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my next unboxing from the silent ex at physio series is going to be the extreme which as you may guess based on the size of the box and the name is the highest end product in the official lineup it's also classified as a less than 18 decibel cooler and it is geared to be a silent cpu cooler so they've got logos on here for every processor under the Sun including anything on socket am-2 a.m. 3775 LGA 1156 as well as LGA 1366 in fact they've even got a core i9 logo on there that's kind of funny considering that Intel off scrap that branding a little while back I guess they design this back when it looked like Intel was going to make a core i9 brand the heatsink requires a case with adequate space to fit properly checked ensure you have oh this is important okay so if you're thinking of installing this one check these numbers to make sure it will fit in your system here's the overall specifications as well as the compatibility like I said pretty much everything so core i9 is what they were going to call the core i7 extreme 6-quart but then they did not end up doing that all right oh I was huh I had the box backwards look at that you can actually see into the box and you can see the overall shape of this cooler he's got the quietest noise levels greatest efficiency and superior performance designed for gamers and overclockers and those seeking extreme performance or just those who are hit by this heat wave that seems to be hitting the entire continent this summer so we've got five effective eight millimeter heat pipes wow those are big and those all directly interface with the cpu core so those are going right on the cpu heat spreader you can expect cylonix heat sinks to offer maximum thermal efficiency at all times they've got optimized fan blades so it means it is using a solid and X fan which you would expect it has a universal mounting system which I had a look at in much closer detail on the compact unboxing so I'll probably look at it quite as closely on this one let's go ahead and get this open and see what we have inside so the first thing we find inside is a box very exciting box it's light and inside the box we will find likely a bunch of nothing here okay nothing else this is it okay so it's pretty much exactly the same accessory package that week at home compact so yeah I probably really don't look all that closely at this but I will have a quick look so we've bought a fan speed controller okay very high quality run it actually uses before the only good then we have a universal backplate those four am too am 375 1156 1366 we have the AMD mounting hardware and then we have the Intel mounting hardware they've also included some extra fan mounting grommets volatile thermal compound so the fan mounting grommets are so you can install an additional fan in a push-pull configuration on this particular heatsink alright so once again we see are greeted with a non silvery fan so this is a silent expand but not from there I extreme a series and they've actually oh I hope you got some sex oh maybe they do yes yeah well there are two sets of 10 Robinson this one in the compact it was actually the fan was mounted forming already so I'm going to have to go ahead and figure out how to melt the fan on camera here for you that should be quite an ordeal oh here's a little double-sided velcro thing to note your fan controller somewhere in your case okay so what we do is first let's take the heat sink oh that's a heavy sucker alright so we go ahead and slide that in there okay there we go it's in there and then we go ahead and slide this in the bottom you'll actually like the look of this heat sink overall it looks looks very very sharp it's got nice shiny heat pipes it's got a nice finish to the top of it you can see that the act of the metal of the aluminum fins actually have a bit of a bump lee texture to the men i'll show you that a little bit more closely once i'm finished mounting the fan here as far as fan mounting systems go this is actually pretty clever because it doesn't involve any clips which can be extremely unwieldly and are difficult to you know this is something that you never consider either is like yeah what if i do want to mount a second fan in push-pull but i want to do it later so you have to actually like keep those clips somewhere and not lose them whereas if it's just a couple little rubber grommets it's no big deal so you just line up the rubber grommets and there and in there i'm not paying attention to where the camera is looking right now because i'm actually paying attention to where the heat sink is positioned right now and then i'm going to go ahead and line up the very last one so okay so this isn't the easiest thing in the world but i think most of the difficulty is the fact that i'm trying to operate a camera at the same time i think if i had a cameraman today that that would make my life a lot easier maybe might not my life widened years or certainly this video okay so you go ahead and pull these through just give them a good tug and then i guess if you want to you can run them through the second hole not Halle let me see if I can figure this out okay hold on maybe I just have to pull harder remember when in doubt force it yes there we go so then if you want to you can run it through the second hole but that's not entirely necessary you just want to heave on it until it comes through there we go that was pretty easy and I'm sorry you'll have to bear with me because I am OCD and I do need to put those through or else my day will be ruined yes I said it ruined three come on go through thank you and last one if only I had a cat here to help me oh yeah this is a lot easier if you just actually pull them through one at a time because there's quite a bit of give and the one that's in the ones that you've already put on so you can actually pull this away to the lineup the last one even when three are already in so go ahead pull that through and bring it through the second hole and there we go that didn't take so long maybe might have taken longer to just sitting watching me do it okay so we've got a little bit of a gap not as much of a gap as we saw on the compact cooler but there's a slight gap on the side there's a bit more of a gap on the top and the bottom so we're going to see a little bit of airflow leakage there in all likelihood but it shouldn't impact performance too much most of the coolers on the market do have a similar sort of configuration now this is one thing that I really like about this cooler right off the bat and that's the fact that all of the heat pipes line up with the part of the cooling tower that is going to see the most airflow so you can see through here okay so you see where the blades of the fan actually start around here that's where the dead zone is in the middle where there's no air flow because that's where the hub of the fan is and then the blades of the fan actually blow air through an area kind of this shape so they position most of the heat pipe cooling where it's actually going to take advantage of the blades of the fan now it's quite a dense heap I fin arrangement so that means that you would benefit for sure from putting an additional fan on here but it's not to to to do dance I've seen worse in fact i think the compact one was even a little bit more dense than this one but i could be mistaken now something that I said I'd look at in more close detail later is the slightly here that slightly textured finish on each of these aluminum fins and the reason for that is it gives them just a little bit more surface area when the air is blowing through and you're gonna sacrifice a little bit of noise performance although you probably wouldn't even be able to measure it because these are such small dimples but you'll get a little bit more air turbulence in there and you will get a little bit more surface area and therefore a little bit more cooling performance out of a design like that last thing I want to have a look at now I suspect this would perform really well on an AMD cpu because they have those nice big heat spreaders same with an LGA 1366 because it's the same thing nice big heat spreaders but we've got five huge eight millimeter heat pipes you really can't ask for more than that I mean some guys have more heat pipes on the cooler but they're not using eight Mills these things are enormous so you're going here look at how thick that is so when you actually put a CPU on here you're going to be completely covering the CPU in key pipe and they've machine the bottom of it very flat i'll do the obligatory finger shot thing although it really doesn't mean a whole lot i really like the shape of the blades and I cantrell of the fins and I can't even really tell you why I just think it looks kind of cool here's your Universal hold down as well as a little bit of additional heat sink cooling directly on the CP you you know it's funny it wasn't that long ago you could cool a cpu with just one of those and a little tiny loud fan on it and that turned into a chipset fan and now it's like a supplementary cooler on a on a real heat sink anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the physio extreme cpu cooler from cylonix