I'll be continuing my look at silent X's a physio line of heat sinks with the
latest the performance Series so like the others it is designed for quiet
performance less than 18 DB and this one says quietest noise levels uh just like
all the others I've already had a look at the compact as well as the extreme
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