so today we have a special guest operating the camera um henceforth
referred to as the cameraman since I'd lack another nickname for someone
operating a camera so today we're going to be unboxing the prolimatech
Armageddon CPU Cooler this is for socket 1366 and 1156 motherboards it's uh
without sacrificing space I'm not sure exactly what that means but it comes
with 100% brwn I actually saw this
package on our Shelf and I was like yeah I got to unbox that because it is an
exceptionally cool package they've got their Armageddon branding here with
their Flames coming off of it and then they've got their uh silvery kind of
shiny logo on here it looks really cool it kind of looks like a smiling guy like
there's his unibrow and there's his eyes and nose and mouth and then you pull
this off somehow it actually has instructions here so you flip and lift
so why don't we do that actually let's have a quick look at the specs first so
we've got the heat SN Dimensions here which you can probably read as long as
as the camera is focusing all right today it comes with aluminum fins lead
free solder on all the contact points it's made of copper for the heat pipes
and base and it is nickel plated on the heat pipes and base and then the fins
are aluminum so they don't need to be nickel plated it weighs 750 G without a
fan so that's almost 2 lb hanging off your CPU socket and thanan compatibility
is 140 mm x 140 mm by 25 mm so we
flip and then lift ooh oh look at this you can actually see
through a window you can see the prolimatech uh logo just like that okay
but we don't need that anymore okay so we just slide everything out all in sort
of one go here and then the first thing we find is a user's manual so this shows
all of the stuff that comes with the Armageddon as well as uh little
illustration okay and you got a little list here so you can go through and make
sure that everything is there then we have the instructions on how to install
the Armageddon so here it is steps 1 to
four to six sorry 1 2 3 4 5 six and some
of these are sort of multiple steps in one but overall the process looks quite
simple and I wouldn't worry about not being able to do it or anything like
that so in here we have an accessory
pack which contains all of the stuff on that list so we've got a prolimatech uh
thermal compound which looks an awful lot like MX2 so it's probably pretty
good then we have
the bracket so these actually go where
do these go this is an interesting mounting system I'm um I'm not really
sure I understand why it's so beefy but it's kind of cool I guess because you've
got like these huge huge aluminum chunks I feel like they're made out of aluminum
although I could be wrong and then so those go on your CPU socket just like
that and then you actually have a bolt through and that Hardware is probably
prob in here that goes all the way through your
motherboard and then secures somehow so yeah here's some huge uh thumb screws
and a bunch of other stuff press here okay cool here's a back plate this back
plate is compatible it looks like with 1156 1366 as well as 775 although they
don't advertise 775 compatibility on the box so it's possible it doesn't include
the hold down here we go here's the Armageddon so the first thing you notice
about it is that this is a natively supporting 140 mm cooler so most of the
tower heat sinks I've seen in the past are actually quite a bit narrower and
the reason for that is that they only support 140 mm as an afterthought
they're a 120 mm heat sink that kind of has Clips on it for 140 mil so this
wideness is what's going to give you the ability to take all of these heat pipes
and line them up within each fin within
each side of the fins so here we've got actually a total of 1 2 3 4 5 six
standard size heat pipes so these look like 6 mm heat pipes uh they don't look
like the larger 8mm ones but we've got six of them that are all coming out of
the base so the ones that go through the middle of the base are actually going
out to the very outside of the heat sink and there's a very specific reason for
that and that's because the outside of the heat sink is where you're actually
going to get the most air flow because of the shape of a Fan's blades so that's
why all the ones that are at the very outside are actually kind of in the
Middle where they're not going to be nearly as useful let me see if there's
something else we can say about it so we got kind of a shiny top on the top and
you can sort of probably see my face if I can look at the camera in that so it's
very very very shiny I'll do the obligatory uh finger shot here where you
can see how reflective it is it's also very flat so when you have this
installed in your case it's going to look um so you'll B basically be able to
look at yourself through it we've got the aluminum fins are quite dense
actually so you're going to want to pick a f that's got reasonably good static
pressure because some heat sinks will actually have more spacing in between
the fins now that comes at a cost to Performance because it won't perform
quite as well but the advantage of having the tight packed fins is that if
you do have a high pressure fan you can get more performance out of it whereas
the low density fins if you have a low performance fan then you can actually
get better performance out of it than a densely tacked fin arranger so I hope
that wasn't too confusing the camera says no I guess
um and I think that pretty much wraps up my unboxing of the prolimatech
Armageddon thank you for checking it out and don't forget to subscribe and that's
pretty much it thanks for watching my blog yeah I forgot to show the shininess
of the base so there it is get the angle there you can see the reflection of the
finger it's not that reflective but it is a slightly bod Bas so you're going to
get good contact pressure out of it and that is by design that it's not
completely flat so you never want a lap a heat sink with a bow base I'm just
kind of guessing it has a bow base based on looking at the reflection of a
straight line through it and seeing that it has a bit of a a curve to it you
won't be able to see that in the camera but um I'm pretty sure they would all
come with one if this one does I hope it wasn't intended to be flat because then
I sort of have ruined everything now haven't I thank you for watching my blog
and now we're actually done