Gadgetory

so I'll be doing this unboxing in a completely new location that you obviously won't recognize because it's completely new this is another room in my eye my new house where I'd set up some lights and I've got a little table I'm sitting on the floor it's pretty good for the moment but it'll improve anyway today I'm going to be unboxing the cone gauge or coach age arrow this is a cpu cooler and it is from the company that i had actually never heard of until they approached me about doing an unboxing and product showcase of Dara their arrow cooler now basically it's kind of like an offshoot of thermal right as far as I can tell and so that's kind of like what what an a swap used to be to Anna Seuss but that's different now either way why don't we have a look at the basic specs of this guy to start with so I'm going to get the camera remote then to zoom in on the box here so it has support for socket 1366 socket 1156 as well as socket 775 and it doesn't say anything about support for oh yeah there it is on the side okay so there's going to be a little bit more information on the side I'm going to zoom in even further I hate not having a camera person's brutal okay hmm so here on the side you can see it has four eight millimeter large centers heat pipes so those are nice big heat pipes on their next thing nickel plated basin heat pipes improves the wooden geminii of the heatsink by slowing oxidation okay i'm not sure if it improves the longevity but what it does do is it improves the appearance over time because oxidized copper looks horrible okay you've got a double fin stack design provides each are impressive surface area special arrow thin design and we'll have a look at that in a minute soldered heat pipes and copper basin sure all components maintain the highest level of thermal efficiency all right support for multiple platforms so am too am three are optional then it includes a quiet 120-millimeter fan and capable of supporting up to three fans for the ultimate enthusiast thirty eight millimeter fan will fit between the two towers if that's pretty cool you got your dimensions here and a big one for coolers is always the weight this is an eight hundred and twenty-five grand who so that's almost two pounds so you can expect this to be a pretty big guy then you've got pure copper with nickel plating gen compatibility okay that pretty much takes care of the outside of the box so why don't we start getting this thing opened up here I'm going to just kind of do that a little bit and that should be good enough all right let's get it opened up here so the first thing we will find inside is a black box okay not at all like the one on an airplane much more different black box thermalright used to never care about like packaging that you can see that with this koj gyorko gauge bread and actually with some other more recent thermalright products we've actually got like a nice-looking retail box and then they're using black cardboard for the insides instead of just plain jane brown cardboard I mean packaging is important whether you like it or not it is so why don't we figure out how to open this box and then we'll go from there aha just like this unless I'm mistaken which I could be but I only have one tape to foodies unboxing so I'm just gonna have to roll with it ah you know what I think I might've I think i mighta been right here you go once you've opened that up all the accessories just kind of fall out here so yeah let's have a look at everything that's included with the arrow first thing I find is the important before okay so we have two copies of this and they both appear to be English um okay so we have a separate instruction booklet for eleven fifty six versus four 1366 and I'm trying to figure out why that would be I'll let you try and figure it out with me here if you can look at the front because it looks like the instructions are actually the same I mean obviously the back plates are going to be different sizes the hold downs are going to be slightly different sizes but the included component list is also the same so I'm going to open these up and just kind of stare at it myself and see if I can figure out some way that these instructions differ from each other I guess I can also be what I'll do is I'll hold this one up for you all to look at while I look at this one and then I'll talk about all the steps so it's an eight-step process to install this particular cooler you put the backplate on you click the hole there you put the brackets on top of the motherboard to put some thermal paste on then you put the hold down onto the heatsink install anti-vibration strips on a fan install the fan clips and install the fan oh this is a cool feature you can actually install either a 120-millimeter or a 1 40 millimeter fan which you can see in this last frame right here so that's pretty neat alright so why don't we have a look at the actual hold downs here so this appears to be one of them and this appears to be the other one so the 1156 fold down is also 775 compatible according to the instructions although I don't see how that's really possible how does that work ok well you know what they say it works i'm going to go ahead and press them on this one ok so we've got two sets of back plates hold downs and then brackets and then oh yeah I see it now so the 7751 the whole town is a little bit wider so now you can either go on a 775 or it on 56 and then this is sort of the more interesting guy because there's actually different stuff in here although I can't figure out how to get it open why don't we do this I'm not gonna just throw my table here ok so we have these little anti-vibration rubber strips I have one to three sets of those so like they said up to three fans alright then we have how many sets of fan pics so we have to kind of thicker thicker looking ones two sets of those i should say for total and then we have a two that are kind of thinner and flimsy or looking and I'm guessing they're different sizes based on looking at them initially and no they're not they're all for 120 millimeters so I'm guessing one of the maps to a different spot on the cooler we've got some thermal paste and then we've got an included little wrench guy here so that's for tough this is great that's for securing this particular screw so you know what that is worth zooming in on so I'm just going to bring you all the way in you can check this out so when you're putting the screw and you can actually use the little wrench or you could just use a screwdriver like a normal human being and that would also be quite effective so let's get all of this so I'm going to clear it away off to the side and then I can tackle the cooler itself because we've been recording for a while now here without actually even looking at the cooler uh no more accessories right I forgot there's a fan oh that's kind of nice looking okay so it's got like a black outer shell and it's kind of a shiny shiny black and then the blades are kind of a striking yellow color which seems like something that wouldn't look very nice but in person is actually pretty is pretty good it's pretty good looking it looks kind of like the Gaelic wings so i'm going to i'm wondering if the hub comes off looks like it doesn't so i'm guessing it is not using exactly the same design as the gelug wing I don't know what kind of a bearing it uses but it spins it anywhere from 1,000 to 1800 rpm depending on the input voltage all right that gives you some idea what's going on with the fan and then let's figure out oh oh I'm in trouble I'm in trouble I have no I have no knife and I'm encountering zip ties here also I have one more set of installation instructions and this is for 775 so i'm guessing battle l I'm the difference in the installation between 11 six and seven seven five all right here we go so let's see if I can figure out some way to detach these I may just have to cut this clip off in the middle here because that is attached really really well one of these days I'll learn to keep a knife in a pair of scissors handy for my unboxings but until then I might just have to interrupt videos in the middle some time to time to go get one it doesn't happen that often so yeah I might just never learn okay there we go so I've actually managed to remove the arrow from the box at this point and this is one huge cooler okay so I guess what can I easily use for scale I guess I'll use my hand for scale and I'll zoom in a little bit here for you because you're going to want to see this thing up a little bit closer alright so as the outside of the box mentioned you've got four heat pipes these are absolutely enormous heat pipes I mean you can look at them compared to the width of a finger they are just huge eight millimeter heat pipes and those go down to the base of the unit care so you can see that it is not a heat pipe direct touch heatsink although it's debatable whether or not that actually matters the engineering of the heat sink itself seems to be far more important I'll do the obligatory finger shot so you can see the base of the unit is quite shiny and I can't feel any machining grooves in the bottom of it so they've done quite a nice job of finishing the base of this particular heatsink now the bottom piece I don't know if you can see that or not is soldered together so you should have pretty good contact there in terms of your thermals and then you know what this is something that obviously co gauge because it's a sister company of thermal right has borrowed from thermal right and you can see that the leading edge of these fins is actually ok I don't know how I'm going to illustrate this but the leading edge of these fins out here we go you can see it more from the side is actually slanted down and then the trailing edge is actually slanted up and they do the same thing on each one where they they are improving the turbulence of the air flow through the heat sink and they're trying to make better use of the air that moves through these fins by causing it to change direction and make more contact with the actual metal of the of the fins that are attached to the heat pipe so that's what they're going ahead and doing there and you know what I'm going to just take a brief moment here and I'm going to grab the fan and show you sort of all the different places that can mount so the mounting system is actually pretty straightforward it's a something we've seen a lot of times before so you got a couple bowls up in the top of the of the unit so they're here here here here here here here and here do you use the little fan clips which are handily included in ample quantity for you you run those three little holes and then you click them on to the fan so I'm not going to bother doing that on camera but this is what it will look like with a fan here okay this is what it will look like with the fan in the middle so basically you can't see the fun at all and remember to the middle is actually quite a bit too big for a 25 millimeter fan and they've done that on purpose so you can actually install your own thirty eight millimeter thick then if you want this particular cooler i think that's about all there is to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the co gauge arrow