Thermalright Ultima-90I

Package and Accessories

Thermalright packaging didn’t change at all: it is exactly the same as for all the other cooling solutions we reviewed before. The same brown cardboard with two things written down on it: the company name on the top and the cooler model name on the side of the box:

Inside this box there is a polyurethane foam casing that holds the cooler and a small box with accessories:

• Universal backplate;
• Installation manual;
• Retention kits for all supported socket types;
• A set of screws, springs and rubber rings;
• Two rubber strips with one sticky side;
• Two wire clips for attaching a 120 x 120 x 25mm fan;
• Two wire clips for 92 x 92 x 25mm fan;
• Thermalright thermal compound.

Like all other cooling systems from this vendor, Thermalright Ultima-90I ships without a fan. Here I would like to say that there are two points of view on this aspect. On the one hand, without the fan the cooler is obviously less expensive and the user is free to choose any fan he wants (or use the cooler in passive mode without any fan at all). But on the other hand, there are a few types of fans with different characteristics. For example, you can differentiate the fans depending on the air pressure or airflow used, which is also pretty important for heatsinks of different cooler types. So, the cooler manufacturer should actually know best of all what type of fans with what rotation speed would be optimal for their solution. With Thermalright, this choice is solely in users’ hands, and in most cases they have no opportunity to try a few different types of fans to find the best one. Anyway, every overclocker can actually decide on the most suitable approach for himself, especially since there are a lot of really good cooling systems in the market these days (according to my estimates, every month there appear about 2-3 new high-quality cooling solutions). So let’s get back to discussing Thermalright Ultima-90I.