Swiftech's new H220-X just arrived!

First off I just want to say that I'm in no way a professional reviewer. I just wanted to take some pictures along the way and maybe note a few things about my process. I don't have a fancy SLR and lighting, just a Galaxy Note3.

I ordered this unit on Sunday through Swiftech's website and payed the extra for priority 3 day shipping to put in my new rig i'm building. The unit was shipped on Tuesday and arrived here in Georgia today (Friday). Everything is installed and running great but with the stock cooler But I only I had to wait one more day for this to come in.

The unit arrived in great shape and double boxed with packing peanuts all around...









The first issue, which I don't really know if it's a real issue yet is debris floating inside the coolant from the factory. I had to use the flash to help it show. I also wiped off the viewing port with a microfiber cloth, then hit it with a blast of compressed air to ensure what you are seeing is actually whatever is floating inside. You can see some clearly resting on the flow channel. I'll probably be replacing the fluid to try and resolve this issue in the near future.



The heatsink looks like it's pretty well polished. Used a light to try and highlight their attempt at polishing.



Well, it's time to install this... I'll post more pictures soon!

Congrats! Its unfortunate you have debris in the loop. Never a good sign or the lack of QC on their part. I'd clean out the loop and refill it than have the pump and CPU block channels deal with it. Who knows how much more debris is not visible in the loop.

The install went smoothly. HOWEVER, I did notice something else that bugs me a bit. If you see the pic below, from one angle you can notice rust and some bent fins. When you flip the radiator 180 degrees, you notice no rust. So, I'm thinking it's probably how they were stored with the rust side facing up or it happened during filling?




The install....





I noticed a little more rust around the pivotable fitting on the watercooling block.



Thermal paste that I used...





With the lights off...



There's a good amount of white light that shines from the side of the window, behind the front. The pic doesn't show it well but this is a completely blacked out room with no case lighting yet.



Here's where it's comming from. A bit of electical tape should fix that.

Hippiekiller said:

The install went smoothly. HOWEVER, I did notice something else that bugs me a bit. If you see the pic below, from one angle you can notice rust and some bent fins. When you flip the radiator 180 degrees, you notice no rust. So, I'm thinking it's probably how they were stored with the rust side facing up or it happened during filling?

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That's not rust but copper showing through the paint on the fins where some time during manufacture the rad got dinged or not painted properly. If its not leaking there's nothing to worry about.