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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the a XP 100 from thermal right now you might think of thermal right as like beastly coolers better friggin huge and perform like awesome and stuff like the Silver Arrow Xtreme which we actually took a look at in a review not that long ago where it actually was pretty darn close to an H 100 I in terms of the performance that we were able to squeeze out of this bad boy with 220 millimeter fans installed on it so you know immaculate production manufacturing us what I was looking for just you know gorgeous designs very shining very cool looking but not everyone necessarily has enough room for a cooler like that so that's where the axp 100 comes in this is a low-profile cooler but built the way that thermal right builds cooler so the mounting hardware alone weighs about 6 pounds and obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit but thermal rate does such a good job of mounting hardware look at this stuff I mean it's built like it's actually designed for the motherboard to be like in a combat zone and the CPU cooler will not come off no matter what and I'm going to need a knife to open this up and there are a billion little pieces but the good news is thermal right also does a pretty good job of documenting where all the little pieces go so that you shouldn't have too much trouble I mean here's what I want you to see more than anything else like look at this hold down plate like look at this thing it's like look at this like solid metal look how thick it is it'll do an HTC 8x size comparison because everyone knows how big these are there you go hilarious right no one knows but don't worry about it it's basically as thick as the as the glass pieces on either side of an iPhone 4 I just know that from memory I can't hold one up for you because I don't have it anymore so there's a backplate again same thing super thick piece of metal I'm not going to dwell on this for too long let's move along to the cooler itself so they include what looks like about a 90 millimeter fan probably 100 millimeter based on the name of the product and in a military-style themed color sort of finished so that's kind of interesting so this will look great in your engine c70 or you know other kind of you know military theme sort of build in like if you're doing a themed build then that could be a good thing otherwise you could get a different 100 millimeter fan it's totally up to you and there it is the a XP 100 we're almost going to need like a phone size comparison for this so for the sake of just being a troll here's an HTC 8x size comparison again so there's the thickness so this is an extremely low profile cooler that once you go ahead and install that 100 millimeter fan on actually isn't much taller than a stock cooler so check this out here's an LGA 1155 stock cooler so it's about that tall here is the a XP 100 which I can tell you just based on looking at it how much metal is in there I mean look at this thing will just destroy this stock cooler in terms of performance it's not a very dense Finn arrangement so you can see here that they're quite loose which is necessary when you have a slim low profile fan like this this is a half I think this is probably what like 15 mils thick so it's not as thick as a standard 25 millimeter fan so you're not able to generate as much pressure as easily so you need to make sure that it's able to push air through the cooler itself but it still packs six heat pipes check that out six heat pipes running off the base in a very tight Bend up to this cooler which is terminated with I'll check that out nice little finishing touch little thermal write logos on the end of each one of the heat pipe caps it's absolutely beautiful I mean it feels incredibly solid which I've come to expect again from thermal write coolers and no way what are these are these heat pipe we couldn't be no those can be heat pipes they're too small but whatever so there's two little Clips here that sort of make it more more rigid so I want to compare this to something like the fantex low-profile cooler so in terms of the actual profile of it they're pretty similar so I think we can all say out of a stock cooler a competing solution and the a XP 100 which one makes the most sense for your sort of small form-factor instalay now I did a build in a lien lis PC qo8 I believe is the case and I ended up using an older silent X cooler of all things I can tell you guys right now that I would definitely if I could get the case open and actually access the CPU socket because that's how tight it is replace it with this in a second because what's great about a design like this is it's much broader which is fine because as long as it's tall enough to get past the the RAM slots or if it doesn't go into the know zone on the cpu design manufacturer on the cpu design guidelines then it's big enough that as long as you have a power supply over top of it you could probably actually passively cool your cpu although don't quote me on that you might at least need like like a cardboard shroud you can build one yourself that was something that I tried to do with the one that I have but the CPU cooler is not good enough so there you go I I'm going to do the obligatory finger shot on the bottom here thermal right does such a good job of the the manufacturing on their problem you look at this thing remember guys again the obligatory finger shot does not necessarily indicate how flat the surface is or how well the cooler will perform but it's just the kind of care and attention that goes into the products in fact if I angled this just right you could probably catch diesel in his camera over there no he's giving you he's giving me the head shake that either means it's not working or don't do it I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the a XP 100 from thermal right don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I'm just going to try and figure out why the heck they sent this fan because this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the axp 100 but there you go it's the ty1 41 fan from thermal right it has been unboxed as well it has a sleeved cable and it is a 140 millimeter fan that has a 120 millimeter clearance on this side by the look of things and 140 millimeters on this side and uses 120 millimeter mounting holes and big broad blades for support looks like optimized pressure optimized fan don't forget to subscribe to honest tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos