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okay so today's unboxing is actually going to be captured with the Microsoft LifeCam HD 5000 and I'm going to be unboxing the Arctic cooling freezer extreme revision - and so yeah this is meant to be two things an unboxing of this particular heatsink as well as an example of what kind of video quality you can expect from the Microsoft LifeCam that I unboxed a little while ago so you can see it is pretty clear and we're gonna see how well it does with the close-ups because the lighting a isn't great in my office and B I have these screens behind me which makes it really difficult for even a good camera to focus and and get good focusing image quality okay so let's unbox this heatsink this is the freezer extreme Rev - it's like the freezer extreme accepter vision - it has excellent compatibility so it supports pretty much everything out there 1366 1156 775 so that's all the Intel sockets at the moment and then support for a.m. 3:00 a.m. - plus an AM - which are all the same as well as 939 it still includes support for socket 939 which is pretty ancient at this point all right so we got unmatched cooling performance as a feature unique twin tower it's not so unique anymore lots of coolers are using the twin towers effective heat dissipation via eight heat pipes that's pretty good patented fan holders eliminate buzzing sounds the voltage regulators and Northbridge cooling oh yeah we can talk about that in a minute okay pre-applied mx2 so it comes with a very high quality pre applied thermal compound that's huge because you can get the best cooler in the world if it comes with crappy thermal compound you're gonna get crappy performance alright next we have the only compared against the stock cooler so cooling performance as well as noise okay they give you some dimensions here so the fan runs it anywhere from 800 to 1500 rpm and it is a pwm fan and I think that's pretty much all I want to say about the outside of the package so why don't we get this thing opened up and have a look-see so the first thing we find inside is a piece of paper and that piece of paper has some writing on it in a couple different languages okay so let's go to English because that's what I speak okay step one remove the fan press the fan shoulders to unlock the fan and lift the fan upwards step two so we've got six steps on this side and then seven steps for Intel and then five steps for a and B so AMD looks to be a little bit simpler okay okay so we've got a little bag deal of this is Intel and it has two screws in it okay and then the next thing we have is what appears to be AMD mounting clips as well as some little like I don't know what those are shaped like but there they are okay next we have the cooler itself wow that was pretty straightforward as far as mounting hardware is concerned so somehow they found a way to mount this using either two screws or like two little Clippy things uh here it is so this is the back plate I guess how does this work well you're smart people I'm sure you can figure it out when you buy it and see the instruction manual okay so the actual cooler itself it has a plastic shroud ething on the top and to remove the fan you just squeeze that together and pull the fan out why don't we just remove the fan okay so there's the fan it's a 120 millimeter round fan and what's a little bit special about this fan that I'm gonna point out right off the bat here is the fact that it is round and the fact that at the bottom the frame is actually cut out so you see how the frame is thick here but then thin down at the bottom so that's what they're talking about when they say you've got PWM cooling because this fan will actually it'll blow directed air through the heatsink fins from the sides here but then it has no it has no no air Direction flow control here so what it does is when it spins it'll just kind of randomly blow air out the bottom which will keep your voltage regulators as well as your memory modules anything around your CPU socket a lot cooler so that's pretty neat alright so why don't we have a look at I'm aware itself so like they said they use a twin tower design so that means that you're taking advantage not only of the air coming out of the fan but also the air coming into the fan and while it's not quite as effective as say taking these two putting them side-by-side and throwing two separate fans on it the air once it's been through one set of fins is not that hot compared to the actual CPU so it's still going to do a fair amount of cooling on the other side now on the sides of this heatsink we've got a couple more like plastic shroud II things and those don't appear to come off okay then if you look down into the bottom you can see the mounting system a little bit better I still I'm not a hundred percent clear about how that works but we're seeing the autofocus abilities of this LifeCam pretty well here and it's doing a terrific job actually all right fin fin density so here you why don't we oh let's look through the fins at the screen I don't know what that proved but now we've done it okay for heat pipes at the bottom these appear to be six millimeter heat pipes they're not particularly thick but my experience that comes down to design more than you know marketing bullet points so this is an excellent cooler and it does a great job you've got the pre-applied mx2 here on the bottom and I think that pretty much takes care of everything I wanted to say about the the Arctic cooling extrude freezer extreme Reve - thank you for checking out my unboxing and oh yeah we should talk about that that camera a little bit - let's have a look at the software so this is the Microsoft LifeCam software you can adjust tree color settings which are over here so you can turn that on and off oh that's so that's what happens if I turn off true color it becomes a lot harder for it to control the Huelva color and it does a great job actually based on the video we just took you can expect a bunch of different modes for capturing video we're using 1280 by 720 HD video capture you can adjust your Microsoft microphone volume which I hope is high enough after we've done this big long video and yeah that's it thank you for checking out my unboxing lots more video updates to come oh yeah off sale