Have Swiftech Given up on AIOs?

jwilliamson47 · 27 Mar 2018 at 23:50

Hi all,

I've tried a few AIOs in my time including the standard Asetek ones and premium offerings such as the Swiftech H220. Sadly, it appears the latest Swiftech line wasn't very successful and had reports of leaks. Wondering if they've given up on an AIO solution.

oldbanana · 28 Mar 2018 at 16:28

Considering they were trying to cut corners everywhere they could, I am not surprised.
I literally ripped the H220x out of my system and chucked it in the garbage.

jwilliamson47 · 28 Mar 2018 at 19:20

That bad eh?

ubersonic · 29 Mar 2018 at 08:57

The issue with Swiftech is they have always taken a "good enough" approach. Other manufacturers will spend 30% more making a product to get a 3% improvement, Swiftech will sacrifice 3% to save 30% on production. This has hurt their rep somewhat.

A good example of this is with their GTX780 blocks, everyone was carving the channels for the water and fins for the bit over the GPU into the copper, had been for years. Swiftech carved the channels into the acetal instead and just had the fins in the metal. It worked as near as made no difference, but there was a difference, and it's not like they passed the cost saving onto the end user.

orbitalwalsh · 29 Mar 2018 at 12:56

dont think they'd stand a chance in EU with alphacool and EKWB