welcome to an unboxing here on lineus techtips I actually have one of the
applicants for my new assistant position holding the camera for me today and we
are going to be unboxing his pick of all the things that are in the room right
now to unbox and that is the NZXT Havoc
140 this is a new cooler from NZXT now their claim is it actually performs as
well as the Noctua n hd14 but looks cooler in their opinion
although I do have to say that with those blades on the fan and that finish
on the heat sink itself it does look pretty darn cool let's see what they
have to say for themselves we've got compatibility for socket 1155 1156 and
775 as well as am3 am2 plus am2 and
remember that also means it's compatible with am3 plus because it will use the
same mounting system specially designed rubber Fasteners to reduce vibration and
secure fans to heat sink all right unique fan blades Prov quiet 25 D
operation highly effective air flow very nice okay 6 6 mm heat pipes with
standard dual 140 mm fans for most efficient conductivity sturdy mounting
bracket newly patented fins exceptionally slice passing air for
increased ventilation now I thought these were just to look cool but I guess
there's only one way to know for sure 100% soldered copper Bas and aluminum
fins with nickel plating to ensure resilience against deterioration quality
and long life I hope that it doesn't have resilience against long life and I
really hope that they were actually talking about just the resilience
against the deterioration and other things that were mentioned there so
let's go ahead and break the seal because that's what we do on this
channel and how do I open the box I don't know
from the bottom oh there's another seal all right we get to break the seal twice
on this product exciting so let's see what NZXT
has inside so the first thing we find is a manual it's not in color although I'm
not really sure that color manuals are a necessary expense for coolers especially
when you have a nice blown up diagram like this that shows you where all the
parts are going to go in order to install it on the Intel or AMD system
okay on this side we've got our step by step although I mean just for quickness
sake you're probably going to want to use oh no these are just Parts lists I
thought are these in order I can't tell let me see y yeah yeah those look like
they're in order of how it's held down so at the end it's held down by a spring
mounted bit and then it's just a matter of which mounting hardware you're
putting over the socket of your motherboard so first thing we find is a
fan packed in very nice closed cell foam so there's definitely no risk of damage
to that fan it's got a very short connector on it and it's got black
sleeving as well as a black connector so it should match your Hardware fairly
well these are 140 mil fans but they use that cool circular frame design which
allows them to mount on 120 m mm mounts
compared to a square frame which would put those mounting holes a little bit
further out all right we've got another
fan much like the last one except more
different all right we have some do not eat desicant silica gel all right don't
eat that please and then we have oh okay hold on let's uh let's have a look at
the mounting hardware first and then we'll do this the CPU Cooler itself so
uh in terms of accessories we've got a bunch of stuff here so we've got what
looks look at how thick that back plate is here let's take that
out all right then what are these These
are rubber Fasteners huh cool Okay so we've got 1
two three four of those so these rubber Fasteners are what allow us to mount the
fans to the cooler all right we've got some various back plates and hold down
mechanisms these are very very thick check this out you manage to warp a
motherboard with one of these installed on it then you're probably doing it
wrong this is the side for AMD look how thick that thing is here we'll do the
we'll do the iPhone thickness comparison that you guys all love so much there you
go so it's about the thickness of the glass on an iPhone all right so you got
some plastic bits here just to make sure that it doesn't short out on your
motherboard okay we've got some additional hold down pieces all made out
of nice thick steel so you're not going to have any difficulty with uh with
those bending or coming loose in shipping that can be a big concern with
these heavy heat sinks because especially for NC I mean when we're
shipping systems across the country um it can be problematic if the system heat
sink comes loose in transit and bangs around inside which has happened believe
me and it's very very very bad all right
here we go let's take out the heat sink
itself and have a look
lots and lots of heat pipes in this thing this actually reminds me of the uh
thermal right Ultra 120 extreme a little bit although more heat pipes for sure
than the ultra 120 extreme had so there's actually six heat pipes which
are all bent in a u configuration it's
got kind of a a matte silver finish and
then you can see that it's actually a fairly loose fin array so my expectation
is that this is this cooler is going to perform best with low RPM fans which is
indeed what NZXT has supplied with it so
let's have a look at how they've uh laid out the the heat pipes here so you can
see we have the Six coming through on each side and then they either Bend IN
like this or they Bend not quite as much or they come out to the edge of the
cooler now one good thing about a cooler like this versus something like a D14 um
regardless of performance cuz we haven't had a look at performance yet is that it
is going to be more compatible with a wider variety of motherboards compared
to a monstrosity like the D14 which is basically like two of these side by side
where you can put a fan in the middle and a fan on either side so it's got
some heft to it but again with this mounting mechanism I really wouldn't
expect to run into any trouble with it putting it too much strain on your
motherboard we can do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see it's got
some shininess to it although there is some definite some definite grain to the
finish on the bottom although that does not necessarily impact performance in
any way now in terms of mounting these fans you notice that they had very very
short connectors on them so I just want
to show you guys why that is it's because we actually have an included
splitter so you just go ahead hook both fans up to the splitter
that came with it so you can put those on either
side there we go oops okay well it'll go
kind of something like that you hook up the splitter and then you hook the whole
thing up to your motherboard so this is what it'll look like once you've got the
fans on it it's about this big and we can do
another iPhone shot just so that you guys can see the overall size of the
unit itself in comparison to an iPhone
and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Havoc 140 don't forget to subscribe to
lus Tech tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this
new heat sink which is actually the first heat sink for
NZXT so here's actually how these rubber mounting mechanisms work you take them
and you screw them into the not screw them you put them into the fan like this
and then you take these rubber bits here
and then you pull them around the edge
of where you would normally have like a mounting bar which is what we see on
something like a thermal right cooler now they are a little bit tricky to get
in there and I wouldn't mind if NZXT also included U mounting bar to go along
with the rubber pieces but basically you put them behind there on both sides you
have to kind of you know if I I guess if we took like uh like a screw or
something and sort of push that in there then we might have a little bit better
luck the good news is you only have to do this once I guess there we go so you
put it under there and then that is what holds the fan on so you take four of
those and then you can actually see that there's going to be a significant
buffer between the fan and the heat sink itself
which acts to help reduce the dead zone which is the area in the middle of the
fan where there's obviously no air flow as well as um reducing the vibration
that can be transferred from the fan to the heat sink to the motherboard to your
case