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this is a powerful gaming computer

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we designed it specifically to deliver the most performance it possibly could

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while being completely

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silent it wasn't easy though because while Noctua's new nhp1 passive CPU

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cooler works great it's also hard to fit

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in many cases so we decided to do something a little more fun and

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Linus

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we started with this sweet little portable rig the highlights of which are

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a 3060 ti graphics card and an Intel

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core i7 11700k all with 32 gigs of crucial ballistics

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ddr4 crammed into this teeny tiny little silverstone nlo8 this

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thing manages to be powerful functional and certifiably cute just

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look at this little handle it's like it's so fashionable

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which is all well and good until

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you hit the machine with a heavy load and it folds like an Intel macbook

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which wait they're supposed to fold

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thankfully Noctua has the solution so let's open this thing up and oh geez

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how did this delightful little abc board book for children get in here

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lttstore.com ah there it is

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got em anyway holy crap is this thing ever massive

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meet the nhp1 and it is both heavy and

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completely unlike any other heat sink that i've seen it weighs in at just a

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hair over two and a half pounds thanks to its huge stack of unconventionally

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thick aluminum fins there are only 13

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fins which is a fraction of what you'd have on a normal heat sink and the fins

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are spaced super far apart like this so that the heated air they create has room

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to convect itself upward and away from

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the cooler allowing it to draw fresh air into it passively that's right it's

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designed to be used on modern cpus without any fan

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and this action is facilitated by six heat pipes that carry heat away from the

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CPU and then the whole stack is actually

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braced together so that these poor heat

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pipes don't just bend under the weight

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of this thing now looking back at Noctua's earlier prototype they've made

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a lot of changes to the design notable ones include going from large tabbed

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holes in the fins to smaller punched out ones and the way that they actually

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reduced the number of the fins that

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directly attach to the cold plate now i

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would have thought that more fins directly soldered to the heat source is

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more better but Noctua is clearly leaving the bulk of that work to the

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heat pipes now of course it's time to find out if

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it works oh yeah we're gonna need uh to make some

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modifications here i think ladies and gentlemen

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now the cooler we were using before is a Noctua nhl9i and it's great for its size

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coming in at 59 points on Noctua's performance scale but

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surely this thing will be better right wait

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42 points is this even an upgrade

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one way to find out i guess

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what are these sharpie marks based on i put the cooler on and then put the

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case on roughly where it went and marked it oh okay

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uh all right good luck everybody i swear

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i think colin is sabotaging me here okay oh god this is so approximate

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in spite of my team's best attempts to sabotage me here i'm going to do a

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bang-up job of this

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and bang up top of here you put your thumb directly in the path of the razor blade because i didn't think of it did i

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where's the top line though i think it might be there

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did you draw it though i i can't recall

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it was yesterday everything's a blur oh and there's a color on top of it see how

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it fits okay come on

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oh this isn't life altering minus it's

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pretty life faulting it's case all time that's for sure i mean i don't know is that where it

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goes just mock it up in the case and then put

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the case back on it what oh crap

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that's pretty straight so far

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i mean straight-ish is it a plus

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that's at least a b

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do i get an a for that one no what shut up that is totally pretty straight ish

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oh shut up you guys are being rude minus there there's an a-hole if i ever saw

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for mounting Noctua seems to have made a revision to their superb secufirm 2 and

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this is called secufirm two plus the main difference is that nocto has

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switched to torx heads for these nuts and these posts are a little bit wider

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than they used to be these nuts

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oh uh have we test fitted this wait yes

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and it goes on hey yes it's very tight

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up against that vrm yeah yeah it's

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it's a smidge you got a fudger in there okay

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one of our concerns when i was talking to colin about this project was hey

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colin the side panels for this case slide on are we gonna have to have like

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a much bigger hole to account for that no no no dog because the cooler goes in

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after the fact so

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yeah

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oh yeah oh yeah

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torx me baby oh no there's so much extra over there

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oh no

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don't show that david get my good side

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somewhat more convincing like that no that's not that bad oh it's really

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big on this side too colin hey you scrubbed the lines you can't

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blame me for that you did the cutting

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i did but you put the lines on hey they were

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just guidelines and put the case on roughly where it went and marked it oh

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okay oh it's a good thing it has this light on

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it because otherwise i'd have no way of knowing it turned on

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come on baby whoa hey there it is

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let's go ahead and run our 16 threads of small fft prime 95 and when we ran this

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before on the l9i the cooler became heat soaked almost immediately causing our

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CPU to clock down to 3.2 gigahertz to protect itself

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and here in spite of the lower estimated

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performance rating you're gonna actually see our CPU is still running at 4.4

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gigahertz that is because there is so much more

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thermal mass in a passive solution like this one that it'll take a lot longer to

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thermal throttle that is if it thermal throttles at all i mean

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we're giving it a pretty big advantage putting it outside the case

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and there it is after only a few minutes you can see it's

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steadily going down as the temperatures go up and then reach a ceiling so modern

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processors have a mechanism to protect themselves where they will actually

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clock down their frequency until they reach a point of equilibrium with the

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cooler that they are equipped with so we're going to allow this one to keep

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running here but i also want to disclaim this

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demonstration by pointing out that in the real world this kind of synthetic

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test would never really happen unless

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you're super into folding at home or you habitually run things like long blender

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renders like the huge amount of thermal

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mass that the nhp1 has would allow it to soak up short you know one or two minute

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spikes in heat output so it would be able to maintain its turbo clock speeds

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then once the load is alleviated for a while

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it could slowly cool off while you're performing light tasks so by

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artificially hitting it with a 100 load we are intentionally using up all that

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thermal mass and then testing the maximum amount that the cooler is able

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to radiate away now as for whether you would want a product

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like this it comes with a six-year warranty

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but given that it has no moving parts whatsoever i'd say that's the warranty

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on the cooler is kind of the least of your concerns and the bigger issue to me

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is that passive systems aside from CPU temperatures which are going to range

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between 90 and 100 degrees can have other components nearby running at

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higher temperatures than i would deem comfortable like the power delivery on

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the motherboard and while the last few years of laptop engineering has taught

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us that 100 degrees on a CPU is apparently okay

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it hasn't taught us that it's necessarily okay for the other heat

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sensitive components around it now you could alleviate that issue by

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mounting a fan which more than doubles

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Noctua's performance rating to 89

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but if you're gonna put a fan on this thing

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an nhu 12s redux is rated for over three

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times the performance according to the same manufacturer and cost less than

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half as much so

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just get that right not quite putting on a fan like the nfa

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12 that Noctua recommends allows you to set that fan to only spin up for high

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stress situations just like the seasonic sgx650 power supply that we used for our

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test system here so that means that the rest of the time you can reap the

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benefits of just using convection to move air around for zero fan noise and

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way less dust being sucked into your case

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although hundred and ten dollars seems like a steep price to pay for marginally less

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noise and a little less dust so how could not to up possibly justify

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releasing this thing for you we asked

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number one it took a long time to develop number two the much thicker

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cooling fins meant a new costly stamping process number three they know it's a

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niche product that isn't gonna sell at particularly high volume number four

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aluminum prices have exploded over the last year and this is a full kilogram of

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it and number five it comes with Noctua's more expensive nth2 thermal

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paste and a high quality torx screwdriver

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and besides a little less dust doesn't really do the

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value of a product like this justice colin for example has a perfect use case

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for a cooler like this in his workshop which by the way we are going to be

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don't miss that in a workshop environment dust be it

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from unsealed concrete floors or from active projects gets inside

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everything and that can not just hamper cooling performance over the long term

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but depending what kind of dust it is it can destroy sensitive electronics

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so pairing this guy with a power supply

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like we did that can also run fanlessly would be perfect for an environment like

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