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this is the hr2 it is big and heavy and

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it is made by thermal right they are advertising this as a fanless CPU Cooler

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so they're saying that you can actually run many of today's modern high

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performance CPUs fanless completely

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passive as long as you have some case air flow with this particular heat sink

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so let's take a look at it the first thing we find is a thermal rate sticker

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then we have an installation guide which shows us a view of how to to uh attach

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all of the different mounting brackets it does include mounting for uh 775

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1366 1156 as well as am2 as I recall uh

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let me just uh we'll double check that when we get to the actual Hardware okay

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so here's the included mounting hardware you can see this is clearly for am2 and

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then this is clearly a multi- installation kit for Intel all right

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let's see what we got for look at this it comes with a screwdriver check that

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out Chrome vadium okay I don't actually

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know how to pronounce that vadium vadium neat it's a screwdriver magnetic

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hey it's magnetic too look at that do we have anything to test it on around here

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okay here here yeah yeah here's a PCI back

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plate it's not very magnetic okay well

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that's okay you still get a free screwdriver with your heat sink purchase

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that is a compelling bundle

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offering okay mounting hardware I'm going to need my handy dandy Tech tips

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knife which I now actually have there we

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go that is officially open now so in

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here we will find a variety of things we've got some rubber grommets we have

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some fan Clips we have some thermal compound

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cf3 next we have a wrench you got a wrench and a screwdriver you get like a

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tool kit with this thing and then we have the am2 mounting hardware also am3

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and then we have the uh multi back for Intel so uh here yeah 775 1156 and

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1366 all right let's look at the heat sink itself since that's the most

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interesting part of this video other than me of

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course no I'm kidding I know the heat sink's the most interesting part so this

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is the H2 and it has a couple of unique Design

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Elements so we'll get started here once I finally have it out of the

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bag that thing is H huge so first of all

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it has a boatload of heat pipes you can see it's actually got six full u-shaped

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heat pipes so that's almost 12 effective

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heat pipes when you look at how they're all attached to the base it's a very

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very shiny flatl looking base and we'll do the obligatory finger shot that

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everyone in their dog seems to be determined to complain about but I don't

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really care all right so you can see

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first of all that this heat sink has a very very wide spacing for the fins

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that's because it does rely on passive cooling so that means when this is

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installed on your socket okay so let's say hypothetically it's installed like

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this it relies on the heat that is

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generated by the heat pipes transferring heat to the fins to Simply heat the air

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and then the air will rise out of it or be pulled Slowly by a case fan and

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that's it that's the only Force you have so that's why the fins need to be spaced

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really wide so that it doesn't take a lot of pressure to push the air through

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it now besides the wide spacing of the fins you can see what thermal R's done

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is they've actually used their little um I don't know if they actually even have

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a name for this but what they've done is they've cut little holes and bent up the flaps in every one of the aluminum

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layers here and that gives us just a little bit more surface area so based on

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that so you can see that's all the way through the heat sink I would probably

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recommend mounting this heat sink this way either this way or this way because

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that's going to mean that I mean heat rises so it means that you're giving the

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air less resistance to rise up through the heat sink and cool your CPU now this

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hole right here is probably why you need the screwdriver that's how you're going

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to uh screw it in if you're using an

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am2 uh socket so that's positioned right

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there for that and then on the other side you can reach it quite a bit more

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easily that's one of the considerations when you're building a heat sink this

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big is how do you actually access the mounting hardware and uh so people can

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actually attach it to their motherboard cameraman's giving me his iPhone for the

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usual scale shot so you can see compared to an iPhone it would crash

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it it's quite a bit bigger and heavier

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okay so there it is from the side and let's just have a closer look at how

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they've attached the uh the heat pipes down here at the bottom so it's six heat

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pipes alternating so some of them go over to this side of the heat sink and

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the others just go straight up in a straight U shape so all six of them are

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aligned at the same level I've actually seen some coolers where some of the heat

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pipes are a little bit higher and I don't know what that would do in terms

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of thermal transfer but this way they're all as close as possible to the CPU

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without touching directly and I think that pretty much covers everything I

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wanted to say about the hr2 I'm actually kind of curious to try this one out and

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see uh see how well it can do on even like a a core i7 or something like that

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it's very heavy though