This is the Anttech cooler box. It's part of their new line of coolers. Okay,
this is a high performance CPU cooler. It's compatible with Intel and AMD. They
say it is an easy install kit, which we will find out in not too long from now.
The heat sink material is aluminum. It has eight 6 millm heat pipes, and I
think uh they're describing the way that it has four heat pipes going through the
base, and then each side uh goes up four
times. So, it's a total of eight effective heat pipes by using this dual
tower design. It uses a 120 mm PWM fan capable of
spinning from 700 to 2,000 RPM. And it
uses a four pin connector to power the fan. CPU support is everything. So, AM2,
AM2 Plus, AM3, LG75, LG 1156, and LGA
1366. With a lot of these coolers, performance is so close these days. It
really does come down to ease of installation, uh, the weight uh, that's
being put on your CPU socket
and aesthetic factors, other things like that, the intangibles. So, overall, I
like the look of it already. Let's go ahead and get this out of the box. I
like that they've got a bit of a darker finish on the aluminum that I'm
accustomed to seeing. Okay, so Wow, this
is a lot bigger than I had thought it was based on the box. I thought that the
box was going to be sort of more packing material and less cooler, but there's a
whole lot of cooler in there. So, the first thing we find inside is an
installation guide, which is zero text.
It is all picture. I love it. It must be
simple if they don't need to describe anything. Oh, and it's not even as many steps as I thought. The back is only two
steps. So, we're going to go ahead and figure out the installation a little bit
uh later. Not in this video. So, I'll be doing an installation video of it uh
hopefully sometime this week. Let's have a look at the mounting hardware that we
have included. So, first of all, we have a back plate. Then, we have a 1366 uh
back plate, an 1156 back plate. And these back plates are kind of unique in
that it looks like you actually just take an adhesive off, you put those
through the holes in the back of the motherboard, and there you go. So,
Anttech saves on materials. Um, and
everybody wins. You save on the cost of this particular heat sink and you don't
actually lose any structural integrity here. These should be just fine. These
are quite thick pieces of metal even though you're just using two strips on
either side of the back. Very in innovative. Here's an AM2 bracket.
Here's 775. Oh, what is this for then?
Now, just a minute.
How does this work?
Okay. Well, we'll figure that out in the installation guide. Oh, these must be the top pieces. So, some of these are
back plates, some of them are top pieces, and we'll have to sort of sort
that out later. Here's a little wrench. It's very adorable.
Some Dinatron uh thermal compound.
And then we have two sets of uh thumb
screws, one for AMD and one for Intel. So, I'm going to go ahead and assume the
AMD one just uses the stock AMD back plate and these Intel ones are threaded
for the Anttech back plates that are included. Now, let's have a look at the
cooler box itself. You can see right here, it does use a direct touch
mechanism for the bottom. So, you're not going to be able to demonstrate that
it's completely flat because that's not really the point of these, but I'll do
the obligatory finger shot thing anyway that everyone always complains about.
You know what? Too bad. Uh, it seems to be machined quite flat. There are some
slight ridges between the heat pipes and the aluminum bits in between, but that
is to be expected. They're quite shiny heat pipes.
I've seen shiny ones and not shiny ones. I don't know that it makes any
difference to cooling performance whatsoever. In fact, I suspect it
doesn't, but h that doesn't really matter. They've kindly labeled the
airflow for you on this one. So, here we go. Let's have a look at the fins. First
of all, the fins are what I would consider about a medium density. So,
they're not super tight, but they're also not super wide. So, that means that
you're going to have you're going to have to have a fan that finds a good
balance of static pressure to uh pure
CFM in between. Now, Anttech is using what appears to be a custom fan, and I
don't know if you're going to be able to replace it. So, that could be uh a
slight problem for people who like to replace the stock fans that are included
with their heat sinks. Although, I mean, depending how well this one performs,
there may be no need to replace it. The top uses the uh the tower heat sinks on
either side and then it uses a metal. And I love to see that this is made
actually I think it's metal. That's metal, right? Yeah, it's metal.
I think yeah, it's metal. It uses a metal plate on top with an antec logo.
I'm so I don't I'm not a big fan of seeing like
uh plastic bits all over. And while they do use plastic for the fan shroud, that
doesn't matter to me nearly as much because when this is installed in my case, it looks like this. I don't really
see this part, but I do see the nice brushed finish that they have on that
Anttech logo on the top.
And I guess there's not really too much else to say about it at this point. You
can see that the fan blades do stick down a little bit below where the fins
of the heat sink actually reach. And so I'm guessing what you're going to get is
a little bit of incidental air flow that's going to cool these little heatsink fins down here that sit
directly over the CPU. And it's also going to do a fair bit of cooling for
the motherboard components that are around the CPU socket. So, a good
example of that would be uh these PWM
heat sinks that you'll find on or VRM, PWM, whatever you want to call them. The
voltage regulator heat sinks you find on many motherboards should receive a
little bit of incidental air flow from that. Something that you don't get with
a lot of tower heat sinks. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
Anttech cooler box. I'll be hoping to bring you some cooling results as well
as an installation video in the next little