Gadgetory

so today we have a special guest operating the camera um henceforth referred to as the cameraman since I'd lack another nickname for someone operating a camera so today we're going to be unboxing the pro Lima tech armageddon cpu cooler this is for socket 1366 and 1156 motherboards it's without sacrificing space i'm not sure exactly what that means but it comes with 100-percent Braun I actually saw this package on our shelf and I was like yeah I gotta unbox that because it is an exceptionally cool package they've got their armageddon branding here with their flames coming off of it and then they've got their silvery kind of shiny logo on here it looks really cool it kind of looks like a smiling guy like there's his unibrow and there's his eyes and nose and mouth and then you pull this off somehow it actually has instructions here so you flip and lift so why don't we do that actually let us have a quick look at the specs first so we've got the heatsink dimensions here which you can probably read as long as the camera is focusing all right today it comes with aluminum fins lead-free solder on all the contact points it's made of copper for the heat pipes and base and it is nickel plated on the heat pipes and base and then the fins are aluminum so they don't need to be nickel plated it weighs 750 grams without a fan so that's almost two pounds hanging off your CPU socket and then compatibility is 1 40 millimeter by 1 40 millimeter by 25 millimeter so we flip and then lift oh look at this you can actually see through a window you can see the upper Lima tech logo just like that ok but we don't need that ok so we just slide everything out all in sort of one go here and then the first thing we find is a user's manual so this shows all the stuff that comes with the armageddon as well as a little illustration ok and got a little list here so you can go through and make sure that everything is there then we have the instructions on how to install the armageddon so here it is steps 1 2 426 sorry 123456 and some of these are sort of multiple steps in one but overall the process looks quite simple worried about not being able to do it or anything like that so in here we have an accessory pack which contains all of the stuff on that list so we've got a pro Lena tech thermal compound which looks an awful lot like mx2 so it's probably pretty good then we have the bracket so these actually go where do these go this is an interesting mounting system my mom I'm not really sure I understand why it's so beefy but it's kind of cool I guess because you've got like these huge huge aluminum chunks they feel like they're made out of aluminum although I could be wrong and then so those go on your cpu socket just like that and then you actually have a bolt through and that hardware is probably in here it goes all the way through your motherboard and then secures somehow so yeah here's some huge thumb screws and a bunch of other stuff press here okay cool here's a backplate this back plate is compatible it looks like with 1156 1366 as well as 775 although they don't advertise 775 to that ability on the box so it's possible it doesn't include the hold down here we go here's the Armageddon so the first thing you notice about it is that this is a natively supporting 1 40 millimeter cooler so most of the tower heat sinks I've seen in the past are actually quite a bit narrower and the reason for that is that they only support 140 millimeters an afterthought there are 120 millimeter heatsink that kind of has clips on it for 140 mil so this wideness is what's going to give you the ability to take all of these heat pipes and line them up within each thin site within each side of the fins so here we've got actually a total of one two three four five six standard sized heat pipes so these look like six-millimeter heat pipes they don't look like the larger eight millimeter ones but we've got six of them that are all coming out of the base so the ones that go through the middle of the base are actually going out to the very outside of the heatsink and there's a very specific reason for that and that's because the outside of the heat sink is where you're actually going to get the most air flow because of the shape of a fans blades so that's why all the ones that are at the outside are actually kind of in the middle where they're not going to be at nearly as useful let's see Steve there's something else we can save us so we got kind of a shiny top on the top and you can sort of probably see my face if I can look at the camera in that so it's very very very shiny I'll do the obligatory finger shot here where you can see how reflective it is it's also very flat so when you have this installed in your case it's going to look so you'll basically be able to look at yourself through it we've got the aluminum fins are quite dense actually so you're going to want to pick a fan that's got reasonably good static pressure because some heat sinks will actually have more spacing in between the fins now that comes at a cost to performance because it won't perform quite as well but the advantage of having the tight packed fins is that if you do have a high-pressure fan you can't get more performance out of it whereas the low density fins if you have a low performance fan then you can actually get better performance out of it than a densely tact thin arrangement so I hope that wasn't too confusing the camera says no I guess um and I think that pretty much wraps up my unboxing of the pro Lima tech arm again thank you for checking it out and don't forget to subscribe and that's pretty much it thanks for watching my blog ok yeah I forgot to show the shininess of the base so there it is get the angle there you can see the reflection of the finger it's not that reflective but it is a slightly bowed base so you're going to get good contact pressure out of it and that is by design that it's not completely flat so you never want to lap the heat sink with a bowed base I'm just kind of guessing it has a blown base based on looking at the reflection of a straight line through it and seeing that it has a bit of a curve to it you won't be able to see that in the camera but um I'm pretty sure they would all come with one if this one does I hope it wasn't intended to be flat because then I sort of have ruined everything now have an eye thank you for watching my blog and now we're at should we go