welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zelman cnps 20 lq now the cnps now
if you guys have been PC Enthusiast for
long enough you'll remember what that
actually stands for speaking of which I think I still have one of the
first like Enthusiast grade products
that I ever bought see if I can find it ah
yes no this isn't ah this isn't the one I was thinking of the first one I bought
was actually a cnps 7,000 which was the
original uh flower from zman this is a
7700 the only difference being that it uses a 120 mm fan and the other one that
I had was a pure copper one that weighed
a ton cool really well well for back in
the day anyway okay okay so cnps case noise prevention system or something
along those lines uh if I'm if I'm wrong if I don't remember exactly correct
please please do leave a comment and let me know but either way we've come a long
way so this is a liquid cooling unit liquid sealed water cooler for easy
installation and freedom from maintenance built-in pump within water block minimizes tubes therefore
increasing reliability that that is actually true more joints is more points
of failure micro fins made of pure copper inside the water block provide
excellent heat transfer so that is referring to the block right here durable and long-lasting tubes are easy
to bend allowing easy installation if these are the ones I think they are then that much is true as well low profile
water block design enhances air flow inside the chassis this hey this can be
a factor guys like check this out so over here this is my uh IV Bridge test
bench and you can see here that um the
vrm coolers so around here on the voltage regulation modules do require
some active air flow so when you have a fan on here they obviously get some
however if you have a big bul bulky water cooler what that can do is it can
actually impede the air flow around the CPU socket area uh causing it to
overheat which can cause it to be less stable so if you have a nice low profile
CPU water block then you should be less likely to run into any difficulty with
that so here we
are comes with a pwm fan that runs at
2,000 RPM at full speed inside we find some foam we find a
users manual which uh looks pretty
straightforward okay then we find the unit itself it's got a bit of a
different look now this is an acch oem unit so if you guys are familiar with
what that means you'll know that it means you've got uh a fairly bog
standard set of mounting hardware so you see here these are all labeled 775 11 56
and 1366 are all on there you can see we've
got uh AMT retentions right here we've
also got our Intel hold down here and then with these clips right here I
believe it should be compatible with socket 2011 or LGA 2011 so you got all
the various oh it might be this one Whatever you've got all the various
retentions that you need for 775 fm1
1156 1155 1366 2011 am3 am3 plus am2 am2
plus pretty much whatever you need comes with a zman fan
pwm fairly long wire on it so you can run that to wherever it is that you need
to go seems to be a fairly sturdy construction compared to the fans that
you usually see included with these uh prefabbed water cooling doodads a little
plastic cover here and we find something
that looks pretty familiar at this point
so one key difference that we find is that it does use the more rubbery style
of tubing what this does is this minimizes the amount of evaporation that
can occur compared to ah these ones over
here these kinds of uh more plastic tubings they're also much much easier to
Route so these tubes are not they will Kink if I go much further than that
whereas this guy right here is capable
of being tied up into a knot without actually kinking due to the thick
of the wall so having a thin wall tubing means you are more prone to kinking
whereas having a thick wall tubing means you are less prone to kinking there's no
performance Advantage either way but it definitely gives you more flexibility in
terms of like if your CPU socket happens to be here or here or here or here like
here then no big deal now you've also got some more installation flexibility
where you're using uh rotating fittings
right here so you don't have to worry about any leaks or anything like that you've also got pre-applied thermal
compound this is air good quality thermal compound so if this is the first
time you're installing it I wouldn't recommend replacing it with something else you're going to want to just go
ahead and install that right on there it's only if you take it off and need to
reapply it you need to clean both your CPU and the surface and then uh reapply
thermal compound now for the radiator we see it's using a thick style radiator so
you're going to see better performance than you would with a thin 120 mm rad
although not quite as good as you'd see with a thin dual 120 mm rad like the one
over there on the h 100 that's running on my IV Bridge test bench and I think
that pretty much covers it as far as other installation tips go the last
thing I do is whenever possible you want to install it with the barbs up on the
radiator sorry pardon me uh barbs down because what that means is any air
pockets will be isolated here rather than constantly cycling through your
Loop and making noise as they pass through the pump which is contained in
the CPU block here and I think that pretty much covers
it thank you for check checking out this unboxing and First Look video at the Zan
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and other computer videos and doesn't this have a sharp look with the blue on
the sides of the radiator as long as you got like a blue theme going on in your
case that's going to look really good might not work with you know sorry I got
my salad here just put that away might not work with like a red themed system
like this one but if you have a blue themed system that should look really sharp