okay so today's unboxing is actually going to be captured with the Microsoft
lifecam uh HD 5000 and uh I'm going to
be unboxing the Arctic cooling freezer extreme revision 2 and uh so yeah this
is meant to be two things an unboxing of this particular heat sink as well as an
example of what kind of video quality you can expect from the Microsoft
lifecam that I unboxed a little while ago so you can see it is pretty clear
and we're going to see how well it does with the close-ups because the lighting
a isn't great in my office and B I have
these screens behind me which makes it really difficult for even a good camera
to focus and uh and get good focusing
image quality okay so let's unbox this heat sink this is the freezer extreme
rev 2 it's like the freezer extreme except or Vision 2 it has excellent
compatibility so it supports pretty much everything out there 1366 1156 775 so
that's all the Intel sockets at the moment and then support for am3 am2 plus
and am2 which are all the same as well as 939 it still includes support for
socket 939 which is pretty ancient at this point all right so we got unmatched
cooling performance as a feature unique twin tower it's not so unique anymore
lots of coolers are using the Twin Towers effective heat dissipation via
eight heat pipes that's pretty good patented fan holders eliminate buzzing
sounds voltage regulators and Northbridge cooling uh oh yeah we can talk about
that in a minute okay pre-applied MX2 so it comes with a very high quality
pre-applied thermal compound that's huge because you can get the best cooler in
the world if it comes with crappy thermal compound you're going to get crappy performance all right next we
have they only compare it against the stock cooler so cooling performance as
well as um noise okay they give you some
Dimensions here so the fan runs it anywhere from 800 to 1500 RPM and it is
a pwm fan and I think that's pretty much
all I want to say about the outside of the package so why don't we get this
thing opened up and have a look see so
the first thing we find inside is a piece of paper and that piece of paper
has some writing on it in a couple different
languages okay so let's go to English because that's what I speak okay step
one remove the fan press the fan shoulders to unlock the fan and lift the
fan upwards step to so we've got six steps on this side and then seven steps
for Intel and then five steps for AMD so AMD looks to be a little bit simpler
okay let's take that out and then let's get down to more accessories here okay
so we've got a little baggie of this is Intel and it has two screws in it okay
and then the next thing we have is what appears to be AMD mounting clips as well
as some little like um I don't know I don't know what those
are shaped like but there they are okay
next we have the cooler itself wow that was pretty straightforward as far as um
mounting hardware is concerned so somehow they found a way to mount this
using either two screws or like two little clippy things ah here it is so
this is the back plate I guess how does this
work well you're smart people I'm sure you can figure it out when you buy it
and see the instruction manual okay so the actual cooler itself it has a
plastic shroudy thing on the top and to remove the fan you just squeeze that
together and pull the fan out why don't we just remove the fan okay so there's
the fan it's a 12 mm round fan and what's a little bit special about this
fan that I'm going to point out right off the bat here is the fact that it is
Round And the fact that at the bottom the frame is actually cut out so you see
how the frame is thick here but then thin down at the bottom so that's what
they're talking about when they say you've got pwm cooling because this fan
will actually it'll blow directed air through the heat sink fins from the
sides here but then it has no it has no no air Direction
flow control here so what it does is
when it spins it'll just kind of randomly blow air out the bottom which
will keep your voltage Regulators as well as your memory modules anything
around your CPU socket a lot cooler so that's pretty neat all right so why
don't we have a look at the cooler itself so like they said they use a twin
tower design so that means that you're taking advantage not only of the air
coming out of the fan but also the air
coming into the fan and while it's not quite as effective as say taking these
two putting them side by side and throwing two separate fans on it the air
once it's been through one set of fins is not that hot compared to the actual
CPU so it's still going to do a fair amount of cooling on the other side now
on the sides of this heat sink we've got a couple more like plastic shroudy
things and those uh don't appear to come off okay then if you look down into the
bottom you can see the mounting system a little bit better I still am not 100%
clear about how that works but we're seeing the autofocus abilities of this
life cam pretty well here and it's doing a terrific job actually all right fin
fin density so here why don't we oh
let's look through the fins at the
screen I don't know what that proved but now we've done it okay four heat pipes
at the bottom these appear to be 6 mm heat pipes they're not particularly
thick but my experience it comes down to design more than you know marketing
bullet points so this is an excellent cooler and it does a great job you've
got the pre-applied MX2 here on the bottom and I think that pretty much
takes care of everything I wanted to say about the uh the Arctic cooling EXT
freezer extreme rev 2 thank you for checking out my unboxing and oh yeah we
should talk about that uh that camera a little bit too let's have a look at the software so this is the Microsoft
lifecam software you can adjust uh true color settings which are over here uh so
you can turn that on and off oh that's so that's what happens if I turn off
true color it becomes a lot harder for it to control the
well the color and it does a great job actually based on the video we just took
you can select a bunch of different modes for capturing video where're using
uh 1280 x 720 HD video capture you can
adjust your micro microphone volume which I hope is high enough after we've
done this big long video and uh yeah that's it thank you for checking out my
unboxing and uh lots more video updates to
come oh yeah I turn it off fail