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so you've seen it all before budget builds high end builds keyboard reviews headphone reviews you're like damn brain I need a new fix surely you can't provide us with something well today you guys I have a new fix for you we're gonna be silicon gunning or essentially gluing down a CPU to a motherboard and seeing if the temperatures are any different to that of a massive cool of the reven akeno's and also a budget cool of the tx3 so let's get this comparison underway welcome back to tech yes City this brand coming to you guys today with a video on three different CPU coolers and one of them is going to be glued down to the motherboard that's right we blowing this thing down for a pure price performance now pick this CPU a cooler up for around about $4 in a junk on a long time ago and now sometimes you get these really good coolers but they don't have the mounting kits and that's exactly the case here so we're gonna try and get the best price performance possible by silicon gunning it down to the motherboard and now this won't really work with the PG a socket unless you do it around the edges but in this case we've got an LGA board and so essentially the CPU and the socket is going to be holding the cooler together and with that it shouldn't come apart well hopefully I mean with the temperature tests that we do later on we're gonna check out if it does indeed work now we've got some competitors here the reven akeno's this thing is massive to fans it's got a mounting kit as well so we're gonna see this is the Big Daddy this is gonna be like the one to compare it to and then of course I've thrown in the cooler master TX three as well which is an entry-level CPU cooler just to see how this big sis ninja or Kabuto I forgot the exact name of it compares to these other two coolers now with that aside some of the other parts that we're using is an ex 34:30 which is a twelve dollar CPU or File Express four cores four threads and it's overclockable and we've got a H fifty-five motherboard that I picked up in a used parts hunt over in Thailand so all these parts are extreme budget and hence the reason for getting the price performance down by doing what I'm doing here today those that aside let's get on to all the testing so just finish two rounds of testing now with the TX three and now the reven cooler and the reven cooler did do a lot better than the TX 3 however I would have taken the CPU to 3.8 gigahertz and I did get it to 3.0 he goes but it's really not sustainable on this motherboard as even dropping it down to 3.6 gigahertz after 10 minutes show that the vrm is on the MOSFETs we're measuring in at 68 degrees from an IR gun and that's really hot even the chokes when I was touching them they were getting extremely hot too so something like this motherboard isn't geared up towards overclocking that much so 3.6 gibbets is a happy medium and even then it was putting out that CPU I'd have to guesstimate around about 70 watts so the CPU is running a little bit hot even at 3.6 gigahertz I'll try fine-tune that but for the apples to apples to apples' s it's actually a pretty good number you can see that this cooler even though it's massive it is doing a better job in this cooler but now it's time to whack on the silicon gun cooler and then get the final results for you guys and we've just silicon gunned now the CPU down so it's still got a bond and that usually takes a few hours at least with the clear silicon that I use but once it's bonded it is very strong you see here I'm using the rmx-1000 watt power supply just as sort of like extra weight to give it a bit of pressure and make sure it's making good contact and we're gonna come back to this thing in the morning and see how it runs and it's now morning time and the silicon is all dry and we should be able to pick the motherboard up off the box and it should be very firm which it is and so now we're just gonna install a 140 mm fan on top of this cooler and we can see here we want to install it this way so the vrm actually gets some of the cooling off this fan - so we're gonna silicon this down as well because wise will silicon everything down if we're doing the silicon job the results are in and here we have the silicon gunned sis cooler scoring right as expected in my opinion at scored right in between the Riva and the TX three more closer to the TX three but the reven is a massive cooler it does have a really good mounting kit that does bolt it down pretty firmly the silicon gun cool obviously not being bolted down as best as it could but it did score a victory over the TX 3 which was good to see and it could handle the heat so I'm really impressed with the results of course this is gonna save us a few dollars and the price performance is gonna go up even more but the biggest thing I like about this of course is that top down fan now that's gonna give the vrm some cooling it's not gonna be amazing but it is gonna give it a little bit more cooling as opposed to one of the other two solutions that we had on the test bench now you may be wondering why didn't you go out and make a custom frame or zip ties as I said before with zip ties they will get loose over time or at least in my experience and also with a custom frame I mean guys its a four-dollar cooler I'm not really gonna waste that much time and go to all those lengths just for a four dollar cooler but with that the silicon gun it is extremely fast of course you do have a lot of down time waiting for the cooler to stick but in terms of the actual work that needs to be done it's a really quick fix it will save you some money just keep in mind that you will want to sort of put some pressure on the cooler to make sure that the cooler does make good contact with the CPU and so the silicon actually sticks properly though before you get on out of here one thing to keep in mind is that this is a permanent solution so if you do decide to do this just keep in mind that you may have not only a very aesthetically bad-looking motherboard and CPU combo but you will have a permanently attached solution in that if you try to rip the cooler off especially if you try to twist it off and use brute force you may damage some hardware in the process if you use a stanley knife you may get better results you just have to get some of the silicon left over off but I want to see for what it's worth it was a big success again bringing that price performance up through the roof $4 cooler $12 CPU $30 motherboards so there really isn't a lot to lose and how does it perform in games well that is a another topic for another video coming very soon for you guys to stay tuned for that and if you like this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what you think of today's fix and I'll catch you in another one very soon peace out for now bye