Introduction

Watercooling, while not quite yet adopted by the mainstream enthusiast community is continually increasing in popularity as more people truly understand the benefits, especially as hardware keeps getting faster and hotter.

The first watercooling kits found their way onto the market back in the Pentium 3 days; an era when 120mm fans and heatpipe air cooling designs were within the realms of fantasy. While watercooling systems have certainly evolved over the last few years, their relatively low demand ensured that they couldn’t evolve at the explosive rate air coolers have. The weakest points of the watercooling systems were always the high price, the difficulty of installation and the size of the kits. Swiftech, one of the most established PC watercooling manufacturers have released a new kit, the H2O-120, designed to counter these three major watercooling drawbacks. Will that be enough to compete against the high end air coolers available today? We will find out shortly.

Features & benefits

High Cooling Power and Quiet Operations

• High flow system: high power pump, reduced flow path, low pressure drop, 81 CFM fan (@12 volts).
• Quiet pump, 12 to 7 volt fan adapter for low noise (26 dBA) operations.
• Optimized radiator for high heat dissipation @ low noise.

Incredibly simple to install

• Only two components (8 screws) to install

High Reliability and Low Maintenance

• 50,000 hours MTBF pump.
• Low porosity laboratory grade Norprene® tubing.
• Sleeved tubing with anti-kinking Smartcoils.
• Up to 5 years without refills.

Versatile

• Capable of handling the latest desktop processors from Intel® & AMD®.
• Ample capacity for additional cooling of graphics cards and chipset.
• Installs inside of most cases featuring a rear 120mm fan. Please check the radiator dimensions to ensure full compatibility with your particular case.
• The Optional Universal Radiator Housing MCB-120 "Radbox" expands the kit compatibility for external radiator installation to almost any chassis and can also significantly improve CPU temperature.

System Performance vs. Noise Data
Radiator/Fan configuration	Thermal Resistance °C/W		Fan Noise, dBA (*)
	Single die Processors	Dual die Processors
Radiator/fan at 12V (81 CFM)	.154	.187	36
Radiator/fan at 7v (~47 CFM)	.187	.217	26