Gadgetory

so today I'm going to be having a quick look at a product that you probably don't recognize because normally thermal rate products come in a brown box but it looks like they've gone away from their completely boring packaging and they've decided to go with a black box with actual words on it other than just thermal right okay but that's here too obviously and then they've actually gone with like a shiny venomous ex-green sort of locally thing okay whatever this is a CPU cooler it is for Intel socket 1366 1156 and 775 so it is completely up to date in terms of the CPUs it supports and this is the successor to the famous or infamous or whatever it is the legendary Ultra 120 extreme so this is what thermal rate is saying is going to beat it handily so let's have a look at what is included in our accessory pack first this is a nice box actually look at home thermal raid on the inside it's even black on the inside that looks that looks great okay so accessories great it comes in a nice little assembly package look at that so it includes how exactly does this work okay so it did include you know what I'm not gonna bother taking this out because I think it should be pretty straightforward but we've got one look actually maybe it's not that straightforward I better take this if I can figure out how this baggie comes apart you know what let's pull out the instructions and go from there oh I have a nice excellent ok let's have a look at the instructions first that might make life simpler ok so here's how it works you have a multiple support backplate so that has 775 1156 and 1366 holes you put these thumb screws onto it and then from there you install the anchoring bracket mount okay and then you have little er like thumb nuts that go on to those screws that we applied before so I guess that goes on top of the board yeah yeah so these spacers first so the backplate is alone then these spacers then this is on top of the spacers and then this holds it down and then you use the pressure adjustable mounting plate and this is one of the big innovations they've made with the venomous X because a lot of people were able to better performance out of the ultra 120 extreme by actually adjusting how tight it mounted down on the CPU so now they're just building that functionality right in so you can adjust it okay and then you use the standard thermal right fan clips in order to mount the fan and let's see yeah we've got a diagram right here of exactly how all of that works so you can see this is going to be the motherboard surface here and then you've got your little nuts and then you've got your pulldown plate so it's all nice and chrome and shiny on the top and then the backplate is just a standard sort of black alright and there's the the adjustable knob for the mounting pressure okay so let's keep moving next we've got a thermal writing sticker for your case or your wall or wherever you want to put it next we've got an assembly package now this is just contents to make sure you can do a double check before you get started that everything is there oh they even include a little wrench for tightening the adjustable mounting pressure thing that's pretty nice alright then we've got a piece of foam and then we have the coveted venomous X itself protected it's a very nice box sorry I know I'm kind of harping on the box but I approve okay so they've changed the look of it a little bit from the ultra 120 extreme first of all okay the first thing I noticed is that you've got little little jutting out pieces of metal okay so that gives you a little bit can you really tell what it looks kind of weird but all it is is it's a different shape from the top down okay they've got the same thing that they were doing before where the one side tips up and the other side tips down and I'm able Eve that is to create more turbulence as the air is flowing through the heatsink which means more more prob more surface contact between the heatsink and the air and more heat exchange all right so let's have a look from the side you can see what I mean here where you can see that on this side they point down and on this side they point up okay oh the cameraman is checking out these six heat pipes that go down one side and then up the other side and then the thermal right logo that you've got on the top Thermal rights never been about like you know weird plastic shrouds or anything like that they go with a simple elegant look and I do really really like it nice and shiny we'll have a look at the other side which basically looks like the first side that we looked at okay so let's keep moving on from there so there you have it they've jammed as many heat pipes as they realistically possibly can into a smaller space as possible now we don't have heat pipe direct touch with this particular heat sink but personally I've yet to see any evidence that that actually improves things on its own you're far better off with a with a well engineered heat sink that doesn't include heat pipe direct touch versus a poorly engineered one that does and remember too that not all heat pipes are created equal Thermal right does use a special gaseous liquidy substance inside their heat pipes that other manufacturers do not and they claim it does help them conduct heat better so let's do the obligatory finger shot here you can see that is incredibly shiny that's a mere finish you can see my hand no matter how far back I move away if you can yeah you can yeah you see that's very shiny anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the thermal right venomous X