welcome to my unboxing at the fantex thermal Solutions PHT c14 PE so this
supports Intel LGA 2011 AMD am3 plus and fm1 and oh is that interesting doesn't
support LGA 1155 well we'll find out when we open it up but let's have a look
at what they have to say for themselves in terms of specs okay so it's a heat sink and fan is compatible with lg1155
even 36 6 and 755 cool okay materials
copper aluminum for the fins thermal Shield patented okay this that dual fans
included dual 140 mm fans included cool compatible with 140s or 120s uses an
updraft floating balance bearing for the fans neat melstrom Vortex booster design
for the nine blades on the fan that's cool as well heat SN Dimensions you know
what let's just open it up because usually with heat sinks the beastliness
and oh that looks good the awesomeness of them is pretty
apparent once you get them opened up and that looks that looks dead sexy finish
is perfect no blemishes
whatsoever got a nice brushed blue oh
okay I'm sort of sold on this actually all right let's get this opened
up um I don't know how the packaging works I don't want to uh put
fingerprints on it or anything okay yeah that'll
do okay we'll we'll get to this more after oh big fat heat pipes okay
normally I don't really care about air cooling to be perfectly honest I'm more
of a water cooling guy but uh some air
coolers are worthy of being thought that they're cool and
this appears to be one of them all right packaging is pretty straightforward
contains all the stuff and the first thing you're going to want to do is get
it out of the way so you can check out this beastly beastly air tooling heat
sink so it's a dual Tower design which is similar to other very high
performance heat sinks on the market such as the coage arrow uh thermal right
Silver Arrow Noctua NHD 14 comes with a
wide variety of different uh back plates and whatnot so you got all your
different uh positions for the back plate there LGA 2011 compatibility is
achieved using these guys right here so you won't even need the back plate on
that one cuz it has kind of a built-in one there's your AMD stuff and here's
all your accessories including clips for up to looks like up to three fans as
well as the universal hold down that you'll need for all of the different
mounting options um some thermal compound phmdc thermal
compound and oh look a splitter they include a splitter so you can run two
fans natively off of a single header so you'll only be able to monitor the RPM
of one of them but it's not a big
deal uh oh four pin pwm to three pin
adapter just in case you need one seved in white well heat shrinked in right in
white all right here we go so they also
included a third fan just in case we did want to run it with three fans
so uh fans accessories include um soft
rubber mounts as well as a MOX to three
pin adapter White sleeved cable love that white sleeves very nice uh bracket
oh cool they include one of those brackets so you can mount it above your graphics card that's neat little extras
like that really go a long way as well as two noise reduction D
ABS all right the included fans are more of an oem Affair not a big deal
though holy crap this thing is so cool
looking do want okay so let's take a
look at the heat sink itself so you've got your branded covers on the top those
do nothing for performance but they look really neat they're a bit of a darker
blue than the aluminum fins themselves you can see these are a bit of a lighter blue these are a bit of a darker blue
but it's not that noticeable if you're looking at it like kind of from an angle
like that or anything like that these are anodized aluminum fins up here these
are copper heat pipes that are nickel plated and look how thick these heat
pipes are five heat pipes go through the base and that's all there's room for
you've probably seen coolers that have more heat pipes than that but these are
thick heat pipes these what are these these must be 8 mm heat pipes at the
very least let me see if they have anything to say about that yep 8 mm Heat
pipes and actually give me a sec guys so
there's a few more things to cover one of them is their okay two things
patented Pats so this is a physical antioxidant thermal Shield which
apparently increases the cooling performance and reliability while
deflecting other thermal radiation from other heat sources so in in theory
anything hot that's nearby should be less likely to radiate heat that warms
up these uh these uh aluminum heat sinks
and it should also improve the performance of of the aluminum heat
sinks as well to have this coating on them okay so there's that there's also
patented cpsc which is cold plasma spray
spraying coating technology so that is
the method of fusing the heat pipes to the base that they're using that
apparently improves the thermal conduction from the base to the heat
pipes which in turn will allow the CPU to be cooled more effectively uh a
couple more things just fan mounting options so what I would generally
recommend if you're using the two fans that are included would be blowing
through the fins here you can see that these uh actually not you can see but
these fans are relatively low RPM fans I'll just double check what they spec
for so they're only at uh uh 1,200 to
1300 RPM and what that means is that in
order to achieve optimal cooling with them with this particular heat sink
fantex has designed the fins to be fairly widely spaced so yes more surface
area is in general better when it comes to Cooling appc appliations however if
you don't want to use extremely high RPM extremely high pressure fans then you
want to give some space as well in order to make optimal use of the you know
space in between it so that the air can actually like fit through there so this
is what it'll look like when it's installed basically like a beast uh hold
on let me let me get this a little bit better positioned it'll work better if
you're using the actual like mounting hardware for them obviously so this
is come on Linus you can do it so this is what it'll look like when
it's installed and then if you install the third one it'll be like that much
more again and it'll be pretty big I
mean to give you guys some uh some idea of the scale of this thing ouch here it
is next to a thermal right Silver Arrow
which is sort of pending a CPU upgrade
that I'll just move so that's how big it is thank you for checking out my
unboxing and first look at fantex oh no hold on ah right something else to
mention it is available in a variety of colors and comes with a 5year warranty
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