welcome to my unboxing and first look now we've already looked at the Kraken
x40 this is the Kraken x60 from ncxt
this is an all-in-one liquid cooler that uses
dual 140 that's 140 mm fans in order to
achieve massive surface area now I've
said this time and time again people always ask me lonus you know which one's
going to perform better this water cooler or some other water cooler or
this air cooler or you know what guys it's really simple with cooling it
always comes down pretty much to surface
area that's that's all it is cooling is not sort of it's It's Newtonian physics
it's not complicated stuff the more surface area you have the more heat
you're going to be able to dissipate the more quickly you're going to be able to
do it and you can see that NZXT has
unabashedly compared their Kraken x62 a
standard 240 mm liquid cooler so that would be a dual 120 saying it has 36%
more surface area now not only that but that's also going to give you more than
36% more usable surface area because
remember both that 120 mil version and the 140 mil version lose the same amount
of area in Dead Space under the fan hubs for example or in any any other kind of
of wasted space so you're getting that that with that scalability comes even
more usable area now the drawback being that most 140 mm fans are not actually
very well optimized for static pressure now we do have fans that are the
exception to this rule such as the naua a series ones that we're going to be
using to test the Kraken x40 or rather x60 but it's something to be aware of in
General so here let's cover whatever else NZXT has to say for themselves
really quickly here so high performance pump and copper block with interactive digital fan control so it does come with
a software element that allows you to sort of take advantage of that large
Tower support with extended 16inch tubing ah yes so case support is going
to be a bit of a challenge here because there's only so much you can do to uh to
optimize for compatibility with various cases when you have two 140 MIM fans
that have to be at a particular spacing and are going to need a particular
amount of room between themselves and any other components in order to be
compatible so you can see NZXT includes a couple of their black and white fans I
don't know that this is a you know particularly High Press design here's
the Kracken controller version 1.1 software you can download the latest off
the NZXT website but you can like I said
replace them with NOC toas and then you'll know for sure that you have a
pressure optimized design mounting hardware there is very much included in
indeed so we have everything you'll need for Intel and AMD for the last few
generations of sockets everything from 775 1155 1156 1366 2011 am2 am2 plus am3
plus am4 plus I don't know fm2 plus everything that you could pretty much
want you've also got instruction guide that pretty much tells you what to do if
you go on NZXT site they're actually maintaining sort of a Wiki style um
article where you can find out which cases are compatible so there aren't
many right now but we're planning to jam
this thing into a Vengeance C70 with a little bit of modifications so that
should be uh that should be a bit of a treat there you guys now opening up the
cracking itself you can see that it is significantly larger than the types of
Radiators we've seen before in fact let me grab one so that I can do a direct
comparison here and I found one so
holding it up next to sort of my old beat up you know this is actually the
first water cooling radiator I ever bought this is a GT stealth 240 um so
holding it up against that it's all fine and good to show you guys this in terms
of Graphics but when you actually hold them up next to each other you can see
that the sheer scale of the Dual 140 mm
radiator dwarfs the scale of a dual 120
mm RoR not rad radiator not only in
terms of length but also in terms of width and just sort of in every possible
Dimension now the one area where the crack x60 is not sort of bigger than
normal is in terms of the thickness so this is a normal slim radiator which
means it's going to be competitive with something like an h100i surface area for surface area kind
of pound forp pound it is not a thicker style radiator like we've seen with
things like the H now another thing to note here is when we get really close
and have a look at it I want you guys to check out the fin density this isn't a
hyper dense sort of radiator but it's also not very loose I'd say it's more
like a medium fin density that means that while it is again always important
on a radiator to have a high pressure optimized fan it's not going to be the
end of the world if you don't have the highest pressure fan in the world on
this particular rad there we go giving you guys a good look at that can kind of
see through it see look there's my hand on the other side ah you can't see it I
have to hold the angle just right okay let's see if we've missed anything that
NZXT has to say for themselves on the box before we move ahead I will be
testing this on our new liquid cooling and just general Cooling and general
sort of uh test platform large Tower
support yeah because that's the only thing it supports with 16 in of tubing
SATA power connector for easy installation completely sealed system backed by a 2-year warranty and all that
is pretty much stuff that we've covered before they also have a little graph on
here that shows you how they figure the performance Stacks up against its 120 mm
competitor so we will definitely be having a closer look at this on our own
test bench because as interesting as it is for the manufact facturers to say
this is how our product Compares against the other things you know they're all
using different fans they're all using different test platforms they're all
potentially using different CPUs so it's hard to get the numbers validated so
we're going to check with our 3930k overclocked with knock to a fans
in a C70 and we're probably going to have to drill some holes in the case to
get this to fit which is sort of you guys better get used to that idea because dual 140 mm red plus 140 mm fans
it's a lot of stuff so the ual CPU block itself has uh swivel fittings on it
which I'm really glad has become a bit of a standard thing and what's great
about that is just the fact that it makes installation easier so no matter
what angle your CPU Cooler is installed at you're going to be able to rotate the
fittings to get to where you need to go it's got pre-applied thermal compound
this is a highquality thermal compound that acitech uses that's right acch if
you guys have seen this ring retention design before or you think you've seen
it for then you'll know why and it's because it's used by uh by acitech so
the original lclc has come a long way in
a lot of different ways these swivel fittings are new from the original
design these led lit logos on the top are new from the original design the
retention mechanism is way better than it used to be so guys instead of like
kind of fussing around with it and trying to hold it in place you just put
this on then you actually put this clip into place and it holds it actually hold
on F actually I'm not sure if it works with the AMD one but at any rate it
works with the Intel one for sure so here we go so you put this piece on
there we go there we go put that there
then this guy goes here or something like that you know what I'm better
figure out how this works because I did it before now I'm confused I'll be back
go on
top how the hell does this work
I used to know this is
pathetic no I think I was doing it right
metal grabs go yeah yeah those go in
there and then this
piece like Clips in or something that's too big though is it oh maybe not
no yeah see it's
right okay there we go
and we're back yes I had it right before that is exactly how it works so the
bottom piece clips into place which holds that top retention bracket into
place so that you no longer have to fight with it while you're holding on a
back plate and while you're trying to screw something into it so it's a lot easier to use than before also the
tubing being used here is extremely flexible so the original designs had
like kind of a plastic tubing that actually couldn't bend like this and
wasn't as easy to work with it put a lot more strain on the components but this
is nice and soft and and pliable uh last
but not least the connectors that come off of it are now plentiful so you can
see there's a USB connector and it is extremely beautifully sleeved so I don't
know how well you guys are going to be able to see this in the camera here probably really well since we're using
our awesome baller camera setup but that is actually what allows it to interface
with the USB port on your computer which is what allows you to use the software
control next we've got the power input
or rather one of the power inputs so that's for the pump itself then we've
got a SATA power connector which acts as an auxiliary power connector and that
right there is connected to four fan
headers so those are four four pin fan headers that you can use to plug up to
four fans in push pull into the pump
itself so that allows you to Monitor and control those fans the same way that you
normally would except that they're all like if they were plugged into your
motherboard header except that they're all controlled through the software and they're all plugged in through the
Kraken x60 itself so I think that pretty much wraps this up follow up guys make
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