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and finally I'm having a look at the last in the new silent ex-officio series of heat sinks this is their low profile it is designed for use we have htpc cases and other low profile cases it's compatible with a wide variety of sockets just like the rest of the officio lineup here we can see that it uses three six millimeter heat pipes so even though it comes in a small box like the compact it's actually going to be more similar to the performance in terms of well heat pipes okay it uses a Cylon X fin fan with optimized fan blades and it has a universal mounting system compatible with all these different kinds of CPUs including K 8 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 2 plus LGA 775 LGA 1156 LGA 1366 and if you want to read all that on your own you could do it here and here are the specs fairly lightweight which is what you'd expect from an htpc optimized cooler so let's have a look at the accessory package which comes in a much smaller box than the others already that pays that much okay so okay that explains it okay so we've got a fan speed controller these are quite effective I've used them before they're excellent it also includes a double size Milk Protein here you've got all metal fan mounting gear I love that I hate plastics and for AMD you've bought the same more of the same more metal excellent it all feels relatively sturdy as well and then you have to worry about these going flying off your socket or anything like that ok so here is a fan this is a slim so this is a low profile 100 millimeter fan this only looks how thick is this thing hold on a minute 24 decibel 54 CFM is what it's rated for this is Ana physio series quiet sands and I wish I could think of how thin this is I mean it looks like ten millimeter would be my guess but I'd have to be 15 wouldn't it mom let's have a look here yeah that's got to be 15 mils there it is next to a 25 millimeter Cylon X fan so yeah it's got to be a 15 mil you know what why don't we plug this in I'm kind of curious as to how loud it is that's not too bad it has a bit of an airflow noise to it but it's not it's not a distracting noise here I'll turn it off and turn it back on again see it takes a while to ramp up I guess because of the small motor on it but here have a listen to it ramping up now not bad at all considering that it's a low-profile fan and you can use the fan speed controller on it of course so that'll take it down to a much slower speed alright here is the low profile cooler that is low profile that's really shortened okay not that I would call anyone out on being short anyway here's your Universal backplate with its insulating cover on it so it doesn't short out the back of your motherboard and there is the heatsink itself so it uses the preferred mounting system out of the video series heat sinks I've seen so I'm going to go ahead and pull out these rubber grommets here unlike all of the others from this series this particular heat sink is not push-pull compatible although I can't imagine any reason why you would be trying to mount a push-pull cooling system in an HTP see I mean yeah you get more static pressure but the whole point of this thing is low profile you don't want to go and throw two fans on it because you'd be far better off to put more metal on it at that point the whole purpose is just to to get it as small as possible so one thing that I mentioned or didn't mention before is it's just a 100 millimeter fan and this is kind of cool so check this out okay hold on look pull these through that go through already yeah okay so ah - there we go number three trouble getting my fingers on that one there we are and the last one I am a little bit on the OCD side I will need to put all of these through in order to proceed with the video and it is done so this is kind of cool it also has manting holes for what I'll presume ninety-two millimeter so it's 100 millimeter fan it has 100 millimeter holes which you can use to mount on this particular heatsink but then you've also got the 92 Mobile's if you wanted to use it as a case then for whatever reason although I wouldn't recommend that so you've got three heat pipes these are six millimeter heat pipes got a nice flat base here with machine heat pipes into it for a slightly better thermal performance versus having a metal cover and then the heat pipes embedded in that I'll do the obligatory finger shot you've got your universal mounting plate and like all of the other physio series heat sinks you have a little heatsink right above the CPU core right here and unlike all of the other ones this one will improve performance in a way that is meaningful because it actually has a downward blowing fan the other ones are going to get some incidental airflow but they are tower heatsink so they're not going to get a whole lot you can see this is a tower heatsink and it has a little cooler under it whereas this one is actually gonna get direct airflow right from the fin like all of the other officio heat sinks this one does focus all of its heat pipe cooling power right under where the fan blades are going to spin so I'm gonna go ahead and spin this so you can see the heat pipes are one two three on that side and one two three on that side so they're lined up and there we go right under where most of the air flow from this heatsink is going to happen now unlike the other physio series this one does use a quite a loose thin structure but I'm not going to fault it for that because I think in this particular application where you've got a slim fan you're not going to be able to generate a lot of static pressure so it's gonna be all about using a free-flowing airflow as efficiently as possible and as quietly as possible so you're not gonna go ahead and put like a dense fin arrangement on this and you're not gonna throw like a beefy huge fan on it this is about efficiency this isn't about raw performance like the other physios I can you're having trouble hearing that I bet there you go you've got that slight rip leanest to the aluminum fins so that's gonna give it slightly better cooling performance than just a flat fin and you've also got a bit of a wave shape to it which i think looks cool maybe it does something for performance maybe it doesn't I don't really care and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about this low profile cooler and let's see if I can find something to compare the overall height to hmm just for fun why don't we compare it to a to a knock to a NH d 14 there we go so here's a height comparison for you there's that cooler and there is the low profile if is you the cooler is like done before the fins even start thank you for checking out my unboxing of the officio low-profile from silent X