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yeah now I know the box looks as though it was designed by a fourth grader but putting that side this is the sigh big shuriken to revision B air cooler ultra low-profile air cooler meaning it spans only 58 millimeters in height which means it will fit perfectly I mean literally perfectly inside the fractal design note 202 which is where this will end up eventually in a separate video stay tuned for that but we're gonna compare this cool this cooler is a thermal capacity to other air coolers that I'll admit aren't the same form factor right they're not as low profile but nonetheless for 40 bucks and being that it fits in ITX cases I want to see what this thing packs in the box for 40 US dollars which by the way is what you can buy this for if you live in the US check out my link down below tied to my Amazon affiliate account you live anywhere else in the world you still click on the link and it should take you to your respective amazon website for your country this again at 40 bucks doesn't look too appealing on paper especially on the box I mean come on let's see what's up with all those words but anyway it's a pretty beefy air cooler for what it is for how thin it is and I think it offers an interesting value proposition on the left so we're gonna get started testing this thing or right now so a few things the big shuriken too has and they could stand out from its competition the first thing you'll notice out of the box this thing's pretty beefy it's actually quite a heavy for what it is for its size and that it's thanks in large part to these five copper heat pipes here these look to be about six smilk thick copper heat pipes and those span from a nickel-plated base mine didn't have any scratches for the most part on it which is a good thing and then these pipes span up to it's almost like a double layered aluminum thin array and above the aluminum fin or a you have a super thin ultra low-profile 120mm fan we're talking maybe a centimeter and a half worth of thickness here for this fan so I'm more or less concerned about airflow because these spins aren't able to displace a lot of air just because of how thin everything is but apart from that I mean if you're if you're worried about clearance this is kind of cooler you should consider when you're building a small form-factor PC if you're not gonna liquid cool you're probably going to be compromising just a bit in terms of how loud your system will be the slim fan is held on by two wire brackets on either side pretty easy to remove though you probably won't have to unless you want to strap a thicker fan onto here for whatever reason because you will not be able to access the mounting points beneath this aluminum thinner a from the top there there are no cutouts for that which means that installation is going to be a major pain now our cooling test fans utilizes an X 99 CPU which means that we don't have a backplate per se everything's handled on the front side of the motherboard and this cooler utilizes two brackets one on each side secured by two screws apiece and then we do have four screws that are essentially thumb screws that screw into the socket around the CPU these two brackets here aren't difficult to secure you're gonna need something like a Phillips head screwdriver that's not included in the box but that's probably the only tool you'll need overall because this small thin wrench is included to mount the cooler directly to the socket at least for x99 platforms and this is where it gets extremely difficult so if you have your motherboard already installed in your case then you should probably take it back out and try to secure this cooler that way because the case itself is gonna impede your ability to get underneath that cooler you also want to remove your RAM modules if possible because those again are gonna impede your ability to get in there with that wrench and tighten the cooler down all-in-all took me about 20 minutes to secure and half that time was me just fiddling with it trying to reach those mounting points and secure them as much as possible now cooling performance not all that bad I was actually pretty impressed for again the size and the cost of this unit it looks pretty darn good in any system although it is a little low profile alright especially for full ATX build but the cooling capacity again not too shabby keep in mind all these coolers are significantly larger than the big shuriken - and that would explain the temperature Delta I'd still like to point out though that cooling of 5820k is no small task and despite this cooler being rather small it does a decent job keeping temps in check and while maintaining these temperatures the system wasn't too loud either which I expected to be the one big compromise with a big shuriken - I thought okay we really thin fan and the cooler itself isn't too large so it's probably gonna get pretty loud this fan does have a rated rpm of up to 2000 it's PWM controlled the wire is braided which is really nice so they didn't cheap out anywhere you would expect them to with a $40.00 cooler from a place that I probably can't pronounce but ultimately things didn't get too loud we managed to stay under 40 decibels and that's actually something that is listed on the box around 36 dB is what the advertised and sure enough 37 dB I'd call it within the margin of error not too bad at all all of these by the way we're tested with a stock fan curve so everything should scale equivalently and I do want to point out that I also used each coolers respective thermal compound the one in the South cooler box was not the best looking compound it was a little liquidy on the surface and then it got pretty chunky underneath so that's when you know you don't have the highest grade thermal compound but I like to use individual peso because it encourages manufacturers in these tests in particular to throw the best thermal compounds they can into their boxes so that the consumer gets the lowest temperatures if we you know completely neutralize this and just use like you know conduct a knot then no cooler manufacturers going to want to put good thermal compound in their boxes and we don't want that right we want the consumer to just be content with what is in the box because it's good enough and this cooler thermal compound is just not good enough now at this point you might be weighing the pros and cons of a cooler like this and trying to justify the $40 price I think for $40 is a great job cooling I mean heck of 5820k it's gonna do a great job cooling and consumer grade Intel CPU or AMD CP for that matter and it also stays relatively quiet when doing so so for 40 bucks it's a pretty sweet bargain but there are two other questions you should ask yourself before deciding to buy this cooler the first is what chips that you're on and the second is what Ram modules you plan on using to answer the first question and this cooler will only disappoint one fan base and that is AMD's because this cooler does not have native am 4 chipset support which means that you're not gonna be able to mount this cooler to anything that has the word risin in it basically and I understand that's a huge chunk of the CPU consumer space out there if you have a rise and CP or you know if in Jimmy rig this cooler and even then you're probably not gonna have the easiest time doing that because of the way the cooler is designed so I recommend AMD users stay away from this and if you're gonna build an ITX rig you're still gonna have trouble mounting the cooler but at least you can do that with Intel CPUs I hate recommending a cooler that's only compatible one way right for modern chips but that's just how it's gonna be because this cooler is so old I'm pretty sure it's been out for five or six years now as to the second question this will depend again on the RAM kit that you're looking at I would say that if you're gonna go for anything that has like a very conservative heatsink just above the PCB then it'll probably fit I use these g.skill Ram modules and they're actually pretty you know Fleury on top the PCB is a considerable distance underneath the tops of these heat sinks and things were still perfectly fine underneath I had no clearance issues at all back they had a few more millimeters to give so actually pretty impressive for how short the cooler is height wise it's only 58 millimeters tall Ram modules you're probably not gonna have too big a problem with if the heat sinks don't surpass the height of the PCB itself by very much so my verdict and the big shuriken too is twofold it depends on a few ur an AMD risin user if you're some other CPU user if you have AMD resin CPUs your disposal this cooler is not going to be an option at least how it is now because it doesn't have native AM for support but if you're using any other chipset out there that is listed on the box it's the LGA 775 1150 X 1366 2011 v3 and then a M 2 all the way up to am3+ and FM 2 plus you can use this cooler congratulations and also obviously if you're building in an ultra-low profile case something like the node 202 this cooler will be perfect for you I mean literally perfect it's almost like this cooler was made for the node 202 stay tuned for that build if it's not already listed in the card above I do want to hear from you guys in the comments below let me know what you think about this cooler and some of its competitors list those as well again this video is not sponsored I don't care what you list or if you hate on this cooler it's not really a big deal reviews in this channel will never be sponsored by the way so don't worry about that I'm just gonna give you my honest opinions on these things whether I get it from a company for free or not you know if the company is willing to ditch me over one negative review I don't want to work with that company anyway so don't worry about whether I bought it or if I got it for free that's my rule of thumb I don't 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