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today I'll be unboxing the CNP s 11x extreme this is an ultimate extreme performance CPU cooling cooler called the C NPS 11x on the back we find some information which is pretty typical alright powerful cooling performance q max of up to 350 watts v-shape dual heatsink design for optimal airflow composite heat pipe heat transfer capacity enhanced 1.5 x okay we have composite heat pipes which means that they are not a typical axial groove they are not a typical sintered metal type but they actually use axial grooves and centered metal in order to speed up the flow of the liquid and yes it is a liquid or a vapor or whatever the phase that it happens to be and that is inside the heat pipe so let's explain how heat pipes work real quick I actually saw a hilarious hardware bought that someone did where they cut off the top of their heat pipes on their cooler so that their side panel would fit so they took their cooler they just cut off all the tops of the heat pipes and they're like oh my cooler so bad my CPU overheats was terrible yes that would happen and the reason for that is that key pipes on the inside have a little bit of liquid sometimes it's water sometimes it's something else depending on what kind of heat pipes you're talking about and what that liquid does is it goes down to the CPU where it becomes a liquid then the CPU because it's hot inside the CPU heat pipe it's low pressure right so the boiling point is much lower so so it gets hot even at 40 degrees 50 degrees it boils it evaporates and then the vapor flows up to the top of the heat pipe where it's cool where it gets cooled by the fan and the fins that it's attached to and all that good stuff and then turns back to a liquid and runs back down to the CPU now well then how does it keep might work if it's not right-side up like this well that is what the axial grooves and the centered metal r4 they cause the liquid to make its way back down to the CPU no matter what alright so there you learned something today if you don't know how when you punch it you also learned that it's not a good idea to cut them because I'm table they'll perform about as well as a tube of copper which doesn't perform very well for carrying large amounts of heat I always love the look of Zalman he thinks although I've done almost nothing in terms of Zalman unboxings on my YouTube channel here so why don't we do accessories first where we will find lots of little parts oh wow okay so sockets it's going to be compatible with all the latest sockets including 1155 1156 1366 7 7 5 a.m. 2 a.m. 2 plus and a.m. 3 ok so this looks like Intel this looks like probably AMD no this looks like Intel this I don't know what it looks like basically you got one of these you got some thermal grease you got one of these you got a sticker got some pads and ok you got a 4 pin PWM fan connector adapter to make your 4 pin PWM fan quieter so yes it's got a little inline resistor which is awesome I love those I have a little collection of them at home you got some of those some of those hey you got some back plates well you got one back plate I'm gonna do this ahh that's how I open bags today ok so your back plate is going to protect your mother boy from warping or breaking when you put this heavy a little cooler on it although I'll tell you guys the CNP s 11 X is not that heavy now the first thing I notice about this cooler is that this is one of the most dense thin arrangements I have ever seen on a CPU cooler now what that allows allman to do is have more surface area now well mu more surface area that means better cooling right yes in most cases more surface area means better cooling so what if I like ramped it up and I made the surface area just a solid mass well then we wouldn't have better cooling because no air would pass through that would be bad so more surface areas as long as you can push air through it so what Zalman has done is they have made these areas with fins actually quite thin okay so you can see the fins are not very thick okay and then what they've done is they've enclosed it completely on the top with plastic and the bottom with another plastic shroud and then they put a big beefy fan on the front of it nice big blades I'm gonna go ahead and assume they've designed this for static pressure more than anything else so it's not gonna spin out a huge rpm or anything like that actually what RPM ya up to up to about 2,000 rpm okay so that is gonna be designed to push air through this not necessarily at a high rate of speed but at a fast enough rate to pull a lot of heat away from it so let's compare surface area right so this has what appears to be like look at this compared to a coarser H or a 70 I mean that could be up to hold on okay move the camera for a sec so I can see okay that looks like about double the fin density of an 870 so in literally half this the physical size it can have the same surface area as an 870 pretty neat okay heatpipes terms of heat pipes we've got five heat pipes that are not heat pipe direct touch although that doesn't always provide a performance advantage anyway but we've got a very smooth looking base there's your obligatory finger shot where you can see how shiny that is the base appears to be convex based on looking at the reflection of my light through it okay so what that means is that with high mounting pressures you got nice good contact between the base and the CPU five heat pipes making contact all along the base that are going to be and that which is then touching your CPU what else we got here so yeah it's a 120mm fan which I mentioned a couple times it looks like you can replace the fan which was one of my complaints about my very first is allman cooler which was a CN PS 7000 I got the Cu version I decided to go all out and get the heavy cu version which everyone assured me was going to break my motherboard but I didn't come on we have coolers now that are like three four times five times the size of that thing and weight no problem but anyway that was one of my complaints about that heatsink was that I wasn't able to change the fan but it looks like they've remedied that you can put on whatever 120mm fan you please I think that's pretty much it that's all I wanted to say thank you for checking out my unboxing today the CNP s 11x ultimate extreme performance don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos oh and one thing all else to mention about this fen is that it has blue LEDs so I just need to find a hold on which one's the rpm sensor there we go yeah blue LED fan C glows and stuff you