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so today we're gonna be unboxing a pretty new product I actually know nothing about this I am going in cold on the archon CPU cooler from thermal right so you can see it comes in their traditional Brown box packaging because thermal writes philosophy is spend money on developing the product and making it awesome and not on developing the box and making it awesome the performance should speak for itself we've got a thermal write sticker included we also have instruction guides for LGA 775 1156 and 1366 as well as a.m. 2 a.m. 2 plus n a.m. 3 and then we have a little assembly package contents list e thing so here is all of our stuff for Intel here's our stuff for AMD here's our common components and some more common components including a tool fan clips for duel fans as well as thermal compound and I have no idea I guess we'll find out so the first thing we find in the box is a thermal write fan so this is a 140 millimeter fan alright it has a sleeve cable which uses a pretty good quality sleeving it's a four pin PWM fin and what I'm just gonna go ahead and take that off I actually have one of these already it's quite quiet I'm really pleased with the overall quality of this fan and I'm very very fussy about fans I'll have you guys know that's why I use a quadruple and a dual radiator in my own machine at home in order to cool a CPU in a single graphics card it's all about having silent silent performance for me so thermal write is obviously a pretty good choice alright what do we got here we have accessories so this is gonna be everything that was on that little list so let's go ahead and dump this out and find out what we got oh and this is going to be the open oh it was going to be the debut of my new unboxing knife but instead it will just be me borrowing the crazy Russians knife and opening this up alright cool so the first thing let's talk about these these are little rubber pads that you put on the corners of your fans to keep them from transferring vibrations to your CPU cooler did I mention thermal right is optimized for quiet performance these are little rubber pieces as far as I know these have the same effect so I guess they're giving you two options hold on maybe I'm missing something here why don't we find out there's only one way to know for sure so what are they saying those are for well this is madness I thought they were for the same thing there's nothing in the instructions about it okay well moving forward I will assume therefore the same thing here's our fan clips so we have four wire clips to mount two fans so we can run this in push-pull we have our included tool which has a wrench as well as another more different wrench okay we have our little thumb screw here we have came out of here so this is the hold down for tightening it down right there alright and that's what that wrench is for one of the sides anyway here we have our AMD mounting hardware I love thermal writes mounting hardware because everything is solid I mean here look it's all made out of like steel you can't you can't bend it it doesn't Bend it's falling you've got a nice thick backplate nice thick hold down plate same goes for the Intel you've got these nice the old back plates and hold down plates that means that not only oh yeah thermal compound as well that means that not only is the system going to be a hundred percent okay when it's sitting in one place in terms of not falling off your motherboard but even you can ship thermal alright coolers at NCIX the store where I work hopefully most of you know that by now we actually do ship a lot of systems and thermal right coolers are among the best ones for shipping because even though they're heavy and bulky they use an appropriate mounting system that doesn't rely on wussy push pins or anything like that in order to ensure that nothing bad happens during shipping because you've got a lot of weight hanging off your socket so if you reinforce it with a good backplate and a solid hold down that's going to go a long way towards having it not fall off so this thing is monstrous look at this okay well we'll do the obligatory finger shot which you can see is just and it completely a mirror finish so I'm just gonna have a quick look this is a convex base I can tell from looking at my reflection back at me which means that the very middle of it is slightly higher than the outsides and so combined with their high pressure mounting system which you can see right here that gives you optimal contact with the CPU directly over the die under the heat spreader where all of the heat is being produced so that is why they've gone with that particular design characteristic of the archon heat sink now this is clearly a 140 millimeter heat sink because it's clearly bigger than a 120 millimeter heat sink and it uses a whopping six heat pipes in a u-shape so that means you have effectively 12 heat pipes to transfer heat all along this heat sink but one thing I also want you guys to note here if you see how there's a bit of a gap in the middle that's for a very good reason because no matter what fan you're putting on it most of the cooling most of the airflow is going to be at the outside so you can see right over that fan hub so the hub is this part in the middle there's no heat pipes carrying heat and then as soon as we get out where the blades are gonna be blowing air we've got lots of heat pipes so we've got actually dual ranks of heat pipes times three six heat pipes up each side of the arcon cooler the top uses kind of a matte finish okay but very very slick very professional-looking but not very shiny okay compared to the base which is extremely shiny and the heat pipes use sort of a semi shiny finish on them we've also got some interesting some other interesting aspects here so instead of going with a completely straight fin thermal wright has actually done a couple of things they taken the fins and they've bent them like this which is going to give you slightly more surface area and slightly more turbulence when you're blowing air through it and then they've also gone and that ridged them a little bit this way so that from my experience anyway and from what I've seen is able to allow you to reduce the noise slightly by making the air flow going through it making the heat sink slightly more aerodynamic as you push the air through it so it's a fine line because you want to increase turbulence to get better cooling remember more turbulence is more cooling if you had fins that were wavy like this throughout the whole thing that would give you better cooling than straight fins or even slightly rippled fins but you would really sacrifice on the noise because moving the air around like that makes it a lot more bushy sounding a lot more noisy so thank you for checking out this unboxing of the thermal right arkhan CPU cooler and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for more unboxings guides reviews all kinds of green stuff