 So I'll be doing this unboxing in a completely new location that you obviously won't recognize because it's completely new This is another room in my my new house where I've set up some lights, and I've got a little table I'm sitting on the floor. It's pretty ghetto for the moment, but it'll improve anyway today I'm going to be unboxing the co gauge or co gauge Arrow this is a CPU cooler And it is from a company that I had actually never heard of until they approached me About doing an unboxing and product showcase of their their arrow cooler now basically It's kind of like an offshoot of thermal right as far as I can tell and so that's kind of like what? What an as rock used to be to an asus, but that's different now either way Why don't we have a look at the basic specs of this guy to start with so I'm going to get the camera Remote man to zoom in on the box here, so it has support for socket 1366 socket 1156 as well as socket 775 and It doesn't say anything about support for oh yeah there. It is on the side, okay? So there's going to be a little bit more information on the side. I'm going to zoom in even further Oh, man, I hate not having a camera person's brutal, okay? So here on the side you can see it has four eight millimeter large centered heat pipes So those are nice thick heat pipes on there next thing nickel plated basin heat pipes in the heat sink by slowing oxidation Okay, I'm not sure if it improves the longevity, but what it does do is it improves the appearance over time because Oxidized copper looks horrible okay You've got a double fin stack design provides each tower impressive surface area Special aero fin design and we'll have a look at that in a minute Soldered heat pipes and copper base ensure all components maintain the highest level of thermal efficiency all right support for multiple platforms So am to an am three are optional then it includes a quiet one 20 millimeter fan and capable of supporting up to three fans For the ultimate enthusiast 38 millimeter fan will fit between the two towers. That's pretty cool You've got your dimensions here and a big one for coolers is always the weight. This is an 825 gram cooler, so that's almost two pounds So you can expect this to be a pretty big guy then you've got pure copper with nickel plating fan compatibility Okay, that pretty much takes care of the outside of the box, so why don't we start getting this thing opened up here? I'm gonna just kind of do that a little bit and that should be good enough All right, let's get it opened up here, so the first thing we will find inside is a black box Okay, not at all like the one on an airplane much more different black box thermal right used to never care about Like packaging, but you can see that with this code gauge or Kogage brand and actually with some of their more recent thermal right products They've actually got like a nice looking retail box And then they're using black cardboard for the insides instead of just plain Jane Brown cardboard I mean packaging is important whether you like it or not it is so why don't we figure out? How to open this box and then we'll go from there aha Just like this unless I'm mistaken which I could be but I only have one take to do these unboxings So I'm just gonna have to roll with it You know what I think I might have I think I might have been right here you go once you open that up all The accessories just kind of fall out here, so yeah, let's have a look at everything that's included with the arrow first thing I find is the The important before okay, so we have two copies of this and they both appear to be English Okay, so we have a separate instruction booklet for 1156 versus for 1366 and I'm trying to figure out why that would be I'll let you try and figure it out with me here You can look at the front because it looks like the instructions are actually the same I Mean obviously the back plates are gonna be different sizes the hold downs are gonna be slightly different sizes But the included component list is also the same So I'm gonna open these up and I'm gonna just kind of stare at it myself And see if I can figure out some way that these instructions differ from each other I guess I can also Maybe what I'll do is I'll hold this one up for you all to look at While I look at this one, and then I'll talk about all the steps So it's an eight step process to install this particular cooler You put the back plate on you put the whole there you put the brackets on top of the motherboard to put some thermal paste On then you put the hold down onto the heatsink install Anti-vibration strips on a fan install the fan clips and install the fan. Oh, this is a cool feature You can actually install either a 120 millimeter or a 140 millimeter fan that you can see in this last frame right here So that's pretty neat All right, so why don't we have a look at the actual hold downs here? So this appears to be one of them and this appears to be the other one So the 1156 hold down is also 775 compatible According to the instructions, although I don't see how that's really possible How does that work? Okay. Well, you know what? They say it works. I'm gonna go ahead and trust them on this one. Okay, so we've got two sets of Back plates hold downs and then brackets and then oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I see it now So the 775 one the hold down is a little bit wider So that it can either go on a 775 or an 1156 And then this is sort of the more interesting bag because there's actually different stuff in here Although I can't figure out how to get it open Why don't we do this? Okay, I'm trying not to destroy my table here Okay, so we have the little anti-vibration strips on the fan Okay, so we have the little anti-vibration rubber strips So I have one two three sets of those So like they said up to three fans. All right, then we have how many sets of fan clips? So we have two kind of thicker thicker looking ones two sets of those I should say four total and then we have two that are kind of thinner and flimsier looking and I'm guessing there are different sizes based on looking at them initially and And no, they're not they're all for 120 millimeters. So I'm guessing one of them mounts to a different spot on the cooler We've got some thermal paste and then we've got an included little Wrench guy here. So that's for this is great. That's for securing this particular screw So, you know what that is worth zooming in on so I'm just gonna bring you all the way in you can check this out so when you're putting this screw in you can actually use the little wrench or you could just use a screwdriver like a normal human being and That would also be quite effective so let's get all of this Sort of cleared away off to the side and then I can tackle the cooler itself because we've been Recording for a while now here without actually even looking at the cooler. Oh, no more accessories, right? I forgot there's a fan Oh, that's kind of nice looking. Okay, so it's got like a black outer shell and it's kind of a shiny shiny black And then the blades are kind of a striking yellow color, which seems like something that wouldn't look very nice But in person is actually pretty it's pretty good. It's pretty good looking it looks kind of like the gellid wings So I'm gonna I'm wondering if the hub comes off looks like it doesn't so I'm guessing it is not using exactly the same Design as the gellid wing. I don't know what kind of a bearing it uses but it spins it anywhere from 1,000 to 1800 RPM Depending on the input voltage All right, that gives you some idea what's going on with the fan and then let's figure out. Oh, I'm in trouble I'm in trouble. I have no I Have no knife and I'm encountering zip ties here Also, I have one more set of installation instructions and this is for 775 So I'm guessing that will outline the difference in the installation between 1156 and 775 All right, here we go. So let's see if I can figure out some way to detach these I may just have to cut this clip off in the middle here because that is attached really really well One of these days I'll learn to keep a knife and a pair of scissors handy for my unboxings But until then I might just have to interrupt videos in the middle from time to time to go get one it doesn't happen that often so Yeah, I might just never learn Okay, there we go So I've actually managed to remove the arrow from the box at this point and this is one huge cooler Okay, so I guess what can I easily use for scale? I guess I'll use my hand for scale and I'll zoom in a little bit here for you because you're gonna want to see this thing up a little bit closer All right. So as the Outside of the box mentioned you've got four heat pipes. These are absolutely enormous heat pipes I mean you can look at them compared to the width of a finger They are just huge 8 millimeter heat pipes and those go down to the base of the unit here So you can see that it is not a heat pipe direct touch heat sink Although it's debatable whether or not that actually matters the engineering of the heat sink itself seems to be far more important I'll do the obligatory finger shot So you can see the base of the unit is quite shiny and I can't feel any machining grooves in the bottom of it So they've done quite a nice job of finishing the base of this particular heat sink now the bottom piece I don't know if you can see that or not is soldered together So you should have pretty good contact there in terms of your thermals and then you know what? This is something that obviously Kogage because it's a sister company of thermal right has borrowed from thermal, right? And you can see that the leading edge of these fins is actually okay I don't know how I'm gonna illustrate this but the leading edge of these fins. Ah, here we go You can see it more from the side is actually slanted down and then the trailing edge is actually slanted up and they do the same thing on each one where they They are improving the turbulence of the airflow through the heat sink and they're trying to make better use of the air that moves through these fins by causing it to change direction And make more contact with the actual metal of the of the fins that are attached to the heat pipe So that's what they're going ahead and doing there. You know what? I'm gonna just take a brief moment here And I'm gonna grab the fan and show you sort of all of the different places that can mount So the mounting system is actually pretty straightforward. It's something we've seen a lot of times before So you got a couple holes up in the top of the of the unit So they're here here here here here here here and here you use the little fan clips Which are handily included in ample quantity for you you run those three little holes and then you clip them onto the fan So I'm not gonna bother doing that on camera, but this is what it'll look like with a fan here Okay, this is what it will look like with the fan in the middle So basically you can't see the fan at all and remember to the middle is actually quite a bit too big for a 25 millimeter fan and they've done that on purpose So you can actually install your own 38 millimeter thick fan if you want with this particular cooler I think that's about all there is to say about it. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Kogage Aero