welcome to Linus Tech tips today's unboxing is going to be extremely
Hightech yes we have two cameras and one of them isn't on a tripod see slick give
it a little do it a little dance yeah thanks okay that's enough uh so slick is
going to be on the One camera with diesel on the other camera and we are going to be unboxing the Kraken x40 from
NZXT this is the world's first all-in-one 100 140 mm liquid cooler and
that gives it a huge surface area advantage over its competition which is
generally using 120 mm or some derivative thereof such as dual 120 mm
now there's an x60 as well but this version right here is the one that's
going to fit in the widest variety of cases because let me tell you guys a
dual 140 mm radiator is not going to fit
in too many cases however when it does once again due to the huge surface area
advant AG it has over a dual 120 we are
going to see some serious performance improvements now I've been saying for a
long time basically since they showed up that these all-in-one liquid coolers are
limited not by the pump not by the water block design but by the surface area of
the radiator so something like a Corsair h100 addressed that in a big way
compared to its predecessors but this should be the next evolutionary step
forward so in terms of packaging we've got an environmentally friendly
cardboard package here we have a simple instruction manual with a disc that you
may actually want to install I don't know version 1.1 see if there's a newer
one on nxt's website here I mean if you haven't installed an acitech Allin one
before then this will be new to you if you have then you've been doing this for
years because the OEM for this particular unit is acitech NZXT includes
their fan design so you can see here it's a nine blade fan design that looks
fairly well optimized for static pressure but it's hard to say without
proper testing equipment there you go it has black sleeving on it which of course
diesel will have super in Focus so it looks super awesome high quality
sleeving on this guy look at that that's outstanding and black wires inside with
nice tight sheat shrink so that's going to look just just stunning
actually Hardware wise we've got all the
mounting kit that you could possibly need for everything from 775 to AMD am3
fm1 fm2 1156 13 66 and finally 2011 so
you can mount this bad boy on pretty much anything that you could possibly
want to now on the box itself you can see they've just got a simple picture
they've got their 2-year warranty called out so uh it's not the longest warranty
ever but honestly guys AC's been making these all-in-one liquid coolers for a
long time so they pretty much know what's up at this point they're saying
36% more surface area now that should
equate this isn't probably not even quite right guys cuz remember the Hub of
a fan is actually the same size whether you're looking at a 140 mm or 120 mm fan
so we're getting more actual blade airflow going through the thing area
than just the actual 36% Improvement so
larger surface area blah blah blah something something here's some noise in
decb compared to whatever else they're comparing to there's some general specs
so the motor speed runs at 2900 RPM voltage is 12vt okay okay material
rubber blah blah blah blah blah completely sealed ah yes people still
ask me this they're completely sealed they're maintenance-free these all-in-one liquid coolers so it's all
good let's go ahead and have a close look at the radiator itself so here we
are taking out of the box wow look at this this comes with a really long uh
tubing on it all right oh look at these
look at the sleeving on this that's outstanding this is what I love ncxt
does a really good job actually of all the stuff that they use their own
sleeving procedures on so so uh there's a couple things there's their extension
cables there's their fans and now there's they're all in one liquid cooler
units look at that all black wires all beautifully sleeved cables so what do we
have coming out of here number one is USB so you can use this to control the
software so the Kraken series does come with Control software it's not 100%
mature yet but in time that should improve got a nice long USB cable here
so what I would expect to do with this is I would be mounting it in my case
like this then I would go up around the back of the motherboard tray looks like
you got enough length to come right under the bottom of the motherboard or
you could even go off to the right see
with the NZXT logo being on the right there go behind the motherboard there
and then come up the bottom so that's what I do in terms of cable routing here
we've got RPM monitoring actually no that might that's uh that's power so
power is going to go to your CPU fan header right here you're going to want to leave your CPU fan header on Full
Speed guys and then you're going to plug in
your What in theck heck is this one
moment please oh yeah that won't work because
we're doing live to tape okay I figured it out anyway so you can do push pull
natively off of the cooler itself but one of them is missing the RPM
monitoring lead so that that makes sense but yeah that that was awkward okay so
let's have a close look at the unit itself just going to go ahead and switch
to Diesel's camera the bottom has a highquality thermal compound on the
copper base and then the same ACAC uh mounting mechanism that we've
seen before the logo here does illuminate so that should look really
good in your case and the tubing as I said is quite long now this is still 1/4
inch tubing however I'm not convinced that with these all in ones it's going
to make that much of a difference in terms of performance and when I compare
this to what I've seen from the h80i and the h100i the tubing is much more
flexible when you have a nice thick wall and you keep a 1/4 in tubing versus a 38
inch tubing like I said before I don't think we're block or pump or flow
limited I think we're surface area limited with these things it's not like
an H AI performs better than an h100 eye because of the fact that it just has
thicker tubing it doesn't work that way more surface area equals more better so
speaking of surface area the radiator itself uses quite a dense fin array so
you can actually get right in close there presumably since Diesel's taken
care of all that and you can see that the more pressure you use on the fan for
this guy this will really benefit from a push pull setup and it'll also benefit
from pressure optimized fans such as nocta NF a14s those would be a really
good choice for this rad I think that pretty much takes care of it other than
that we've just got the uh slightly rotatable uh fittings here so you're
going to have a lot of flexibility in terms of mounting and also the fact that
because it can be sort of positioned at the back of your case here and then you
can maneuver this almost anywhere without kinking it you have a lot of
flexibility in terms of your installation so thank you for checking out my unboxing and First Look in our
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