{"video_id":"66nEp1gpWLA","title":"SilenX Effizio Performance Triple Heatpipe Silent CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":387,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":7.52,"text":"I'll be continuing my look at silent X's a physio line of heat sinks with the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.799,"end_s":11.92,"text":"latest the performance Series so like the others it is designed for quiet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.36,"end_s":16.52,"text":"performance less than 18 DB and this one says quietest noise levels uh just like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.24,"end_s":20.359,"text":"all the others I've already had a look at the compact as well as the extreme","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.6,"end_s":24.0,"text":"over there and we're just waiting to do these last two so let's have a look 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over there and we're just waiting to do these last two so let's have a look at the specifications here you can pause the video and read them if you so desire weighs about a half a Kil so that is about I'm I'm roughing this so like 3/4 of a pound or so you've got three 6 mm heat pipe so that is substantially less than the extreme series cooler although it is less expensive so these are making direct contact with the bottom of the CPU or the top of the CPU so that means you do get slightly better thermal performance that way it is using a silen x fan as well as a new excuse me a new Universal mounting system now you've got a bunch of CPU logos here that shows all the different CPUs it can mount on which include am2 am2 plus am3 LGA 775 LGA 1156 LGA 1366 and all of the CPUs that go in those sockets and trying to get the heat sink out so let's go ahead and have a look at the accessory package now that I've already looked at one of the lower end coolers and the highest end cooler from this series I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is going to be a fairly similar load out of equipment here although I do see one difference already unlike its Brethren this one uses fan Clips instead of the uh the little rubber Mount so it's a slight difference there uh then you've got a fan speed controller which was included with the others your AMD mounting hardware a thermal compound tube uh double-sided velcro for mounting the fan controller and you've got some mounting hardware screws and thumb screws and washers and such then you have the universal back plate which is compatible with all the sockets I listed before and that pretty much does it for accessories so let's have a look at the cooler itself ooh that's really thin okay I can tell you right off the bat I don't like this one quite as much as the others although I don't know what the retail price is going to be one thing that appeals to me right off the bat though this this really does is the fact that it's shaped like a radiator I don't know why I care about that but you you can see that what silent X is trying to do here is they're trying to focus all of the cooling just like with the extreme uh on the places where the fan blades are actually going to blow on them so you see you hold the fan here so they haven't wasted any material they're going ahead and they're taking all of the cooling potential of this they're going to dissipate a little bit of heat with this it'll get some incidental air flow from the fan and then basically they're taking the middle of the CPU they're taking the heat away from it and they're putting it right in the way of where the fan is going to be blowing the most air so that means not here not here right here right in that uh wheelhouse so to speak all right so let's um oh this is interesting so they've actually got little grommet spots on here for those rubber mounts but they haven't included them for some reason so we're going to go ahead and mount our fan using a uh using the clip mounting system so go ahead and just throw that on there it doesn't have an anti vibration Mount so that's one thing that um could probably be improved about this particular product and let's see if I can figure out how to use these on camera it's always fun when I try and figure out stuff on camera because like believe it or not it's hard I do have something else to concentrate on here I take a lot of flack for not figuring things out right away on camera but uh yeah it's hard it's harder than it looks I'll tell you that much okay so maybe that goes there and maybe this goes here I've never liked these fan Clips I think it's it's thermal right that started this nonsense this doesn't seem like you know the most uh intuitive userfriendly way to mount things but um I mean I guess it kind of works there we go it's on I don't know if I did it right but it's on there for Better or For Worse okay so I'm going to go ahead and uh put the other fan clip on and see if I've actually got that right now what you might notice as I flip the heat sink over is that it's not actually flat I'm just going to make sure that it doesn't go this way maybe it does maybe it goes this way maybe I did it wrong hold on does that go there huh it seems to kind of work either way so I mounted those two different ways I think but uh they both hold the fan on pretty good so whatever okay anyway it's actually at an angle and I'm going to go ahead and speculate although I can't say this for certain that the reason for that is they want to get a little bit more in accidental air flow blowing at the mosfet cooler so you'd probably want to position this if you have a typical case you'd probably want to position it this way so that it's blowing down a little bit towards the coolers at the back at the back of the motherboard here I'll show you an example of what I mean on uh this is an ASUS motherboard so you see that mosfet cooler in there the blue and gray one so if you position this cooler so that it actually sits on the motherboard this way it would blow down towards those keeping your motherboard cooler and hopefully keeping the components on there more reliable and uh overall happier so we've got a fan on here we have uh I already talked a lot about the uh the positioning of the heat pipes because really I mean you can throw more heat pipes at the problem but ultimately if you don't carry the heat to somewhere where you're going to be able to dissipate it it's not going to do you any good so we're going to do our obligatory finger shot where you can see that it's nice and flat even across these heat pipes that are machined right into the base we have our Universal hold down here we've also got a little heat sink here for dissipating a little bit more heat which I've seen featured on the other coolers in this series already we've got the um the slightly dimpled fins which I talked a lot about in the extreme overview and unboxing and that gives us a little bit more surface area for slightly better cooling compared to just a a flat aluminum fin so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the silenx aphysio performance CPU heat sink"}