WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:07.359 today I'll be unboxing a brand new product from Corsair this is the Corsair 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.480 cooling air series a70 this is a high 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:12.759 performance CPU Cooler and uh so just 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:18.439 this isn't Corsair's first fora into cooling we had the H50 before which I 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:22.600 have previously unboxed on my channel so this was a high performance CPU Cooler 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:30.400 but this one is water so it's h for probably Hydro yes there and so this is 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:33.680 a for air excellent air series so it's 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:38.200 compatible with lga775 1156 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:39.960 1366 as well as AMD am2 and am3 so 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:44.320 pretty much any modern socket is going to be well supported by the a70 let's 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:47.120 have a look at what we got on the side of the box so there's your Dimensions 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:51.160 fan speeds and it's in a bunch of different 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:55.399 languages so you can go ahead and pause the frame if you happen to 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.359 be oh boy I don't know what language that is okay well moving on here's the 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:04.000 back where they talk a little bit about the way that the H H50 C there I was 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:08.479 about to say it the way that the a70 handles fan speed so dramatically 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:13.240 outperforms your CPU stock heat sync here they're showing the performance but 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:15.960 not the HM they're not showing the noise I guess that doesn't really matter cuz 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.600 they already gave us the noise specs on the other side so 4 8 mm copper direct 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:25.000 contact heat pipes so those are quite a bit bigger than the standard 6 mil 1es 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:30.640 it uses aluminum fins as well as dual 120 mm fan so that's one of the 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:33.439 advantages that the a70 has over the uh 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:39.479 it's younger brother is the fact that it includes dual 120 mm fans as well as one 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:44.079 additional heat pipe so let's get the Box open here I'm going to go ahead and 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:45.840 zoom that back out and let's start 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:50.759 unwrapping this guy have a look at what we've got in 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:54.920 store for ourselves here now I mentioned the noise of the 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:59.360 fans I mean it's not something I'm overly concerned about cuz from the fan 00:01:57.240 --> 00:02:03.560 included with the H50 to all the fans included with the 800d case uh Corsair 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:07.640 has done a good job of sourcing their fans and they tend to be quite quiet and 00:02:05.399 --> 00:02:11.440 move a decent amount of air so like I said yeah I really wouldn't worry about 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:15.319 it too much so inside the a70 we find two boxes I'm going to go ahead and go 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:19.360 with the small one first and I'm going to guess that that's what contains the 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:19.360 heat 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:27.239 sink I'm just kidding that's a terrible guess obviously this contains the 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:34.360 accessories so let's see what we got for accessories inside the box here two 00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:36.959 bands that is all okay I like this so 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:41.560 they come with kind of a shroud style uh clip that goes right onto the heat sink 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:45.879 you can see you got four Clips 1 2 3 four just like that another effect that 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:49.319 the Shroud has is that it keeps the fan slightly separated away from the cooler 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:53.000 I guess in Theory actually why don't I find out if that's true first but what a 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:57.879 shroud would do if it did keep it separate from the cooler is it would reduce the dead spot in the middle cuz 00:02:56.239 --> 00:03:00.840 the fan blad spin like this so if they're blowing air through a heat sink 00:02:59.239 --> 00:03:04.599 they're obviously not blowing any air here but if you move it away then it can 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.879 actually blow some of the air sort of this way because it just sort of 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:11.799 randomly blows air out and the Shroud also keeps it from escaping from the 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:15.840 side so you're using all of the air flow from the fan to cool the heat sink ah 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:20.879 okay so there were two boxes but one of them I actually picked the big one so 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:24.879 this is the small box so this I'm going to guess contains the mounting 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:34.640 hardware okay the first thing we find are ooh I like these these are great 00:03:30.519 --> 00:03:34.640 these are low speed power uh fan 00:03:35.239 --> 00:03:41.040 adapters rather I think they are okay yeah these look like uh inline resistors 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:45.040 to slow down the fans if you should desire to do so and then this oh okay 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:48.959 this is an adapter so you can run both fans off your CPU header as long as you 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:53.400 have a half decent motherboard made in the last 10 years or so your CPU fan 00:03:51.959 --> 00:03:58.760 header should be able to handle a couple lowow fans like this next we've got some 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:04.680 a70 thermal compound which I don't recognize the M4 unfortunately sorry and 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:10.720 then we have oh it's quite heavy though so it's probably a silver based one next 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:13.840 we've got four thumb screws four rubber 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:15.760 washers uh and then two of these rubber 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:19.280 fan mounts is what they're normally for but I can't imagine that's pronouncing 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:25.440 the fans in this case here is the multi-adapter plate so this is for LGA 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:28.360 775 1156 as well is 1366 you can see all 00:04:25.440 --> 00:04:31.919 three holes on there and this is got to be for am2 am3 yeah so that's where 00:04:31.080 --> 00:04:38.240 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 00:04:35.919 --> 00:04:41.880 coming off here's a little Corsair guide y Corsair talks a little bit about some 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:48.199 of their other products thank you for that Corsair and then next we have a 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:53.520 back plate nice okay so you don't need a back plate on am2 am3 because AMD has 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:58.199 graciously made that part of their spec that every am2 and am3 board has a back 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:02.800 plate already so for Intel you will need a back plate and it does come with one 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:07.520 it's adjustable although I can't oh yeah it's simpler 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:13.160 than I thought you just slide it it just has a little like um it has a little 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:17.199 piece right here that sort of fits into the little notches so that it only 00:05:14.479 --> 00:05:22.800 slides so far and yeah that was more straightforward than I thought it was 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:24.840 very nice very nice Corsair very nice 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:29.000 next inside this foam we have the cooler itself finally so you know third time a 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:34.000 charm I'm guessing this is the cooler yes success okay here we will also find a quick 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:38.560 start guide so this is going to show you how to install your 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:40.199 cooler uh regardless of which socket you 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:44.880 want to install it on that's probably too much thermal compound for the record 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:50.080 I would use probably about half of that 00:05:46.479 --> 00:05:51.880 okay stop do not return this product to 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:55.680 the store hey I like that working at a retailer it's always nice when the 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:00.080 manufacturer takes charge of their own RMA service so what it means basically 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:03.919 to us is that they have a lot of confidence in their own service that 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.360 they feel that they can do an excellent job of taking care of a customer's 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:12.280 concerns uh before it gets to the point where they have to return the product to 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:16.720 the store so I guess it means that they feel they can probably resolve whatever 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:22.120 issue they're having without coming to that so here's some do not eat don't eat 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:24.120 it next we have the a70 itself so you 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.919 can see the fins are quite tightly packed but that's going to be an 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:31.160 advantage for a cooler like this because it does come with two fans so I'm going 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:35.080 to go head and see if I can figure out how their clip system works yeah you can 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:38.360 see there are little notches right here so that's going to be where the clips go 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:42.720 so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to clip one one on and then I'll show 00:06:40.280 --> 00:06:47.880 you the other side oh that was easy okay so it's that easy to install the uh the 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:51.400 A7 fan just like that okay so let's have a look at the cooler itself let's peel 00:06:49.400 --> 00:06:54.319 this off and we'll do the obligatory finger shot where we show the shininess 00:06:53.160 --> 00:07:00.520 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 00:06:58.280 --> 00:07:04.400 a heat pipe direct touch heat sink that means that rather than having a base 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:10.960 clamped on top of the heat pipes and then having the heat pipes run through it the heat Pipes make direct contact 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:13.960 with the CPU uh heat spreader itself so the disadvantage is that it's much 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:19.080 harder to manufacture this way and it does end up being more expensive and the 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:22.840 advantage is that you have fewer transfer heat fewer places where the 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:27.360 heat has to be transferred between different materials you're just going straight to the heat pipes which then 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:31.599 transfer the heat to the fins and then it gets blown away to the air rather 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:36.199 than then to the base to the heat pipe to the fins and then away so you're 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:41.160 removing One Step from the process um I think I didn't explain why dense fins 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.199 are good for a cooler like this and it's because it does include two fans so 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:50.479 you've got lots and lots of static pressure regardless of 00:07:48.039 --> 00:07:54.400 um well okay not regardless of the fans you're using you got lots of static 00:07:52.159 --> 00:07:58.680 pressure so you're going to get lots of air flow through it even though the fins 00:07:57.400 --> 00:08:05.000 are stacked quite tight there that's what I was trying to say here are the four heat pipes it's very very obvious 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:09.919 that these are thick heat pipes compared to some of the smaller ones that uh you 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.759 typically see like here let me see if I can find something to compare it against 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:20.039 really quick here maybe I have like a stock cooler in my bucket over 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:23.280 here please tell me I got something what 00:08:20.039 --> 00:08:25.639 do I have uh I got some old noct TOA 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:31.520 heat sink ah yeah okay that'll do so here I think this is noa's original heat 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:37.839 sink that they least like 100 million years ago so um if I could just get this 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:42.599 sort of lined up here then you could see that the heat pipes are much much bigger 00:08:40.719 --> 00:08:49.440 there you go so it's more expensive to manufacture cost more and more materials 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:51.760 and also transfers heat a lot 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:55.200 better what else did I want to say oh by the way it looks like the shrouds do 00:08:53.320 --> 00:09:01.120 work to a certain extent they do separate the uh fan itself from the 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:06.399 cooler but but not by a whole lot so I wouldn't rely on it to reduce your dead 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:09.000 zone by too much but with 120 mm fans 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:11.640 it's also not that big of a deal I guess that pretty much covers everything I 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:15.720 wanted to talk about you got your little aluminum brick here which uh you attach 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:20.920 the mounting hardware too and now my cat's picking at the packing materials 00:09:17.839 --> 00:09:23.440 cut that out you cut that out okay uh 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:27.760 last thing yes I love this nice aesthetic on the top you got just a nice 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:31.440 black plate I mean I like the the shiny Chrome finishes as well but I also so 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:36.720 this is going to look really sharp in a case like the 800d where the entire 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:40.480 inside is black so now all you've got is a nice black finish top with just the 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:45.680 Copper from the heat pipe showing through I really like the look of this cooler and while it is quite on the 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:50.079 expensive side I think it's going to have the performance to back it up thank 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:56.279 you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair a70 and uh that's 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