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today we have another VGA cooler from thermal right so this is the shaman or Shaymin depending how you prefer to pronounce it and this is an eight heat pipe VGA cooler it comes in their traditional cardboard box and let's go ahead and get this guy opened up and find out well what it's all about okay so the first thing we're going to find is a little exploded view that's acting as a few different things so first of all it is and it seems like it's an instruction guide although the instructions are on the back here for how to mount these Shaymin okay the example they've used is a GTX 480 you can tell from the PCB cut out for the fan although the GTX 480 uses most of the same mounting points as the GTX 580 so you'd have to check the thermal right site for confirmation but I would imagine it would also be compatible with the 580 now that that's released so you can see here are all the officially supported graphics card so wow it goes back as far as the 38 50 and then up is current as the 480 and like I said I suspect that the 580 would also be supported okay here we've got a little contents list so what we're expecting to find inside and then the next thing we have is one of thermal writes 140 millimeter fans as I mentioned in one of my previous unboxings I have tried out this fan myself and I do quite like it so you can be confident in using that fan with your new Shaymin that you are having the best experience possible in terms of a balance between air flow as well as noise so I want to put away the knife that I had just used to hear it okay so let's get this opened up here this is the assembly package and inside you will find everything we need for assembly so we're going to find some of these little rubber strips which are for dampening the noise made by the fan okay because this is a performance as well as silence optimized product so thermal writes design goal when they're figuring out how to build the best aftermarket vga coolers they want to make it quieter and better performance than the OEM cooler so in order to achieve that they they have to put a lot of thought into it so these are one of the that has come out of that particular design objective to reduce the overall noise made by your graphics card so here's a couple fan Clips that you will also need to mount the fan on to the Shaymin alright we've bought some thermal compound cf3 from thermal write chill factor 3 and then we have one set of mounting hardware Wow that keeps it simple does it so you've got your non conductive backing on there so that's a plastic backing and then the metal is as I've come to expect from thermal right thick robust and native steel so you're not going to have any issues with that backplate flexing on you here's a variety of mosfet as well as RAM coolers okay and let's get a little bit further in here wow this thing looks ridiculous actually that's awesome alright oh hey I missed the thermal write sticker there it is that's nice okay so by the time you put a fan on this guy it's going to be a triple flaw cooling solution so as long as you're aware of that going into it bear in mind that triple slot isn't as big of a deal now as it used to be because there are so many graphics are so many motherboards out there that allow you to have to triple slot cards in SLI or crossfire so bear that in mind if you are going to be adding a shame into your system shortly now this does use eight heat pipes and I just love this check this out the maze of heat pipes over here looks outstanding I want you to get a couple different angles of that because it just looks so cool to have all of those heat pipes to sort of bent around and wrapped around each other because I mean really we're talking about fitting all of these precision manufactured so that they all kind of Bend in and around each other and they all go to the same base right here now look how big the bases on this compared to a CPU cooler also we'll do the obligatory look how shiny it is and it does use a convex base look how big the base is compared to a CPU that's because a GPU die is typically quite a bit bigger so on a CPU it'd be hard to optimize it to actually make use of eight heat pipes lying side-by-side because the CPU die is so small and that's where all the heat comes from whereas the GPU die under that you jeet spreader able to spread it out a little bit more so we can actually get more cooling performance by spreading it out so here's our hold down which you can see thermal right has thoughtfully provided screws for which you can actually use to remove the hold down and replace it with something else later when you want to upgrade your graphics card and then we've got the top here so these are all soldered down you can see like how low-profile it is when I really hold it up this way and that's what'll Herrin well go ahead and put the fan on it so you can see exactly how thick it is compared to a one hunt standard so this is a twenty five mill 140 millimeter fan just like that check that out again that looks so cool now in terms of performance I can't really speculate but I would go ahead and assume because thermal right designed it that is going to pretty much Rock anything else and thank you for checking out my unboxing on the thermal right Shaymin don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips