so I'll be doing this unboxing in a completely new location that you
obviously won't recognize because it's completely new this is another room in
my uh in my new house where I've set up some lights and I've got a little table
I'm sitting on the floor it's pretty ghetto for the moment but it'll improve
anyway today I'm going to be unboxing the coage or
coage Arrow this is a CPU Cooler and it
is from a company that I had actually never heard of until they approached me
about doing an unboxing and product Showcase of their uh their Arrow cooler
now basically it's kind of like an offshoot of thermal r as far as I can
tell and so that's kind of like what what an ASRock used to be to an isus but
that's different now either way why don't we have a look at the basic specs
of this guy to start with so I'm going to get the camera remote man to uh zoom
in on the box here so it has support for socket 1366 socket 1156 as well as
socket 775 and uh it doesn't say
anything about support for oh yeah there it is on the side okay so there's going
to be a little bit more information on the side I'm going to zoom in even further oh man I hate not having a
camera person it's brutal okay so here on the side you can see it
has four 8 mm large centered heat pipes so those are nice thick heat pipes on
there next thing nickel plated Basin heat pipes improves the longevity of the
heat sink by slowing oxidation okay I'm not sure if it improves the longevity
but what it does do is it improves the appearance over time because oxidized
copper looks horrible okay you've got a double fin stack design provides each
Tower with impressive surface area special AO fin design and we'll have a
look at that in a minute soldered heat pipes and copper base ensure all
components maintain the highest level of thermal efficiency all right support for
multiple platforms so am2 and am3 are optional then it includes a quiet 120 mm
fan and capable of supporting up to three fans for the ultimate enthusiast
38 mm Fen will fit between the two towers okay that's pretty cool you got
your Dimensions here and a big one for coolers is always the weight this is an
825 G cooler so that's almost 2 lb so
you can expect this to be a pretty big guy then you've got Pure copper with
nickel plating fan compatibility okay that pretty much takes care of the
outside of the box so why don't we start getting this thing opened up here I'm
going to just kind of do that a little bit and that should be good enough all
right let's get it opened up here so the first thing we will find inside is a
black box okay not at all like the one on an
airplane much more different black box uh thermal right used to never care
about um like packaging but you can see
that with this coage or coage brand and
actually with some of their more recent thermal R products they've actually got
like a nice looking retail box and then they're using black cardboard for the
insides instead of just plain Jane Brown cardboard I mean packaging is important
whether you like it or not it is so why don't we figure
out how to open this box and then we'll go from there aha just like this unless
I'm mistaken which I could be but I only
have one take to do these unboxings so I'm just going to have to roll with it
uh you know what I think I might I think I might have been right here you go once you open that up all the accessories
just kind of fall out here so yeah let's
have a look at everything that's included with the arrow first thing I
find is the important before okay so we have two
copies of this and they both appear to be
English um okay so we have a separate
instruction booklet for 1156 versus for
1366 and I'm trying to figure out why
that would be I'll let you try and figure it out with me here if you can
look at the front because it looks like the instructions are actually the same
uh I mean obviously the back plates are going to be different sizes the hold
Downs are going to be slightly different sizes but the included component list is
also the same so I'm going to open these up and I'm going to just kind of stare
at it myself and see if I can figure out some way that these instructions differ
from each other and I guess I can also maybe what I'll do is I'll hold this one
up for you all to look at while I look at this one and then I'll talk about all
the steps so it's an eight-step process to install this particular cooler you uh
put the back plate on you put the hold or you put the brackets on top of the
motherboard you put some thermal paste on then you uh put the hold down onto
the heat sink install anti vibration strips on a fan install the fan clips
and install the fan oh this is a cool feature you can actually install either
a 120 mm or a 140 mm fan which you can
see in this last Fring right here so that's pretty neat all right why don't
we have a look at the actual hold Downs here so this appears to be one of them
and this appears to be uh the other one so the 1156 hold down is also 775
compatible uh according to the instructions although I don't see how
that's really possible how does that work okay well
you know what they say it works so I'm going to go ahead and trust them on this
one okay so we've got two sets of back
plates hold downs and then brackets and
then oh yeah yeah yeah I see it now so the 775 one the hold down is a little
bit wider so that it can either go on a 775 or an 1156 and then this is sort of
the more interesting bag because there's actually different stuff in here
although I can't figure out how to get it open uh why don't we do
this ah okay try not to destroy my table
here okay so we have the little anti vibration rubber strips so I have one
two three sets of those so like they
said up to three fans all right then we have how many sets of fan Clips so we
have two kind of thicker thicker looking ones two sets of those I should say four
total and then we have uh two that are kind of uh thinner and flimsier looking
and I'm guessing they are different sizes based on looking at them initially
and no they're not they're all for 120 mm so I'm guessing one of them mounts to
a different spot on the cooler we've got some thermal paste and then we've got an
included little uh wrench guy here so
that's for this is great that's for securing this particular screw so you
know what that is worth zooming in on so I'm just going to bring you all the way
in you can check this out so when you're putting this screw in you can actually
use the little wrench or you could just use a screwdriver like a normal human
being and um that would also be quite
effective so let's get all of this sort
of cleared away off to the side and then I can tackle the cooler itself because
we've been recording for a while out here without actually even looking at
the cooler uh oh no more accessories right I forgot there's a fan oh that's
kind of nice looking okay so it's got like a black outer shell and it's kind
of a shiny shiny black and then the blades are kind of a striking yellow
color which seems like something that wouldn't look very nice but in person
it's actually pretty it's pretty good it's pretty good looking it looks kind
of like the gilled wings so I'm going to I'm wondering if the Hub comes off looks
like it doesn't so I'm guessing it is not using exactly the same design as the
GED Wing I don't know what kind of a bearing it uses but it spins it anywhere
from 1,00 to 18800 RPM depending on the input voltage all right that gives you
some idea what's going on with the fan and then let's figure out uhoh I'm in
trouble I'm in trouble I have no uh I
have no knife and I'm encountering zip
ties here also I have one more set of installation instructions and this is
for 775 so I'm guessing that will outline the
difference in the installation between 1156 and
775 all right here we go so let's see if
I can figure out some way to detach these I may just have to cut this clip
off in the middle here because that is
attached really really well one of these
days I'll learn to keep a knife and a pair of scissors handy uh for my
unboxings but until then I might just have to interrupt videos in the middle
from time to time go get one it doesn't happen that often so uh yeah I might
just never learn okay there we go so I've actually managed to remove the
arrow from the box at this point and this is one huge cooler okay so I guess
uh what can I easily use for scale I guess I'll use my hand for scale and
I'll zoom in a little bit here for you because you're going to want to see this thing up a little bit closer all right
so as the uh outside of the box
mentioned you've got four heat pipes these are absolutely enormous heat pipes
I mean you can look at them compared to the width of a of a finger they are just
huge 8 mm heat pipes and those go down to the base of the unit here so you can
see that it is not a heat pipe direct touch heat sink although it's debatable
whether or not that actually matters the engineering of the heat sink itself
seems to be far more important I'll do the obligatory finger shot so you can
see the base of the unit is quite shiny and I can't feel any Machining grooves
in the bottom of it so they've done quite a nice job of finishing the base
of this particular heat sink now the bottom piece I don't know if you can see
that or not is soldered together so you should have pretty good contact there in
terms of your thermals and then you know
what this is something that obviously coage because it's a sister company of
thermal has borrowed from thermal R and you can see that the Leading Edge of
these fins is actually okay I don't know how I'm going to illustrate this but the
Leading Edge of these fins ah here we go you can see it more from the side is
actually slanted down and then the trailing Edge is actually slanted up and
they do the same thing on each one where they they are improving the turbulence
of the air flow through the heat sink and they're trying to make better use of
the air that moves through these fins by causing it to change direction and make
more contact with the actual metal of the of the fins that are attached to the
heat pipe so that's what they're going ahead and doing there and you know what I'm going to just take a brief moment
here and I'm going to grab the fan and show show you sort of all of the
different places that can mount so the mounting system is actually pretty
straightforward it's uh something we've seen a lot of times before so you got a
couple holes up in the top of the of the unit so they're here here here here here
here here and here you use the little fan Clips which are handily included in
uh ample quantity for you you run those through the little holes and then you
clip them onto the fan so I'm not going to bother doing that on camera but this
is what it'll look like with a fan here
okay this is what it will look like with a fan in the middle so basically you
can't see the fan at all and remember too the middle is actually quite a bit
too big for a 25mm fan and they've done that on purpose so you can actually
install your own 38 mm thick fan if you want with this particular cooler I think
that's about all there is to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the co gauge Arrow