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excellent what's up everybody and welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is actually going to be part one of a two-part video I'm actually pretty excited about this one because my idea was to look at maybe next-gen gaming to some extent it's all about 4k that's what you've probably been hearing a lot about so far and chances are you guys might be considering moving up to a 4k monitor my idea was right now what is the best reasonable 4k solution that you can come up with now and a reasonable is sort of a relative term so this might not make sense to everyone out there because the hardware I'm going to be using is definitely somewhat expensive however it is not over-the-top expensive so the idea was to take the best cards available from AMD as well as Nvidia to basically put them in the best situation possible and then see how they perform a 4k resolution when testing games now I also kind of threw in a few curveballs into the mix here because well for one thing you might notice I've got a couple what appear to be r9 290x is in front of me but these are actually just the coolers so it's one of the issues that came up when the 290x first came out was that the cooler was not quite up to task when it comes to cooling down this card since it is meant to run at a very high temperature so today's video is going to be all about giving the r9 290x the best possible shot at giving us some really excellent performance with 4k gaming since that is what AMD designed for to that end I will be installing these two coolers over here so we have the NZXT kraken or krey-kin g10 however you prefer that pronunciation those are the coolers themselves and these are meant to work with in any ace tec cooler or a long list of ACE tech specific coolers so for those I have the Kraken or kraken x40 down below so this video is going to be my removal of these heatsink fans installation of this Hardware here and kind of a once-over of that part to video is going to be the real meat of it where I'm actually going to be showing you guys performance testing with a couple 290 X's in a two-way crossfire as well as well the best card of it currently available from Nvidia which is the gtx titan black so there's that guy right there and since I've got two 290 X's as well I guess I might as well do two Titan blacks as well so those are going to be thrown into the mix but that's all coming soon in part two of this video so I guess I'd better get to work but for now let's take a look at me doing the installation procedure I should say removal of the heatsink fans as well as the installation procedure for the kraken g10 and the kraken x40 so we'll start with a look at the craic in x4 t and g 10 units themselves the X 40 is a 140 millimeter closed-loop cooler originally designed for CPU use as you can see here it comes with a two-year warranty over on the back you have some marketing text and some pretty pictures ooh 16 inch tubing also an efficiency chart and a surface area diagram it's larger and it's quieter and it's more effective than 120 millimeter counterparts CPU socket compatibility list is right here that's something that's actually useful what's not mentioned here compatibility with the Radeon r9 290x kinda nice detailed specs are also listed on the other side and next is the Kraken g10 kraken g10 whichever which will be allowing me to attach this CPU closed-loop cooler to a graphics card note the sweet back plate and the tasteful branding right there also it's available in red and black and there's a chart on the back of the box that shows it taking a gtx 780 from 80 degrees celsius to 45 degrees celsius under load compared to a stock cooler pretty nice also it's easy to install there's lots of compatibility with AMD and NVIDIA graphics card and as listed here you'll note the long list of ACE tech based coolers that it works with so it's a great buy if you've already got one lying around that you can use along with the kraken g10 that's a good form NZXT also by listing all the competing brands there along with their own with the kraken x40 you get a manual a single 140 millimeter black and white fan 800 to 2000 RPM and two point two millimeters of h2o static pressure you also get some mounting rings and back plates an assortment of fasteners none of which of these I'll actually be using except for the long mounting screws for the fan the main unit of the X 40 is a prefilled 140 millimeter aluminum radiator 16 inch rubber tubing and a combo pump slash copper base plate with pre-applied thermal paste which connects to the CPU or in my case the GPU inside the kraken g10 box is the 92 millimeter fan that blows on the memory of VRMs I also get mounting screws and the white GPU backplate and then you get a manual and five zip ties the white frame that holds everything together is also included it interfaces with the pump block from the x40 as you can see about a little teeth area right there moving on here to installation which is not terribly difficult and it's actually explained pretty well in the manual the main difficulty here for you might actually be getting the existing cooler off of your graphics card at least that's what gave me a little bit of trouble here's my first run at the r9 290x so you'll see me removing here a dozen small screws and four of them for the GPU bracket what you want to do in order so you don't put too much stress my mistake here was to also go for the six screws on the sides of the shroud it gets the plastic shroud off which can be useful for cleaning the r9 290x but it does not help lets removing the rest of the cooler next up I also removed the rear bracket which was also unnecessary haha but there are two screws on the rear bracket that I actually did need to remove so getting those off was important next up some extremely careful prying right around the edges to loosen that cooler with thermal paste on the inside next I went ahead and unplug the fan and I put the thermal pads from the memory and VRMs back on the stock cooler so I can use them again if I put it back on next up I'm going to give the GPU a good cleaning with some alcohol and some swabs here you can also use coffee filters and then on to assembling the freaking g10 so first I'm going to screw in the fan make sure it will be blowing air towards the graphics card then I'm going to attach the four long screws to the correct holes in the back plate for your graphics card they're labeled a B and C and you can check that in the manual and then go ahead and tighten those down with the included nuts feed the screws from that assembly through the back of your GPUs mounting bracket holes and then finally you get to the somewhat delicate task of lining up the teeth on the g10 with the pomp / block from the x40 lowering that down onto the four screws protruding from the graphics card all while trying not to smear the thermal paste and then finally screwing down the four nuts that hold it in place in a rotational fashion so as not to put too much pressure on one corner of the GPU underneath gray it is now finished excellent now I get to do it all over again because I have a second one of these this time with confidence and also without removing Parts I don't need to hopefully you you so they had guys the offending coolers have been removed I've installed the creek and cooling hardware and from what I have read thus far these GPUs are going to really be opened up now that I have this cooling solution in place and one other thing I might still do before I move on to video number two is install some vrm heat sinks on these because this is the one thing I've read about so far is that the other elements besides of the GPU even though the GPU gets cooled really well with the g10 the power delivery elements can actually get really hot so I might drop some a little heat sinks onto those if I can scrounge some up but we'll see how that goes other than that I'm going to get these installed set up in crossfire start running some benchmarks also going to head up the titan blacks and I think I'm going to throw some 780ti is in there as well just to kind of give a slightly more reasonable price to performance comparison there because the Titan blacks are obviously very expensive but thank you guys so much for watching this video don't forget to subscribe to my channel hits like button leave me a comment and some feedback we'll see you all next time hopefully very soon