welcome to my unboxing and first look at the thermal R ha Silver Arrow SB so
that's Sandy Bridge e so that means it supports LGA 2011
extreme so I have actually already taken
a look at two very similar coolers in the past the coage arrow which is sort
of like a less finished version of the Silver Arrow and the Silver Arrow
now I get to check out the Silver Arrow extreme it definitely comes with a more
extreme sticker the last thermal right sticker I got was much less extreme than
that totally different colors it looks like it comes with some different fans
and it comes with two of them which is very exciting as well so they've added
support for LGA 2011 which is new ooh different colored fans too those look
extreme that is for certain so we' got a red frame and orange blades on this 140
mm fan however check this out because uses a rounded frame you can easily
Mount these to 120 mm mounting holes in
your case or whatever else you're using as long as you have enough space around
it to accommodate the 140 mm size of the
blades so here let's go ahead and pull this bad boy out as well there's another
one matching okay the extremeness is
piling up here next we have the cooler
itself oh it is more extreme look at that it has a sign significantly more
extreme shape compared to the original thermal
right Silver Arrow this thing is oh this thing is gorgeous thermal R coolers
really are the cream of the cream when it comes to Performance and Aesthetics
so here let's go hold on there we go so
all the accessories are in here they also have phenomenal mounting mechanisms
and I hope I'm not about to be sort of shown up here as I pull out like plastic
mounting pieces nope not at all check
this out once I get my handy knife and
actually open it so oh I had it open in my pocket that could have been bad I
could have lost like significant parts of my
anatomy with that going on it's not a good thing it's a bad thing yeah slick
agrees that's bad okay so I talked about solid
mounting hardware check this out we are totally going to do this we are going to
pull out the iPhone size comparison for this
this is a solid piece of Steel it is going nowhere not anywhere will it go
awesome love to see it same thing with the back plate the back plate is going
nowhere it weighs like 3 lb look at this thing similar thickness to the uh to the
hold down plate actually it looks like it might even be a little thick no they're about the same again not going
anywhere Universal compatibility so there's your 775 1155 1156 and 1366 or
2011 or something something whatever they're all in here oh maybe 775 is no
longer no it's supported okay well I'll assume they're all in there somewhere
maybe 1 2 3 4 actually okay awesome
they've also got
um uh anti- conductive oh non-conductive
pads and spacers and all the little pieces you need here's all the hard
Mount mounting screws so it does use a hard Mount system which is again awesome
and not going anywhere and let's get this iPhone off the table let's get
these keys off the table and let's be done with the actually
let's be done with the mounting hardware for now we're going to go along to the
instructions so check this out I love the way thermal R does their instructions so these actually sorry
these weren't uh these weren't isolating pads these are isolating pads for the fans anti vibration pads so you can
mount them on there using these clips and not have to worry about any
vibrations being transferred to your cooler the spacer ring here is the only
piece and as well as these isolating pieces are the ones that keep all the
metal pieces off your motherboard and safe so they've got different instructions for different sockets and
how to do everything that you need to do and all the hardware is included of
course just make sure this is you know what this is like you know Linus Linus
Common Sense tips but a lot of people have problems with this guys when you
install it on your LGA 1155 system don't throw away like the
AMD mounting hardware or the 2011 mounting hardware or whatever else the
case may be because who knows you may upgrade your system at some point and it
may be handy to still have that all right next we have six fan Clips why
would they do that when they only include two fans well because you can
get an additional fan and go one two
three for like a double layered sandwich
effect not that you'd actually eat a heat sink because that would be stupid
you would die you would literally die if you ate this it would shred your insides
but I'm sure you weren't planning to do that last couple of included accessories
and look at the sleeving quality on these that's outstanding is it focusing
okay that's great love it love what
thermal right's done there okay so what they've got going here is two four pin p
oh these are four pin pwm fans again excellent sleeving on the fans as well
check that out love it so two four pin pwm connectors so you can plug that into
a single CPU connector on your motherboard or you can plug them into a
Molex they are both wired up and if you didn't want one of these connectors you
could just go ahead and no wait hold on
on no you'll need both sorry power is provided by this and then pwm is
provided by this so you're going to want to run that sort of like behind your motherboard or something all as sort of
one nice look at that it's like individually sleeved cable effect people
love that stuff these days finally guys
the heat sink itself so the difference between the co gaug arrow and the Silver
Arrow was the finish on it so it had a
much shinier much more reflective much more blinged out looking finish uh they
both had the same number of heat pipes they both had the same general design
although the Silver Arrow had a much nicer overall finish to things like the
tops of the heat pipes you know how heat pipes always have one finished end one
rounded end and then one pinched end because they come in standard lengths
and that's not always suitable for you know whatever various coolers so they
pinch them shut in order to keep the gases and the liquids inside them so
thermal R has implemented these caps on here so that it'll look uniform on both
sides and gorgeous no matter what you do now you can see what they've done is
actually the heat pipes in the center here closer to where the D of the CPU is
actually located actually have more fins
on them so it goes up higher and then as you move out away from the die of the
CPU there are fewer and fewer and fewer fins actually attached to that
particular part of the bottom of the cooler now I'm expecting the finish on
here to be Immaculate because it's thermal right I can already tell from
the way lights reflecting off it it's got a bit of a bow and what a bow does
is it puts more pressure on the very center which AIDS thermal compound
spreading and it also helps to make stronger pressure between or to have
stronger pressure between the CPU heat sink itself and the heat spreader on the
CPU in in exchange sort of the die so there's the tighter that contact point
is and the less space there is in between all those components the better
your cooling will be because the better the heat transmission will be now of
course we can't you know get away from the obligatory finger shot there so that
is how shiny and reflective it is although it should be noted guys reflectiveness does does not necessarily
indicate flatness which is much more important when it comes to CPU cooling
total number of heat pipes on this bad boy is eight there are eight heat pipes
running in a u shape down through the bottom here up through the other side it
looks absolutely stunning in its shininess I'm going to go ahead and off
camera we're going to install the fans so you can see what it'll actually look
like once you put those on well if we were going for the extreme look I think
we have achieved that with the red and orange and the silver and the shininess
and just yeah this thing's looks
freaking awesome thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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