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welcome to an impromptu unboxing that is at perhaps our most ghetto unboxing location yet this is a mobile cart in front of a green wall this is the Heligan series twin tower heat sink the hero1 from silverstone it offers him according to them superior silence and performance six soldered heat pipes copper base and aluminum fins ensuring the best thermal conduction they designed for standard chassis at 164 millimeters tall so it's not super tall some tower heat sinks can be so tall that your chassis side window won't close once you install them I've seen this before so their whole thing here is well you know we want a high performance tower but we wanted to actually fit in your case so yeah okay so it's not that tall it's not that short either so you're not gonna be fitting this in like your standard ITX enclosure or anything like that so here is a manual showing you how to use the oh I've seen this mounting mechanism before it's very good very solid very easy to use it's just straight pins through the board spacers then you bolt down the things and bolt down the other thing too the other thing I'll show you once we have it opened up here anyway so in terms of accessories we have do not eat we have clips for fans it looks like we can install oh look at that up to three fans using the included clips although you stopped benefiting around the two fan mark that much but if you wanted to run super low RPM good static pressure fans and do three of them then you'd get very good airflow through the fins without a lot of noise here's the mounting hardware itself here is okay so here's the solid backplate and by solid I really do mean solid backplate this thing is like look how thick it is just do like an iPhone thickness comparison so it's at least as solid as an iPhone probably in all likelihood well made of steel on the iPhones made of glass so it's probably more solid than an iPhone but generally not going anywhere then you've got these bolts that go through these spacers that go on there then these thumb screws that go down on top of these pieces here and finally this solid metal piece that goes on top of the whole thing it's not going anywhere and it's quite easy to install compared to some of the other mechanisms I've seen on these high-end tower heat sinks so this is interesting it's Oh fascinating so rather than have two identical towers like most tower heat pipe coolers this has a thick side and a thin side this is neat because it allows Silverstone to maintain compatibility with motherboards that have the RAM slots very near to the CPU socket here so just okay normally you wouldn't install this on an ITX board but I'm just gonna grab this for illustrative purposes here we go so check this out when you have round slots on one side if you were to install it this way you can see you'd cover your nearest Ram slot okay so that's a problem if you have high profile memory whereas what Silverstone's done is they've gone with one small one so you can use your round slots you see that clearance there but you still get the benefit of more aluminium fins on the other side for cooling so they're going for that sort of balanced approach it's a symmetrical looking but if you're at in it for performance and not necessarily sort of like the symmetry of your motherboard then this is this is a great solution heat pipe wise you can see they're all connected to the base here soldered okay don't worry too much about the shininess of the base it's I mean we're gonna do the obligatory sort of finger shot so you can see the reflectiveness but flatness is more important than actual reflectiveness the overall finish of the cooler is very matte so it doesn't have sort of like a shiny glossy look to it just simple Silverstone branding on the top of each one of the towers and then simple an all silver look so even though you know even the basis copper they've plated that so that it doesn't look and actually these are copper as well so they're nickel plated so that it has that very consistent appearance so we're gonna go ahead and put that right there so the reason they include Clips for up to oh look at that thing due to high pressure look at this fan outstanding so a high pressure 140 mm fan is included and that goes right in the middle so you can install up to like I said three fans so you could put one here one here and one SuperDuper thick one that they include for you in the middle it's got a four pin pwm connector and then oh check that out this is oh this is clever so you connect this to your motherboard header and then this goes to a secondary fan and you just run the existing fan wire to it so that's smart that way they don't have to include an extra little adapter and this looks very clean high quality sleeving on the fan itself and the fans see it like you can okay you can see from the shape of the blades the way that they're swept this is pressure optimized and it actually feels quite solid as well not as sort of rugged as a delta by any stretch of the imagination but not flimsy by any means either you've also got a switch here for quiet mode and performance mode so that's really cool as well and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the heo one from silverstone don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos and before we go we should mention the compatibility it's compatible pretty much everything 775 1155 1156 1366 2011 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 F M 1 M 2 M 3 + all that good stuff don't forget oh I already said that bye bye