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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor snook at the Zelman lq 320 altima tuck wha'd cooler this is a 120 millimeter liquid cooler uses a low profile block design quarter inch tubing it's an ASA tech based design so what that means is you've got a very mature retention mechanism based on their ring mounting so we've seen this before we're pretty familiar with it the difference between this one and the 315 is the fact that the radiator is thicker comes with instructions for how to install the entire thing but other than that it is very similar to what we found with the 315 so what Salman's done to differentiate this particular a Sutekh cooler from the other ones that are out there is a couple of things so number one they're still using quarter inch tubing which has advantages such as the very tight Bend radiuses that are possible radii radiuses radius I you know what it doesn't matter they've added a blue LED to the block itself so it's got a plastic cover on it now which were actually just gonna remove there there we go alright so it's still an illuminated Z logo like that and this I think is a pretty nice touch so they've added a faux brushed aluminum finish to the side of the radiator on both sides so that's using plastic which is just I mean honestly it looks just as good as the actual aluminum finishes that you see but it's not fingerprint prone and it's much easier to clean and all of that kind of good stuff it also means that they've added these brass threads instead of just threading the actual shroud on the radiator itself so these should be a little bit easier to find the right threads and avoid stripping compared to just the the regular designs that we've seen in the past where it's just the the tank the tank shroud itself that is just tapped with a with a tap so other than that I mean more thickness is more better in general so the thicker the radiator is the more cooling performance you're going to get out of it but you need to have a pressure optimized fan so zalman includes their ultra quiet fan here which only mounts one way on the radiator should be because on the other side you don't actually have mounting holes so you can see and I'll hold it up this way just for a change of pace you can see that it's here on this side and it's missing on this other side so while you actually can go both ways on it if you don't have a seal around the frame of the radiator so if you had it mounted this way you're gonna lose some of that performance so you're gonna be drawing air through the fan this way and some of its going to come in from here and not actually be forced to pass through the fins themselves so that can affect your cooling performance mounting hardware as I said before is included ez 775 1155 1156 1366 2011 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 3 + se M 2 + FM 1 FM 2 pretty much whatever you want to mount it to you can the bottom of the block has a high quality thermal compound pre applied to it I would definitely recommend using this for your first application because it's good it's not until you take the block off and then you need to reapply it that you have to replace it with some other thermal paste so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Zalman lq 320 don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos