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so big thanks to thermalright for sending us the sample that we're going to have a look at today today I have and you won't be able to tell from the front because this uses thermal rights trademark plain brown box packaging thermalright has always kind of said well we're not really about the blocks were more about the what's inside the box so here we've got just simple text on the side this is their Spitfire vga cooler and i've also got one of their vrm are five accessories for it so why don't we start with let's start with the add-on piece just to kind of shake things up you know why look at the main thing when we're actually you know looking at both in the long run or something first of all we get a thermal right ultimate cooling solution sticker inside the box and we're probably going to have one of those in each box would be my guess okay then we get a quick assembly package so this gives you what what accessories you can accept or you can expect in order to assemble your VR mr5 now as you might have already guessed the vrm r 5 is for cooling the vrm on a radeon 5 series so this is for the radeon 5870 and you can see that we've got a quick exploded view of how to install it it actually looks really simple so you've got a couple clips that appear to be for fans and then you've got a couple of screws that go in from the back and yeah that's fairly straightforward thanks for that ok why don't we have a look at the actual cooler itself okay it starts to look less simple all of a sudden here today that's ok we'll get into that one when we get to it so I'm not gonna snap this open now because it looks actually quite well sealed and there's a bunch of little parts in here but we've got as they outlined here three thumbscrews three washers and then to thermal strips ok and let's have a look at the cooler itself because this is sort of the business part of thermal rates business is coolers that is a big piece of foam huh why don't we unbox the phone today just the phone so what they've done is they put together some foam and then remain a hole in it and that now I'm just kidding that protects the cooler itself so this is the vrm are five and this is actually yeah this is kind of amazing because this piece is dedicated purely to cooling the voltage regulators I mean when you consider how small and puny the cooler that sits on the vrm on a stock card is and you think that this is actually designed to cool that this this whole thing it's so it's pretty cool so here let's have a look at the menu at the at the diagram they've done here so when you've actually got your card installed in your system this is going to stick up this way so any case airflow that's coming to your case generally speaking it's going to be coming front to back is going to have to blow through these fins in order to be exhausted so that's what thermalright is going for with their design so why don't we have a look at the actual Spitfire and then we will go from there into what it'll kind of look like you know i wish i had a 5870 to show it to you with but um I don't you know what maybe we'll spend a little bit more time on this guy first okay so they're using nickel-plated nickel-plated fins here and they've got a couple of nickel-plated copper heatpipes that are running one from like right under one of the contact strips here and then the other one is a little bit to the side of the other contacts trip you can see it right here but be based on the fact that you're going to have excellent heat transfer from from one part of an aluminum structure to another part these blue heat pipes are both going to be able to carry a lot of heat up to these fins here so okay that pretty much covers it okay let's have a look at the Spitfire itself so we got another sticker and then we get another assembly package so you can see there are a lot more parts included with this one so why don't we why don't we keep that on scan by and then what I'll do is I'll show you each of the included parts as we go through it so installation manual okay installation of the support bars oh that's interesting okay so thermalright has actually included support bars because they're afraid that this that this heat sink is going to make well not they're afraid but rather their concern for their end users that installing this might make it so that their video card becomes quite heavy so you can see how it is once it's actually installed on a video card so they have provided with the cooler a way to actually brace it against a couple of the standoffs that your motherboard screws into your chassis with so by extension what you're doing this is actually pretty cool is you are bracing this cooler against your chassis so if you're actually needing to move your computer while you have the Spitfire installed here I had you looking at that tiny picture there you go so during installation at the supporting rod is blocked by any of the components you have a metal rod install the new tank mounting holes so cool they've included a couple sort of extra ways for you to make sure that you can install this that is terrific okay moving on here is the installation guide so here's the exploded view where they show you oh here's the step by step on the back so you insert the multiple Fred let me pull this out so we can at least have a look at the included accessories first ok that is a big pile of accessories so this is the assembly package we're going to see if I can get this open finally here don't you think too much of a mess yeah I'm gonna pull the old pen trick ok there we go so the biggest thing in here is the support bars and those are what their maiden because my guest is going to be like steel or something like that because it have to be quite strong so here they are those our needs so they've got a groove in them so you can actually adjust them depending on exactly where you want to put the yeah yeah that's interesting so you use this one side and then that screws into the top of the Spitfire and then this side just kind of adjusts to wherever you need to fasten it so that's very cool so those are the support bars next we have fan mounts so you've got your standard wire clip fan mounts next we have two more pieces of the support bar structures so these can be used to screw into the motherboard standoff holes and then you can actually attach the Spitfire itself to these okay next we have all of the mounting hardware that we need in order to install the Spitfire onto the card so let me see what we've got here all these thumb screws hmm you know I've never actually tried to figure out vga cooler mounting on camera and it is proving to be quite difficult so I might not get too much further into the mounting unless I do a dedicated video to me about mounting this particular cooler so why don't we just have a look at all the other accessories that are included so you got your mounting plates and then you've also got some included thermal compound and then you've also got little heat sinks for the RAM as well as for the sum of the voltage regulation modules on the back so I guess if you don't have this particular accessory you can also use this so ran heatsink a ram heatsink be and then what are the other ones these six pieces are 7 p-7 Ram heatsink SI ohno so they are all for ram so you do need the vrm cooling accessory so let's have a look at the Spitfire wow this thing's as big as a cpu cooler that's the first thing I notice about it it's got six key types so here I'll get the cameramen to get in close to this thing and have a look first let's get all of the phonies taken off of it oh it looks like these these either stay on or no no these come out ok so these phonies also come out and wow the structure this thing is actually quite quite unique so there's a lot of separation in between the dedicated fins to each one of these heat pipes and then they've got one solid appears to be steel plate at the top holding it all in place so that none of them are going to move from there from their normal structure so as you'd expect from a thermal right product the bottom is based at the bottom base the base is lat very smooth and then you've got six heat pipes all terminated right here so you can actually mount this and you can see that this base is lapped as well you can either mount it to your graphics card this way and then you've got your GPU making contact here or you can mount it to your graphics card this way and you've got your GPU making contact to this side so that's pretty cool and that's one of the reasons that thermalright wouldn't have been able to do a heat pipe direct touch design because they wanted to make sure that you have that flexibility because I mean face it this thing is huge it's not going to fit just any old way in every case in the world so why don't we have a look at where the heat pipes all make contact so you can see these are welded or rather soldered in and then they each come out to a dedicated fin arrangement when these fins are actually pretty unique because normally you can kind of see right through the fins on a cooler but they've got these um what they've done is they've taken each Finn and they've actually bent they've been 'tom so that you get more surface area per fan blowing down on it although it would make it more restrictive now why they would have made a design decision like that I'm not sure but I think the results for this cooler speak for itself I've seen it installed on radeon 5870 s and it's dropped temperatures by over 30 degrees over the stock cooler without even running an extreme fan on it so thermalright actually had a recommended fan that they sent to me as well and I'm hoping I'll be able to do an installation video but it's the excellent 140 so it can accept up to a 100 40 millimeter fan anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the thermal right Spitfire as well as their vrm cooling accessory for it