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welcome to an unboxing here on lineus techtips I actually have one of the

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applicants for my new assistant position holding the camera for me today and we

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are going to be unboxing his pick of all the things that are in the room right

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now to unbox and that is the NZXT Havoc

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140 this is a new cooler from NZXT now their claim is it actually performs as

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well as the Noctua n hd14 but looks cooler in their opinion

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although I do have to say that with those blades on the fan and that finish

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on the heat sink itself it does look pretty darn cool let's see what they

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have to say for themselves we've got compatibility for socket 1155 1156 and

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775 as well as am3 am2 plus am2 and

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remember that also means it's compatible with am3 plus because it will use the

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same mounting system specially designed rubber Fasteners to reduce vibration and

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secure fans to heat sink all right unique fan blades Prov quiet 25 D

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operation highly effective air flow very nice okay 6 6 mm heat pipes with

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standard dual 140 mm fans for most efficient conductivity sturdy mounting

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bracket newly patented fins exceptionally slice passing air for

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increased ventilation now I thought these were just to look cool but I guess

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there's only one way to know for sure 100% soldered copper Bas and aluminum

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fins with nickel plating to ensure resilience against deterioration quality

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and long life I hope that it doesn't have resilience against long life and I

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really hope that they were actually talking about just the resilience

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against the deterioration and other things that were mentioned there so

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let's go ahead and break the seal because that's what we do on this

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channel and how do I open the box I don't know

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from the bottom oh there's another seal all right we get to break the seal twice

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on this product exciting so let's see what NZXT

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has inside so the first thing we find is a manual it's not in color although I'm

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not really sure that color manuals are a necessary expense for coolers especially

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when you have a nice blown up diagram like this that shows you where all the

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parts are going to go in order to install it on the Intel or AMD system

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okay on this side we've got our step by step although I mean just for quickness

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sake you're probably going to want to use oh no these are just Parts lists I

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thought are these in order I can't tell let me see y yeah yeah those look like

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they're in order of how it's held down so at the end it's held down by a spring

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mounted bit and then it's just a matter of which mounting hardware you're

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putting over the socket of your motherboard so first thing we find is a

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fan packed in very nice closed cell foam so there's definitely no risk of damage

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to that fan it's got a very short connector on it and it's got black

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sleeving as well as a black connector so it should match your Hardware fairly

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well these are 140 mil fans but they use that cool circular frame design which

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allows them to mount on 120 m mm mounts

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compared to a square frame which would put those mounting holes a little bit

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further out all right we've got another

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fan much like the last one except more

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different all right we have some do not eat desicant silica gel all right don't

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eat that please and then we have oh okay hold on let's uh let's have a look at

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the mounting hardware first and then we'll do this the CPU Cooler itself so

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uh in terms of accessories we've got a bunch of stuff here so we've got what

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looks look at how thick that back plate is here let's take that

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out all right then what are these These

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are rubber Fasteners huh cool Okay so we've got 1

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two three four of those so these rubber Fasteners are what allow us to mount the

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fans to the cooler all right we've got some various back plates and hold down

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mechanisms these are very very thick check this out you manage to warp a

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motherboard with one of these installed on it then you're probably doing it

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wrong this is the side for AMD look how thick that thing is here we'll do the

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we'll do the iPhone thickness comparison that you guys all love so much there you

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go so it's about the thickness of the glass on an iPhone all right so you got

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some plastic bits here just to make sure that it doesn't short out on your

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motherboard okay we've got some additional hold down pieces all made out

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of nice thick steel so you're not going to have any difficulty with uh with

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those bending or coming loose in shipping that can be a big concern with

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these heavy heat sinks because especially for NC I mean when we're

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shipping systems across the country um it can be problematic if the system heat

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sink comes loose in transit and bangs around inside which has happened believe

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me and it's very very very bad all right

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here we go let's take out the heat sink

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itself and have a look

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lots and lots of heat pipes in this thing this actually reminds me of the uh

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thermal right Ultra 120 extreme a little bit although more heat pipes for sure

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than the ultra 120 extreme had so there's actually six heat pipes which

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are all bent in a u configuration it's

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got kind of a a matte silver finish and

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then you can see that it's actually a fairly loose fin array so my expectation

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is that this is this cooler is going to perform best with low RPM fans which is

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indeed what NZXT has supplied with it so

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let's have a look at how they've uh laid out the the heat pipes here so you can

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see we have the Six coming through on each side and then they either Bend IN

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like this or they Bend not quite as much or they come out to the edge of the

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cooler now one good thing about a cooler like this versus something like a D14 um

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regardless of performance cuz we haven't had a look at performance yet is that it

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is going to be more compatible with a wider variety of motherboards compared

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to a monstrosity like the D14 which is basically like two of these side by side

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where you can put a fan in the middle and a fan on either side so it's got

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some heft to it but again with this mounting mechanism I really wouldn't

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expect to run into any trouble with it putting it too much strain on your

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motherboard we can do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see it's got

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some shininess to it although there is some definite some definite grain to the

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finish on the bottom although that does not necessarily impact performance in

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any way now in terms of mounting these fans you notice that they had very very

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short connectors on them so I just want

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to show you guys why that is it's because we actually have an included

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splitter so you just go ahead hook both fans up to the splitter

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that came with it so you can put those on either

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side there we go oops okay well it'll go

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kind of something like that you hook up the splitter and then you hook the whole

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thing up to your motherboard so this is what it'll look like once you've got the

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fans on it it's about this big and we can do

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another iPhone shot just so that you guys can see the overall size of the

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unit itself in comparison to an iPhone

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and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Havoc 140 don't forget to subscribe to

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lus Tech tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this

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new heat sink which is actually the first heat sink for

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NZXT so here's actually how these rubber mounting mechanisms work you take them

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and you screw them into the not screw them you put them into the fan like this

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and then you take these rubber bits here

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and then you pull them around the edge

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of where you would normally have like a mounting bar which is what we see on

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something like a thermal right cooler now they are a little bit tricky to get

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in there and I wouldn't mind if NZXT also included U mounting bar to go along

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with the rubber pieces but basically you put them behind there on both sides you

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have to kind of you know if I I guess if we took like uh like a screw or

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something and sort of push that in there then we might have a little bit better

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luck the good news is you only have to do this once I guess there we go so you

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put it under there and then that is what holds the fan on so you take four of

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those and then you can actually see that there's going to be a significant

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buffer between the fan and the heat sink itself

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which acts to help reduce the dead zone which is the area in the middle of the

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fan where there's obviously no air flow as well as um reducing the vibration

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that can be transferred from the fan to the heat sink to the motherboard to your

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case