so today I'm going to be having a quick look at a product that you probably
don't recognize because normally thermal R products come in a brown box but it
looks like they've gone away from their completely boring packaging and they've
decided to go with a black box with actual words on it other than just
thermal right okay but that's here too obviously and then they've actually gone
with like a shiny venomous X green sort
of logoeyelash
5 so it is completely up to date in terms of the CPUs it supports and this
is the successor to the famous or inFAMOUS or whatever it is the legendary
Ultra 120 extreme so this is what thermal right is saying is going to beat
it handily so let's have a look at what is included in our accessory pack first
this is a nice box actually look it's all thermal r on the inside it's even
black on the inside that looks that looks great okay so
accessories all right it comes in a nice little assembly package look at that so
it includes how exactly does this work okay
so it includes you know what I'm not going to bother taking this out because I think it should be pretty
straightforward but we've got one okay actually maybe it's not that
straightforward yeah I better take this out okay hold on if I can figure out how
this baggie comes apart then I would uh go ahead and do
that I got it I got it no I don't got it
you know what let's pull out the instructions and go for from there oh I have a knife now excellent okay let's
have a look at the instructions first that might make life simpler okay so
here's how it works you have a multiple support back plate so that has 775 1156
and 1366 holes you put these uh thumb screws onto it and then from there you
install the anchoring bracket Mount okay
and then you have little like thumb nuts that go onto those screws that we
applied before so I guess that goes on top of the
board yeah yeah so these spacers first
so the back plate is alone then these spacers then this is on top of the
spacers and then this holds it down and then you use the pressure adjustable
mounting plate and this is one of the big Innovations they've made with the venomous X because a lot of people were
able to get better performance out of the ultra 120 extreme by actually
adjusting how tight it mounted down on the CPU so now they're just building
that functionality right in so you can adjust it okay and then you Ed the
standard thermal rate fan Clips in order to mount the fan and let's see yeah
we've got a diagram right here of exactly how all of that works so you can
see this is going to be the motherboard surface here and then you've got your
little nuts and then you've got your hold down plate so it's all nice and
chrome and shiny on the top and then the back plate is just a standard sort of
black all right and there's the the adjustable knob for the mounting
pressure okay so let's keep moving next we've got a thermal right sticker for
your case or your wall or wherever you want to put it next we've got an
assembly package oh this is just contents to make sure you you can do a
double check before you get started that everything is there oh they even include
a little wrench for tightening the adjustable mounting pressure thing that's pretty nice all right then we've
got a piece of foam and then we have the coveted venomous X
itself nice and protected in there it's a very nice box sorry I know I'm kind of
harping on the box but it's uh I
approve okay so they've changed the look of it a little bit from the ultra 120
extreme first of all okay the first thing I noticed is that you've got
little um little jutting out pieces of
metal okay so that gives you a little bit can you really tell what it looks
kind of weird but all it is is it's a different shape from the top down okay
they've got the same thing that they were doing before where the one side uh
tips up and the other side tips down and I'm I believe that is to create more
turbulence as the air is flowing through the heat sink which means more more uh
more surface contact between the heat sink and the air and more heat exchange
all right so let's have a look from the side you can see what I mean here where
you can see that on this side they Point down and on this side they point up okay
oh the cameraman's checking out these six heat pipes that go down one side and
then up the other side and then the thermal right logo that you've got on
the top thermal right's never been about like you know weird plastic shrouds or
anything like that they go with a simple elegant look and I do really really like
it nice and shiny all right then we'll have a look at the other side which
basically looks like the first side that we looked at okay so let's keep moving
on from there so there you have it they've jammed as many heat pipes as
they realistically possibly can into as
small a space as possible now we don't have heat pipe direct touch with this
particular heat sink but uh personally I've yet to see any evidence that that
actually improves things on its own um you're far better off with a with a
well-engineered heat sink that doesn't include heat pipe direct touch versus a
poorly engineered one that does and remember too that not all heat pipes are
created equal thermal does use a special
gous liquidy uh substance inside their heat pipes that other manufacturers do
not and they claim it does help them conduct heat better so let's do the
obligatory finger shot here you can see that is incredibly shiny that's a mere
finish you can see my hand no matter how far back I move away if you can yeah you
can yeah you see that's very shiny anyway thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the thermal R venomous X can
I see you through