welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cnps
14x 140 mm fan ultra quiet cooler from
zman at socket LGA 2011 ready and can
use up to three fans two additional fans
available for installation that doesn't even mean anything okay moving right
along to the side powerful cooling performance 140 mm pwm fan with low
noise u-shaped dual heat sink excellent compatibility high performance thermal
grease is included and it can be installed in mid tower computer cases is
what I'm sure they meant to say it's like middle computer cases like Middle Earth like if your computer cases like
Hobbits and stuff powerful cooling performance okay this this looks like
most of the same stuff we already saw so why don't we go ahead and open this up this might matter uh the weight is wow
uh almost about 2 lb actually that's outstanding and long life bearing okay
long life bearing isn't actual bearing type I wonder if they mean like d ball
bearing or like uh Hydro bearing or some other kind of bearing so on one of my
previous zelman cooler unboxings I had said that I liked their uh mounting
mechanism I think they've changed their mounting mechanism since last time I
used it because it was a little bit challenging to get all the pieces sort
of aligned and assembled and then um and
then going um in terms of packing materials we're using a soft foam down
here in the bottom so there's not much risk of damage and then this cardboard
at the top is going to be pretty much all you need to protect this guy I like
this right here this piece it seems kind of like unnecessary until you think
about it in terms of if you've ever had a tower cooler with two towers before
and what happens when you accidentally like bend them which is i' I've had this
happen so this is good I'm I'm a fan uh
let's have a look at the overall design of the cooler so the obligatory finger shot is it shiny yes it's shiny uh not
like the uh the 9900 Max that we looked at before but it is shiny and honestly
it's not really necessary for it to be a mirror like finish in order to make good
contact with the CPU in terms of heat pipes we've got six heat pipes these are
smaller heat pipes but there's lots of them and the towers are nice and big so
you've got a fairly dense actually you've got a fairly dense Arrangement
here so you're going to need a fairly high performance fan in order to really
generate the best performance out of this cooler however I do like the whole
sandwich cooler design overall because it's it always felt stupid to me back in
the day that we weren't making any use of the air that's coming into the intake
and we're only making use of the air that the fan is exhausting because some
people think that um and they're wrong
um some people think that the air that gets exhausted from a cooler that's like
let's let's say let's say this part didn't exist and it's just a fan blowing
down onto heat sinks they think that the air coming out of here is already like
the maximum temperature that could have been you know transmitted to that air it
doesn't work that way I mean the air temperature might only raise a few de
going from here with through the fan and through the other side so yes this side
is going to be slightly less efficient than this side in terms of cooling but
it's a lot better than nothing so you're definitely better off I mean uh
swifttech did their um stack series of
Radiators where they had you could have two radiators and then a single layer of fans in between as long as you've got a
high pressure high performance fan that is a beastly way to achieve more cooling
surface area without sacrificing um noise because you can use
one fan to do the work of two as long as it's high static pressure so it's a 140
mm fan you've got additional mounting hardware
included right here for an additional
two fans so this is actually has very very dense because it's using many
thinner heat pipes and then a fairly dense Arrangement here but you've got
more of these that you can actually Mount
like I don't know it'll go on there somehow Slick's trying to figure it out
too but I don't think he stands a better chance I mean if I can't do it he can't do it I'm just bugging
you it goes on here somehow yeah I
really don't think it goes there I don't think that's it I think it's this one I
think it's this one and it probably like stretches over a fan somehow and uh you
know it might actually be this
way but everything would be hunky dory somehow and it would it would fit don't
worry uh um mounting hardware thermal
grease is included and zman case badge and nice
rigid back plate so that's one thing it does have going for it and I think that
pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at cnps 14x from zelman and don't forget
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videos and just in case you wanted something totally ridiculous with your
cnps 14x you can actually set up up to
an additional two fans with the included mounting brackets to go with the one in
the middle which means you've got a push pull Push Pull configuration on this
thing making it like about as big as a person's head see check this
out more performance more silence just
generally more of everything so yes
thank you for checking out this unboxing and sort of ludicrous application of a
huge cooler from zman actually this is slightly different
than the 9900 in terms of mounting um this was a little bit disappointing to
me so this is the same so you'll you'll go ahead and you'll put these in under
these screws you just loosen them a little bit you throw this in here and then you tighten them back up and then
um see no it doesn't go there it goes in between and then you go ahead and you
put these bolts through here and then
once this like if the motherboard's installed in your case then this will be
really challenging because this will be here or like here and then you'll have
like this wrench and you'll be trying to tighten it like
this um