Introduction

From the CRYORIG website:

WHO AND WHAT IS CRYORIG?

CRYORIG was officially founded in 2013, but took several years in the making. We began our journey right at the start of the first decade of the 2000's. During what was the most prosperous age of PC DIY and Overclocking. Members of our team have either worked directly or indirectly with brands such as Thermalright, Prolimatech, Phanteks and many more. We ourselves are overclockers and PC modding enthusiasts, with a passion and drive to strive for improvement. With direct knowledge of manufacturing and design as well as holding multiple patents under our collective belt, we decided to make a name for ourselves, and that name is CRYORIG. So what is CRYORIG exactly? CRYORIG is about making the coolest rig possible.

If you haven't heard of CRYORIG at this point, you have likely been living under a rock. Now a mainstay in the PC-cooling market, they have released an extensive lineup of air and liquid CPU coolers and fans. Having quickly made a name for themselves since starting up in 2013, they have rapidly expanded, becoming a relative favorite among enthusiasts the world over. It doesn't hurt that their desire to improve and a penchant for high quality have served them extremely well.

In today's review, I look at the CRYORIG R1 Ultimate. This is their largest air cooler on offer, and it utilizes a slightly different design to the R1 Universal, one of my personal favorites. Featuring dual 140 mm fans and large dual-cooling towers, it follows the design trend made famous by the Noctua NH-D14 years ago. CRYORIG has even gone so far as to add custom covers it calls "CUSTOMOD", which allows users to adapt the R1 series to their system's color scheme. Before digging into things, let's take a closer look at the specifications found below.

Packaging

CRYORIG's R1 Ultimate comes sealed in a box that measures in at roughly 22.5 cm long, 17.8 cm wide, and 19.4 cm tall. The front features an angled close-up shot of the cooler's top, along with a short paragraph detailing the R1 Ultimate as the "apex of air cooling". On the left side, we find an "R1" in large foil lettering and nothing else. Meanwhile, the back details the specifications for the heatsink and fans and lists all its supported CPU sockets.


On the right side, you will find a few paragraphs which detail some of the R1 Ultimate's features, such as its MultiSeg mounting system. The top is simple and pleasing, again displaying the CRYORIG name in foil lettering with the words "research idea gear" below.

Contents

Upon opening the box, I was quite pleased to see everything extremely well packaged. The contents are kept neatly arrayed inside a cardboard tray with a sleeve. Meanwhile, the cooler itself is inside another cardboard box below these accessories. Overall, internal packaging is good; however, I would have liked a bit of foam for further protection. Still, users shouldn't need to worry about whether everything will arrive in one piece as the packaging is well-designed all the same. I just happen to like things to be overkill.


The heatsink is massive, and CRYORIG includes two fans and the fan clips for a third fan, be it a slim XT140 or a third XF140, should a user want to improve cooling even further. Overall, everything one would need is included here. The lack of complexity due to the MultiSeg hardware is a nice change of pace. Also shown here is the AM4 upgrade kit for those using or building an AMD Ryzen system - CRYORIG has you covered.

Common parts supplied for mounting include:

• 6x XF140 fan clips
• 4x Thumb screws
• 4x LGA2011 screw pillars
• 4x Screw pillars
• 4x Acoustic vibration absorbers
• 2x XT140 fan clips
• 2x Intel mounting brackets
• 2x 140 x 140 x 25 mm fan
• 1x AMD mounting plate
• 1x Intel backplate
• 1x Heatsink
• 1x User's manual
• 1x Tube of thermal compound
• 1x PWM Y-cable
• 1x Phillips screwdriver
• 1x LGA775 backplate spacer