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this is the cool advantage so this is an upgraded version of the eco which is economical and the Vantage is not as economical so what do you get for your less economical well first of all you get to fans okay so you have to fans and mounted in push-pull on the radiator second of all you get an LCD interface on the cpu cooler itself which gives you error alerts as well as being customizable with different colors so that's pretty neat you get a universal retention system which you also get with the eco and you get fully upgradeable and we'll get into more of that but you get fully upgradeable compliance with cool it's maestro software control platform wireless software control platform so that's pretty cool let's start getting this opened up and we will have a look at the event it advanced liquid cooling solution for CPUs alright here we go so cool its packaging has evolved a lot over the years it's gotten a lot better here's the instruction manual it is available in a number of different languages shows you how to attach your back plate how to install the Vantage in your case because it does use a 120-millimeter fan it's look at this this is a color manual I the numerical is phenomenal actually because it does use a 120-millimeter fan it is compatible with most cases that feature a 120-millimeter cooling fan at the back this is your unique hardware ID number that's kind of neat ok you have different performance modes extreme performance and quiet which will actually ramp up the fan speed differently based on the temperature and which mode you select so that's kind of cool else do we have in here we've got an installed unit we've bought it's completely configurable via the built-in LCD screen so here's all the different stuff that you can change and there we go I guess the folder is really like this I hope that maestro is still the same the same wireless control thing that they showed at yes you can actually see the CES sticker on the box so they want to design an engineering showcase honor at CES 2010 here's all our different back plates I'm actually not going to go too far into that because back plates are not very interesting and then here we have hold downs so you go ahead and loosen that and you can pull these apart there you go so that's the AMD hold down all right there if you Vantage itself curled up in the fetal position hiding from my unboxing oh this is interesting it's not actually dual fan that's a shroud so cool it has gone ahead and done a shrouded cooler now what impact that has on performance I'm not sure but something that I can promise you is I will be testing it against the corsair h70 in the coming in the coming week or so and then I will let you guys know exactly what kind of a difference this shroud makes and as well as letting you know if it's possible to install an additional fan because what I do see here is an additional fen amount unless this is a okay hold on I don't get it this doesn't happen for me well it happens to me once in a while during my unboxings but now I like to think not too often well we'll figure out exactly what all of this means in a month but let's take a look at the vantage itself so here you can see this is kind of like a fan frame that's why I mistook it for a push-pull radiator but yeah it's just a little mounting brackets you go ahead and screw that into your case no problem it uses quite a thin low a profile radiator and then you can see it is completely sealed so this is the fill port right here and then there is an inlet and an outlet port into the radiator which runs right over to your cpu block now this is one thing that's really cool that cool it's done with their coolers as you can see they do use rotating post Barb's so what that means is if you're installing the vented radiator in your case like this and your CPU socket is most comfortable like that or like that or wherever it is that you need to mount it you have that flexibility and you can mount it however you need to so here on the cpu block or rather the cpu block and pump because it's an integrated unit you've got one power input m1 power output so yeah here we go so this plugs in here and powers the fan so it looks like we don't have built-in support for an additional fan and it is meant to be used as like a shrouded setup ok and then this one plugs into your CPU socket here is the LCD screen itself which you can see will look right side up regardless of which way you install it in your case although I don't know if it has some way of knowing whether it's right side up or not you can see this is the universal mounting system here so you can slide this in and out depending on what kind of an Intel setup you are using and then you can install the AMD brackets if you are using an AMD setup so here you just lift it up and then I believe you push it over hold on see if I can figure this out I don't help that wire wasn't there yeah there we go and then you just pull it in like that so you just put it in the position it belongs in put the appropriate back plate on the back your motherboard and boom it's mounted just like that here is the bottom of the Vantage so you can see they actually label which holes you need to move the mounting kit over to in order to have it fit on socket 775 1156 or 1366 you can see it does have pre applied thermal compound on the bottom of the copper CPU water block and I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it actually that's not all there is to say I want to talk a little bit about bullets maestro software I don't know if they'd actually release this yet by the way here the mounting screws for the radiator but maestro allows you to monitor and control your system via software from like a convenient software interface and you can actually set all the different things like fan profiles as well as even lighting effects I believe you can change with maestro there's a bunch of really cool stuff they showed up at CES but I think one of the reasons they're not talking about it too much yet is that it's not a hundred percent ready yet I mean software stuff like that often takes a long time to develop and debug if you want it to work right and if there's one thing cool it has demonstrated again and again is that they don't like to release a product until it's actually ready so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the cool advantage and stay tuned for some performance testing thank you for checking out my channel Linus tech tips and don't forget to subscribe