today I have a huge box and I want you
to take a couple seconds and don't cheat don't look at the title of the video
because I always do this and everyone always looks at the title of the video
and they're like oh lus I didn't have to guess cuz I just looked at the title of the video hahaa okay try to actually
guess what it is without looking at the title of the video it's a heat sink it's
a heat sink and the box is like the size of my head look at
this had I turned it like this yet cameraman screwed up he pressed the
wrong button so this is the Silver Arrow it is compatible with LGA 1366 1156
775 as well as AMD socket am2 am3 so
it's compatible with every socket on the market that matters and it is huge
according to the Box anyway I haven't actually got it open yet so I'm not 100%
sure the first thing I find inside is just a listing of everything that comes
in the package so it shows you all the different mounting hardware you get it
actually comes with a little wrench it comes with some little uh vibration
dampening triangles it comes with some thermal compound all right then we have
a little explod mated view exploded view
oh and a sticker so this is an exploded view of how to operate
the Intel mounting hardware okay so
there's step-by-step instructions on the back they show you how to line up all the different holes for 775 1156 and
1366 and then here we have the AMD mounting Hardware which is actually way
simpler it's just a little bracket that uh clamps down on top of the cooler and
then goes right into the stock back plate from your am2 or am3 socket so you
can see it's only a six St process including like plugging in the fans and
stuff so that's a very very straightforward on the AMD side here we
have a thermal right sticker and here we have all of the
included goodies so this okay the first
thing that comes to mind besides the
fact that um the fans are kind of an unattractive color is the fact that this
has the thickest heat pipes on it out of
any cooler I have ever seen so let's
have a quick look at these fans these look like uh 140 mm fans but they
actually use a circular frame and 120 mm
mounting holes so that means that you should have better compatibility with um
with most cases on the market or with most coolers on the market Market
although these are obviously designed to be used with this particular cooler but
you do get that additional uh fan blade
size and you do get a little bit more air flow out of it and in theory a 140
mm fan spinning at the same RPM as a 120 mm fan is going to net you more air flow
and better cooling so okay here we'll have a look at the accessories that are
included first and then I'll show you the cooler I know if you want you can
just skip ahead and see the cooler but if you want to see the accessories then
this is the time to see
them okay lots and lots and lots of stuff
included here so the first thing we see
these are some mounting clips for the fan so we have four because this is a
dual fan cooler so you can hook up two fans then we have the included wrench as
well as some included cf3 thermal
compound okay next we have the AMD
mounting hardware so the way this one works oh no this is a universal piece
okay so this is the hold down for the cooler in general as far as I can tell
okay this is the AMD specific
piece and then this is the Intel um hold
down as well as the Intel back plate so you can see it's got the slidable uh
posts so you can go through 775 1156 or
1366 without any difficulties all right
we've got some thumb screws here that are actually not just thumb screws
they're ones that you can actually uh screw something into the top of as well
all okay so mounting system all looks very very solid every single piece of it
is made out of like thick steel look how thick the steel is so you don't have to
worry about anything getting broken if you're shipping your system like NC the
uh the store I work at we actually build systems and you can buy a system with an
aftermarket cooler on it but if you buy one that has a cheap mounting system
that's made out of some kind of a brittle plastic or anything like that
then the cooler can actually I mean look how big this thing is it could snap off
in shipping but as long as you include like a huge steel uh back plate and
mounting bracket for it it's not going anywhere so that's uh that's something
that you might not think about if you're just your average end user but is very
important to a system builder uh who's considering using a heat sink like this
in a system so this is the Silver Arrow
okay okay the heat pipes are not as big as I had orig Al thought I thought the
heat pipes were actually this big but these look like they're just 8 mm heat
pipes which are still huge so I'm going
to just go ahead and say this this reminds me already a lot of the co gaug
Arrow so this is the Silver Arrow which is released under the thermal right
branding as you may or may not already be aware coage is owned by thermal right
so it's uh not like we're seeing thermal right knock somebody off I want to make
sure nobody thinks that there's our obligatory finger shot where you can see
how shiny and typically how flat thermal
right bases are so this is not them ripping it off this is them taking the
uh the coau Branded design making it more blingy so unlike the coau one which
uses a flat finish on all of the fins
this one actually uses a very very shiny finish so I can I can see myself in this
no problem and see if I can look at the camera there y so uh you can see my
glasses in the top of it so that means if you have a lit case like if you have
any cathodes or anything like that in your computer case you will be able to
see the light shining off this really nicely the overall design of it looks
quite similar uh the arrow uses huge
thick heat pipes as well and uh you know what since I'm you know not really
talking about anything else for now why don't I just sort of have a quick look
at how to mount the fans so if it works
the same way is the arrow which I'm going to go ahead and assume it probably
does we're going to use the little
okay well we'll use the fan glips
then ah there they are we'll use the little triangles which I have found
now as a vibration dampening
thing okay I sure hope I'm right about this
yeah I'm right okay good I hate it when I make assumptions and I end up not
being right so we just go ahead and throw those on the corners now that's
not going to have a negative impact on performance because not a whole lot of airow air
flow goes through the corner anyway so then all you do is you position your fan
in the right place so you can actually use 120 mm fans but I'm using the
included thermal right ones here and then you use
your flips to put them through the hole here ah
they use quite a flexible clip with this one that's really nice makes it a lot
easier to thread it through the hole in the top and the bottom of the heat
sink so just like
that just being careful to drive it through Straight because it actually has
to go through quite a good number of these fins and then all you do is
position the fan in the right
place and go like that then you do that
on both sides and you have mounted the fan now it's got a ton of fan mounting
options you can mount it with one fan here one fan in the middle one fan on
the other side so you can do up to three fans or you could even just do one in
the middle so you can see you got mounting holes here here here and here
so while there's not enough room for two fans in the middle for obvious reasons
you can use either of these two to mount the middle fan and then you can mount
two fans on the outside as well so it's very very flexible in terms of mounting
on options and one thing that I have noticed about the coage arrow which I'm
going to assume is the same for the Silver Arrow is that the motherboard
compatibility is a little bit better than some of the competing huge dual
Tower coolers such as the Noctua NHD 14
uh the reason for that is just the way they've positioned the heat pipes here
keeps them a little bit more out of the way of your uh of your motherboard MOS
fat cooler so I actually was able to mount the coage arrow on a motherboard
that I wasn't able to mount any other huge High performance coolers on so
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the thermal right Silver Arrow and I
hope you have enjoyed it