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Krag has been around for quite a while and I've got to admit they make some pretty cool looking coolers me yeah I went there it's always pleasing to come across a company that values both functionality and beauty and in the case of the cry or exceed one no exception was made a first glance of the see ones box gives the impression that a fairly large cooler lay inside the top pack contains every piece of mounting hardware required by LGA 775 1150 X 2011 v3 FM - plus a + 3 + you get the point the pack underneath houses both the cooler and slim 140 millimeter fan the fan itself is black in color comprised of 13 blades and it's capable of rotating anywhere from 700 to 1300 times per minute you're welcome to replace this one with any 140 millimeter unit but I can't really imagine why you'd want to at only 13 millimeters thick it's sure to be the best fan for the job the cooler is much larger than I expected it to be although its form factor is mini ITX friendly it's run it by a large white bezel which I find to be very classy and is accompanied on one side by six massive six millimeter nickel plated copper heat pipes which proved to be excellent dissipators of heat after all that kind of is the point here cryo rigs iconic logo resides on the opposite face and that's essentially it the cooler is sturdy weighs more than you think it would just over half a kilogram and is interlaced with several fins the more the better to an extent the fan is PWM controlled allowing for optimal manual settings pwm by the way stands for pulse width modulation just to satisfy your curiosity they're generally preferable over three pin voltage regulated fans of lesser great you can also type the sleeve fan cable into rubber retentions along the four corners of the frame depending on where you decide to route it the clips are a bit difficult to risa cure something I do wish crab I could thought through a little more but that's just kind of me being picky the installation packet was a straight up carnival of mounting screws and back plates they're also given a large tube of thermal paste with the c1 I still recommend Arctic silver 5 for now but this will definitely get the job done especially if you have nothing else on hand nice inclusion nonetheless a bunch of fan and bracket screws caps and something else unexpected a large Phillips head screwdriver looky there grad we included it for the sake of mounting the cool which you'll see shortly and I'm glad they did it's a nice inclusion to any toolkit regardless even if you don't decide to use this thing I mean come on free tools right free tools I'll be mounting to see one of my brother's old rigs sporting an FX 6300 which means that we'll be needing this backplate suitable for a m3 and FM 2 motherboards and just like the stock plate this one's made of metal not plastic for the record the Intel plate was as well it's nice to see even expensive water coolers include plastic back plates so when I stuck here here's a representation of just how large the cravaack c1 is yeah that's the stock AMD cooler right next to it night and day difference in terms of both sound and performance by the way don't mount the fan until after you've mounted the cooler you'll see why here in a second cravaack includes quite a number of special accessories that make this cooler appear premium and when you have a look at the price you can't really blame them for trying I mean come on an alcohol pad I guess so I mean we'll put it to use in this video but I can't really see I guess I guess it doesn't hurt to have it I will say that the manual is very detailed and easy to follow I'm glad I opened it there are several screw packets to sort through here you can also download the manual from their website linked in this video's description so let's get to it then this one is for AMD but Intel shouldn't be too difficult to follow either after all you do have that excellent manual start by removing the plastic pieces up front we won't need these but save them just in case you can also store the old metal backplate Craiova includes their own use the thumb screws lined with rubber pads on their bottoms to secure the new backplate being careful not to over-tighten they're called thumb screws for reason folks insert the front plate and use the short stubby screws to lock it into place one on each corner again don't over tighten these no Phillips screwdriver is required if your CPU as an old thermal paste pre applied you can remove it with the included isopropyl alcohol pad I guess I'll use it here but be careful it is runny and fairly thin only 70% - I recommend 90 or higher after ensuring that the CPU heat spreader is dry you may remove the plastic cover covering the nickel-plated base look how nice and shiny that thing is play a fresh line of thermal paste and align the two spring-loaded screws on the cooler which you can see here from the top see why we shouldn't have installed the fan in the first place with the holes on the front plate sorry that was a lot of a lot of interjections in one sentence this took some time and four hands the c1 was super stubborn and without help from my brother we could have properly secured it there was plenty of clearance over the Crucial Ballistix sport ram on board but we found that it was much easier to mount vertically I don't really know why I can't really explain it but regardless the fan will be pointing downwards sure to cool off voltage regulator modules and the CPU itself once the cooler is mounted screw in the 140 millimeter fan of your choice again I see nothing wrong with using the low profile cryo rig fan it's quiet efficient and low profile important especially for those tightly packed ITX builds after plugging in the fan power cable this can be tricky if you didn't already plug it in before you secure the cooler take a few seconds to admire the cryovac c1 it's honestly one of my favorite coolers hands down thanks not only to its unique orientation but it's minimalistic functional design my brother was very happy he received a CPU cooler upgrade trust me it was much needed no more jet engine sounds and we were both satisfied with the new look the c1 offered plenty of clearance underneath even when oriented upward and honestly looks just it just looks good this one's sure to compliment any rig and hold its own against even the toughest of overclocks speaking of which what are the temperatures like well off the bat idles noticeably improved when just sitting there looking pretty temperatures were in the mid 20s roughly 10 degrees lower than with the stock cooler keep in mind this is with an AMD FX 6300 and surprise-surprise overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz the differences were just as stark while the stock cooler brought the FX 6300 to 76 degrees Celsius and a degree of thermal throttling at that the c1 performed as expected pushing temperatures down into the low 60s safe operating temperatures for piledriver CPUs so at this point all is well right I should just end the video here well I would the c1 is undoubtedly a great cooler but one thing has me hung up here the price at a little over 60 US dollars currently it's certainly no bargain and I'm sure many of you are wondering how well the hyper 212 Evo stacks up probably the most popular air cooler around thanks to its effectiveness and low price to be honest I was a bit disappointed don't get me wrong you can't get much better than the c1 when it comes to thermal maintenance but it's sixty US dollars it makes me cringe come on cry reg this one was a review sample that they sent me but I am willing to admit that I would not use my own personal money to purchase this cooler at this price if it creeps into the $40 range though I personally guarantee you cry rig you'll have the competitive advantage you're looking for you can find a link to the cry wixi one in this video's description like I said love the cooler just don't love the price this is science to do thanks for learning with us you