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so I'll be doing this unboxing in a completely new location that you

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obviously won't recognize because it's completely new this is another room in

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my uh in my new house where I've set up some lights and I've got a little table

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I'm sitting on the floor it's pretty ghetto for the moment but it'll improve

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anyway today I'm going to be unboxing the coage or

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coage Arrow this is a CPU Cooler and it

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is from a company that I had actually never heard of until they approached me

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about doing an unboxing and product Showcase of their uh their Arrow cooler

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now basically it's kind of like an offshoot of thermal r as far as I can

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tell and so that's kind of like what what an ASRock used to be to an isus but

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that's different now either way why don't we have a look at the basic specs

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of this guy to start with so I'm going to get the camera remote man to uh zoom

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in on the box here so it has support for socket 1366 socket 1156 as well as

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socket 775 and uh it doesn't say

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anything about support for oh yeah there it is on the side okay so there's going

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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

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camera person it's brutal okay so here on the side you can see it

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has four 8 mm large centered heat pipes so those are nice thick heat pipes on

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there next thing nickel plated Basin heat pipes improves the longevity of the

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heat sink by slowing oxidation okay I'm not sure if it improves the longevity

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but what it does do is it improves the appearance over time because oxidized

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copper looks horrible okay you've got a double fin stack design provides each

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Tower with impressive surface area special AO fin design and we'll have a

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look at that in a minute soldered heat pipes and copper base ensure all

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components maintain the highest level of thermal efficiency all right support for

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multiple platforms so am2 and am3 are optional then it includes a quiet 120 mm

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fan and capable of supporting up to three fans for the ultimate enthusiast

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38 mm Fen will fit between the two towers okay that's pretty cool you got

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your Dimensions here and a big one for coolers is always the weight this is an

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825 G cooler so that's almost 2 lb so

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you can expect this to be a pretty big guy then you've got Pure copper with

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nickel plating fan compatibility okay that pretty much takes care of the

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outside of the box so why don't we start getting this thing opened up here I'm

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going to just kind of do that a little bit and that should be good enough all

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right let's get it opened up here so the first thing we will find inside is a

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black box okay not at all like the one on an

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airplane much more different black box uh thermal right used to never care

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about um like packaging but you can see

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that with this coage or coage brand and

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actually with some of their more recent thermal R products they've actually got

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like a nice looking retail box and then they're using black cardboard for the

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insides instead of just plain Jane Brown cardboard I mean packaging is important

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whether you like it or not it is so why don't we figure

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out how to open this box and then we'll go from there aha just like this unless

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I'm mistaken which I could be but I only

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have one take to do these unboxings so I'm just going to have to roll with it

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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

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just kind of fall out here so yeah let's

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have a look at everything that's included with the arrow first thing I

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find is the important before okay so we have two

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copies of this and they both appear to be

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English um okay so we have a separate

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instruction booklet for 1156 versus for

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1366 and I'm trying to figure out why

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that would be I'll let you try and figure it out with me here if you can

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look at the front because it looks like the instructions are actually the same

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uh I mean obviously the back plates are going to be different sizes the hold

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Downs are going to be slightly different sizes but the included component list is

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also the same so I'm going to open these up and I'm going to just kind of stare

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at it myself and see if I can figure out some way that these instructions differ

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from each other and I guess I can also maybe what I'll do is I'll hold this one

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up for you all to look at while I look at this one and then I'll talk about all

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the steps so it's an eight-step process to install this particular cooler you uh

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put the back plate on you put the hold or you put the brackets on top of the

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motherboard you put some thermal paste on then you uh put the hold down onto

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the heat sink install anti vibration strips on a fan install the fan clips

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and install the fan oh this is a cool feature you can actually install either

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a 120 mm or a 140 mm fan which you can

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see in this last Fring right here so that's pretty neat all right why don't

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we have a look at the actual hold Downs here so this appears to be one of them

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and this appears to be uh the other one so the 1156 hold down is also 775

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compatible uh according to the instructions although I don't see how

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that's really possible how does that work okay well

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you know what they say it works so I'm going to go ahead and trust them on this

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one okay so we've got two sets of back

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plates hold downs and then brackets and

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then oh yeah yeah yeah I see it now so the 775 one the hold down is a little

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bit wider so that it can either go on a 775 or an 1156 and then this is sort of

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the more interesting bag because there's actually different stuff in here

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although I can't figure out how to get it open uh why don't we do

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this ah okay try not to destroy my table

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here okay so we have the little anti vibration rubber strips so I have one

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two three sets of those so like they

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said up to three fans all right then we have how many sets of fan Clips so we

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have two kind of thicker thicker looking ones two sets of those I should say four

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total and then we have uh two that are kind of uh thinner and flimsier looking

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and I'm guessing they are different sizes based on looking at them initially

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and no they're not they're all for 120 mm so I'm guessing one of them mounts to

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a different spot on the cooler we've got some thermal paste and then we've got an

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included little uh wrench guy here so

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that's for this is great that's for securing this particular screw so you

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know what that is worth zooming in on so I'm just going to bring you all the way

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in you can check this out so when you're putting this screw in you can actually

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use the little wrench or you could just use a screwdriver like a normal human

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being and um that would also be quite

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effective so let's get all of this sort

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of cleared away off to the side and then I can tackle the cooler itself because

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we've been recording for a while out here without actually even looking at

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the cooler uh oh no more accessories right I forgot there's a fan oh that's

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kind of nice looking okay so it's got like a black outer shell and it's kind

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of a shiny shiny black and then the blades are kind of a striking yellow

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color which seems like something that wouldn't look very nice but in person

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it's actually pretty it's pretty good it's pretty good looking it looks kind

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of like the gilled wings so I'm going to I'm wondering if the Hub comes off looks

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like it doesn't so I'm guessing it is not using exactly the same design as the

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GED Wing I don't know what kind of a bearing it uses but it spins it anywhere

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from 1,00 to 18800 RPM depending on the input voltage all right that gives you

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some idea what's going on with the fan and then let's figure out uhoh I'm in

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trouble I'm in trouble I have no uh I

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have no knife and I'm encountering zip

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ties here also I have one more set of installation instructions and this is

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for 775 so I'm guessing that will outline the

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difference in the installation between 1156 and

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775 all right here we go so let's see if

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I can figure out some way to detach these I may just have to cut this clip

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off in the middle here because that is

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attached really really well one of these

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days I'll learn to keep a knife and a pair of scissors handy uh for my

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unboxings but until then I might just have to interrupt videos in the middle

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from time to time go get one it doesn't happen that often so uh yeah I might

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just never learn okay there we go so I've actually managed to remove the

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arrow from the box at this point and this is one huge cooler okay so I guess

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uh what can I easily use for scale I guess I'll use my hand for scale and

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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

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so as the uh outside of the box

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mentioned you've got four heat pipes these are absolutely enormous heat pipes

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I mean you can look at them compared to the width of a of a finger they are just

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huge 8 mm heat pipes and those go down to the base of the unit here so you can

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see that it is not a heat pipe direct touch heat sink although it's debatable

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whether or not that actually matters the engineering of the heat sink itself

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seems to be far more important I'll do the obligatory finger shot so you can

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see the base of the unit is quite shiny and I can't feel any Machining grooves

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in the bottom of it so they've done quite a nice job of finishing the base

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of this particular heat sink now the bottom piece I don't know if you can see

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that or not is soldered together so you should have pretty good contact there in

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terms of your thermals and then you know

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what this is something that obviously coage because it's a sister company of

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thermal has borrowed from thermal R and you can see that the Leading Edge of

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these fins is actually okay I don't know how I'm going to illustrate this but the

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Leading Edge of these fins ah here we go you can see it more from the side is

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actually slanted down and then the trailing Edge is actually slanted up and

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they do the same thing on each one where they they are improving the turbulence

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of the air flow through the heat sink and they're trying to make better use of

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the air that moves through these fins by causing it to change direction and make

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more contact with the actual metal of the of the fins that are attached to the

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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

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here and I'm going to grab the fan and show show you sort of all of the

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different places that can mount so the mounting system is actually pretty

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straightforward it's uh something we've seen a lot of times before so you got a

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couple holes up in the top of the of the unit so they're here here here here here

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here here and here you use the little fan Clips which are handily included in

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uh ample quantity for you you run those through the little holes and then you

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clip them onto the fan so I'm not going to bother doing that on camera but this

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is what it'll look like with a fan here

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okay this is what it will look like with a fan in the middle so basically you

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can't see the fan at all and remember too the middle is actually quite a bit

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too big for a 25mm fan and they've done that on purpose so you can actually

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install your own 38 mm thick fan if you want with this particular cooler I think

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that's about all there is to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the co gauge Arrow