The all-in-one water cooling unit (AIO) has brought water cooling performance and silence to the community with the simplicity of installing air conditioning. AIO offers a simple installation without the need to issue a circle. Just plug in the hardware and power cables and you're all set. Recently, manufacturers of water cooling components have upped the ante slightly by offering expandable AIOs. This gives the consumer the option to add optional components such as an extra safety radiator or GPU radiator. Swiftech has long been a manufacturer of air conditioning and water and at CES 2016 they announced the X2 ranks of their AIO. The H320 X2 is a 120mm triple radiator equipped with a clear 109ml reservoir and Apogee XL2 parent water stick.
Review Sample Provided by: Swiftech
Product Name: H320 X2
Price at time of review: $ 164.95 USD
Packaging
The front of the box clearly shows Swiftech's new cooler. At the back, there's a nice graph showing the unit dimensions and technical specifications.
Introduction:
For more than a decade, Swiftech has been known as a leader in liquid cooling for personal computers. Swiftech has spent years designing award winning heatsinks, reservoirs, designing together pumps (in exclusive agreement with Laing Pumps), and producing All-In-One CPU cooling equipment. With names like H2O Ultima, and H2O Edge, this All-In-One (AIO) kit gives you a complete liquid CPU cooling cycle, but, with the possibility of extending it to cool your GPU. In the past, the H2O Ultima and H2O Edge kits lacked style, with a large reservoir at one end, and a pump on the other end. It also means you need extra space to fit the whole rig.
After the H2O Ultima and Edge Kits, Swiftech does a full redesign of their AIO liquid cooling kit. The H2O X line, which includes H220 X, H240 X and H320 X has a new style. The clear acrylic is now in the front, the bottom of the radiator, with the pump just behind the reservoir. This makes the unit more compact, reducing the total length, roughly the same standard radiator length. Now you can use this kit in most cases, with a bit of a fitment problem.
Today we will see the new Swiftech H2O Drive X2 AIO liquid cooling cooling series, which is an update for the H2O X series. The Drive X2 line consists of H220 X2 (Two 120mm / 240mm fans), H240 X2 (Two 140mm / 280mm fans) and fan H320 X2 (Three 120mm / 360mm). The convention part number is "H" + fan number ("2" or "3") + fan size ("20" for 120mm or "40" to 140mm). Each of these models is also available as a "Prestige" model. The Prestige tool includes better fittings (compression and not a barb / clamp fittings) and a better fan ("Noiseblocker" as a standard replacement). So today, the unit we tested, is a "H240 Drive X2 Prestige kit", a 280mm radiator with two (2) Noiseblocker 140mm fans.
Specifications:
- Radiator with patent pending integrated pump and reservoir (1 each)
- Radiator body
- Material Brass tubes, louvered copper fins
- Body dimensions 140 mm x 293 mm x 28 mm
- Fill-port thread class G 1/4
- Compression fittings Lok-Seal swivel for 5/8″ tubing OD
- Installation hardware
- Standard: (8) coarse thread fans screws
- Alternate: (8) 6-32 x 1 3/16 (30mm) Philips screws
- Lighting type ALED
- Reservoir
- Material Acrylic
- Capacity 109 ml
- Lighting type ALED
- Pump
- Pump speed control PWM
- Pump Speed range 1200 ~ 3000 RPM
- Pump nominal voltage 12 VDC
- Pump nominal power 6W
- Max. Static Pressure 2.8 mH₂O
- Max. discharge 11 l/mn
- Redundant fail safe
- Software current limiting fail-safe and
- Hardware shutoff built-into the pump power wires. The hardware fail safe is only triggered in case of a firmware malfunction.
- Pump Bearing type Ceramic shaft, PTFE bearing
- Pump Power connector SATA
- Pump RPM & PWM connector Mini 4-pin
- Pump MTBF 60,000 hours
- ROHS Compliant
- Pre-installed NB-eLoop™ Fan (2 each)
- Dimensions 140 mm x 140 mm x 25 mm
- Speed control PWM
- Speed range PWM adjustable 500 ~ 1800 RPM
- Airflow < 123 CFM
- Static pressure <2.35 mmH₂O
- Noise level <36,4 dB/A
- Nominal Voltage 12 v
- Power input < 3.6 W
- Connector Mini 4-pin
- MTBF 60,000 hours
- ROHS Compliant
- Apogee™ XL2 Waterblock (1 each)
- Housing material Clear acrylic
- Base plate material C110 copper
- Cooling engine 0.25mm x 0.25mm micro-pin array
- Compression fittings Lok-Seal swivel 45 degree elbows
- Port thread G1/4 standard
- Installation hardware & processor + socket compatibility
- For Intel LGA 1150/51/55/56
- M4 to M3 Standoffs + Back-plate
- For Intel LGA 2011
- (4) Spring loaded screws with M4 thread
- For AMD AM2, AM3, FM1,FM2, 939
- (2) Pre-assembled brackets & spring loaded screws
- Bracket installation screws
- Lighting type ALED
- Tubing & Coolant
- Material PVC tubing
- Color Clear
- Dimensions 5/8″ x 3/8″ (16/10mm)
- Coolant Pre-filled with non-toxic propylene glycol coolant mix
- Clamps (4 each)
- Material Black anodized aluminum
- PWM splitter (1 each)
- PWM Ports 4
- RPM signal port Channel 1
- ALED connectors 3
- 2 pin connector 1
- Power connector SATA
- PWM/RPM connector Mini 4-pin
- Installation hardware Peel-off sticker, mounting screws & nuts
- ROHS Compliant
- Tim-Mate 2, 1g syringe thermal compound
Aside from the cooler, the parts list includes: installation guide, an Intel CPU backplate (attached to the waterblock), Intel Socket 2011/-v3 screws, AMD water block mount and screws, fan mounting screws, a PWM hub, colored dye vials, and Swiftech’s TIM Mate thermal paste.
