Gadgetory

so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the silent X I extreme a pro series he piped cpu cooler so this is the I xc90 to ha2 so I'm going to hold that a little bit closer to the camera or better yet I could use this particular little trick of mine where I have a little remote that will zoom in on it ha no cameraman today but I go anyone so it is less than 18 decibels according to Simon exit supports all Intel sockets including 775 and AMD socket Wow 754 and am too so that means you've got support for 775 into a m3 and you can see that there's another little sticker on here that says intel core i7 compatible if it would focus there it goes so intel core i7 compatible that means that it is compatible with LGA 1366 as well this is a 92 millimeter version designed for smaller cases so why don't we have a look at now let's have a look at this side of the box as well so I'm going to do this as evening thing inside look alright so first of all this is a heat pipe direct touch heatsink and at the time this was a big deal but it uses eight millimeter vs 6 millimeter on there saying those competing products heat pipes that means that it can transfer more heat faster next of all uses the latest generation of silent X I extreme a pro fans and lastly 38 tightly spaced aluminum fins off for nearly a class-leading 5000 centimeter squared of surface area let's go around to the back where it just has a little bit more about the basic specs as well as some come on focus you can do it no you can't do it ok as well as the compatibility info which is horrendously updated ok so why don't we open this thing up and find out just what is inside so I'm going to go ahead and point that kind of there and then oh this is brutal having someone operating the camera what are you gonna do okay let's get the Box open so the first thing we find inside you can see that they have packed in an LGA 1366 bracket all right there it is and then the next thing you'll find is they have got a little instruction sheet here so that covers the Intel installation procedure all right so they show you you put the top racket down you put four screws through and it uses a back plate I love mounting systems that have a back plate it's just so much more secure than trying to use push pins um next we have LGA 775 then we have our four mounting screws and then we have what else can we got in here all right we have Lou this one's in color too so this is the installation guide for 750 for 9 39 million 40 + + 2 so this will also apply to a m3 so that's in color and everything check that out very nice very nice indeed ok what's next the second to know how to pull down back up here is a piece of double-sided tape I don't know what is for yet maybe we'll figure it out maybe we won't ok keep digging further in oh wow ok so ah here is the backplate 4G well which mounting system is this for because it doesn't look like it's compatible with both 775 and 1366 so oh ok I was mistaken the 775 version uses the plastic push pins whereas the 1366 version uses a bolt through so this back plate is for the 1366 version ok I get it now oh and we figured out what the what the double-sided tape is for is for this fan speed controller so the Kon is also here everything's just kind of loose in the box it's not the best packaged I've ever seen a product but I mean it's not like any of this is fragile and gonna be damaged so you just plug this in on the one side here you just kind of line it up so that it goes in like that and then at the one end this goes into your motherboard header or into a molex to three pin adapter and then this plugs into your fan and then you can use this little dial here to adjust the fans be very cool okay next we have okay we've got a little baggie of thermal compound as well as for pushpins I'm going to go ahead and assume that those are for a and X into a V Plus in three next they include not only two fan wire clips but for so that means that besides the ninety two millimeter fan included you can also mount an additional 92 millimeter fan to the unit without buying any accessories besides what's included in the box okay so before we get to the actually he tied cooler itself we have a look at the fan there it is a 92 millimeter friend the blades spin like this it's all shiny and even the fed itself is pretty silver and shiny it has a one of those transparent plastic three pin connectors it's quite long you shouldn't have too much trouble with that like all of the latest generation cylonix I extreme a fans it uses a small hub in the center and their claim is that that gives you more usable airflow space versus fans with a larger house I kind of by that okay next we have the actual heat pipe cooler itself so why don't we start because I usually do this at the end why don't we start with the obligatory finger shot so you can see that it is not all that shiny but if they're to be believed it is quite flat I can actually feel the machining marks though quite clearly with my fingernail whether or not that's going to be a problem when you're actually cooling a processor with it yeah ever means to be seen but you can see actually I mean I'd like get up to show the camera this maybe I'll shine the light directly at it see if we can get it to focus a little better oh that is not helping there we go okay so you can see that they've actually lapped the heat pipe surface itself so that's what they mean by heat pipe direct touch ok and then so these are three and nice thick heat pipes these are still thick even by today's standards despite the fact that this is a relatively old product and then you can see that the fins are quite close together now not really they're not jammed in that close so this should perform quite well with a low airflow fan low noise fan which you would make sense because silent x prides themselves in their low noise low airflow fans I mean I don't mean they're low airflow I mean they're low airflow compared to a high noise fed the talk is very shiny so you can probably actually see my camera there you go now you can totally see my camera in the top of it so I really like that has like a silo next logo on it I think that pretty much covers if i can find my remote everything I wanted to say about this particular cooler and so thank you for checking out my unboxing