WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:08.440 I'm going to be doing a series of unboxings over the next little while here I've actually got an entire new 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:10.639 lineup of CPU coolers from Silent X so 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:15.160 this is their aphysio lineup I've got the compact which comes in a blue box I 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:19.640 have the extreme which comes in a green box I have the performance which comes 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:23.640 in a gray box and I have the low profile which comes in a red box so the very 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:27.920 first one that I'm going to do is going to be the Compact and the reason I'm 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:32.880 going to do the compact first is completely arbitrary I like the blue 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:38.440 color because I am wearing a blue shirt today so this is a quietest noise level 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:44.399 heat sink so that means it falls under their less than 18 D rated heat sink 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:49.000 category you can see that we have two 6 mm heat pipes that are heat pipe direct 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:53.199 touch so they directly interface with the processor core that means that you 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.640 get slightly better thermal performance but it is more expensive to manufacture 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:01.559 a heat sink that has the heat pipes directly contacting the CPU core with 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:06.080 optimize fan blade for the greatest air to noise ratio so they're using silent X 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:10.759 fans which they well should because this is a silent X heat sink and next we have 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.000 that they have a new Universal mounting system so that's going to be a big one 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:18.439 that we're going to look closely at is how solid is the new Universal mounting 00:01:16.119 --> 00:01:22.000 system so here's the compatibility as well as the specifications I'll let you 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:26.119 have a close look at those so you can see the weight is actually quite low 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:30.680 which I would expect for a low profile rather for a uh a compact heat sink 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:34.399 because you don't want to compact heat sink that weighs a ton you've got the 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:39.200 ratings for the fan on there as well so let's go ahead and open up the box and 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:43.240 have a look at what we find inside so the first thing that I'm going to notice 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:48.240 here is that it is very compact this is a small heat sink so that means that you 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:51.560 can use it in a case that is very slim because it's not going to sit very far 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:55.399 away from the motherboard and you can also use it in a case where there's 00:01:53.159 --> 00:02:01.680 you've got a fair bit of clearance from the CPU socket upward but you don't need 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:03.479 a ton because it does use an 80 mm fan 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:06.719 so let's go ahead and have a look at the back plate for their new Universal 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:11.760 mounting system all right so we got holes on here 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:15.519 oo that's nice and solid you can see they've actually shaped it as well see 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:18.879 this groove in here so they've shaped it in order to give it a little bit more 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:21.599 structural rigidity and you can see that they've got a plastic coating on the 00:02:20.239 --> 00:02:25.480 back here so I can't actually put my finger into that Groove so that's to 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:32.040 keep it non-conductive when it's plastered to the back of a motherboard 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:35.640 so we've got 775 1156 13 66 holes am2 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:37.920 am3 holes K8 holes you've got holes for 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:46.959 pretty much everything you could want to make a hole in it to mount it to all 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:48.640 right next we have ooh a CPU fan speed 00:02:46.959 --> 00:02:52.360 controller that's a pretty good value for a low-end heat sink you don't 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:55.080 usually expect to see that and this is a value heat sink I mean you're not going 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:59.400 to be shattering any performance barriers with this one that's not the 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:04.680 point of this product okay so in here we have our our AMD K8 am2 am2 plus am3 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:08.720 mounting hardware so you can see we've got a little adapter here that we 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:13.680 basically bolt onto the cooler and then we use the included screws to screw it 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:17.959 down okay I love that all of the mounting hardware here is made out of 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:22.680 solid metal pieces there isn't a single plastic piece of mounting hardware in 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:26.959 this entire kit so we've got okay yeah we've got rubber grommets to mount the 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:31.400 fan if we want uh noiseless fan mounting but that's it and that's perfectly 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:36.400 acceptable other than that we have bolt through okay we have thumb screws with 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:40.760 uh spring mounting so those are things that I really like to see and then we 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.120 have like no plastic nonsense uh we've got some included thermal compound this 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:51.319 is silent X brand thermal compound ooh uh greater than 30% silver content by 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:53.200 volume so that's a silver based thermal 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:56.920 compound here's our included fanspeed controller I've seen these in a number 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:00.319 of different uh heat sink Solutions so there's probably some OEM somewhere that 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:03.360 makes these they work really good they have a hole in here because there's a 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:08.079 little heat sink down there gives it some ventilation for the heat that it's going to kick off it's not very much 00:04:06.519 --> 00:04:11.400 though so you just plug this into your motherboard you plug this into the fan 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:15.439 and then you control the fan speed fairly straightforward uh what I'll 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:20.239 probably do is plug this into my uh my test B is just sitting over there and 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:23.759 then we can hear how loud the fan is now this isn't a typical looking silent X 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:28.600 fan I was expecting to see one of their uh silvery looking fans but I guess 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:31.600 that's fine oh cool that's nice so they 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.160 actually include uh extra rubber mounts 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:37.720 because you can see the rubber mounts on here are already attached to a fan so 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.759 that means you can actually set this up as a sandwich this is kind of a neat 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:44.240 design I haven't seen something like this from Silent X before so first let's 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.960 have a look at our three pin fan connector right here that's it that's 00:04:46.479 --> 00:04:52.600 all there really is to say about it it's three pins it's fan the fan is black and 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:57.400 white and you can see it's actually mounted with a bit of a gap here so the 00:04:54.520 --> 00:05:02.280 way that these um that these rubber grommets work is they actually slide 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:07.000 into the heat sink right here and then you just push the fan onto it and pull 00:05:05.039 --> 00:05:10.479 them through that's actually pretty clever I like it so you've got your two 00:05:08.919 --> 00:05:15.400 heat pipes now this isn't going to be like I said it's not a high performance product so you've only got two 6 mil 00:05:13.400 --> 00:05:19.520 heat pipes but you do have a quite a flat finish to the base it's all 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:23.039 machined very very nicely and I'll do the obligatory uh finger shot thing here 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:27.240 which doesn't actually tell us anything but everybody does it so I guess I might 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:32.639 as well so you got your Universal hold down on here okay actually oh no yeah oh 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:36.080 yeah this is universal so the AMD Clips go on to these holes and then they 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:40.120 expend extend it a little bit and then these are the Intel holes okay so you've 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:43.240 got a little heat sink built right over onto the heat pipes so that's going to 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:48.240 dissipate a little bit of heat but it's not going to get a ton of air flow even if you're running like a push pole setup 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:53.400 with the fan and then I really like the way they've laid out these heat um these 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.840 uh heat sink fins so what they've done is they've actually built in like kind 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:01.479 of a a different shape to every alternate fin so that gives you a bit of 00:06:00.280 --> 00:06:05.160 a um I don't know how to describe this but 00:06:03.880 --> 00:06:11.080 the way it looks to me is like what they're aiming for is more of a streamlined entrance for the air that's 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.960 going through where most of the air goes through which is directly under the fan 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:18.319 blades so you can see right under the fan blades that's where you have this 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:21.680 intersection where some of the fins are shaped out in a bulge like this and some 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:26.560 of them are shaped in an hourglass shape in like that so that's uh that looks 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:30.360 like it's by Design it's quite a dense fin Arrangement so what you're probably 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:34.599 going to want to do is invest in another $3 um and get a cheap fan or you can 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:37.880 invest a little bit more and get a nice silent fan throw that on the other side 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:41.680 you should have a nice performing little cooler for a relatively inexpensive cost 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:47.199 so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the aphysio compact heat 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:51.360 sink and don't forget to subscribe to my tech tips video blog