Thermalright Venomous X Heatpipe CPU Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,163 words · ~5 min read
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so today I'm going to be having a quick look at a product that you probably
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don't recognize because normally thermal R products come in a brown box but it
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looks like they've gone away from their completely boring packaging and they've
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decided to go with a black box with actual words on it other than just
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thermal right okay but that's here too obviously and then they've actually gone
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with like a shiny venomous X green sort
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of logoeyelash
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5 so it is completely up to date in terms of the CPUs it supports and this
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is the successor to the famous or inFAMOUS or whatever it is the legendary
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Ultra 120 extreme so this is what thermal right is saying is going to beat
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it handily so let's have a look at what is included in our accessory pack first
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this is a nice box actually look it's all thermal r on the inside it's even
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black on the inside that looks that looks great okay so
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accessories all right it comes in a nice little assembly package look at that so
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it includes how exactly does this work okay
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so it includes you know what I'm not going to bother taking this out because I think it should be pretty
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straightforward but we've got one okay actually maybe it's not that
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straightforward yeah I better take this out okay hold on if I can figure out how
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this baggie comes apart then I would uh go ahead and do
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that I got it I got it no I don't got it
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you know what let's pull out the instructions and go for from there oh I have a knife now excellent okay let's
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have a look at the instructions first that might make life simpler okay so
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here's how it works you have a multiple support back plate so that has 775 1156
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and 1366 holes you put these uh thumb screws onto it and then from there you
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install the anchoring bracket Mount okay
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and then you have little like thumb nuts that go onto those screws that we
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applied before so I guess that goes on top of the
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board yeah yeah so these spacers first
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so the back plate is alone then these spacers then this is on top of the
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spacers and then this holds it down and then you use the pressure adjustable
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mounting plate and this is one of the big Innovations they've made with the venomous X because a lot of people were
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able to get better performance out of the ultra 120 extreme by actually
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adjusting how tight it mounted down on the CPU so now they're just building
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that functionality right in so you can adjust it okay and then you Ed the
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standard thermal rate fan Clips in order to mount the fan and let's see yeah
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we've got a diagram right here of exactly how all of that works so you can
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see this is going to be the motherboard surface here and then you've got your
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little nuts and then you've got your hold down plate so it's all nice and
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chrome and shiny on the top and then the back plate is just a standard sort of
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black all right and there's the the adjustable knob for the mounting
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pressure okay so let's keep moving next we've got a thermal right sticker for
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your case or your wall or wherever you want to put it next we've got an
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assembly package oh this is just contents to make sure you you can do a
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double check before you get started that everything is there oh they even include
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a little wrench for tightening the adjustable mounting pressure thing that's pretty nice all right then we've
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got a piece of foam and then we have the coveted venomous X
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itself nice and protected in there it's a very nice box sorry I know I'm kind of
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harping on the box but it's uh I
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approve okay so they've changed the look of it a little bit from the ultra 120
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extreme first of all okay the first thing I noticed is that you've got
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little um little jutting out pieces of
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metal okay so that gives you a little bit can you really tell what it looks
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kind of weird but all it is is it's a different shape from the top down okay
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they've got the same thing that they were doing before where the one side uh
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tips up and the other side tips down and I'm I believe that is to create more
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turbulence as the air is flowing through the heat sink which means more more uh
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more surface contact between the heat sink and the air and more heat exchange
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all right so let's have a look from the side you can see what I mean here where
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you can see that on this side they Point down and on this side they point up okay
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oh the cameraman's checking out these six heat pipes that go down one side and
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then up the other side and then the thermal right logo that you've got on
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the top thermal right's never been about like you know weird plastic shrouds or
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anything like that they go with a simple elegant look and I do really really like
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it nice and shiny all right then we'll have a look at the other side which
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basically looks like the first side that we looked at okay so let's keep moving
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on from there so there you have it they've jammed as many heat pipes as
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they realistically possibly can into as
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small a space as possible now we don't have heat pipe direct touch with this
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particular heat sink but uh personally I've yet to see any evidence that that
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actually improves things on its own um you're far better off with a with a
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well-engineered heat sink that doesn't include heat pipe direct touch versus a
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poorly engineered one that does and remember too that not all heat pipes are
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created equal thermal does use a special
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gous liquidy uh substance inside their heat pipes that other manufacturers do
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not and they claim it does help them conduct heat better so let's do the
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obligatory finger shot here you can see that is incredibly shiny that's a mere
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finish you can see my hand no matter how far back I move away if you can yeah you
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can yeah you see that's very shiny anyway thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of the thermal R venomous X can
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I see you through