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welcome to Linus tech tips today's unboxing is going to be extremely high-tech yes we have two cameras and one of them isn't on a tripod see slick give it a little give it a little dance yeah thanks okay that's enough so slick is gonna be on the one camera with diesel on the other camera and we are gonna be unboxing the Kraken x40 from NZXT this is the world's first all-in-one 140 millimeter liquid cooler and that gives it a huge surface area advantage over its competition which is generally using 120 millimeters or some derivative thereof such as dual 120 millimeters now there's an X 60 as well but this version right here is the one that's gonna fit in the widest variety of cases because let me tell you guys a dual 140 millimeter radiator is not going to fit into many cases however when it does once again due to the huge surface area advantage it has over a dual 120 we are gonna see some serious performance improvements now I've been saying for a long time basically since they showed up that these all-in-one liquid coolers are limited not by the pump not by the water block design but by the surface area of the radiator so something like a course RH 100 addressed that in a big way compared to its predecessors but this should be the next evolutionary step forward so in terms of packaging we've got an environmentally friendly cardboard package here we have a simple instruction manual with a disc that you may actually want to install at an O version 1.1 see if there's a newer one on NZXT T's website here I mean if you haven't installed an ace attack all-in-one before then this will be new to you if you have then you've been doing this for years because the OEM for this particular unit is a Sutekh NZXT includes their fan design so you can see here it's a nine blade fan design that looks fairly well optimized for static pressure but it's hard to say without proper testing equipment there you go it has blacks leaving on it which of course diesel will have super InFocus so it looks super awesome high quality sleeping on this guy look at that that's outstanding and black wires inside with nice tight heat shrink so that's going to look just just stunning actually hardware-wise we've got all the mounting kit that you could possibly need for everything from 775 to AMD m3 FM one FM two 1156 1366 and finally 2011 so you can mount this bad boy on pretty much anything that you could possibly want to now on the box itself you can see they've just got a simple picture they've got their two-year warranty called out so it's not the longest warranty ever but honestly guys ASA Tech's been making these all-in-one liquid coolers for a long time so they pretty much know what's up at this point they're saying 36 percent more surface area now that should equate this isn't probably not even quite right guys because remember the hub of a fan is actually the same size whether you're looking at a 140 millimeter or 120 millimeter fan so we're getting more actual blade airflow going through the thing area then just the actual 36 percent improvement so larger surface area blah blah blah something something here's some noise and decibels compared to whatever else they're comparing to there's some general specs so the motor speed runs at 2,900 rpm voltages 12 volt okay okay material rubber blah-blah-blah-blah-blah completely sealed ah yes people still ask me this they're completely sealed they're maintenance-free these are all in one liquid coolers so it's all good let's go ahead and have a close look at the radiator itself so here we are taken out of the box Wow look at this this comes with a really long tubing on it alright oh look at these look at the sleeving on this that's outstanding so NZXT does a really good job actually of all the stuff that they use their own sleeping procedures on so there's a couple things there's their extension cables there's their fans and now there's their all-in-one liquid cooling units look at that all black wires all beautifully sleeved cables so what do we have coming out of here number one is USB so you can use this to control the software so the Kraken series does come with control software it's not a hundred percent mature yet but in time that should improve got a nice long USB cable here so what I would expect to do with this you I would be mounting it in my case like this then I would go up around the back of the motherboard tray looks like you got enough length to come right under the bottom of the motherboard or you could even go off to the right see with the NZXT logo being on the right there go behind the motherboard there and then come up the bottom so that's what I do in terms of cable routing here we've got our pm monitoring I actually know that might that's that's power so power is gonna go to your CPU fan header right here you're gonna want to leave your CPU fan header on full speed guys and then you're gonna plug in your what in the heck is this one moment please oh yeah that won't work because we're doing live to tape okay I figured it out anyway so you can do push pull natively off of the cooler itself but one of them is missing the RPM monitoring lead so that that makes sense though that yeah that that was awkward okay so let's have a close look at the unit itself just gonna go ahead and switch to Diesel's camera the bottom has a high quality thermal compound on the copper base and then the same ASA tech mounting mechanism that we've seen before the logo here does illuminate so that should look really good in your case and the tubing as I said is quite long now this is still 1/4 inch tubing however I'm not convinced that with these all in ones it's going to make that much of a difference in terms of performance and when I compare this to what I've seen from the H Adi and the H 100 I the tubing is much more flexible when you have a nice thick wall and you keep a 1/4 inch tubing versus a 3/8 inch tubing like I said before I don't think we're block or pump or flow limited I think we're surface area limited with these things it's not like an H Adi performs better than an H 100 I because of the fact that it just has thicker tubing it doesn't work that way more surface area equals more better so speaking of surface area the radiator itself uses quite a dense thin array so you can actually get right in close there presumably since diesels taking care of all that and you can see that the more pressure you use on the fan for this guy this will really benefit from a push-pull setup and it'll also benefit from pressure optimized fans such as Noctua NF a 14s those would be a really good choice for this red that pretty much takes care of it other than that we've just got the slightly rotatable fittings here so you're gonna have a lot of flexibility in terms of mounting and also the fact that because it can be sort of positioned at the back your case here and then you can maneuver this almost anywhere without kinking it you have a lot of flexibility in terms of your installation so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look in our new style of the Kraken x40 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos