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everyone and welcome to Paul's hardware today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing an overview of this Zelman CMPs 5x Performa cpu cooler let's take a closer look at the Zalman CMPs 5x Performa as you can see power cooling performance direct touch heat pipe ultra quiet pwm fan now this is more of a budget aftermarket CPU heatsink fan and I will I will say that I like it I like this one I've used it a few times already and I like its simplicity I would not recommend using this if you're going to be doing serious overclocking but if you want something simple something effective and as something as previously mentioned quiets this is definitely a good option so I kind of have been turning the box over and over here but I didn't want to stop at least here really quick on specs I hope you guys can read those I don't have a macro lens yet but I'm I will eventually that's first off dimensions mainly the height is what you would be worried about they 134 millimeters it should fit in the majority of computer cases unless you're going something really slim or small form-factor 320 gram weight pure copper and pure aluminum construction the fan is 92 millimeter basically so 92 millimeter fan fluid shield-bearing spins between 1,350 and 27 hundred rpms plus or minus 10 percent noise level of between 20 and 32 DB and it's got a four pin peda pwm connector which is the type of connector you'll have for the vast majority have CPU connections also PWM capable as already mentioned alright a little bit more info on the back here the english again hope you guys can read that powerful cooling performance heatsink design for optimal airflow high performance super thermal grease included it's got direct touch heat pipe technology so the heat pipes make direct contact shark's fin blades on the 92 millimeter fan compatible with various Intel and AMD sockets they're not telling you specifically here but I can tell you this is compatible with the majority of sockets that are out right now so that includes back to 770 LGA 775 for Intel also includes LGA 1156 and 1155 does not include with LGA 2011 and I don't think you'd be buying this heatsink fans who put on a LGA 2011 processor anyway but bear that in mind and then for AMD pretty much everything and 2 M 2 plus M 3 M 3 plus as well as the FM 1 & FM two sockets that's another thing I like about this particular heat sink fan and I'm just showing you some of the pictures on the side but I like that it actually uses the default brackets on AMD processor so you don't have to remove the backplate and that might be because simply because I tend to swap a lot of a lot more heatsink fans out than maybe any any person in their right mind but I like that you can just drop this onto an AMD system without having to remove that backplate alright so there they getting more specific about the info I already told you as far as the compatibility with different sockets here's the users manual just give you a quick scan through here they've done a pretty good job with it making sure that they've got labels they've got some nice purple arrows they're telling you which way to direct the airflow very handy and then installation instructions are not going to go through all those but give you guys a better idea of their quality I'm looking for something to cut with my knife here for this unboxing that's what I got it for was unboxings but oh well alright so here's a retention ring so this is used for both the AMD as well as the Intel installations this one actually kind of favors well the latches on the cooler itself are set up for AMD mostly and then if you have Intel you actually use this on the four mounting points that most Intel sockets have and then snap it on-site at either side kind of more similar to an Andy installation you get a baggie of these little dips which are guys and those those are the plungers you drop into these little holes to secure it for Intel installations you get a little a little kind of 1:1 one-time-use thing of super thermal grease there from Zalman so there's your mounting hardware or at least most of it again that's the ring is only needed for intel intel socket all right and then here is the cooler here is some delicious silica gel forbidden you must not eat it alright so here's a closer look at the cooler so 92 millimeter fan there in front nice aluminum thinner a it's got a black plastic shroud kind of around that CPU cooler it's got the Zalman logo on it so most of the time you're gonna have it positioned like that in your case and that's gonna be the back of your case will be that direction and you'll be able to see the Zalman logo although it will go side to side or up and down instead of up and down a bit really really who minds that much about that alright alright so there's your copper heat pipes as you can see you got a total of three of them and you can see the termination of all those there at the end aluminum fin array again and then up here we can see the direct heat pipe contact right there so that has proven to be a very effective way for heatsink fans to help wick the heat away from the CPU heat spreader and then on the sides here you simply have these two little latches as you can see it's kind of situated for an AMD configuration right now with the latches on either side but it's pretty easy you just get a Phillips head down there loosen that a position I believe the outer position actually is for AMD and then inner position is to use along with the ring latch on either side but very easy to install this particular heat sink fan the most times I've done it I'm trying to pull out the pwm cable as well but it's actually tucked back in there pretty good okay here we go PWM cable there you have it for pin brightly coloured cable not my favorite on the brightly colored cable but what can you do and that pretty much does it so this has been my quick unboxing of the Zalman CNP s5x Performa aftermarket heat sink fan for Intel and AMD 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