WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:07.000 today I have a huge box and I want you 00:00:04.319 --> 00:00:10.519 to take a couple seconds and don't cheat don't look at the title of the video 00:00:08.559 --> 00:00:13.480 because I always do this and everyone always looks at the title of the video 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:19.240 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 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:25.400 guess what it is without looking at the title of the video it's a heat sink it's 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:29.960 a heat sink and the box is like the size of my head look at 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:33.559 this had I turned it like this yet cameraman screwed up he pressed the 00:00:31.119 --> 00:00:41.879 wrong button so this is the Silver Arrow it is compatible with LGA 1366 1156 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:43.600 775 as well as AMD socket am2 am3 so 00:00:41.879 --> 00:00:49.559 it's compatible with every socket on the market that matters and it is huge 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:55.079 according to the Box anyway I haven't actually got it open yet so I'm not 100% 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:58.120 sure the first thing I find inside is just a listing of everything that comes 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:01.840 in the package so it shows you all the different mounting hardware you get it 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:05.400 actually comes with a little wrench it comes with some little uh vibration 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:12.080 dampening triangles it comes with some thermal compound all right then we have 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:14.360 a little explod mated view exploded view 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:20.439 oh and a sticker so this is an exploded view of how to operate 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:22.079 the Intel mounting hardware okay so 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:29.479 there's step-by-step instructions on the back they show you how to line up all the different holes for 775 1156 and 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:34.079 1366 and then here we have the AMD mounting Hardware which is actually way 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:37.479 simpler it's just a little bracket that uh clamps down on top of the cooler and 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:42.320 then goes right into the stock back plate from your am2 or am3 socket so you 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.799 can see it's only a six St process including like plugging in the fans and 00:01:44.759 --> 00:01:51.360 stuff so that's a very very straightforward on the AMD side here we 00:01:49.479 --> 00:01:59.200 have a thermal right sticker and here we have all of the 00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:02.520 included goodies so this okay the first 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.680 thing that comes to mind besides the 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:10.840 fact that um the fans are kind of an unattractive color is the fact that this 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.959 has the thickest heat pipes on it out of 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.680 any cooler I have ever seen so let's 00:02:13.959 --> 00:02:22.720 have a quick look at these fans these look like uh 140 mm fans but they 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:24.640 actually use a circular frame and 120 mm 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:28.959 mounting holes so that means that you should have better compatibility with um 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:32.080 with most cases on the market or with most coolers on the market Market 00:02:30.519 --> 00:02:37.560 although these are obviously designed to be used with this particular cooler but 00:02:34.519 --> 00:02:39.080 you do get that additional uh fan blade 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:44.519 size and you do get a little bit more air flow out of it and in theory a 140 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:49.319 mm fan spinning at the same RPM as a 120 mm fan is going to net you more air flow 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:54.040 and better cooling so okay here we'll have a look at the accessories that are 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:57.440 included first and then I'll show you the cooler I know if you want you can 00:02:55.519 --> 00:03:02.840 just skip ahead and see the cooler but if you want to see the accessories then 00:02:59.480 --> 00:03:04.599 this is the time to see 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:10.480 them okay lots and lots and lots of stuff 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:11.840 included here so the first thing we see 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.840 these are some mounting clips for the fan so we have four because this is a 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:23.200 dual fan cooler so you can hook up two fans then we have the included wrench as 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:26.200 well as some included cf3 thermal 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:28.439 compound okay next we have the AMD 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:33.280 mounting hardware so the way this one works oh no this is a universal piece 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:40.239 okay so this is the hold down for the cooler in general as far as I can tell 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:44.599 okay this is the AMD specific 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:46.879 piece and then this is the Intel um hold 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:53.319 down as well as the Intel back plate so you can see it's got the slidable uh 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:56.680 posts so you can go through 775 1156 or 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.480 1366 without any difficulties all right 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:02.439 we've got some thumb screws here that are actually not just thumb screws 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:07.120 they're ones that you can actually uh screw something into the top of as well 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:12.400 all okay so mounting system all looks very very solid every single piece of it 00:04:10.079 --> 00:04:16.799 is made out of like thick steel look how thick the steel is so you don't have to 00:04:14.519 --> 00:04:21.600 worry about anything getting broken if you're shipping your system like NC the 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:26.680 uh the store I work at we actually build systems and you can buy a system with an 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:29.759 aftermarket cooler on it but if you buy one that has a cheap mounting system 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:33.639 that's made out of some kind of a brittle plastic or anything like that 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:37.680 then the cooler can actually I mean look how big this thing is it could snap off 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:42.039 in shipping but as long as you include like a huge steel uh back plate and 00:04:40.440 --> 00:04:45.800 mounting bracket for it it's not going anywhere so that's uh that's something 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:50.520 that you might not think about if you're just your average end user but is very 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:56.479 important to a system builder uh who's considering using a heat sink like this 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:58.880 in a system so this is the Silver Arrow 00:04:56.479 --> 00:05:03.440 okay okay the heat pipes are not as big as I had orig Al thought I thought the 00:05:01.320 --> 00:05:09.199 heat pipes were actually this big but these look like they're just 8 mm heat 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:11.000 pipes which are still huge so I'm going 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:16.960 to just go ahead and say this this reminds me already a lot of the co gaug 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:20.319 Arrow so this is the Silver Arrow which is released under the thermal right 00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:25.560 branding as you may or may not already be aware coage is owned by thermal right 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:29.120 so it's uh not like we're seeing thermal right knock somebody off I want to make 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:34.000 sure nobody thinks that there's our obligatory finger shot where you can see 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:36.039 how shiny and typically how flat thermal 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.560 right bases are so this is not them ripping it off this is them taking the 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:47.120 uh the coau Branded design making it more blingy so unlike the coau one which 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:49.360 uses a flat finish on all of the fins 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:53.319 this one actually uses a very very shiny finish so I can I can see myself in this 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:57.560 no problem and see if I can look at the camera there y so uh you can see my 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:01.280 glasses in the top of it so that means if you have a lit case like if you have 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:04.880 any cathodes or anything like that in your computer case you will be able to 00:06:03.280 --> 00:06:11.840 see the light shining off this really nicely the overall design of it looks 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:14.440 quite similar uh the arrow uses huge 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:18.240 thick heat pipes as well and uh you know what since I'm you know not really 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:23.280 talking about anything else for now why don't I just sort of have a quick look 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:24.720 at how to mount the fans so if it works 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:31.440 the same way is the arrow which I'm going to go ahead and assume it probably 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:31.440 does we're going to use the little 00:06:37.039 --> 00:06:40.319 okay well we'll use the fan glips 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:50.000 then ah there they are we'll use the little triangles which I have found 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:52.800 now as a vibration dampening 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:58.120 thing okay I sure hope I'm right about this 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:06.599 yeah I'm right okay good I hate it when I make assumptions and I end up not 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:09.720 being right so we just go ahead and throw those on the corners now that's 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:16.120 not going to have a negative impact on performance because not a whole lot of airow air 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:20.479 flow goes through the corner anyway so then all you do is you position your fan 00:07:18.280 --> 00:07:25.479 in the right place so you can actually use 120 mm fans but I'm using the 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:30.039 included thermal right ones here and then you use 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.280 your flips to put them through the hole here ah 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:38.120 they use quite a flexible clip with this one that's really nice makes it a lot 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.960 easier to thread it through the hole in the top and the bottom of the heat 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:45.520 sink so just like 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:48.680 that just being careful to drive it through Straight because it actually has 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:54.000 to go through quite a good number of these fins and then all you do is 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.000 position the fan in the right 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:02.120 place and go like that then you do that 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:07.120 on both sides and you have mounted the fan now it's got a ton of fan mounting 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:12.440 options you can mount it with one fan here one fan in the middle one fan on 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:15.639 the other side so you can do up to three fans or you could even just do one in 00:08:14.599 --> 00:08:19.840 the middle so you can see you got mounting holes here here here and here 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:23.840 so while there's not enough room for two fans in the middle for obvious reasons 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:27.759 you can use either of these two to mount the middle fan and then you can mount 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:31.199 two fans on the outside as well so it's very very flexible in terms of mounting 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:34.719 on options and one thing that I have noticed about the coage arrow which I'm 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:38.760 going to assume is the same for the Silver Arrow is that the motherboard 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:44.519 compatibility is a little bit better than some of the competing huge dual 00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:46.200 Tower coolers such as the Noctua NHD 14 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:49.399 uh the reason for that is just the way they've positioned the heat pipes here 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:54.279 keeps them a little bit more out of the way of your uh of your motherboard MOS 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:58.640 fat cooler so I actually was able to mount the coage arrow on a motherboard 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.720 that I wasn't able to mount any other huge High performance coolers on so 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:09.480 thank you for checking out my unboxing of the thermal right Silver Arrow and I 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:09.480 hope you have enjoyed it