiators that were adapted for use in computers so they could be like any type of thermal core with a quarter G thread and the problem was that the screws would line up perfectly with one of the cooling rows so If you use a screw too long it would puncture that row and then there is a leak so I just want to point out that these screws are offset or if you use the screw that is too long it would just crush the fins and not touch anything that actually has liquid through it so That's important to point out, especially if you're a newbie and have never water cooled before and haven't thought about the fact that using the wrong screw could cause damage to your radiator.

It saved weight, so there are two holes behind it. So if I want to heat it up and take it out now I can see it from the back and maybe push it out. I'm not sure why there are two holes there, but as we take it apart, look at this. It's a cosmetic piece that slides over the copper end like I said and this one would be a little harder to remove because it attaches to the end tank where you have the ports, but there you go so if you wanted to paint the parts now. you could take the core out and not have to worry about it, you know, it's a problem with painting your fins because if you paint the fins like this paint, I'm not sure if this is cerakote, it could be cerakote insulating paint and if it insulates the fins then you will have less heat transfer but radiator companies tend to use a cerakote or a very very light coat of paint to give it some color but not insulating the cerakote doesn't do that so this is a cerakote It is also a heat transfer. component that is black, I realized when I put it back together just now, if I use this as the bottom red one, I could turn them around so they are now the right way, oh wait, I can't.

I was about to order. the screws don't oh because the end of the fitting has a gap yeah it's different they're not symmetrical okay I had a big brain that turned out to be a big dumb group again and you're good and then the fins that I That I wrinkled a little here I don't even see them because they are under the cover, it is possible that they were already like that. I may just not have realized, this is what they are hand assembled like any factory they come from, they are hand made. assembled which means they are going to have fins and I have received emails from people before so you are a new radiator and it had some bent fins what

should

I do if I return it?

It's safe, but you will receive another one. one with bitfins there will always be at least a couple of bent fins due to the fact that they are assembled by hand so it's okay a little side ramp that I started with technically was did you know that in the monitor industry I think up to three dead? Pixels are considered within specifications. Reminder in that case, imagine you buy a two thousand dollar plus monitor and you have a dead pixel, so it comes back together, weird, uh, my first time. I guess that's the other thing that's going to happen because even if the fans are mounted on it and all these pieces are floating there, you might notice some flexing and creaking, but as soon as you mount the fans, that won't be the case. that one was the In the same way, anyway, the irony is that I think this is my first radiator review that involved disassembly times, it changed, very good guys, thanks for watching.

A lot of people have actually been asking me to go back to the water cooling content, which has been quite a bit. A while and I hope you are enjoying it. I have to finish this compilation so you can see more videos in the future. Probably the bending the loop part because that's the part that people love to see, uh, if they're enjoying it. this type of content, be sure to let us know down in the comments and as always, I'll see you next time as I'm now fixing the fins that I bent that I won't see, but I'll know.

They are there, therefore, it will bother me.