Gadgetory

so I'm gonna be having a look at a very exciting new product this is B kulit eco it is a brand new liquid cooling product from kulit systems so I don't know if you remember this far back but their very first liquid cooler was the cool it free zone okay so the free zone was revolutionary well not revolutionary because it wasn't the first cooler to ever use a temp or Peltier but it was the first one to do it with any commercial success with liquid cooling so they went from there they produced the free zone elite as well as the pure the pure turned into the domino and the domino has given birth to the Eco so as we go and unbox this product I'll tell you a little bit more about the evolution of it but why don't we start with what's on the outside of the box so I'll use my handy-dandy remote have a zoom in here and I will tell you what it said is even though you could probably read it just as easily yourself so it supports AMD m2 m2 plus m3 as well as 775 1156 and 1366 are pretty much every socket out there right now and as long as it's not a server socket it is extreme cooling maintenance-free and simple to install alright what do we have on the outside here this looks like the same thing is it differently what are they doing oh no they've gone and they put the same diagram on two sides of the box to confuse me they actually have different bullet points on them so here we go Universal retention system out of the box support provided for all those sockets I listed below proprietary pump with a ceramic bearing including Lomov including but a 5000 our lifetime okay so mean time to failure alright then we have a high performance radiator which is custom engineered for low noise so that generally means that it has a fairly low fin per inch rating so that means that there's less turbulence as the air moves through the fan and overall less noise it also means you can get better cooling out of it with a lower airflow fan superior cooling performance through technology and that's pretty much marketing spiel right there alright and the other side quiet work and play environment so they encourage you to use this both for work and play it uses ATC thermal compound I learned ATC stands for advanced thermal compound so it's the advanced thermal compound thermal compound it is maintenance-free is prefilled factory-sealed and it does not evaporate you to the kind of tubing they use so you don't have to refill it high-performance fluid heat exchanger so there that's what they call a cpu block I suppose all right on the back finally we get quick to install in any chassis so I will be the judge of that because usually I can easily find flaws in these pre-packaged water cooling products that make it not fit in a number of chassis so let's get it out of the box I haven't I mean I saw this in person briefly at CES but I never got to actually touch one so all right you can see that kulit has attached the styrofoam inside to the outer box extremely well come on alright here we go I found somewhere doesn't pull in it sort of wow this is um this is one of the more difficult unboxings I've run into in quite some time ah here we go okay come on it's like boxes giving birth it's a very narrow birth canal Tim all right there we go the box is off and I the first thing I find is this piece of paper which is a Quick Start Guide and it is a one two okay tells you what's in the box and then it's a one two three step configure the retention brackets so as long as you get it set up for the right CPU that you're going to be installing it on you put on a back plate and then you secure the eco to your case and to the into the CPU socket next you connect a fan and the pump power so that is kind of more than three steps I think they're cheating a little bit can you do this is the AMD retention bracket so you can see where that secures to the block and you can see the spacing is clearly for AMD alright what do we have next back in there all right next we have a little elastic around are three different back plates okay so we have 775 1156 and 1366 it wouldn't be a bad move probably to do a universal back plate but um maybe that's something that's coming down the road for Hulot's engineering team and inside the styrofoam clamshell you can see this is extremely well packaged check that out there is nowhere for this thing to move when it's in transit I really like that that makes me really happy to see them taking good care and attention to get you your product in as good shape as possible here I'm gonna show you the other side of this too so it's completely enclosed in there a very nice job kulit okay so it comes in a little baggie and that will prevent any incidental scratches or dings from happening to your cooler gear so let's get this removed here alright so why don't we start with the radiator which is what the DIY water cooling guys would call this particular piece so it's got a cool it branded fan on the back I'm just gonna zoom in a little bit closer so you can see this thing better okay we've got a cool it branded fan on the back that spins out you know what they never actually gave us that in the specs for this thing did there oh yeah there we go 1800 RPM max it's right there on the box I just didn't see it before alright so 1800 rpm max you can see it is configured for exhaust so while Corsair has a comparable product in there the coursera h50 Corsair actually recommends that you configure the fan blowing air into the chassis now there are advantages disadvantages to both approaches this one takes hot air from inside your case and removes it so that means that rather than taking all that CPU heat and then pumping it back into your case it actually removes it from the case now the disadvantage is it means that you're not using the coolest possible air to cool your CPU so in a case like the Corsair obsidian 800 D there's an advantage to turning this fan around which you can actually do on the cooling unit or on the Corsair it doesn't really matter and then you could use those top three fins to blow all the air out and then you could just bring you an extra air it doesn't really even matter at that point so if you bring the air from the outside you're using the coolest possible air to keep your CPU cool you've got a four pin pwm fan connector here so that'll take care of making the fans spin all right this radiator looks fairly bond standard although they have made a couple small improvements over once I've seen in the past first of all this may seem minor but you see this side this notch right here most water cooling radiators have the these these end tanks go right from the side of the rad up and then over and also they can tend to be quite a bit larger so on the bottom and the top coolers has made a little bit of extra space here that right there is going to give them compatibility with way more cases right off the bat I've also seen all-in-one liquid coolers that are more than the width of a fan now you can see when you look at the Eco the radiator is exactly flush with the phen so for cases that have say for example a side window that goes right next to the rear 120 millimeter fan if your radiators little wider it can hurt your compatibility there so the Eco is pretty much as close as I've ever seen to something that can actually achieve universal compatibility all right cool it uses their standard plastic tubing here which is it's good and bad because it's not very flexible but they must use it because that's what prevents the water from evaporating and that's what makes it so that you don't have to actually fill this thing repeatedly oh they've got actually oh these are coming they've got rotating fittings here this is something new so that's gonna give you a little bit better flexibility when you're installing the Eco and system because you can kind of you know move it this way or that way before it was always just putting so much tension on the fittings but now they vibe they've worked that rotation in there that's very nice okay the pump is powered by three pin connectors so as long as you've got a couple three pin motherboard connector 'he's close to your CPU socket you'll be able to plug in both your fan and your pump very easily on the bottom of the unit you can see a nice shiny copper base as well as a pre applied thermal compound and then they've got little labels in the bottom here that what are you don't think I broke it that's good okay so how does this work exactly it looks like you lift it up and then you move it oh well that's kind of cool so what you do is you actually lift this up and then you move it around based on which mounting hole you want to use so just like that so they've got 775 1156 as well as 1366 all labeled in here and then if you want to use a m2 I guess you just um oh yeah that's what these levels no that can't be what that's for well I'm sure that there's a way to do it it's not that hard it's in the QuickStart guide so if you actually buy this to mount on a m2 or am-3 motherboard then I'm sure you'll figure it out anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the you know what I guess I'm not quite done why don't I just give a brief mention to the where the pump is because it used to be the cool it would integrate their pump either next to the radiator or next to the radiator that's where they used to put their pump and now they've moved to something that is more of an integrated all-in-one unit so the pump as well as the CPU block are both contained within this one piece here so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the kulit eco