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hey guys J here you're watching J is 2 cents now before we get into today's review let's go ahead and answer some questions that you guys have been asking me and that is J I love your content how can I support well the best way to support me honestly is just keep watching and share the videos with your friends however some of you who've kind of wanted to go above and beyond that particular type of support and you can do that so just look down in the description you'll find a few different ways to help support me here and allow me to continue to bring you the content that you guys are demanding from me so with that out of the way let's go ahead and talk about today's review topic and that is the ragin tech Themis evo air cooler I don't know a whole lot about it in fact I don't even know if I'm saying the name right we're gonna take a look at this see how it stacks up how it performs and whether or not it's something you should even be considering looking at get 10% off anything from Coolermaster at the CM store see the description for details alright so product dimensions let's go ahead talk about the size of the cooler to see if you can even fit this in your case it's 122 millimeter by 82 millimeter by 165 millimeters tall so if you're putting this in a small form-factor a micro ITX build or a or a mini ITX build or a micro ATX build depending on the case you go with you're going to want to make sure there's plenty of height for that this is not a low-profile cooler it does come with a 120 millimeter fan rating 1000 to 1800 rpm it measures 78.8 2 CFM of airflow that's a lot of airflow the fan also features 3.2 2 millimeters of h2o of static pressure that's a lot of pressure obviously it's a 1800 rpms life expectancy is 40,000 hours and the noise level is 27.8 6 DB at max I'm gonna call shenanigans on that number because I've yet to come across any fan that has ever hit it's like it's DB decimal rating that's a whole nother video when it comes to companies in the way that they rate their fan noise okay so inside the box right on the top there is all of your hard right here and this does support all of your various socket types all your common sockets FM 1 FM 2 FM 2 plus and 2 a.m. 3 & 3 plus and all of your Intel sockets so this is gonna work with pretty much any modern CPU that you build now there's not a whole lot going on inside the box you do have some product manual here you are gonna want to look at this to make sure you install it correctly because after all we always are talking about the cooling of your CPU it's kind of a big deal let's go and talk about the fan this is 122 millimeter by 25 millimeter dimension it has a sleeved cable kudos for that you guys know how to feel about fan manufacturers that do not include sleeving it cost a couple of cents and it just really improves the looks of it and it is a 4 pin pwm so it is gonna ramp up and slow down based on the load on your CPU now the actual fan blades on this are very aggressive they have a very aggressive angle which is how they're able to get that massive static pressure on there but again this could also create quite a bit of blade noise at you know higher rpm speeds so we'll be checking that when we do our review of this it moves a ton of air just spinning it by hand I feel so much air coming off the back of this fan I can't wait to see how it actually sounds now let's go ahead and talk about the the meat of this review and that is the actual cooling tower itself and here it is the entire tower is a kind of a nickel-plated tower so it's gonna look really good it's got a ton of actual cooling blades on here and it has four copper heat pipes nickel plated copper heat pipes that are sanded down and you can see the actual copper is exposed when it comes to the block itself or the actual heatsink contact point with your heat spreader now so not a whole lot to talk about on this I mean the the blades feel solid they do have their nice and straight they're not bent they do attract fingerprints so you want to keep that in mind you can see right through the thing so let's go ahead and get this in the test bench and let's compare and see how it does on my overclocked 46 70 K and we'll go ahead and talk about whether or not this is a bi and something you should consider taking a look at from this brand new company ragin tech I think that's how you say it I'm honestly not sure hey guys so before I could even start talking about temperatures on this I'd ran into a problem that's actually really common and many of you have probably experienced yourself where the fan was actually hitting the RAM on my test bench now this isn't a big deal if you have standard height RAM or Ranma doesn't have a tall heatsink on it or heat spreader like my 82 Ram does so it may not even be an issue for you so in my case the fan was striking the rim and what I had to do was I had to instead of doing a push configuration which would be desired on a heatsink tower like this I had to go into a pull configuration by putting the fan on the opposite side I don't feel that that is the most optimal fan setting for a heatsink tower like this where it's air-cooled so I just want you to be mindful of that while we're talking about the temperatures here moving forward okay first things first the installation is really simple the backplate fits all of your sockets you have one backplate for everything the fan mounts with these little rubber tabs that just kind of hook on to the heatsink so it's really simple now when it comes to the temperatures I don't really think there's anything surprising here when it comes to stock voltage stock clocks this thing kept the CPU nice and cool in the mid to upper-60s and had absolutely no problem maintaining that temperature with a low fan speed no issues at all but as soon as I started bumping more voltage to it and started reaching that 1.27 to 1.3 volt range for the CPU which is what's required for my chip to get it's four point four gigahertz overclock I started seeing temperatures go all the way up into the 90s so this cooler is definitely not up to the task when it comes to cooling down that much voltage and there could be a couple of reasons for this one it could be because the actual block is not very smooth it's kind of rough it's just usually better temperatures come from a lapped service which is polished and glassy smooth so that you don't get any crevices and things for there to be you know micro gaps which really do affect temperatures it also good just because of the fact that there's only four heat pipes in this particular cooler now this cooler is going to be very similar to like the cooler master hyper 212 so the performance here is pretty much on par with what I've experienced with that cooler in various builds that I've done now I don't talk about costs because I have no idea how much this thing costs so I can't really talk about that but tell me what you think about this cooler what I think it looks pretty awesome I like the design it looks really good it was easy to install but you may have compatibility issues with your RAM and definitely you have to make sure that you can accommodate the height of this cooler so guys go ahead and sound off in the comments and tell me what you think what cooler are you using if your air cooling and why help everyone else make an informed decision on what to buy for their computers I'm gonna get the hell on out of here guys I've got a huge announcement coming up here in the future and I can't wait to tell you guys about it but it's a little bit premature so we won't even go there yet as always guys I'll see you in my next video