so big thanks to Thermal R for sending us uh the sample that we're going to
have a look at today today I have and you won't be able to tell from the front
because this uses thermal W's trademark plain brown box packaging thermal R has
always kind of said well we're not really about the Box we're more about
the what's inside the box so here we've
got just simple text on the side this is their Spitfire VGA cooler and I've also
got one of their vrm R5 accessories for
it so why don't we start with let's start with the add-on piece
just to kind of shake things up you know why look at the main thing when we're
actually you know looking at both in the long run or something first of all we
get a thermal right ultimate cooling solution sticker inside the box and
we're probably going to have one of those in each box would be my guess okay
then we get a quick assembly package so this gives you what uh what accessories
you can accept or you can expect in order to assemble your vrm R5 now as you
might have already guessed the vrm R5 is for cooling the vrm on a Radeon 5 Series
so this is for the Radeon 5870 and you can see that we've got a
quick exploded view of how to install it it actually looks really simple so
you've got a couple clips that appear to be for fans and then you've got a couple
of screws that go in from the back and uh yeah well that's fairly
straightforward thanks for that okay why don't we have a look at the actual
cooler itself okay it starts to look less simple all of a sudden here but
that's okay we'll get into that when we when we get to it so I'm not going to snap this open
now because it looks actually quite well sealed and there's a bunch of little
Parts in here but we've got as they outlined here three thumb screws three
washers and then two thermal strips okay and let's have a look at the
cooler itself because this is sort of the business part of thermal right's
business is coolers that is a big piece
of foam huh why don't we unbox the foam
today just the foam so what they've done is
they've put together some foam and then they made a hole in it and that no I'm
just kidding that protects the cooler itself so this is the vrm
R5 and uh this is actually yeah this is
kind of amazing because this piece is
dedicated purely to cooling the voltage Regulators I mean when you consider how
small and puny the cooler that sits on the vrm on a stock card is and you see
think that this is actually designed to cool that this this whole thing it's uh
it's pretty cool so here let's have a look at the menu at the um at the
diagram they've done here so when you've actually got your card installed in your
system this is going to stick up this way so any case air flow that's coming
through your case generally speaking it's going to be coming front to back is
going to have to blow through these fins in order to be exhausted so that's what
thermal R is going for with their design so why don't we have a look at the
actual Spitfire and then we will go from there into what
it'll kind of look like you know I wish I had a 5870 to show it to you with but
um I don't you know what maybe we'll spend a little bit more time on this guy
first okay so they're using nickel plated nickel plated fins here and
they've got a couple of nickel plated copper heat pipes that are running one
from like right under one of the contact strips here and then the other one is a
little bit to the side of the other contact strip you can see it right here
but based on the fact that you're going to have excellent heat transfer from
from one part of a of an aluminum structure to another part these heat
pipes are both going to be able to carry a lot of heat up to these fins here so
okay that pretty much covers it okay let's have a look at the Spitfire itself
so we get another sticker and then we get another assembly package so you can
see there are a lot more parts included with this one so why don't we why don't
we keep that on standby and then what I'll do is I'll show you each of the
included Parts as we go through it so in still ation
manual okay installation of the support
bars oh that's interesting okay so
thermal right has actually included support bars because they're afraid that
this uh that this heat sync is going to make well not they're afraid but rather
their concern for their end users that installing this might make it so that
their video card becomes quite heavy so you can see how large it is once it's
actually installed on a video card so they have provided provided with the
cooler a way to actually brace it against a couple of the standoffs that
your motherboard screws into your chassis with so by extension what you're
doing this is actually pretty cool is you are bracing this cooler against your
chassis so if you're actually needing to move your computer while you have the
Spitfire installed here I had you looking at that tiny picture there you go so during installation with the
supporting Rod is blocked by any of the components you have a metal rod
installed TX mounting holes so cool they've included a couple sort of extra
ways for you to make sure that you can install this that is terrific okay
moving on here is the installation guide
so here's the exploded view where they show you oh here's the step by- step on
the back so you insert the multiple thread why don't we pull this out so we
can at least have a look at the included accessories
first okay that is a big pile of accessories
so this is the assembly package I'm going to see if I can get this open tidy
here without making too much of a
mess yeah I'm going to pull the old pen trick
okay there we
go so the biggest thing in here is the support bars and those are um let's see
what they're made of cuz my guess is going to be like steel or something like
that because it'd have to be quite strong so here here they
are those are neat so they've got a a Groove in them so you can actually
adjust them depending on exactly where you want to put the yeah yeah that's
interesting so you use this one side and then that screws into the top of the
Spitfire and then this side just kind of adjusts to wherever you need to fasten
it so that's very cool so those are the support bars next we have uh fan mounts
so you've got your standard uh wire clip fan mounts next we we have two more pieces
of the support bar structure so these can be used to screw into the
motherboard standoff holes and then you can actually attach the Spitfire itself
to these okay next we have all of the
mounting hardware that we need in order to install the Spitfire onto the card so
let me see what we've got here all these thumb
screws H you know I've never actually tried to
figure out VGA cooler mounting on camera
and it is proving to be quite difficult so I might not get too much further into
the mounting unless I do a dedicated video to about mounting this particular
cooler so why don't we just have a look at all the other accessories that are included so you got your mounting plates
and then you've also got some included thermal compound and then you've also
got little heat sinks for the RAM as well as for the some of the voltage
regulation modules on the back so I guess if you don't have this particular
accessory you can also use this so RAM
heat sink a RAM heat sink B and then
what are the other ones these six pieces are
seven P seven RAM heat sink see oh no so
they are all for RAM so you do need the vrm cooling accessory so let's have a
look at this Spitfire wow this thing's as big as a CPU Cooler that's the first
thing I noticed about it it's got six heat pipes so here I'll get the
cameraman to get in close to this thing and have a look first let's get all the
foamies taken off of it uh oh it looks
like these these either stay on or no no these come out okay so these foamies
also come out and uh wow the structure
of this thing is actually quite quite unique so there's a lot of Separation in
between the dedicated fins to each one
of these heat pipes and then they've got one solid appears to be steel plate at
the top holding it all in place so that none of them are going to move from
their from their normal structure so as you'd expect from a thermal right
product the bottom is based uh the bottom base the base is lapped very
smooth and then you've got six heat pipes all terminated right here so you
can actually Mount this and you can see that this base is lapped as well you can
either mount it to your graphics card this way and then you've got your GPU
making contact here or you can mount it to your graphics card this way and
you've got your GPU making contact to this side so that's pretty cool and that's one of the reasons that
thermalite wouldn't have been able to do a heat pipe direct touch design because
they wanted to make sure that you have that flexibility because I mean face it
this thing is huge it's not going to fit just any old way in every case in the
world so why don't we have a look at where the heat pipes all make contact so
you can see these are welded or rather soldered in and then they each come out
to a dedicated fin Arrangement and these
fins are actually pretty unique because normally you can kind of see right
through the fins on a cooler but they've got these um what they've done is
they've taken each Fin and they've actually bent they've bent them so that
you get more surface area per fan
blowing down on it although it would make it more restrictive now why they
would have made a design decision like that I'm not sure but I think the
results for this cooler speak for itself I've seen it installed on Radeon 58 70s
and it's dropped temperatures by over 30° over the stock cooler without even
running an extreme fan on it so thermal R actually had a recommended fan that
they uh sent to me as well and I'm hoping I'll be able to do an
installation video but it's the exilent 140 so it can accept up to a 140 mm fan
anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the thermal
right Spitfire as well as their vrm
cooling accessory for it