today I'll be unboxing the cnps 11x
extreme this is an ultimate Extreme Performance CPU cooling cooler
called the cnps 11x on the back we find some information
which is pretty typical all right powerful cooling performance qmax of up
to 350 Watts v-shaped dual heat sink
design for optimal air flow composite heat pipe heat transfer capacity
enhanced 1.5x
okay we have composite heat pipes which means that they are not a typical axial
Groove they are not a typical centered metal type but they actually use axial
grooves and centered metal in order to speed up the flow of the liquid and yes
it is a liquid or a vapor or whatever the phase that it happens to be in that
is inside the heat pipe so let's explain how heat pipes work real quick I
actually saw a hilarious Hardware mod that someone did where they cut off the
top of their heat pipes on their cooler so that their side panel would fit so
they took their cooler and they just cut off all the tops of the heat pipes and
they were like oh my my cooler is so bad my CPU overheats oh that's
terrible yes that would happen and the reason for that is that heat pipes on
the inside have a little bit of liquid sometimes it's water sometimes it's
something else depending on what kind of heat pipes we're talking about and what
that liquid does is it goes down to the CPU where it it becomes a liquid then
the CPU because it's hot inside the CPU heat pipe it's low pressure right so the
the boiling point is much lower so so it gets hot even at 40° 50° it boils it
evaporates and then the vapor flows up to the top of the heat pipe where it's
cool where it gets cooled by the fan and the fins that it's attached to and all
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
if it's not right side up like this well that is what the axial grooves and the
centered metal are for they cause the liquid to make its way back down to the
CPU no matter what okay so there you
learned something today if you didn't know how heat pipes work you also
learned that it's not a good idea to cut them because then they won't they'll
perform about as well as a tube of copper which doesn't perform very well
for carrying large amounts of heat oo that looks nice I've always love
the look of Zalman heat sinks although I've done almost nothing in terms of
Zalman unboxing on my YouTube channel here so why don't
we do accessories first where we will find lots
of lots of little parts of stuff oh wow
okay so uh sockets it's going to be compatible with all the latest sockets
including 1155 1156 1366 775 am2 am2
plus and am3 okay so this looks like
Intel this looks like probably AMD no this looks like Intel this I don't know
what it looks like basically you got one of these you got some thermal grease you
got one of these you got a sticker you
got some pads and some okay you got a
four pin pwm fan connector adapter to make your four pin pwm fan quieter see
it's just got a little inline resistor which is awesome I love those I have a
little collection of them at home you got some of those some of those okay you
got some back plates you got one back plate I'm going to do this W that's how
I open BS today okay so your back plate is going to protect your motherboard
from warping or breaking when you put
this heavy old cooler on it although I'll tell you guys the cnps 11x is not
that heavy now the first thing I notice about this cooler is that this is one of
the most dense fin Arrangements I have
ever seen on a CPU Cooler now what that
allows zman to do is have more surface
area now well mo more surface area that means better cooling right yes in most
cases more surface area means cooling so
what if I like ramped it up and I made the surface area just a solid Mass well
then we wouldn't have better cooling because no air would pass through that would be bad so more surface area is
better as long as you can push air through it so what zman has done is they
have made these areas with fins actually
quite thin okay so you can see the fins are not very
thick okay and then uh what they've done
is they've enclosed it completely on on the top with plastic and the bottom with
another plastic shroud and then they put a big beefy fan on the front of it nice
big blades I'm going to go ahead and assume they've designed this for static
pressure more than anything else so it's not going to spin at a huge RPM or
anything like that actually what RPM yeah up to up to about 2,000 RPM okay so
that is going to be designed to push air through this not necessarily at a high
rate of speed but at a fast enough rate to pull a lot of heat away from it so
let's compare Surface area right so this has what appears to be like look at this
compared to a Corsair H or
a70 I mean that could be up to hold on
okay move the camera for a sec so I can see okay
uh that looks like about double the fin density of an a70 so in literally half
the the physical size it can have the same surface area as an a70 pretty neat
okay heat pipes terms of heat pipes we've got five heat pipes that are not
heat pipe Direct although that doesn't always provide a performance Advantage
anyway but we've got a very smooth looking base there's your obligatory
finger shot where you can see how shiny that is uh the base appears to be convex
based on looking at the reflection of my light through it okay so what that means
is that with high mounting pressures you got nice good contact between the base
and the CPU five heat Pipes making contact all along the base that are
going to be and that which is then touching your CPU uh what else we got here so yeah a
12 mil fan which I mentioned a couple times it looks like you can replace the
fan which was one of my complaints about my very first Zalman cooler which was a
cnps 7000 I got the CU version I decided
to go all out and get the heavy CU version which everyone assured me was
going to break my motherboard but I mean come on we have coolers now that are
like three four times five times the size of that thing in weight so clearly
wasn't that much of a problem um but anyway that was one of my complaints
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
whatever 120 mil fan you
please I think that's pretty much it that's all I wanted to say thank you for
checking out my unboxing today the cnps
11x ultimate Extreme Performance don't
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computer videos oh and one thing all else to mention about this fan is
that it has blue LEDs so I just need to
find a hold on which one's the RPM sensor there we go yeah blue LED fan see
glows and stuff