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today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of the Corsair cooling air series A50 so

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this is a performance CPU Cooler not to be confused with what I have over here

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which is the a70 which is classified as a high

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performance CPU Cooler so this is performance this is high performance

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there are a couple of key differences so what I'll probably end up doing is uh

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taking them both out to do a quick comparison for for you they both feature

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a 2-year warranty as well as compatibility with LGA 775 1156 1366

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core core am3 am2 and

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am3 as well as compatibility with 120 mm

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fans Corsair's 120 mil fans are generally pretty good quality so I'd

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expect this one to be much more of the same you can either select 1600 or 2,000

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RPM on the fan and here we

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have a little performance perance graph compared to your stock cooler I can't

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help but wonder what stock cooler they were using oh here we go core i7 965

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processor running at stock 3.2 GHz so um actually the LGA

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1366 cooler that comes with the 965 is a pretty decent cooler so if it

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outperforms that one by a significant margin you can rest assured it will

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outperform your 1156 775 or AMD stock

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cooler so let's take the packaging off just like this look at that I didn't

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need a knife at all

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I still zoomed in oh yeah that's why you can't see what I'm doing here we go a

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much better so the box is actually similar in

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size to the a70 but a little bit shorter

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okay so you got about H about 2 to 3 cm

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there in terms of extra shortness or

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less length if you prefer they're both the same sideways Dimensions so it's not

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really bigger in that regard go ahead and open up the top here have a look at

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what's inside with the a70 I tried to guess what was inside all the boxes this

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time hopefully I'll be a little bit more accurate okay I'm going to guess that in

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here is

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accessories of some

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sort oh boy sure wish I could get this stuff out of here that would there we go

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all right so Inside the Box we will

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find something to get the box out of the

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light we will find all of the accessories so we have a 120 mm fan

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which comes with their uh shroud SL clip

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that I actually really like it makes fan mounting a breeze and it's also got nice

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anti vibration rubber grommets um mounting the fan to the frame we've also

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got the am2 am3 hold

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down thermal compound thumb screws rubber washers and a fan speed adapter

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fan speed well fan noise reduction adapter so that'll turn your fan speed

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down presumably to, 1600 RPM here's a Corsair Solutions guide outlining all of

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their different solutions including memory Solutions cooling solutions power

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chassis USB and Storage Solutions it's gotten to the point where uh as per

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their dream machine campaign you can actually almost build a PC entirely out

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of Corsair parts so here's their back plate for Intel here's a little plastic

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piece to keep the uh motherboard components on the back from being

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shorted out you can adjust these clips here to go from 775 to 1156 to 1366

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quite easily and then there's a hold down for the top side along with some

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screws perfect so that's all of our mounting accessories as well as our fan

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accessories I'm going to hold on to the fan for now put that in there yeah there we go

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hold onto the fan and let's have a look at the cooler itself so it comes packed

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in foam just like that it comes with a

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little uh quick start guide which which I guess shows you how to install it on

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the socket of your choice that's too much thermal compound I would probably put on about half of that but uh A+ for

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effort of course there I mean they're not wrong the only disadvantage is that

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you're going to get some thermal goop around the edges of your CPU and like

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it's kind of it's kind of hard to clean off of there it won't damage anything

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but it's just a pain when you're trying to clean off the CPU to I don't know put

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it back in a box or or whatever it is you need to do do not return this

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product to the store corser wants to cover all of the technical support

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customer service Etc themselves don't

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eat this and then we have the cooler so it's

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quite a bit smaller than the a70 right off the bat you've got the same black

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top that I really liked on the a70 so you've got three heat pipes coming up

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through it and then instead of seeing a standard silver or chromed top you've

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got a nice black one which will go really well with the black interior and

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of course their 800d the fins are quite tightly spaced but as long as the fan

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has reasonably good static pressure which it better because it's I believe

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the same one that they're using on the H50 then you should get fairly good

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performance out of it that way the fan Clips on that easily that's how hard it

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is so you just clip it on and then you

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can pull it off and clip it on and pull it off but it is secure enough that it's

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not just going to fall off so here if I take the heat sink and shake it around

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like if it was being shipped on a truck

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there it doesn't fall off excellent all right I was hoping it wouldn't fall off

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then we've got the bottom of the heat sink so this is where we see it is a

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heat pipe direct touch heat sink so that oh that was bad that means that it will

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survive a fall from approximately 6 in

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above the table and it will not be damaged because it is engineered like

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that okay so I'm just distracting you right now while I pull the a70 out of

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its box so that I can do a quick comparison against its little brother

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the A50 here we

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are all right it looks a lot bigger but it's not actually that much bigger it's

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just because of the additional bulk from the fans I mean it's a little bit bigger

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but anyway let's finish off with the A50 here so I'll do the obligatory finger

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shot it's not all that shiny but it does look quite flat although my uh my

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unmeasured appearance om meter is not

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going to give us too good an indication of that but I would expect it to be

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reasonably well manufactured I mean that is one of the things that is tough about

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heat pipe direct touch though is that when you're manufacturing you do have to

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make sure that it is aligned completely precisely all of the heat pipes and that

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they are aligned precisely with the base because what you do is you assemble the

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whole thing mush it all together and then you have to actually flatten the

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whole thing as a whole so if you go too far you'll go inside the heat pipes heat

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pipes are not solid they are Hollow and usually full of some kind of a a gas SL

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liquid cuz that's what allows it to transfer heat so quickly so if you go

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too far you puncture a heat pipe rendering the whole thing useless and if

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you don't go far enough then you're going to lose some of the efficiency of

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actually having the heat sink directly on top of the heat spreader of the

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CPU oh look oh there's cor our logos on

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uh on on the bottom too there's a nice Finishing Touch for you you'll never see

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it in all likelihood but it's there you'll it's there and that'll make you

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feel better okay so here we are we can compare the two heat sinks against each

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other so the first thing you'll notice in terms of difference is that the a70

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looks much bigger because of the big fan I already mentioned that the next thing

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you'll notice is that it has more heat pipes so it has 33% more heat pipes and

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in theory 33% more performance although it probably doesn't quite work out that

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way let's just um strip the fans off them so you can see just how much

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thicker it is I can also tell already that it has quite a bit more surface

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area in terms of fins too because what they've done with the uh with the A50 is

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they've actually gone a little bit okay yeah you can see it has a slightly

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different shape to it

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so no you can't really see that okay I guess the only difference here is that

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the A50 only has the one side that you can clip the fan to that's kind of

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interesting so rather than being shaped the same on both sides like the a70

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because the a70 is designed to have a fan clip to either side you can see clip

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Marks here here here and here the A50

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can only accept a fan on the one side this side is actually flat that's why it

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looked like there was actually less thin material on this side of the heat pipes

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to me but it's not actually the case although it is quite a bit thinner so

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you know what I'm it's hard to say how much performance difference you'd see

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but um maybe I'll have to actually test these and find out just how well they do

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maybe I'll test them against the uh Co gauge Arrow here which is this enormous

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monstrosity thing it's um

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yeah okay well enough speculation they both use nice fat 8mm heat pipes so

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that's a really good thing to see so even though this one only is a three

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heat pipe cooler it's going to do quite a bit better than a uh heat pipe cooler

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that uses only 6 mm heat pipes thank you for checking out my unboxing of the

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Corsair A50 CPU heat sink and I hope you

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