Gadgetory

I'll be continuing my look at silent exes at physio line of heat syncs with the latest the performance series so like the others it is designed for quiet performance less than 18 decibels and this one says Quietus noise levels just like all the others I've already had a look at the compact as well as the extreme over there and we're just waiting to do these last two so let's have a look at the specifications here you can pause the video and read them if you so desire weighs about a half a kilogram so that is about I'm roughing this so like three quarters of a pound or so you've got 36 millimeter heat pipe so that is substantially less than the extreme series cooler although it is less expensive so these are making direct contact with the bottom of the CPR the top of the CPU so that means you do get slightly better formal performance that way it is using a silent X fan as well as a new excuse me a new universal mounting system now you've got a bunch of CPU logos here that shows all the different CPUs it can mount on which include am too am too plus same three LGA 775 LGA 1156 LGA 1366 and all of the CPUs that go in those sockets and trying to get the heatsink out let's go ahead and have a look at the accessory package now that I've already looked at one of the lower end coolers and the highest end away from this series I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is going to be a fairly similar load out of equipment here although I do see one difference already unlike its brethren this one uses fan clips instead of the the little rubber mounts so it's a slight difference there then you've got a fan speed controller which was included with the others here am the mounting hardware a thermal compound tube double-sided velcro for mounting the fan controller and you've got some mounting hardware fries and some screws and washers and such then you have the universal back plate which is compatible with all the sockets I listed before and that pretty much does it for accessories so let's have a look where itself ooh that's really thin ok I can tell you right off the bat I don't this one quite as much as the others although I don't know what the retail price is going to be one thing that appeals to me right off the bat though this this really does is the fact that it's shaped like a radiator I don't know why I care about that but you can see that what cylonix is trying to do here is they're trying to focus all of the cooling just like with the extreme on the places where the fan blades are actually going to blow on them so you see you hold the fan here so they haven't wasted any material they're going ahead and they're taking all of the cooling potential of this they're going to dissipate a little bit of heat with this it'll get some incidental airflow from the fan and then basically they're taking the middle of the CPU they're taking the heat away from it and they're putting it right in the way of where the fam is going to be doing the most air so that means not here not here right here right in that wheelhouse so to speak alright so let's um oh this is interesting so they've actually got little grommet spots on here for those rubber mounts that they haven't included them for some reason so we're going to go ahead and now bar fan using a using the click mounting system so go ahead and just throw that on there it doesn't have an anti-vibration mount so that's one thing that could probably be improved about this particular product and let's see if I can figure out how to use these on camera it's always fun when I try and figure out stuff on camera because I believe it or not it's hard I do have something else to concentrate on here I take a lot of flack for not figuring things out right away on camera but yeah it's hard it's harder than it looks I'll tell you that much okay so maybe that goes there and maybe this goes here I've never liked these fan clips i think its thermal right that started this nonsense this doesn't seem like you know the most intuitive user friendly made amount things but some i mean i guess it kind of works there we go what's on i don't know if i did it right but it's on there for better for worse okay so i'm going to go ahead and put the other pen clip on and see if I've actually bought that right now but you might notice as I flip the heat sink over is that it's not actually flat I'm just going to make sure that it doesn't go this way maybe it does maybe it goes this way maybe I did it wrong hold on that go there huh it seems to kind of work either way so i mounted those two different ways i think that they both hold the fan on pretty good so whatever okay anyway it's actually at an angle and i'm going to go ahead and speculate although I can't say this for certain that the reason for that is they want to get a little bit more incidental airflow blowing at the MOSFET cooler so you'd probably want to position this if you have a typical case you'd probably want to position it this way so that it's blowing down a little bit towards the coolers at the back of the back of the motherboard here I'll show you an example of what I mean on this is an asuste motherboard you so you see that mosfet cooler in there the blue and grey one so if you position this cooler so that it actually sits on the motherboard this way it would blow down towards those keeping your motherboard cooler and hopefully keeping the components on there more reliable and overall happier so we've got a fan on here we have I already talked to a lot about the positioning of the heat pipes because really I mean you can throw more heat pipes of the problem but ultimately if you don't carry the heat to somewhere where you're going to be able to dissipate it it's not going to do you any good so we're going to do our obligatory finger shot or you can see that it's nice and flat even the frosties heat pipes that are machined right into the base we have our universal hold down here we've also got a little heat sink here for dissipating a little bit more heat which I've seen featured on the other coolers in this series already we've got the the slightly dimpled fins which I talked a lot about in the extreme overview and unboxing and that gives us a little bit more surface area for slightly better cooling compared to just a flat aluminum fin so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Cylon ex-officio performance cpu heatsink