Gadgetory

this is the HR 02 it is big and heavy and it is made by thermal right they are advertising this as a fanless cpu cooler so they're saying that you can actually run many of today's modern high-performance cpus fanless completely passive as long as you have some case air flow with this particular heatsink so let's take a look at it the first thing we find is a thermal rate sticker then we have an installation guide which shows us a view of how to attach all of the different mounting brackets it does include mounting for 775 1366 1156 as well as an to as I recall let me just double check that when we get to the actual hardware okay so here's the included mounting hardware you can see this is clearly for am too and then this is clearly a multi installation kit for Intel all right let's see what we got for you look at this it comes with a screwdriver check that out chrome vanadium okay I don't actually know how to pronounce that vanadium vanadium date it's a screwdriver magnetic hey its magnetic to look at that do we have anything to test it on around here okay here here yeah yeah here's a piece that back plate it's not very magnetic okay well that's okay you still get a free screwdriver with your heat sink purchase that is a compelling bundle offering okay mounting hardware I'm going to need my handy-dandy tech tips knife which I now actually have that is officially open now so in here you will find a variety of things you've got some rubber grommets we have some fan flips you have some thermal compound cf3 next we have a wrench you had a wrench and a screwdriver you get like a toolkit with this thing and then we have the am to mounting hardware also a m3 and then we have the multi back plate for Intel so there yet 775 1156 and 1366 all right let's look at the heat sink itself since that's the most interesting part of this video other than me of course non fitting I know the heatsinks the most interesting part so this is the HR 02 and it has a couple of unique design elements so we got started here once I finally have it out of the bag that thing is huge so first of all it has a boatload of heat pipe so you can see it's actually got six full u-shaped heat pipes so that's two almost 12 effective heat pipes when you look at how they're all attached to the base it's a very very shiny flat-looking base and we'll do the obligatory finger shot that everyone in their dog seems to be determined to complain about but I don't really care all right so you can see first of all that this heat sink has a very very wide spacing for the fins that's because it does rely on passive cooling so that means when this is installed on your socket okay so let's say hypothetically it's installed like this it relies on the heat that is generated by the heat pipes transferring heat to the fins to simply heat the air and then the air will rise out of it or be pulled slowly by a case fan and that's it that's the only force you have so that's why the fins need to be spaced really wide so that it doesn't take a lot of pressure to push the air through it now besides the wide spacing of the fins you can see what thermal rights done is they've actually used their little I don't know if they actually even have a name for this but what they've done is they've cut little holes and bent up the flaps in every one of the aluminum layers here and that gives us just a little bit more surface area so based on that so you can see that's all the way through the heatsink I would probably recommend mounting this heat sink this way either this way or this way because that's going to mean that I mean he rises so it means that you're giving the air less resistance to rise up through the heat sink and cool your CPU now this hole right here is probably why you need the screwdriver that's how you're going to screw it in if you're using an am2 socket so that's positioned right there for that and then on the other side you can reach it quite a bit more easily that's one of the considerations when you're building a heatsink this is how do you actually access the mounting hardware and so people can actually attach it to their mother board camera man's giving me his iphone for the usual scale shot so you can see compared to an iphone it would crash it ah it's quite a bit bigger and heavier okay so there it is from the side and let's just have a closer look at how they've attached feet the heat pipes down here at the bottom so it's 60 pipes alternating so some of them go over to this side of the heat sink and the others just go straight up in a straight u-shape so all six of them are aligned at the same level I've actually seen some coolers where some of the heat pipes are a little bit higher and I don't know what that would do in terms of thermal transfer but this way they're all as close as possible to the CPU without touching directly and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the HR 0 2 i'm actually kind of curious to try this one out and see see how well it can do on even like a core i7 or something like that it's very heavy though