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a portable power bank wireless AP SD card and USB reader for your mobile devices check the link in the video description to learn more about the a data - drive air AE 400 welcome to a product unboxing that won't be interesting to you if you're not into liquid cooling but if you are then it should be pretty interesting to you this is the coolants 380 ICP you cooler and what makes it 380 is the fact that it is their current generation CPU water block and what makes it I is that this is the Intel variant so coolants usually does a great job of their included instructions and this is no exception even though this is just printed out with what appears to be an inkjet printer it's full color and does seem to outline exactly what you need to do this particular block mounts on LGA 775 1155 1156 1150 2011 and 1366 however for some other boards you may need an adapter plate it has yes there we go all of the below included in the box so there is a backplate another more different backplate a silicon isolator so this one right here will keep the backplate from shorting out any of the components on your board if you have a board that that would be a risk for it includes 2011 mounting pegs so you can see those will screw right into the built-in backplate around the edge of your LGA 2011 board it also includes tension hold down for presumably all of the other Intel socket so those go right there a ginormous tube of thermal goop cool ants branding on it okay as well as a bunch of others okay well those are all the knickknacks nothing ok so let's go ahead and move along to the 2 ounce block coolants for me was always about fit and finish now back in the day they weren't necessarily a performance leader by any stretch of the imagination but that was a long time ago these days the 380 is a top-of-the-range block in terms of the performance and they're still maintaining that fit and finish so it used to be they did weird stuff like gold plating and it looked fantastic man did it look good on the bottom of the block but gold actually isn't as good a thermal conductor as some other metals and while it didn't really hurt performance it certainly didn't help it and that seems to be what they were going for was oh you know gold-plated for best done what kind of no no no no so copper and silver are both actually better conductors than gold these days they still have that mirror shine finish so we'll go ahead and do that obligatory finger shot where you can see how reflective that bad boy is see I can see you right there in the camera it's got a bit of a bow to the base this has been in fashion ever since the release of the detection I believe it was the fusion v1 that initially had the bode base with a with a custom oring you could add to it so it has a slightly bowed base this allows for it to flatten out once it is actually applied to the block and that smoothness at the ball actually that that shininess at the bottom doesn't necessarily affect performance but it certainly looks nice it's a copper base block so it uses a micro thin arrangement with a mid plate that I don't think you can actually quite see but there's an intake block or there's an intake feed right there so there's a mid plate and then there are micro fins on the bottom and then it uses a very very very thick hold down plate that's one of the thickest hold down plates I've ever seen you're going to be able to apply as much or as little pressure as you want however it should be noted that you don't want to risk damaging your motherboard for the sake of getting really good mounting pressure between your block and the motherboard itself coolants has configured this block so that it will be compatible with pretty much whatever G 1/4 standard fittings that you want to use even if they are 1/2 inch ID 3/4 inch OD fittings which is often hard to fit on something like a CPU block so Swift X approach is that they often allow you to user config the inlet to move it away from the other one and this gives you a bit more flow restriction and maybe a little bit less performance but allows you to fit bigger fittings this one supports it out of the box no problem there also clearly labeled inlets outlet and I think that pretty much wraps it up other than to show you what the block will look like on your board if you happen to have an Asus z87 deluxe so there you go man I love water cooling probably the best thing about it is just the sheer sex appeal of it thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the 3 ATI CPU cooler from coolants don't forget to subscribe Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos