and finally I'm having a look at the last in the new silen X aphysio series
of heat sinks this is their low profile it is designed for use with htpc cases
and other lowprofile cases it's compatible with a wide variety of
sockets just like the rest of the aphysio lineup here we can see that it
uses Three 6 mm heat pipes so even though it comes in a small box like the
compact it's actually going to be more similar to the performance in terms of
well heat pipes okay it uses a silen x
fin H fin fan with optimized fan blades
and it has a universal mounting system compatible with all these different
kinds of CPUs including uh K8 am2 am3
am2 plus lga775 LGA 1156 LGA 1366 and if
you want to read all that on your own you could do it here and here are the
specs fairly lightweight which is what you'd expect from an htpc optimized
cooler so let's have a look at the accessory package which comes in a much
smaller box than the others already I'll tell you that much
okay so where's my oh okay it's in there
that explains it Okay so we've got a fan speed controller these are quite
effective I've used them before they're excellent it also includes a double-sided velcro thing here you've
got all metal fan mounting gear I love that I hate plastic and for AMD you've
got the same more of the same more metal excellent it all feels relatively sturdy
as well I don't think you have to worry about these going flying off
your socket or anything like that okay so here is a fan this is a Slim So This
is a low profile 100 mm fan this only
looks how thick is this thing hold on a minute 24 D 54 CFM is what it's rated
for this is an aphysio series quiet fan
and uh I wish I could think of how thin this is I mean
it looks like 10 mm would be my guess
but I would have to be 15 wouldn't it hold on let's have a look here yeah
that's got to be 15 MS there it is next to a 25 mm silent X fan so yeah it's got
to be a 15 mil you know what why don't we plug this in I'm kind of curious as
to how loud it
is that's not too bad it has a bit of an airflow noise to
it but it's not uh it's not a distracting noise here I'll turn it off
and turn it back on again see it takes a while to ramp up I guess because of the
small motor on it but here have a listen to it ramping up
yeah not bad at all considering that it's a low profile fan and you can use
the fan speed controller on it of course so that'll take it down to a much slower
speed all right here is the low profile cooler that is low
profile wow that's really short okay not
that I would you know call anyone out on being short anyway here's your Universal
back plate with its insulating cover on it so it doesn't short out the back of
your motherboard and there is the heat sink itself so it uses the preferred
mounting system out of the aphysio series heat sinks I've seen so I'm going
to go ahead and pull out these rubber grommets
here uh unlike all of the others from
this series this particular heat sink is not push pull compatible although I
can't imagine any reason why you would be trying to uh mount a pushpull cooling
system in uh htpc I mean yeah you get
more static pressure but the whole point of this thing is low profile you don't
want to go and throw two fans on it because you'd be far better off to put
more metal on it at that point the whole purpose is just to uh to get it as small
as possible so one thing that I mention or didn't mention before is that this is
a 100 mm fan and this is kind of cool so
check this out okay hold on I'm going to pull all these through did that go
through already yeah okay so two
there we go number three oh hold on having a little bit of
trouble getting my fingers on that one there we are and the last one I am a
little bit on the OCD side I will need to put all of these through in order to
proceed with the video and it is done so
this is kind of cool it also has mounting holes for what I'll presume are 92 mm so it's 100 mm fan it has 100 mm
holes which you can use to mount on this particular heat sink but then you've
also got the 92 mil holes if you wanted to use it as a case fan for whatever
reason although I wouldn't recommend that so you've got three heat pipes
these are 6 mm heat pipes got a nice flat base here with machine heat pipes
into it for a slightly better thermal performance versus having a metal cover
and then the heat pipes embedded in that I'll do the obligatory finger shot you
got your Universal mounting plate and like all of the other fysio series heat
SNS you have a little heat sink right above the CPU core right here and unlike
all of the other ones this one will improve performance in a way that is Meaningful because it actually has a
downward blowing fan the other ones are going to get some incidental air flow
but they are Tower heat sink so they're not going to get a whole lot you can see
this is a tower heat sink and it has a little uh cooler under it whereas this
one is actually going to get direct air flow right from the fan like all of the
other fysio heat sinks this one does Focus all of its heat pipe cooling power
right under where the fan blades are going to spin so I'm going to go ahead
and spin that so you can see the heat pipes are 1 2 three on that side and 1 2
3 on that side so they're lined up there we go right under where most of the air
flow from this heat sink is going to happen now unlike the other fysio Series
this one does use a uh quite a loose fin
structure but I'm not going to fault it for that because I think in this
particular application where you've got a slim fan you're not going to be able
to generate a lot of static pressure so it's going to be all about using uh a
free flowing air flow as efficiently as
possible and as quietly as possible so you're not going to go ahead and put
like a dense fin Arrangement on this and you're not going to throw like a beefy
huge fan on it this is about efficiency this isn't about raw performance like
the other physios I okay you're having trouble hearing that I bit there you go
you've got that slight ripplin to the aluminum fins so that's going to give it
slightly better cooling performance than just a flat Fin and you've also got a
bit of a wave shape to it which I think looks cool maybe it does something for
performance maybe it doesn't I don't really care and I think that pretty much
C everything I wanted to say about this low profile cooler and uh let's see if I
can find something to compare the overall height
to H just for fun Why Don't We compare it to a uh to a noct TOA
NH um
D4 there we go so here's a height
comparison for you there's that cooler
and there is the low profile episio the cooler is like done before
before the fins even start thank you for checking out my unboxing of the aphysio
low profile from Silent X