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I'm going to be doing a series of unboxings over the next little while here I've actually got an entire new lineup of CPU coolers from silent X so this is there a physio lineup i've got the compact which comes in a blue box i have the extreme which comes in a green box i have the performance which comes in a grey box and i have the low profile which comes in a red box so the very first one that i'm going to do is going to be the compact and the reason i'm going to do the compact first is completely arbitrary I like the blue color because i am wearing a blue shirt today so this is the quietest noise level heatsink so that means it falls under there less than 18 decibel rated heatsink category you can see that we have to six millimeter heat pipes that are heat pipe direct touch so they direct the interface with the processor core that means that you get slightly better thermal performance but it is more expensive to manufacture a heatsink that has the heat pipes directly contacting the cpu core with optimized fan late for the greatest air to noise ratio so they're using silent X fans which they well should because this is a silent X heatsink and next yeah that they have a new universal mounting system so that's going to be a big one that we're going to look closely at is how solid is the new universal mounting system so here's the compatibility as well as the specifications i'll let you have a close look at those so you can see the weight is actually quite low which i would expect for a low profile here rather for a compact heatsink because you don't want a compact heatsink that weighs a ton you've got the ratings for the fan on there as well so let's go ahead and open up the box and have a look at what we find inside so the first thing that I'm going to notice here is that it is very compact this is a small heat sink so that means that you can use it in a case that is very slim because it's not going to sit very far away from the motherboard and you can also use it in a case where there's you've got a fair bit of clearance from the cpu socket upward but you don't need a ton because it does use an 80 millimeter fan so let's go ahead and have a look at the back plate for their new universal mounting system alright so we got holes on here that's nice and solid you can see they've actually shaped it as well see this even here so they've shaped it in order to give it a little bit more structural rigidity and you can see that they've got a plastic coating on the back here so I can't actually put my finger into that groove so that's to keep it non conductive when it's plastered to the back of a motherboard so we've got 775 1156 1366 holes am two and three holes k eight holes you've got holes for pretty much everything make a hole in it to mount it to all right next we have a cpu fan speed controller that's a pretty good value for a lo ng think we don't usually expect to see that and this is a value heatsink I mean you're not going to be shattering any performance barriers with this one that's not the point of this product okay so in here we have our AMD k 8 am-2 a.m. 2 plus am three mounting hardware so you can see we've got a little adapter here that we basically bolt on to the cooler and then we use the included screws to screw it down ok I love that all of the melting hardware here is made out of solid metal pieces there isn't a single plastic piece of mounting hardware in this entire kit so we've got ok yeah we've got rubber grommets to mount the fan if we want noiseless fan mounting but that's it and that's perfectly acceptable other than that we have bolt through ok we have thumb screws with spring mounting so those are things that I really like to see and then we have like no plastic nonsense now we've got some included thermal compound this is silent ex Brandon will compute greater than thirty percent silver content by volume so that's a silver based thermal compound here's our included fan speed controller I've seen these in a number of different heat sink solutions so there's probably some OEM somewhere that makes these they work really good they have a hole in here because there's a little heat sink down there gives it some ventilation for the heat that it's going to kick off its not very much though so you just plug this into your motherboard you plug this into the fan and then you control the fence because fairly straightforward ah but i'll probably do is plug this into my test bank just sitting over there and then we can hear how loud the fam is now this isn't a typical looking silo next time is expecting to see one of their silvery looking fans but I guess that's fine oh cool that's nice so they actually include extra rubber mounts because you can see the rubber mounts on here are already attached to a fan so that means you can actually set this up as a sandwich this is kind of a neat design i haven't seen something like this from cylonix before so first let's have a look at our three pins and connector right here that's it that's all there really is to say about it is three pins it's fan the fan is black and white and you can see it's actually mounted with a bit of a gap here so the way that these that these rubber grommets work is they actually slide into the heatsink right here and then you just push the fan onto it and pull them through that's actually pretty clever I like it so you've got your two heat pipes now this isn't gonna be like I said it's not a high-performance product so you've only got 26 mil heat pipes but you do have a quite a flat finish to the base it's all machine very very nicely and i'll do the obligatory finger shop thing here which doesn't actually tell us anything but everybody does it so I guess I might as well so you got your Universal hold down on here ok actually oh yeah oh yeah this is universal so the AMD clips go on to these holes and then they extend extend it a little bit and then these are the Intel holes okay so you've got a little heat sink built right over on to the heat pipes so that's going to dissipate a little bit of heat but it's not going to get a ton of airflow even if you're running like a push-pull set up with the fan and then I really like the way they've laid out these heat these are heat sink fins so what they've done is they've actually built in like kind of a a different shape to every alternate fin so that gives you a bit of a um I don't know how to describe this but the way it looks to me is like what they're aiming for is more of a streamlined entrance for the air that's going through where most of the air goes through which is directly under the fan blades so you can see right under the fan blades that's where you have this intersection where some of the fins are shaped out in a bulbs like this and some of them are shaped in an hourglass shape in like that so that's that looks like it's by design it's quite a dense fin arrangement so what you're probably going to want to do is invest another three dollars and get a cheap fan or you can invest a little bit more and get a nice silent fan throw that on the other side you should have a nice performing little cooler for relatively inexpensive cost so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the oficio compact heatsink and don't forget to subscribe to my tech tips video blog