Gadgetory

well guys CES is quickly approaching and I don't want to repeat what happened last year where I had to do all of my rendering on a laptop and even though it's an i7 laptop it was definitely not an ideal situation for doing my mobile rendering so with that said I'm gonna be building an ITX system and before we get to the build video which is going to be coming in the future we have to take a look at some of the parts we're gonna be putting in this and specifically today we are gonna look at the cooler master Neptune 140 Excel 140 millimeter water cooling option this is going to be cooling my ITX build here and most of these parts you guys have already seen in other reviews and it's gonna be going in this node 304 case right here so without further ado let's go ahead and open this thing up and get our unboxing and first opinion here on the 140 XL it's pretty obvious that a 140 XL is gonna be a 140 millimeter radiator and because it's the XL it means it's extra thick so we get maximum cooling area which they advertise here two times the cooling area it is maintenance free you don't have to fill it drain it or do any sort of maintenance to it and it does have a durable fep tubing which means you can to bend it really tight and make all the bends you need in your system to get a nice installation here in any case that you may be using it in and not have to worry about those tight bends the tubing is nice and durable the pump and the water block are all one unit as are most all of the water cooling options but you can see right here that is compared to the Intel stock heatsink at 81 degrees Celsius we're looking at expecting somewhere right around 46 degrees Celsius which is only two degrees higher than their 280 L which is the standard thickness double 140 millimeter radio so they found a way to get maximum cooling area crammed into a small radiator by increasing its thickness giving us ultimately the same amount of surface area which is really what it's all about it doesn't matter if it's long and skinny or short and thick and all of a sudden this conversation started sounding like something way different than I really intended but as long as you can get the same amount of surface area that cooling will be fairly similar to something that's a longer here we go again but giving us more surface area does give us a lot better cooling now it is a pure copper water block it's a microchannel technology it's prefilled sealed durable powerful water pump dissipates heat effectively and maintains temperatures through stable water circulation it moves water that's what it says so let's go ahead and open this thing up and see exactly what comes in the box all right so opening this bad boy up we're immediately met with some high-tech foam to bite out of that and you do get some pretty thick tubing on here which I'm actually pretty proud of before we take that out here are all your mounting options it fits all of your AMD sockets and your Intel sockets on there 775 a newer FM one and two and newer and these are the fans that it comes with right here which are very very similar fans to the the jet flow fans which we've already taken a look at on this channel here the shape is the same the idea is the same it doesn't have the same rubber mounts on there but overall the concept is the same as the jet flow speed wise I'm not sure what these are rated at want to take a look at that but it is pwm fan and it does come pre sleep once again I wish these cables were longer but what are you gonna do I wish we had longer cables guys seriously you make a huge stacker case give us longer cables would you there we go you got two of these fins you have your installation manual here installation guide you have your warranty information card and here it is right here now this is going to be an aluminum radiator a lot like the Neptune series but look at the thickness of this guy it's pretty thick so it's giving you a pretty good amount of surface area as always you have your plug on here that says do not tamper with if you open this up your warranty is void here is your pump and block right here with our little sticky tape on there protecting the block and there's a little bit of a rough finish on there but I don't think that's really gonna affect performance too much but if you're into lapping and polishing you might want to give that a little bit of a lap in Polish we got the same rotatable fittings as you find on the other water cooling options here from Coolermaster but what's interesting is that you do have both 140 millimeter and 120 millimeter mounting options here on this radiator so if you happen to have 120 millimeter fans that you like to prefer you could mount those on there whether they be jet flow or Corsair or whatever so they are going to accept your radiators what I like is that the screw holes are aligned with the fins and not the cooling channels so if you do happen to screw down in there too far you're not gonna deem your radiator a paperweight by puncturing one of those channels you'll just simply crush some of the fins and you have more of an aesthetic problem than dealing with the performance problem making it completely broken at that point so there's nothing else in the box there I was hoping to see ah yes here it is I was hoping to see a PWM splitter which we do have right here that comes inside the package so you can split off the PWM signal to both your fans if you happen to only have one PWM header available to you your fan or if you have a PWM CPU and a CPU optional you can run all three the pump in both fans off of two headers I do wish that the sleeving went all the way down to these two but again what are you gonna do so there is your splitter all of your mounting hardware and your cooler master thermal compound and really there's nothing else to say about it the quality of it feels nice you hear the fluid flopping around in there the cover for the CPU pump and block is aesthetically pleasing it is plastic it's not metal like the glacier is or the glacier is but there it is guys you have a 140 millimeter cooling option here fits in most cases that accept 120 140 millimeter fans as always if you've enjoyed this unboxing and overview be sure to give this video a like if you stumbled across this channel and you like what you saw hope you stick around and don't forget guys tune in next January 6 to January 10th I will be bringing you live coverage from CES at some point I'm going to be doing a live stream from on the convention showroom floor don't know exactly when that's going to be yet but I will be sure to update you guys on Twitter so make sure you're following on Twitter because that's going to be the most live coverage you're going to be getting from CES as it happens and as always guys I will see you in my next video