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www.coolermaster-usa.com/team_curse for more details. Welcome to my unboxing and

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first look at the Zulman LQ 320 Ultimate

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Liquid Cooler. This is a 120 mm liquid

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cooler. Uses a lowprofile block design, quarterinch tubing. Um, it's an

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asetchbased design. So, what that means is you've got a very mature retention

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mechanism based on their ring mounting. So, we've seen this before. We're pretty

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familiar with it. The difference between this one and the 315 is the fact that

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the radiator is thicker. It comes with instructions for how to install the

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entire thing. But other than that, it is very similar to what we found with the

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315. So, what Zelman's done to differentiate this particular cooler

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from the other ones that are out there is a couple of things. So, number one,

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they're still using quarterinch tubing, which has advantages, such as the very

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tight bend radiuses that are possible. Radi radiuses radius. You know what? It

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doesn't matter. Um, they've added a blue LED to the block itself. So, it's got a

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plastic cover on it now, which we're actually just going to remove there.

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There we go. All right. So, it's an illuminated Z logo like that. And this,

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I think, is a pretty nice touch. So, they've added a faux brushed aluminum

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finish to the side of the radiator on both sides. So, that's using plastic,

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which is just I mean, honestly, it looks just as good as the actual aluminum

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finishes that you see, but it's not fingerprint and it's much easier to

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clean and all of that kind of good stuff. It also means that they've added

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these brass threads instead of just threading the actual shroud on the

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radiator itself. So, these should be a little bit easier to find the right

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threads and avoid stripping compared to just the uh the regular designs that

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we've seen in the past where it's just the uh the tank um the tank shroud

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itself that is just tapped with a uh with a tap. So, other than that, I mean,

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more thickness is more better in general. So, the thicker the radiator

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is, the more cooling performance you're going to get out of it. But, you need to

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have a pressure optimized fan. So, Zelman includes their ultra quiet fan

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here, which only mounts one way on the radiator. It should be noted because on

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the other side you don't actually have mounting holes. So you can see I'll hold

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it up this way just for a change of pace. You can see that it's here on this

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side and it's missing on this other side. So while you actually can go both

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ways on it if you don't have a seal

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around the frame of the radiator. So if you had it mounted this way, you're

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going to lose some of that performance. So, you're going to be drawing air

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through the fan this way, and some of it's going to come in from here and not

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actually be forced to pass through the fins themselves. So, that can affect

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your cooling performance. Uh, mounting hardware, as I

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said before, is included. Easy. 775,

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1155, 1156, 1366,

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2011, AM2, AM3, AM3 Plus, AM2 Plus, FM1,

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FM2. Pretty much whatever you want to mount it to, you can. The bottom of the

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block has a high quality thermal compound pre-applied to it. I would

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definitely recommend using this for your first application because it's good.

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It's not until you take the block off and then you need to reapply it that you

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have to replace it with some other thermal paste. So, thank you for

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