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welcome to my unboxing and first look now we've already looked at the Kraken x40 this is the kraken x 60 from NZXT this is an all-in-one liquid cooler that uses dual 140 that's one four zero millimeter fans in order to achieve massive surface area now I've said this time and time again people always ask me - you know which one's gonna perform better this water cooler or some other water cooler this air cooler you know what guys it's really simple with cooling it always comes down pretty much to surface area that's that's all it is cooling is not sort of it's it's Newtonian physics it's not complicated stuff the more surface area you have the more heat you're going to be able to dissipate and the more quickly you're going to be able to do it and you can see that NZXT has unabashedly compared their kraken x 60 to a standard 240 millimeter liquid cooler so that would be a duo 120 saying it has 36% more surface area now not only that but that's also going to give you more than 36 percent more usable surface area because remember both that 120 ml version and the 140 ml version lose the same amount of area in dead space under the fan hubs for example or in any cut any other kind of of wasted space so you're getting that that with that scalability comes even more usable area now the drawback being that most 140 millimeter fans are not actually very well optimized for static pressure now we do have fans that are the exception to this rule such as the Noctua a series ones that we're going to be using to test the crack in X 40 or rather X 60 but it's something to be aware of in general so here let's cover whatever else ends yes yes to say for themselves really quickly here so high performance pump and copper block with interactive digital fan control so it does come with a software element that allows you to sort of take advantage of that large tower support with extended 16 inch tubing ah yes so case support is going to be a bit of a challenge here because there's only so much you can do to to optimize for compatibility with various cases when you have to 140 millimeter fans that have to be out of particular spacing and are going to need a particular amount of room between themselves and any other components in order to be compatible so you can see NZXT includes a couple of their black and white fans I don't know that this is a you know particularly high-pressure design here's the Kraken controller version 1.1 software you can download the latest off the NZXT website but you can like I said replace them with nock to us and then you'll know for sure that you have a pressure optimized design mounting hardware there is very much included indeed so we have everything you'll need for Intel and AMD for the last few generations of sockets everything from 775 1155 1156 1366 2011 a.m. 2 a.m. to + am3+ a.m. 4 + I don't know FM 2 plus everything that you could pretty much want you've also got instruction guide that pretty much tells you what to do if you go on NZXT site they're actually maintaining sort of a wiki style article where you can find out what cases are compatible so there aren't many right now but we're planning to jam this thing into a vengeance c70 with a little bit of modification so that should be that should be a bit of a treat there you guys now opening up the Kraken itself you can see that it is significantly larger than the types of radiators we've seen before in fact let me grab one so that I can do a direct comparison here and I found one so holding it up next to sort of my old beat up you know this is actually the first water cooling radiator I ever bought this is a GT stealth 240 so holding it up against that it's all fine and good to show you guys this in terms of graphics but when you actually hold them up next to each other you can see that the sheer scale of the dual 140 millimeter radiator dwarfs the scale of a dual 120 millimeter Raider not rady radiator not only in terms of length but also in terms of width and just sort of in every possible dimension now the one area where the Kraken x60 is not sort of bigger than normal is in terms of the thickness so this is a normal slim radiator which means it's going to be competitive with something like in each 100 I surface area for surface area kind of pound-for-pound it is not a thicker style radiator like we've seen with things like the H 80 now another thing to note here is when we get really close and have a look at it I want you guys to check out the fin density this isn't a hyper dense sort of radiator but it's also not very loose I'd say it's more like a medium thin density that means that while it is again always important on a radiator to have a high pressure optimized fan it's not going to be the end of the world if you don't have the highest pressure fan in the world on this particular rad there we go giving you guys a good look at that can kind of see through it on the other side you can't see it have to hold the angle just right okay let's see if we've missed anything that NZXT has to say for themselves on the box before we move ahead I will be testing this on our new liquid cooling and just general cooling in general sort of test platform large tower support yeah because that's the only thing it supports with 16 inches of tubing SATA power connector freeze the insulation completely sealed system backed by two year warranty and all that is pretty much stuff that we've covered before they also have a little graph on here that shows you how they figure the performance stacks up against it's 120 millimeter competitors so we will definitely be having a closer look at this on our own test bench because as interesting as it is for the manufacturers to say this is how our product compares against the other things you know they're all using different fans they're all using different test platforms they're all potentially using different CPUs so it's hard to get the numbers validated so we're gonna check with our 3930k overclocked with nock to a fans in a/c 70 and we're probably gonna have to drill some holes in the case to get this to fit which is sort of you guys better get used to that idea because dual 140 millimeter red plus 140 millimeter fans a lot of stuff so the actual CPU block itself has swivel fittings on it which I'm really glad has become a bit of a standard thing and what's great about that is just the fact that it makes installation easier so no matter what angle your CPU cooler is installed that you're going to be able to rotate fittings to get to where you need to go it's got pre-applied thermal compound this is a high quality thermal compound that ASA Tech uses that's right ASA Tec if you guys have seen this ring retention design before or you think you've seen it before then you'll know why and it's because it's used by by ASA tech so the original LCL see has come a long way in a lot of different ways these swivel fittings are new from the original design these LED lit logos on the top are new from the original design the retention mechanism is way better than it used to be so guys instead of like kind of fussing around with it and trying to hold it in place you just put this on then you actually put this clip into place and it holds it actually held on actually I'm not sure if it works with the AMD one but at any rate it works with the Intel one for sure so here we go so you put this piece on there we go yeah we put that there and this guy goes here or something like that you know what I'm pair figure out how this works cuz I did it before now I'm confused I'll be back on top how the hell does this work I used to know pathetic no I think I was doing it right yeah those go in there and then this piece like clips in or something yeah see it's right okay there we go and we're back yes I had it right before that is exactly how it works so the bottom piece clips into place which holds that top retention bracket into place so that you no longer have to fight with it while you're holding on a back plate and while you're trying to screw something into it so it's a lot easier to use them before also the tubing being used here is extremely flexible so the original designs had like kind of a plastic tubing that actually couldn't bend like this and wasn't as easy to work with it put a lot more strain on the components but this is nice and softened and pliable last but not least the connectors that come off of it are now plentiful so you can see there's a USB connector and it is extremely beautifully sleeved so I don't know how well you guys are going to be able to see this in the camera here probably really well since we're using our awesome baller camera set up but that is actually what allows it to interface with the USB port on your computer which is what allows you to use the software control next we've got the power input or rather one of the power inputs so that's for the pump itself then we've got a SATA power connector which acts as an auxiliary power connector and that right there is connected to four fan headers so those are four four pin fan headers that you can use to plug up to four fans in push-pull into the pump itself so that allows you to monitor and control those fans the same way that you normally would except that they're all in like if they were plugged into your motherboard header except they're all controlled through the software and they're all plugged in through the Kraken x60 itself so I think that pretty much wraps this up follow up guys make sure you're subscribed so that you see the performance testing and don't forget to well subscribe to it see this is my standard outro so now that I already told you to subscribe I've totally ruined it but don't forget to subscribe finest tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos can you see through it can you see through mm-hmm I think we're done here