today I'll be unboxing a brand new product from Corsair this is the Corsair
cooling air series a70 this is a high
performance CPU Cooler and uh so just
this isn't Corsair's first fora into cooling we had the H50 before which I
have previously unboxed on my channel so this was a high performance CPU Cooler
but this one is water so it's h for probably Hydro yes there and so this is
a for air excellent air series so it's
compatible with lga775 1156
1366 as well as AMD am2 and am3 so
pretty much any modern socket is going to be well supported by the a70 let's
have a look at what we got on the side of the box so there's your Dimensions
fan speeds and it's in a bunch of different
languages so you can go ahead and pause the frame if you happen to
be oh boy I don't know what language that is okay well moving on here's the
back where they talk a little bit about the way that the H H50 C there I was
about to say it the way that the a70 handles fan speed so dramatically
outperforms your CPU stock heat sync here they're showing the performance but
not the HM they're not showing the noise I guess that doesn't really matter cuz
they already gave us the noise specs on the other side so 4 8 mm copper direct
contact heat pipes so those are quite a bit bigger than the standard 6 mil 1es
it uses aluminum fins as well as dual 120 mm fan so that's one of the
advantages that the a70 has over the uh
it's younger brother is the fact that it includes dual 120 mm fans as well as one
additional heat pipe so let's get the Box open here I'm going to go ahead and
zoom that back out and let's start
unwrapping this guy have a look at what we've got in
store for ourselves here now I mentioned the noise of the
fans I mean it's not something I'm overly concerned about cuz from the fan
included with the H50 to all the fans included with the 800d case uh Corsair
has done a good job of sourcing their fans and they tend to be quite quiet and
move a decent amount of air so like I said yeah I really wouldn't worry about
it too much so inside the a70 we find two boxes I'm going to go ahead and go
with the small one first and I'm going to guess that that's what contains the
heat
sink I'm just kidding that's a terrible guess obviously this contains the
accessories so let's see what we got for accessories inside the box here two
bands that is all okay I like this so
they come with kind of a shroud style uh clip that goes right onto the heat sink
you can see you got four Clips 1 2 3 four just like that another effect that
the Shroud has is that it keeps the fan slightly separated away from the cooler
I guess in Theory actually why don't I find out if that's true first but what a
shroud would do if it did keep it separate from the cooler is it would reduce the dead spot in the middle cuz
the fan blad spin like this so if they're blowing air through a heat sink
they're obviously not blowing any air here but if you move it away then it can
actually blow some of the air sort of this way because it just sort of
randomly blows air out and the Shroud also keeps it from escaping from the
side so you're using all of the air flow from the fan to cool the heat sink ah
okay so there were two boxes but one of them I actually picked the big one so
this is the small box so this I'm going to guess contains the mounting
hardware okay the first thing we find are ooh I like these these are great
these are low speed power uh fan
adapters rather I think they are okay yeah these look like uh inline resistors
to slow down the fans if you should desire to do so and then this oh okay
this is an adapter so you can run both fans off your CPU header as long as you
have a half decent motherboard made in the last 10 years or so your CPU fan
header should be able to handle a couple lowow fans like this next we've got some
a70 thermal compound which I don't recognize the M4 unfortunately sorry and
then we have oh it's quite heavy though so it's probably a silver based one next
we've got four thumb screws four rubber
washers uh and then two of these rubber
fan mounts is what they're normally for but I can't imagine that's pronouncing
the fans in this case here is the multi-adapter plate so this is for LGA
775 1156 as well is 1366 you can see all
three holes on there and this is got to be for am2 am3 yeah so that's where
you're going to get your mounting pressure from you clip it on the one side clip it on the other side it's not
coming off here's a little Corsair guide y Corsair talks a little bit about some
of their other products thank you for that Corsair and then next we have a
back plate nice okay so you don't need a back plate on am2 am3 because AMD has
graciously made that part of their spec that every am2 and am3 board has a back
plate already so for Intel you will need a back plate and it does come with one
it's adjustable although I can't oh yeah it's simpler
than I thought you just slide it it just has a little like um it has a little
piece right here that sort of fits into the little notches so that it only
slides so far and yeah that was more straightforward than I thought it was
very nice very nice Corsair very nice
next inside this foam we have the cooler itself finally so you know third time a
charm I'm guessing this is the cooler yes success okay here we will also find a quick
start guide so this is going to show you how to install your
cooler uh regardless of which socket you
want to install it on that's probably too much thermal compound for the record
I would use probably about half of that
okay stop do not return this product to
the store hey I like that working at a retailer it's always nice when the
manufacturer takes charge of their own RMA service so what it means basically
to us is that they have a lot of confidence in their own service that
they feel that they can do an excellent job of taking care of a customer's
concerns uh before it gets to the point where they have to return the product to
the store so I guess it means that they feel they can probably resolve whatever
issue they're having without coming to that so here's some do not eat don't eat
it next we have the a70 itself so you
can see the fins are quite tightly packed but that's going to be an
advantage for a cooler like this because it does come with two fans so I'm going
to go head and see if I can figure out how their clip system works yeah you can
see there are little notches right here so that's going to be where the clips go
so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to clip one one on and then I'll show
you the other side oh that was easy okay so it's that easy to install the uh the
A7 fan just like that okay so let's have a look at the cooler itself let's peel
this off and we'll do the obligatory finger shot where we show the shininess
although I can pretty much guarantee it's not going to be very shiny but it does appear to be quite flat so this is
a heat pipe direct touch heat sink that means that rather than having a base
clamped on top of the heat pipes and then having the heat pipes run through it the heat Pipes make direct contact
with the CPU uh heat spreader itself so the disadvantage is that it's much
harder to manufacture this way and it does end up being more expensive and the
advantage is that you have fewer transfer heat fewer places where the
heat has to be transferred between different materials you're just going straight to the heat pipes which then
transfer the heat to the fins and then it gets blown away to the air rather
than then to the base to the heat pipe to the fins and then away so you're
removing One Step from the process um I think I didn't explain why dense fins
are good for a cooler like this and it's because it does include two fans so
you've got lots and lots of static pressure regardless of
um well okay not regardless of the fans you're using you got lots of static
pressure so you're going to get lots of air flow through it even though the fins
are stacked quite tight there that's what I was trying to say here are the four heat pipes it's very very obvious
that these are thick heat pipes compared to some of the smaller ones that uh you
typically see like here let me see if I can find something to compare it against
really quick here maybe I have like a stock cooler in my bucket over
here please tell me I got something what
do I have uh I got some old noct TOA
heat sink ah yeah okay that'll do so here I think this is noa's original heat
sink that they least like 100 million years ago so um if I could just get this
sort of lined up here then you could see that the heat pipes are much much bigger
there you go so it's more expensive to manufacture cost more and more materials
and also transfers heat a lot
better what else did I want to say oh by the way it looks like the shrouds do
work to a certain extent they do separate the uh fan itself from the
cooler but but not by a whole lot so I wouldn't rely on it to reduce your dead
zone by too much but with 120 mm fans
it's also not that big of a deal I guess that pretty much covers everything I
wanted to talk about you got your little aluminum brick here which uh you attach
the mounting hardware too and now my cat's picking at the packing materials
cut that out you cut that out okay uh
last thing yes I love this nice aesthetic on the top you got just a nice
black plate I mean I like the the shiny Chrome finishes as well but I also so
this is going to look really sharp in a case like the 800d where the entire
inside is black so now all you've got is a nice black finish top with just the
Copper from the heat pipe showing through I really like the look of this cooler and while it is quite on the
expensive side I think it's going to have the performance to back it up thank
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