 Welcome to an unboxing here on Linus Tech Tips. I actually have one of the applicants for my new assistant position holding the camera for me today and we are going to be unboxing his pick of all the things that are in the room right now to unbox and that is the NZXT Havoc 140. This is a new cooler from NZXT. Now their claim is it actually performs as well as the Noctua NH-D14 but looks cooler in their opinion. Although I do have to say that with those blades on the fan and that finish on the heatsink itself it does look pretty darn cool. Let's see what they have to say for themselves. We've got compatibility for socket 1155, 1156 and 775 as well as AM3, AM2 Plus, AM2 and remember that also means it's compatible with AM3 Plus because it will use the same mounting system. Specially designed rubber fasteners to reduce vibration and secure fans to heatsink. Alright, unique fan blades provide quiet 25 decibel operation, highly effective airflow, very nice okay. 6, 6 millimeter heat pipes with standard dual 140 millimeter fans for most efficient conductivity, sturdy mounting bracket, newly patented fins, exceptionally slice, passing air for increased ventilation. Now I thought these were just to look cool but I guess there's only one way to know for sure. 100% soldered copper base and aluminum fins with nickel plating to ensure resilience against deterioration quality and long life. I hope that it doesn't have resilience against long life and I really hope that they were actually talking about just the resilience against the deterioration and other things that were mentioned there. So let's go ahead and break the seal because that's what we do on this channel and how do I open the box? I don't know. From the bottom. Oh there's another seal! Alright, we get to break the seal twice on this product. Exciting. So let's see what NZXC has inside. So the first thing we find is a manual. It's not in color although I'm not really sure that color manuals are a necessary expense for coolers, especially when you have a nice blown up diagram like this that shows you where all the parts are going to go in order to install it on the Intel or AMD system. Okay on this side we've got our step-by-step although I mean just for quickness sake you're probably gonna want to use... I don't know these are just parts lists. I thought... are these in order? I can't tell. Let me see. Yeah yeah those look like they're in order of how it's held down. So at the end it's held down by a spring mounted bit and then it's just a matter of which mounting hardware you're putting over the socket of your motherboard. So first thing we find is a fan packed in very nice closed cell foam so there's definitely no risk of damage to that fan. It's got a very short connector on it and it's got black sleeving as well as a black connector so it should match your hardware fairly well. These are 140mm fans but they use that cool circular frame design which allows them to mount on 120 millimeter mounts compared to a square frame which would put those mounting holes a little bit further out. Alright we've got another fan much like the last one except more different. Alright we have some do not eat desiccant silica gel. Alright don't eat that please. And then we have, okay hold on, let's have a look at the mounting hardware first and then we'll do this the CPU cooler itself. So in terms of accessories we've got a bunch of stuff here so we've got what looks like, look at how thick that back plate is. Here let's take that out. Alright then what are these? These are rubber fasteners. Huh cool okay so we've got one two three four of those so these rubber fasteners are what allow us to mount the fans to the cooler. Alright we've got some various back plates and hold down mechanisms. These are very very thick check this out. If you manage to warp a motherboard with one of these installed on it then you're probably doing it wrong. This is the side for AMD look how thick that thing is. Here we'll do the iPhone thickness comparison that you guys all love so much. There you go so it's about the thickness of the glass on an iPhone. Alright so you got some plastic bits here just to make sure that it doesn't short out on your motherboard. Okay we've got some additional hold down pieces all made out of nice thick steel so you're not gonna have any difficulty with with those bending or coming loose in shipping. That can be a big concern with these heavy heat sinks because especially for NCIX I mean when we're shipping systems across the country it can be problematic if the system heat sink comes loose in transit and bangs around inside which has happened believe me and it's very very very bad. Alright there we go let's take out the heat sink itself and have a look. Lots and lots of heat pipes in this thing. This actually reminds me of the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme a little bit although more heat pipes for sure than the Ultra 120 Extreme had so there's actually six heat pipes which are all bent in a U configuration. It's got kind of a matte silver finish and then you can see that it's actually a fairly loose fin array so my expectation is that this is this cooler is going to perform best with low rpm fans which is indeed what NZXT has supplied with it. So let's have a look at how they've laid out the heat pipes here so you can see we have the six coming through on each side and then they either bend in like this or they bend not quite as much or they come out to the edge of the cooler. Now one good thing about a cooler like this versus something like a D14 regardless of performance because we haven't had a look at performance yet is that it is going to be more compatible with a wider variety of motherboards compared to a monstrosity like the D14 which is basically like two of these side-by-side where you can put a fan in the middle and a fan on either side so it's got some heft to it but again with this mounting mechanism I really wouldn't expect to run into any trouble with it putting it too much strain on your motherboard. We can do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see it's got some shininess to it although there is some definite some definite grain to the finish on the bottom although that does not necessarily impact performance in any way. Now in terms of mounting these fans you notice that they had very very short connectors on them so I just want to show you guys why that is. It's because we actually have an included splitter so you just go ahead hook both fans up to the splitter that came with it so you can put those on either side there we go whoops okay well it'll go kind of something like that you hook up the splitter and then you hook the whole thing up to your motherboard so this is what it'll look like once you've got the fans on it. It's about this big and we can do another iPhone shot just so that you guys can see the overall size of the unit itself in comparison to an iPhone and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Havoc 140. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this new heatsink which is actually the first heatsink for NZXT. So here's actually how these rubber mounting mechanisms work you take them and you screw them into the not screw them you put them into the fan like this and then you take these rubber bits here and then you pull them around the edge of where you would normally have like a mounting bar which is what we see on something like a thermal right cooler now they are a little bit tricky to get in there and I wouldn't mind if NZXT also included a mounting bar to go along with the rubber pieces but basically you put them behind there on both sides you have to kind of you know if I guess if we took like like a screw or something and sort of push that in there then we might have a little bit better luck. The good news is you only have to do this once I guess there we go so you put it under there and then that is what holds the fan on so you take four of those and then you can actually see that there's going to be a significant buffer between the fan and the heatsink itself which acts to help reduce the dead zone which is the area in the middle of the fan where there's obviously no airflow as well as reducing the vibration that can be transferred from the fan to the heatsink to the motherboard to your case.