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this video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k95 these fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming visit Corsair comm slash Vengeance gaming to learn more welcome to my unboxing an overview of the Zalman rezar ater 3 max what they're calling their ultimate liquid CPU cooler so how could they call it ultimate when it uses a single 120 millimeter radiator Zalman has done some unique things with this particular cooler that I actually really like so number one is they are using an all copper microphone design for the CPU block you can tell that okay here hold on first things first guys this is not your average a Sutekh om or kulit om unit so there that's one thing that Salman's done that I really like right off the hop is they've actually tried to do something different which is cool they're using a copper micro fin design for the CPU block here so it's got a nice copper base on it like that and you can see it does have a little bit of sort of a Sutekh looking this to the shape of it so it uses like a puck sort of design for the pump and CCU block which are a combo unit and then it uses retention ring hold down base things like this but they're mounted a little bit differently so they actually go on the bottom here screw into place and then mount to your motherboard like that Zelman includes their usual sort of many many bits and pieces mounting hardware that I'm not a huge fan of to be perfectly honest but if it gets the job done and they're manual is reasonably reasonably easy to follow along with and I don't mind too much and it usually is then we get to Wow look at this thing we get to the unit itself so they're using quarter inch tubing and they're using that nice super flexible non evaporative stuff so I don't know if you guys know this but most tubing is somewhat porous which means some of the fluid will evaporate and this stuff is is not very porous at all next up is they are using a nano fluid nano particle fluid inside so instead of just using water with some glycol which is what we're typically used to see in these because of its anti-corrosive properties and its anti-freeze properties which is great for shipping all over the world they're using a completely different approach that may actually contribute to better performance so I want to finish up with the block here where they've got a nice shiny Zalman logo as well as a blue LED element here around it they've got a three pin right here so that's going to power the pump as well as monitor the RPM when it's installed on your motherboard and then let's move up to the radiator so the radiator uses a very Zalman looking design here so it actually looks kind of like their CE NPS 9900 series where they've got all sort of what looked like curved heat pipes but are actually water channels in this case that go around the outside so there's actually a dual radiator design here that's kind of masked by the fact that there's this plastic shroud on it so there's an inner one and an outer one both of which are going to benefit from the airflow from the single 120 millimeter fan that's on it now one thing I don't like about it is you typically do get better performance out of a radiator if you are shrouding the outside of the fan so you're focusing the airflow through the fins however Zelman sort of figures they've gotten they've achieved good enough performance in this fashion if you do want more of a traditional fan on the back of it you can actually mount it using these screws on the back here so you can have it mounted in a push-pull config the one fan that's on there now is powered by a 4-pin pwm connector right there that comes out of the back here oh another thing guys it should be noted that that other fan will have the same drawbacks where it'll be able to pull air through gaps here so it's not actually forcing all the air through the fins so just just like the one on the front however for something like this it can have sort of all the cool-looking design elements in the world this is a blue LED fan as well just so you guys know but if it doesn't perform well then whatever right so guys stay tuned we are going to be doing a performance review of this particular CPU cooler and I'm really excited for you guys to be able to check it out because I really want to see how it does it's very very thick it's got a ton of surface area it's got nice copper construction for that particularly this part here yeah really excited to see how this goes don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and leave a comment let me know how you think this is going to perform compared to other more traditional sort of cookie cutter om designs for these pre filled liquid cooling units