Prolimatech Armageddon 140mm Extreme CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so today we have a special guest operating the camera um henceforth
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referred to as the cameraman since I'd lack another nickname for someone
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operating a camera so today we're going to be unboxing the prolimatech
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Armageddon CPU Cooler this is for socket 1366 and 1156 motherboards it's uh
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without sacrificing space I'm not sure exactly what that means but it comes
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with 100% brwn I actually saw this
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package on our Shelf and I was like yeah I got to unbox that because it is an
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exceptionally cool package they've got their Armageddon branding here with
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their Flames coming off of it and then they've got their uh silvery kind of
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shiny logo on here it looks really cool it kind of looks like a smiling guy like
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there's his unibrow and there's his eyes and nose and mouth and then you pull
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this off somehow it actually has instructions here so you flip and lift
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so why don't we do that actually let's have a quick look at the specs first so
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we've got the heat SN Dimensions here which you can probably read as long as
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as the camera is focusing all right today it comes with aluminum fins lead
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free solder on all the contact points it's made of copper for the heat pipes
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and base and it is nickel plated on the heat pipes and base and then the fins
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are aluminum so they don't need to be nickel plated it weighs 750 G without a
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fan so that's almost 2 lb hanging off your CPU socket and thanan compatibility
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is 140 mm x 140 mm by 25 mm so we
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flip and then lift ooh oh look at this you can actually see
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through a window you can see the prolimatech uh logo just like that okay
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but we don't need that anymore okay so we just slide everything out all in sort
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of one go here and then the first thing we find is a user's manual so this shows
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all of the stuff that comes with the Armageddon as well as uh little
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illustration okay and you got a little list here so you can go through and make
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sure that everything is there then we have the instructions on how to install
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the Armageddon so here it is steps 1 to
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four to six sorry 1 2 3 4 5 six and some
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of these are sort of multiple steps in one but overall the process looks quite
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simple and I wouldn't worry about not being able to do it or anything like
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that so in here we have an accessory
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pack which contains all of the stuff on that list so we've got a prolimatech uh
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thermal compound which looks an awful lot like MX2 so it's probably pretty
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good then we have
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the bracket so these actually go where
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do these go this is an interesting mounting system I'm um I'm not really
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sure I understand why it's so beefy but it's kind of cool I guess because you've
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got like these huge huge aluminum chunks I feel like they're made out of aluminum
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although I could be wrong and then so those go on your CPU socket just like
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that and then you actually have a bolt through and that Hardware is probably
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prob in here that goes all the way through your
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motherboard and then secures somehow so yeah here's some huge uh thumb screws
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and a bunch of other stuff press here okay cool here's a back plate this back
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plate is compatible it looks like with 1156 1366 as well as 775 although they
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don't advertise 775 compatibility on the box so it's possible it doesn't include
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the hold down here we go here's the Armageddon so the first thing you notice
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about it is that this is a natively supporting 140 mm cooler so most of the
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tower heat sinks I've seen in the past are actually quite a bit narrower and
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the reason for that is that they only support 140 mm as an afterthought
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they're a 120 mm heat sink that kind of has Clips on it for 140 mil so this
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wideness is what's going to give you the ability to take all of these heat pipes
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and line them up within each fin within
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each side of the fins so here we've got actually a total of 1 2 3 4 5 six
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standard size heat pipes so these look like 6 mm heat pipes uh they don't look
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like the larger 8mm ones but we've got six of them that are all coming out of
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the base so the ones that go through the middle of the base are actually going
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out to the very outside of the heat sink and there's a very specific reason for
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that and that's because the outside of the heat sink is where you're actually
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going to get the most air flow because of the shape of a Fan's blades so that's
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why all the ones that are at the very outside are actually kind of in the
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Middle where they're not going to be nearly as useful let me see if there's
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something else we can say about it so we got kind of a shiny top on the top and
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you can sort of probably see my face if I can look at the camera in that so it's
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very very very shiny I'll do the obligatory uh finger shot here where you
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can see how reflective it is it's also very flat so when you have this
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installed in your case it's going to look um so you'll B basically be able to
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look at yourself through it we've got the aluminum fins are quite dense
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actually so you're going to want to pick a f that's got reasonably good static
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pressure because some heat sinks will actually have more spacing in between
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the fins now that comes at a cost to Performance because it won't perform
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quite as well but the advantage of having the tight packed fins is that if
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you do have a high pressure fan you can get more performance out of it whereas
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the low density fins if you have a low performance fan then you can actually
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get better performance out of it than a densely tacked fin arranger so I hope
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that wasn't too confusing the camera says no I guess
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um and I think that pretty much wraps up my unboxing of the prolimatech
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Armageddon thank you for checking it out and don't forget to subscribe and that's
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pretty much it thanks for watching my blog yeah I forgot to show the shininess
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of the base so there it is get the angle there you can see the reflection of the
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finger it's not that reflective but it is a slightly bod Bas so you're going to
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get good contact pressure out of it and that is by design that it's not
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completely flat so you never want a lap a heat sink with a bow base I'm just
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kind of guessing it has a bow base based on looking at the reflection of a
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straight line through it and seeing that it has a bit of a a curve to it you
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won't be able to see that in the camera but um I'm pretty sure they would all
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come with one if this one does I hope it wasn't intended to be flat because then
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I sort of have ruined everything now haven't I thank you for watching my blog
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and now we're actually done