Packaging and Contents
The Cogage Arrow is packaged in a very striking, sleek cardboard box which displays an image of product, specifications and some information about its features.
Out of the box, Cogage supplies a healthy dose of fan clips, which is a postive aspect, especially when coupled with the knowledge that most companies supply clips for a single fan and make you buy the rest if the product requires more fans. There are two 120x25mm and one 120x38mm clip sets, they also support 140mm fans. Cogage also supply Thermalright’s old Chill Factor (revision one) thermal compound, a glossy case sticker and six vibration strips to dampen the fans on the cooler.
The supplied Intel mounting kit supports all recent LGA775/1156/1366 platforms. The kit itself is rather basic as compared to the Venomous X, perhaps even cutting costs. Unlike Thermalright’s Venomous X, the Cogage Arrow does not include the pressure mounting mechanism. Thermalright informed  Overclockers Tech that they did test this cooler using such a system, and results showed little to no increase in performance!  Cogage, like many manufactures, don’t supply an AM2/AM3 mounting kit out of the box. However this mounting (optional) kit used by the Venomous X also works for the Cogage Arrow!
See here (scroll down to see the AM3 kit).
Four huge heatpipes jump out straight away which does look impressive.  These copper heatpipes have been nickel plated and soldered to a copper (nickel alloy) base.
At a first glance the cooler looks very much like an IFX-14 and nothing of importance has changed. The few changes that are noted are the fins and the plates have been changed to a design much like the Venomous X. Their are now one hundred and ten plates on the cooler I.E fifty five for each section. The thickness has also increased from 0.25 to 0.35mm and the distance between the fins increased from 1.5 to 1.8mm.
The base, like the IFX-14 is convex. We didn’t have a razor blade handy, nor an accurate camera picture, but the base please looks to be a lot better than that of the IFX-14.
Unlike Thermalright, Cogage supply a 120x25mm fan. There are no specifications on the sound levels, nor CFM detailed, however it does state that it is a 1000 to 1800RPM model PWM fan. At 1000 to 1400RPM it is fairly quiet and still pushes quite a bit of air for the noise level it produces.
We took some pictures to compare the size and attributes of both Noctua NH-D14 (left), and Cogage Arrow (right). Both are a similar height and do look very capable of serious cooling.
Who wins? – Keep on reading.
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