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hey everyone I'm Steve from gamers Nexus Donette and we're back with more silverstone content from CES 2016 this time looking specifically at CPU coolers and again all this content for CES 2016 is brought to you by Iowa powers revolt 2 small form-factor gaming PC there are four coolers on the table here we're gonna be talking about these two larger ones more specifically first of all this one is the AR 0 7 and is sort of a spiritual successor to the AR 0 1 which we've reviewed at least a year ago and liked quite a bit it's an 11 5x cooler so you want to use that on the z series motherboards for example with the non extreme series Intel CPUs and that is because of the cold plate size it's a bit smaller of a cold plate it's not going to be perfect for the larger socket but that's just fine for Z series or non extreme CPUs as far as the specs the difference here between the AR 0 1 is primarily that the fan is not 140 millimeters on AR 0 7 the other one was 120 millimeters so that's a bit of an upgrade the fin design uses a diamond edge silverstone calls it fin pattern and that's for turbulence reasons with airflow at the top there's arrows which look like a directionality fin but it does actually serve a functional purpose and that is to dissipate heat from the heat pipes which as many of you know work by using liquid inside the heat pipe so the heat pipe is filled with liquid they're not only six millimeters or eight millimeters and that liquid heats up goes to the top cools down and it has a phase change from gas to liquid and that's where you get your thermal dissipation and that is basically all capillary action so the thin design here at the top should help guide some airflow from the top edge of that 140 millimeter fan through the heat pipe channeling and dissipate the heat help cool it down and turn back into a liquid on the other side is the AR 0 8 cooler and that's a bit smaller it's a 92 millimeter form factor has the same fin design so everything I said about this is pretty much true over here it's just smaller for the most part and then these two are NT so these are NT series coolers that are used for small form-factor cases which Silverstone's got a lot of here today we've previously talked about the Raven series I wanted to those types of cases the small ones the rvz cases and these also will work with some of the larger nook boxes or other SFF form factory cases we've looked at the only real difference here in terms of what you would be picking for your enclosure is height so if you want a slightly taller or smaller one you'd pick based on the headroom between your top panel and the cpu you actually don't want to be too tight or too far as the thermals could be worse with a bigger cooler if there's not enough room and that's where these come in so for more information as always check the article link the description below and then our previous videos on this mid tower case it's got a PSU shroud and things like that so check that in the channel and I will see you all next time