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today I'll be unboxing the cnps 11x

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extreme this is an ultimate Extreme Performance CPU cooling cooler

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called the cnps 11x on the back we find some information

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which is pretty typical all right powerful cooling performance qmax of up

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to 350 Watts v-shaped dual heat sink

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design for optimal air flow composite heat pipe heat transfer capacity

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enhanced 1.5x

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okay we have composite heat pipes which means that they are not a typical axial

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Groove they are not a typical centered metal type but they actually use axial

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grooves and centered metal in order to speed up the flow of the liquid and yes

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it is a liquid or a vapor or whatever the phase that it happens to be in that

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is inside the heat pipe so let's explain how heat pipes work real quick I

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actually saw a hilarious Hardware mod that someone did where they cut off the

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top of their heat pipes on their cooler so that their side panel would fit so

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they took their cooler and they just cut off all the tops of the heat pipes and

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they were like oh my my cooler is so bad my CPU overheats oh that's

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terrible yes that would happen and the reason for that is that heat pipes on

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the inside have a little bit of liquid sometimes it's water sometimes it's

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something else depending on what kind of heat pipes we're talking about and what

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that liquid does is it goes down to the CPU where it it becomes a liquid then

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the CPU because it's hot inside the CPU heat pipe it's low pressure right so the

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the boiling point is much lower so so it gets hot even at 40° 50° it boils it

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evaporates and then the vapor flows up to the top of the heat pipe where it's

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cool where it gets cooled by the fan and the fins that it's attached to and all

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that good stuff and then turns back into a liquid and runs back down to the CPU now well then how does a heat pipe work

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if it's not right side up like this well that is what the axial grooves and the

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centered metal are for they cause the liquid to make its way back down to the

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CPU no matter what okay so there you

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learned something today if you didn't know how heat pipes work you also

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learned that it's not a good idea to cut them because then they won't they'll

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perform about as well as a tube of copper which doesn't perform very well

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for carrying large amounts of heat oo that looks nice I've always love

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the look of Zalman heat sinks although I've done almost nothing in terms of

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Zalman unboxing on my YouTube channel here so why don't

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we do accessories first where we will find lots

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of lots of little parts of stuff oh wow

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okay so uh sockets it's going to be compatible with all the latest sockets

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including 1155 1156 1366 775 am2 am2

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plus and am3 okay so this looks like

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Intel this looks like probably AMD no this looks like Intel this I don't know

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what it looks like basically you got one of these you got some thermal grease you

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got one of these you got a sticker you

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got some pads and some okay you got a

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four pin pwm fan connector adapter to make your four pin pwm fan quieter see

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it's just got a little inline resistor which is awesome I love those I have a

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little collection of them at home you got some of those some of those okay you

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got some back plates you got one back plate I'm going to do this W that's how

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I open BS today okay so your back plate is going to protect your motherboard

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from warping or breaking when you put

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this heavy old cooler on it although I'll tell you guys the cnps 11x is not

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that heavy now the first thing I notice about this cooler is that this is one of

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the most dense fin Arrangements I have

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ever seen on a CPU Cooler now what that

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allows zman to do is have more surface

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area now well mo more surface area that means better cooling right yes in most

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cases more surface area means cooling so

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what if I like ramped it up and I made the surface area just a solid Mass well

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then we wouldn't have better cooling because no air would pass through that would be bad so more surface area is

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better as long as you can push air through it so what zman has done is they

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have made these areas with fins actually

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quite thin okay so you can see the fins are not very

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thick okay and then uh what they've done

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is they've enclosed it completely on on the top with plastic and the bottom with

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another plastic shroud and then they put a big beefy fan on the front of it nice

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big blades I'm going to go ahead and assume they've designed this for static

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pressure more than anything else so it's not going to spin at a huge RPM or

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anything like that actually what RPM yeah up to up to about 2,000 RPM okay so

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that is going to be designed to push air through this not necessarily at a high

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rate of speed but at a fast enough rate to pull a lot of heat away from it so

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let's compare Surface area right so this has what appears to be like look at this

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compared to a Corsair H or

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a70 I mean that could be up to hold on

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okay move the camera for a sec so I can see okay

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uh that looks like about double the fin density of an a70 so in literally half

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the the physical size it can have the same surface area as an a70 pretty neat

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okay heat pipes terms of heat pipes we've got five heat pipes that are not

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heat pipe Direct although that doesn't always provide a performance Advantage

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anyway but we've got a very smooth looking base there's your obligatory

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finger shot where you can see how shiny that is uh the base appears to be convex

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based on looking at the reflection of my light through it okay so what that means

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is that with high mounting pressures you got nice good contact between the base

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and the CPU five heat Pipes making contact all along the base that are

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going to be and that which is then touching your CPU uh what else we got here so yeah a

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12 mil fan which I mentioned a couple times it looks like you can replace the

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fan which was one of my complaints about my very first Zalman cooler which was a

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cnps 7000 I got the CU version I decided

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to go all out and get the heavy CU version which everyone assured me was

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going to break my motherboard but I mean come on we have coolers now that are

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like three four times five times the size of that thing in weight so clearly

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wasn't that much of a problem um but anyway that was one of my complaints

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about that heat sink was that I wasn't able to change the fan but looks like they've remedied that you can put on

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whatever 120 mil fan you

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please I think that's pretty much it that's all I wanted to say thank you for

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checking out my unboxing today the cnps

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11x ultimate Extreme Performance don't

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forget to subscribe to lonus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other

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computer videos oh and one thing all else to mention about this fan is

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that it has blue LEDs so I just need to

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find a hold on which one's the RPM sensor there we go yeah blue LED fan see

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glows and stuff