Zalman LQ310 120mm CPU Liquid Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zelman lq 310 this is an all-in-one
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liquid CPU Cooler it has a built-in pump with slim water block copper base and
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microfins to maximize cooling performance high capacity radiator used for high heat dissipation additional 120
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mm fan can be installed durable and long lasting tubes environmentally friendly
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anti-corrosion coolant and Slick seems to be bothered by the plastic that is
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all over the package because it makes it hard for him to see anything cuz you
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know cameras and plastic and Reflections and all that so
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we're come on you can do this lonus you
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can do this so we are going to get this bad boy opened up and have a look at
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what is inside I am fully expecting to
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find a water cooling unit inside
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although I could be surprised it's a clone no it's a water cooler
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okay so the first thing we see here is the
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manual so this is for the lq series shows us the compatibility LGA 2011 1366
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1156 1155 fm1 am3 plus am3 am2 am2 plus
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fm2 as well everything so basically it's compatible with whatever you want and
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has nice little Graphics here for how to install all the various parts with great
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nice big pictures and all that kind of stuff I mean at this point these things
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are these these pre-filled liquid cooling units are pretty out there so
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you've probably encountered one at some point or another all the mounting screws
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and Hardware that you could possibly need for all the different sockets this
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is the Intel back plate for 775 1155
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1156 and 1366 Intel hold down swappable
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piece here AMD hold down AMD back plate and LGA 2011 is done a slightly
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different way next up we've got the fan
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itself so I personally wish they'd gone with a different style fan for this this
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particular product you can see here there are only mounting holes on one
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side which does give it a cleaner look when it's installed and I understand why
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they did this because what this does do is it decreases the potential
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interference with other stuff around the
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back 120 mm slot on your case see
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because there's not these Corners where you know you might have stuff coming up here so I understand why they did this
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but it does not give me the option to put the fan on on the other side because
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I'm going to have uh well I'm not going to be able to mount it or I will be able
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to mount it but air will leak around and I won't get optimal cooling out of it
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you can see it also has some shapeliness to it here which presumably is for
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quietness or or some kind of you know optimized reason but I would have
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preferred to have that mounting flexibility it is a pwm fan however
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which is better than what most people are including with these pre-done water cooling kits so at least it'll run very
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very quiet next we've got the radiator itself so so this is a slim radiator
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which improves compatibility with cases however if you're going for maximum
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overclocks you're going to want a thick radiator or a dual radiator liquid
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cooling unit the bottom has a highquality thermal compound pre-applied
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to it this is a full copper water block including the copper fins on the inside
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so you don't have to worry about any corrosion or any kind of nonsense like
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that not to mention it's got an anti-corrosive coolant inside and we've
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got a zman logo on the top the tubes are extremely high quality so you can see
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you can twist those up as much as you want so even if like it's installed here
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and your CPU socket was like here you wouldn't have to worry about the tubes
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kinking or anything like that there's nothing kinky about this particular
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water cooling
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product I think that actually pretty much wraps it up power for the pump is
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provided by a three pin connector which is black overall this thing looks
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outstanding because everything's sort of black and silver and it's going to look
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