today on my video blog we will be continuing our theme of floral backdrops
for unboxings which is uh quite tasteless but effective
nonetheless so today i'm going to be unboxing the prolimatech mega halems for
no particular reason other than i've heard good things about it i wanted to
have a look at it and i was walking around in the warehouse and i saw it so
i grabbed it so that's that's the that's the whole reason for it so why don't we
see what it says on the box so this is compatible with 775 and 11 or 1366
pardon me and that's pretty much all it says oh it weighs 790 grams holy cow so
that's well over a pound attached to your CPU socket
now hopefully it has a pretty impressive retention mechanism and i'm kind of
assuming it does but we'll find out soon enough okay so first thing you're going
to find when you open up the box is your user manual which shows you everything
it's supposed to come with and it labels everything so it comes with a heat sink
a couple back plates an aluminum strip adapter double end stud width not screw
nut aluminum mounting plate screw loaded okay you can probably read that it comes
with some thermal compound as well and here are your installation instructions
so let's see step one is install the back plate and put the screws in and
then step two is apply thermal paste that's pretty straightforward well we'll
try and figure it out as we take this thing out here so why don't we see what's included first
and if i could get this out then i'd be able to have a
pretty good look at it um okay well i think you're supposed to
take the heatsink out first i'm just gonna grab that and then we'll yeah here
we go so you lift this up to get at the accessories
and here they are so let's see
inside here we will find more plastic bags oh there we go so first there's a
prolimatech thermal compound it looks an awful lot like arctic cooling mx2 which
it probably is rebranded and then we've got a couple of thumb screws okay with
springs then we have four thumb nuts with no springs
then we have two back plates this is a 775 back plate and this is a 1366 back
plate and then we have
what are these these must be the aluminum mounting
strip adapters awesome not sure exactly
how we use those and then these are the double ended
uh thumb wow i guess they'd be screws so why
don't we take out the heatsink itself and have a look i'm actually not going
to attempt to figure out the mounting mechanism on camera because i'm probably
just going to end up embarrassing myself if i try and do that but i just wanted
to have a look at the construction of this unit okay so as we pull it out we can see
it's a very very shiny heat sink and there's actually a
foam spacer in between two distinctly different halves of the unit here so you
can see that it's quite a dense fin arrangement so you're going to
need a fan with that generates decent static pressure in order to best take
advantage of this particular heatsink then on the bottom here you can see
these are the are those the adapters for these i can't
even tell no no nope not going to try let's have a look at the bottom of the
heatsink so i'm just going to do the obligatory
finger shot where i hold my finger here and you have a look at the reflectiveness it is clearly not flat
although it is quite polished but what it does appear to have is a bow to it so
you're going to want to mount a heat sink like this nice and tight in order
to take advantage of the incredible mounting pressure you can get with a
bowed base that means it comes out like this okay so then this is six heat pipes
in total all of which make contact quite close to the base of the heatsink and
thank you for checking out my video blog on the unboxing of the prolimatech mega
halems