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welcome to an unboxing here on Linus tech tips I actually have one of the applicants from my new assistant position holding the camera from you today and we are going to be unboxing his pick of all the things that are in the room right now to on box and that is the NZXT havoc 140 this is a new cooler from NZXT now their claim is it actually performs as well as the noctua NHD 14 but looks cooler in their opinion on though I do have to say that with those blades on the fan and that finish on the heat sink itself it does look pretty darn cool let's see what they have to say for themselves we've got compatibility for socket 1155 1156 and 775 as well Zane 3am 2 plus am too and remember that also means it's compatible with am3+ because it will use the same mounting system specially designed rubber fasteners to reduce vibration and secure fans to heat sink all right unique fan blades provide quiet 25 decibel operation highly effective airflow very nice ok 6 6 millimeter heat pipes with standard dual 1 40 millimeter fans for most efficient conductivity sturdy mounting bracket newly patented thins exceptionally slice passing air for increased ventilation now I thought these were just to look cool but I guess there's only one way to know for sure a hundred percent soldered copper basin aluminum fence with nickel plating to ensure resilience against deterioration quality and long life I hope that it doesn't have resilience against long life and I really hope that they were actually talking about just the resilience against the deterioration and never mention there so let's go ahead and break the seal because that's what we do on this channel and how do I open the box I don't know from the bottom oh there's another seal alright we get to break the seal twice on this product exciting so let's see what NZXT has inside so the first thing we find is a manual it's not in color although I'm not really sure that color manuals are necessary expense for coolers especially when you have a nice blown-up diagram like this that shows you where all the parts are going to go in order to install it on the intel or AMD system okay on this side we've got our step-by-step although I mean just for quickness sake you're probably gonna want to use oh no these are just parts lists I thought are these in order I can tell let me see yeah yeah those look like they're in order of how it's held down so at the end it's held down by a spring mounted bit and then it's just a matter of which mounting hardware you're putting over the socket of your motherboard so first thing we find is a fan packed in very nice closed cell foam so there's definitely no risk of damage to that fans got a very short connector on it and it's got blacks leaving as well as a black connector so it should match your hardware fairly well these are 140mm fans but they use that cool circular frame design which allows them to mount on 120 millimeter mounts compared to the square frame which would put those mounting bowls a little bit further out alright we've got another fan much like the last one except more different alright we have some do not eat desiccant silica gel alright don't eat that please and then we have okay hold on let's have a look at the mounting hardware first and then we'll do this the cpu cooler itself so in terms of accessories we've got a bunch of stuff here so you've got what looks like look at how thick that back plate is here let's take that out alright then what are these these are rubber fasteners huh cool okay so we've got one two three four of those so these robber fasteners are what allow us to mount the fans to the cooler alright we've got some various back plates and hold down mechanisms these are very very thick check this out if you manage to warp a motherboard with one of these installed on it then you're probably doing it wrong this is the side for AMD look how thick that thing is hair will do the will do the iphone thickness comparison that you guys all love so much there you go so it's about the thickness of the glass on an iPhone all right so you got some plastic bits here just to make sure that it doesn't short out on your motherboard okay we've got some additional hold down pieces all made out of nice thick steel so you're not going to have any difficulty with those bending or coming loose and shipping that can be a big concern with these heavy heat sinks because especially for NCIX I mean when we're shipping systems across the country it can be problematic if the system heat sink comes loose in transit and bangs around inside which has happened believe me and it's very very very bad all right there we go let's take out the heat sink itself and have a look lots and lots of heat pipes in this thing this actually reminds me of the thermal right ultra 120 extreme a little bit although more heat pipes for sure then the ultra 120 extreme had so there's actually six heat pipes which are all bent in AU configuration it's got kind of a matte silver finish and then you can see that it's actually a fairly loose thin array so my expectation is that this is this cooler is going to perform best with low rpm fans which is indeed what NZXT has supplied with it so let's have a look at how they've laid out the heat pipes here so you can see we have the six coming through on each side and then they either bend in like this or they Bend not quite as much or they come out to the edge of the cooler now one good thing about a cooler like this versus something like a d14 regardless of performance because we haven't had a look at performance yet is that it is going to be more compatible with a wider variety of motherboards compared to a monstrosity like the d14 which is basically like two of these side by side where you can put a fan in the middle and a fan on either side so it's got some heft to it but again with this mounting mechanism I really wouldn't expect to run into any trouble with it putting it too much strain on your motherboard we can do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see it's got some shininess to it although there is some definite some definite grain to the finish on the bottom although that does not necessarily impact performance in any way now in terms of mounting these fans you notice that they had very very short connectors on them so I just want to show you guys why that is it's because we actually have any splitter so you just go ahead hook both fans up to the splitter that came with it so you can put those on either side there we go whoops okay well it'll go kind of something like that you hook up the splitter and then you hook the whole thing up to your motherboard so this is what it will look like let's do about the fans on it it's about this big and we can do another iphone shot just so that you guys can see the overall size of the unit itself in comparison to an iphone and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the havoc 140 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at this new heatsink which is actually the first heat sink for NZXT so here's actually how these rubber mounting mechanisms work you take them and you screw them into the not screw them you put them into the fan like this and then you take these rubber bits here and then you pull them around the edge of where you would normally have like a mounting bar which is what we see on something like a thermal right cooler now they are a little bit tricky to get in there and I wouldn't mind if NZXT also included a mounting bar to go along with the rubber pieces but basically you put them behind their on both sides you have to kind of you know if I i guess if we took like like a screw or something and sort of push that in there then we might have a little bit better luck the good news is you only have to do this once I guess there we go so you put it under there and then that is what holds the fan on so you take four of those and then you can actually see that there's going to be a significant buffer between the fan and the heat sink itself which acts to help reduce the dead zone which is the area in the middle of the fan where there's obviously no airflow as well as reducing the vibration that can be transferred from the fan to the heatsink to the motherboard to your case