WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:07.600 So today we're going to be unboxing a pretty new product. I actually know 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:11.920 nothing about this. I am going in cold on the Archon CPU cooler from 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:16.080 Thermalite. So you can see it comes in their traditional brown box packaging 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:19.840 because Thermal Wright's philosophy is spend money on developing the product 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:23.039 and making it awesome and not on developing the box and making it 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.320 awesome. The performance should speak for itself. We've got a Thermal Wright 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:33.600 sticker included. We also have instruction guides for LGA775, 1156, and 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:36.239 1366, as well as AM2, AM2 Plus, and AM3. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:41.920 And then we have a little assembly package contents listy thing. So, here 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:45.920 is all of our stuff for Intel. Here's our stuff for AMD. Here's our common 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:50.480 components, and some more common components, including a tool, fan clips 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:54.239 for dual fans, as well as thermal compound. And I have no idea. I guess 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:58.480 we'll find out. So, the first thing we find in the box 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:03.440 is a thermal right fan. So, this is a 140 mm fan. All right. It has a sleeved 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.119 cable which uses a pretty good quality sleing. It's a 4 pin PWM fan. And why 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:12.000 don't we just kind of go ahead and take that off? I actually have one of these already. It's quite quiet. I'm really 00:01:10.479 --> 00:01:16.960 pleased with the overall quality of this fan. And I'm very, very fussy about 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:22.720 fans. I'll have you guys know. Uh that's why I use uh a quadruple and a dual 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:27.040 radiator in my own machine at home in order to cool a CPU and a single 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:33.600 graphics card. It's all about having silent silent performance for me. So 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:38.479 thermalite is obviously a pretty good choice. All right, what do we got here? 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:42.560 We have accessories. So this is going to be everything that was on that little 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.640 list. So let's go ahead and dump this out and find out what we got. Oh, and 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:51.439 this is going to be the Oh, no. It was going to be the debut of my new unboxing 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:58.840 knife, but instead it will just be me borrowing the Crazy Russians knife and 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:58.840 uh opening this up. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:14.400 All right, cool. So, the first thing, let's talk about these. These are little 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:17.520 rubber pads that you put on the corners of your fans to keep them from 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:22.400 transferring vibrations to your CPU cooler. Did I mention thermal right is 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.680 optimized for quiet performance. These 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.200 are little rubber pieces. As far as I 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:30.560 know, these have the same effect. So, I guess they're giving you two options. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:36.959 Hold on. Maybe I'm missing something here. Why don't we find out? There's 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:41.400 only one way to know for sure. 00:02:36.959 --> 00:02:41.400 So, what are they saying those are for? 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.760 Well, this is madness. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:52.040 I thought they were for the same thing. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:01.120 There's nothing in the instructions about it at all. Okay. Well, moving forward, I will assume they are for the 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:05.280 same thing. Here's our fan clips. So, we have four wire clips to mount two fans. 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:09.519 So, we can run this in pushpull. We have our included tool, which has a wrench as 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.760 well as another more different wrench. Okay, we have our little thumb screw 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:17.920 here. We have this piece. Aha, the thumb screw came out of here. So, this is the 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:22.400 hold down for tightening it down right there. All right. And that's what that 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:26.400 wrench is for. One of the sides. Anyway, here we have our AMD mounting hardware. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:31.440 I love Thermal Wright's mounting hardware because everything is solid. I 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:35.519 mean, here, look, it's all made out of like steel. You can't you can't bend it. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.840 It doesn't bend. It's solid. You've got a nice thick back plate, nice thick hold 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:43.920 down plate. Same goes for the Intel. You've got these nice steel back plates 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:47.680 and hold down plates. That means that not only Oh, yeah. thermal compound as 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:52.640 well. That means that not only is the system going to be 100% okay when it's 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:56.480 sitting in one place in terms of not falling off your motherboard, but even 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:00.080 you can ship thermal right coolers. Uh, at NCIX, the store where I work, 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.400 hopefully most of you know that by now, we actually do ship a lot of systems and 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:08.560 Thermalite coolers are among the best ones for shipping because even though 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:12.560 they're heavy and bulky, they use an appropriate mounting system that doesn't 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:16.799 rely on wussy push pins or anything like that in order to ensure that nothing bad 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:20.720 happens during shipping because you got a lot of weight hanging off your socket. 00:04:18.799 --> 00:04:24.880 So, if you reinforce it with a good back plate and a solid hold down, that's 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:28.320 going to go a long way towards having it not fall off. So, this thing is 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:33.520 monstrous. Look at this. Okay. Well, we'll do the obligatory finger shot, 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:34.639 which you can see is just completely a 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:40.080 mirror finish. So, I'm just going to have a quick look. This is a convex 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:45.040 base. I can tell from uh looking at my reflection back at me, which means that 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:49.440 the very middle of it is slightly higher than the outsides. And so combined with 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:54.560 their high-pressure mounting system which you can see right here that gives 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:58.560 you optimal contact with the CPU directly over the die under the heat 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:03.360 spreader where all of the heat is being produced. So that is why they've gone 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:08.800 with that particular design characteristic of the Archon heatsink. 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:14.000 Now this is clearly a 140 mm heatsink because it's clearly bigger than a 120 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:16.400 mm heatsink and it uses a whopping six 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:23.360 heat pipes in a U shape. So that means you have effectively 12 heat pipes to 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:25.120 transfer heat all along this heat sink. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.400 But one thing I also want you guys to note here is you see how there's a bit 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:33.039 of a gap in the middle. That's for a very good reason because no matter what 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:36.960 fan you're putting on it, most of the cooling, most of the air flow is going 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:40.960 to be at the outside. So you can see right over that fan hub. So the hub is 00:05:39.039 --> 00:05:44.240 this part in the middle. There's no heat pipes carrying heat. And then as soon as 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:49.039 we get out where the blades are going to be blowing air, we've got lots of heat 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:54.080 pipes. So we've got actually dual ranks of heat pipes times three. Six heat 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:59.120 pipes up up each side of the Archon cooler. The top uses kind of a matte 00:05:56.320 --> 00:06:02.639 finish, okay? But very very slick, very professional looking, but not very 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:07.120 shiny, okay? Compared to the base, which is extremely shiny. And the heat pipes 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:10.720 use sort of a semi shiny finish on them. We've also got some interesting some 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:15.520 other interesting aspects here. So instead of going with a completely 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:18.639 straight fin, Thermalite has actually done a couple of things. They've taken 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:23.440 the fins and they've bent them like this, which is going to give you slightly more surface area and slightly 00:06:21.919 --> 00:06:28.319 more turbulence when you're blowing air through it. And then they've also gone 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:34.400 and uh uh riged them a little bit this way. So that from my experience anyway 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:40.000 and from what I've seen is able to allow you to reduce the noise slightly by 00:06:37.919 --> 00:06:42.880 making the air flow going through it, making the heat sink slightly more 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.960 aerodynamic as you push the air through it. So it's a fine line because you want 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.199 to increase turbulence to get better cooling. Remember, more turbulence is 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:54.000 more cooling. If you had fins that were wavy like this throughout the whole 00:06:52.720 --> 00:07:01.520 thing, that would give you better cooling than straight fins or even slightly rippled fins. But you would 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:03.599 really sacrifice on the noise because 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:07.520 moving the air around like that makes it a lot more whooshy sounding, a lot more 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:12.160 noisy. So, thank you for checking out this unboxing of the Thermalite Archon 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:15.759 CPU cooler and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:18.160 guides, reviews, all kinds of great stuff.