this is the kolet Vantage so this is an upgraded version of the Eco which is
economical and the Vantage is not as economical so what do you get for your
less economical well first of all you get two fans okay so you have two fans
mounted in push pull on the radiator second of all you get an LCD interface
on the CPU Cooler itself which gives you error alerts as well as being
customizable with different colors so that's pretty neat you get a univers
retention system which you also get with the Eco and you get fully
upgradable and we'll get into more of that but you get fully upgradable
compliance with Kit's Maestro software control platform Wireless software
control platform so that's pretty cool let's start getting this opened up and
we will have a look at the Vantage Advanced liquid cooling solution for
CPUs
all right here we go so ket's packaging has evolved a lot over the years it's
gotten a lot better here's the instruction manual it is available in a
number of different languages shows you how to attach your back plate how to
install the Vantage in your case because it does use a 120 mm fan it's look at
this this is a color manual I didn't even realize it's phenomenal actually um
because it does use a 120 mm fan it is compatible with most cases that feature
a 120 mm cooling fan at the back this is
your unique Hardware ID number that's kind of neat okay you have different
performance modes Extreme Performance and quiet which will actually ramp up
the fan speed differently based on the temperature and which mode you select so
that's kind of cool what else do we have in here we've got an installed unit
we've got uh it's completely configurable via the built-in LCD screen
so here's all the different stuff that you can
change and there we go I guess that's all there is to really say about this I
hope that Maestro is still the same uh the same wireless control thing that
they showed at CES you can actually see the CES sticker on the box so they want
to design and Engineering showcase honor at CES 2010 here's all our different
back plates I'm actually not going to go too far into that because back plates
are not very interesting and then here we have hold Downs so you go ahead and
uh loosen that and you can pull these
apart there you go so that's the AMD
hold down all right
and there is the Vantage itself curled up in the fetal position hiding from my
unboxing oh this is interesting it's not
actually dual fan that's a shroud so
kolet has gone ahead and done a shrouded
cooler now what impact that has on performance I'm not sure but something
that I can promise you is I will be testing it against the Corsair h70 in
the coming uh in the coming week or so and then I will let you guys know
exactly what kind of a difference this shroud makes as well as uh letting you
know if it's possible to install an additional fan because what I do see
here is an additional fan Mount unless this is a okay hold on I don't get it
this doesn't happen to me well it happens to me once in a while during my unboxings but no I like to think not too
often well we'll figure out exactly what all of this means in a moment but let's
take a look at the Vantage itself so here you can see this is kind of like a
fan frame that's why I miss took it for a push pull uh radiator but uh yeah it's
just a little mounting bracket so you can go ahead and screw that into your
case no problem it uses quite a thin low profile radiator and then you can see it
is completely sealed so this is the fill Port right here and then there is an
inlet and an outlet Port into the radiator which runs right over to your
CPU block now this is one thing that's really cool that ket's done with their
coolers is you can see they do use
rotating uh hose barbs so what that means is if you're installing the
Vantage Radiator in your case like this and your CPU socket is most comfortable
like that or like that or wherever it is
that you need to mount it you have that flexibility and you can uh mount it
however you need to so here on the CPU
block or rather the CPU block and pump because it's an integrated unit you've
got one power input and one power output
so uh yeah yeah here we go so this plugs in here and Powers the fan so it looks
like we don't have built-in support for an additional fan and it is meant to be
used as like a shrouded uh setup okay
and then this one plugs into your CPU socket here is the LCD screen itself
which you can see will look right side up regardless of which way you install
it in your case although I don't know if it has some way of knowing whether it's
right side up or not you can see this is the universal mounting system here so
you can slide this in and out depending on what kind of an Intel setup you are
using and then you can install the AMD brackets if you are using an AMD setup
so here you just lift it up and then I believe you push it over hold on see if
I can figure this out that would help if that wire wasn't
there yeah there we go and then you just pull it in like that so you just put it
in the position it belongs in put the appropriate back plate on the back of your motherboard and boom it's mounted
just like that here is the bottom of the Vantage so you can see they actually
label which holes you need need to move the mounting kit over to in order to
have it fit on socket 775 1156 or 1366
you can see it does have pre-applied thermal compound on the bottom of the
copper CPU water block and I think that's pretty much all
there is to say about
it actually that's not all there is to say I wanted to talk a little bit about
Kit's Maestro software I don't know if they've actually released this yet by
the way here are the mounting screws for the radiator but Maestro allows you to
Monitor and control your system via software from like a convenient software
interface and you can actually set all the different things like fan profiles
as well as um even lighting effects I believe you can change with Maestro
there's a bunch of really cool stuff that they showed off at CES but I think
one of the reasons they're not talking about it too much yet is that it's not
100% ready yet I mean software stuff like that often takes a long time to
develop and debug if you want it to work right and there's one thing kolit has
demonstrated again and again is that they don't like to release a product until it's actually ready so thank you
for checking out my unboxing of the cool advantage and stay tuned for some
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