{"video_id":"nOSNalkgr98","title":"Silverstone Heligon HE01 Tower Heatpipe Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":345,"segments":[{"start_s":7.279,"end_s":16.32,"text":"Welcome to an impromptu unboxing that is at perhaps our most ghetto unboxing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.8,"end_s":18.0,"text":"location yet. This is a mobile cart in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.32,"end_s":23.76,"text":"front of a green wall. This is the Helagon series twin tower heat sink, the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.199,"end_s":25.6,"text":"H01 from Silverstone. It offers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.76,"end_s":29.359,"text":"according to them superior silence and performance. Six soldered heat pipes,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.519,"end_s":34.48,"text":"copper base and aluminum fins ensuring the best thermal conduction. Designed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.76,"end_s":39.76,"text":"for standard chassis at 164 mm tall, so it's not super tall. Some tower heat","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":36.559,"end_s":42.399,"text":"sinks can be so tall that your chassis","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":39.76,"end_s":46.32,"text":"side window won't close once you install them. I've seen this before. So their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.64,"end_s":50.32,"text":"whole thing here is, well, you know, we want a high performance tower, but we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.559,"end_s":53.28,"text":"want it to actually fit in your case. So yeah. Okay. So it's not that tall. It's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":51.92,"end_s":57.36,"text":"not that short either, so you're not going to be fitting this in like your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":55.199,"end_s":62.32,"text":"standard ITX enclosure or anything like that. So, here is a manual showing you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":59.76,"end_s":67.439,"text":"how to use the Oh, I've seen this mounting mechanism before. It's very","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":64.479,"end_s":71.84,"text":"good. Very solid, very easy to use. It's just straight pins through the board,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":69.68,"end_s":74.799,"text":"spacers, then you bolt down the things and bolt down the other thing to the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":73.2,"end_s":78.04,"text":"other thing. I'll actually show you once we have it opened up here. Anyway, so in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":77.04,"end_s":83.92,"text":"terms of accessories, we have do not eat. We have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":82.159,"end_s":88.88,"text":"clips for fans. It looks like we can install Oh, look at that. Up to three","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":85.92,"end_s":93.92,"text":"fans using the included clips. Although, you stop benefiting around the two fan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.119,"end_s":98.24,"text":"mark that much. But if you wanted to run super low RPM, good static pressure fans","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":96.72,"end_s":101.68,"text":"and do three of them, then you'd get very good air flow through the fins","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.84,"end_s":106.159,"text":"without a lot of noise. Here's the mounting hardware itself. Here is Okay,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":104.159,"end_s":110.24,"text":"so here's the solid back plate. And by solid, I really do mean solid back","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":108.799,"end_s":114.799,"text":"plate. This thing is like, look how thick it is. We should do like an iPhone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":112.56,"end_s":118.96,"text":"thickness comparison. So, it's at least as solid as an iPhone probably in all","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":116.88,"end_s":122.56,"text":"likelihood. Well, it's made of steel and the iPhone's made of glass. So, it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":120.399,"end_s":127.6,"text":"probably more solid than an iPhone, but generally not going anywhere. Then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":124.32,"end_s":130.08,"text":"you've got these bolts that go through","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":127.6,"end_s":135.599,"text":"these spacers that go on there. Then these thumb screws that go down on top","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":132.48,"end_s":137.2,"text":"of these pieces here. And finally, this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":135.599,"end_s":142.239,"text":"solid metal piece that goes on top of the whole thing. It's not going anywhere. And it's quite easy to install","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":140.48,"end_s":148.52,"text":"compared to some of the other mechanisms I've seen on these high-end tower heat","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":144.64,"end_s":150.68,"text":"sinks. So, this is interesting. It's got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":148.52,"end_s":157.44,"text":"Oh, fascinating. So, rather than have two","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":154.72,"end_s":162.72,"text":"identical towers like most tower heat pipe coolers, this has a thick side and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":160.08,"end_s":166.72,"text":"a thin side. This is neat because it allows Silverstone to maintain","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":164.44,"end_s":172.879,"text":"compatibility with motherboards that have the RAM slots very near to the CPU","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":169.959,"end_s":175.68,"text":"socket. Uh here, so just Okay, normally you wouldn't install this on an ITX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":174.4,"end_s":181.28,"text":"board, but I'm just going to grab this for illustrative purposes. Here we go.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":179.519,"end_s":185.04,"text":"So check this out. When you have RAM slots on one side, if you were to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":183.04,"end_s":189.28,"text":"install it this way, you can see you'd cover your nearest RAM slot. Okay? So","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":187.599,"end_s":194.879,"text":"that's a problem if you have highrofile memory. Whereas what Silverstone's done","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.239,"end_s":199.68,"text":"is they've gone with one small one. So you can use your RAM slots. You see that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":196.959,"end_s":204.319,"text":"clearance there? But you still get the benefit of more aluminum fins on the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":201.92,"end_s":209.12,"text":"other side for cooling. So they're going for that sort of balanced approach. It's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":206.159,"end_s":212.48,"text":"asymmetrical looking, but if you're in it for performance and not necessarily","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":211.12,"end_s":217.879,"text":"sort of like the symmetry of your motherboard, then this is this is a great solution. Heat pipe wise, you can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":216.0,"end_s":223.04,"text":"see they're all connected to the base here, soldered. Okay. Uh, don't worry","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":221.519,"end_s":226.64,"text":"too much about the shininess of the base. It's I mean, we're going to do the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.799,"end_s":230.239,"text":"obligatory sort of finger shot so you can see the reflectiveness, but flatness","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":228.48,"end_s":234.879,"text":"is more important than actual reflectiveness. The overall finish of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.08,"end_s":239.92,"text":"the cooler is very matte, so it doesn't have sort of like a shiny glossy look to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":237.28,"end_s":244.959,"text":"it. Just simple silverstone branding on the top of each one of the towers and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":242.0,"end_s":248.48,"text":"then simple an all silver look. So even though you know even the base is copper,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":246.64,"end_s":252.0,"text":"they've plated that so that it doesn't look and actually these are copper as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":250.319,"end_s":255.68,"text":"well. So they're nickel plated so that it has that very consistent appearance.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":254.0,"end_s":260.0,"text":"So we're going to go ahead and uh put that right there. So the reason they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":257.44,"end_s":265.6,"text":"include clips for up to Oh, look at that. They include a high pressure look","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":262.32,"end_s":268.88,"text":"at this fan. Outstanding. So a high","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":265.6,"end_s":270.72,"text":"pressure 140 mm fan is included. And","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":268.88,"end_s":275.52,"text":"that goes right in the middle. So you can install up to, like I said, three","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":272.72,"end_s":279.6,"text":"fans. So you can put one here, one here, and one super duper thick one that they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":277.759,"end_s":284.72,"text":"include for you in the middle. It's got a four pin PWM connector. And then, oh,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":282.24,"end_s":289.6,"text":"check that out. This is Oh, this is clever. So, you connect this to your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":286.72,"end_s":292.8,"text":"motherboard header and then this goes to a secondary fan and you just run the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":291.36,"end_s":297.199,"text":"existing fan wire to it. So, that's smart. That way, they don't have to include an extra little adapter. And","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":295.36,"end_s":301.68,"text":"this looks very clean. High quality sleing on the fan itself. And the fan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":299.68,"end_s":304.479,"text":"feel like you can Okay, you can see from the shape of the blades, the way that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":303.28,"end_s":309.759,"text":"they're swept. This is pressure optimized. And it actually feels quite","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":306.8,"end_s":314.0,"text":"solid as well. Not as sort of rugged as a Delta by any stretch of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.36,"end_s":318.08,"text":"imagination, but not flimsy by any means either. You've also got a switch here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":316.08,"end_s":321.6,"text":"for quiet mode and performance mode. So, that's really cool as well. And I think","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":319.759,"end_s":326.24,"text":"that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":323.44,"end_s":329.36,"text":"look at the HEO1 from Silverstone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.68,"end_s":332.479,"text":"for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And before we go, we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":331.12,"end_s":341.52,"text":"should mention the compatibility. It's compatible with pretty much everything. 775, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011, AM2, AM3,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":338.0,"end_s":343.039,"text":"FM1, FM2, AM3 Plus, all that good stuff.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":341.52,"end_s":346.0,"text":"Don't forget Oh, I already said that. Bye-bye.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Welcome to an impromptu unboxing that is at perhaps our most ghetto unboxing location yet. This is a mobile cart in front of a green wall. This is the Helagon series twin tower heat sink, the H01 from Silverstone. It offers according to them superior silence and performance. Six soldered heat pipes, copper base and aluminum fins ensuring the best thermal conduction. Designed for standard chassis at 164 mm tall, so it's not super tall. Some tower heat sinks can be so tall that your chassis side window won't close once you install them. I've seen this before. So their whole thing here is, well, you know, we want a high performance tower, but we want it to actually fit in your case. So yeah. Okay. So it's not that tall. It's not that short either, so you're not going to be fitting this in like your standard ITX enclosure or anything like that. So, here is a manual showing you how to use the Oh, I've seen this mounting mechanism before. It's very good. Very solid, very easy to use. It's just straight pins through the board, spacers, then you bolt down the things and bolt down the other thing to the other thing. I'll actually show you once we have it opened up here. Anyway, so in terms of accessories, we have do not eat. We have clips for fans. It looks like we can install Oh, look at that. Up to three fans using the included clips. Although, you stop benefiting around the two fan mark that much. But if you wanted to run super low RPM, good static pressure fans and do three of them, then you'd get very good air flow through the fins without a lot of noise. Here's the mounting hardware itself. Here is Okay, so here's the solid back plate. And by solid, I really do mean solid back plate. This thing is like, look how thick it is. We should do like an iPhone thickness comparison. So, it's at least as solid as an iPhone probably in all likelihood. Well, it's made of steel and the iPhone's made of glass. So, it's probably more solid than an iPhone, but generally not going anywhere. Then you've got these bolts that go through these spacers that go on there. Then these thumb screws that go down on top of these pieces here. And finally, this solid metal piece that goes on top of the whole thing. It's not going anywhere. And it's quite easy to install compared to some of the other mechanisms I've seen on these high-end tower heat sinks. So, this is interesting. It's got Oh, fascinating. So, rather than have two identical towers like most tower heat pipe coolers, this has a thick side and a thin side. This is neat because it allows Silverstone to maintain compatibility with motherboards that have the RAM slots very near to the CPU socket. Uh here, so just Okay, normally you wouldn't install this on an ITX board, but I'm just going to grab this for illustrative purposes. Here we go. So check this out. When you have RAM slots on one side, if you were to install it this way, you can see you'd cover your nearest RAM slot. Okay? So that's a problem if you have highrofile memory. Whereas what Silverstone's done is they've gone with one small one. So you can use your RAM slots. You see that clearance there? But you still get the benefit of more aluminum fins on the other side for cooling. So they're going for that sort of balanced approach. It's asymmetrical looking, but if you're in it for performance and not necessarily sort of like the symmetry of your motherboard, then this is this is a great solution. Heat pipe wise, you can see they're all connected to the base here, soldered. Okay. Uh, don't worry too much about the shininess of the base. It's I mean, we're going to do the obligatory sort of finger shot so you can see the reflectiveness, but flatness is more important than actual reflectiveness. The overall finish of the cooler is very matte, so it doesn't have sort of like a shiny glossy look to it. Just simple silverstone branding on the top of each one of the towers and then simple an all silver look. So even though you know even the base is copper, they've plated that so that it doesn't look and actually these are copper as well. So they're nickel plated so that it has that very consistent appearance. So we're going to go ahead and uh put that right there. So the reason they include clips for up to Oh, look at that. They include a high pressure look at this fan. Outstanding. So a high pressure 140 mm fan is included. And that goes right in the middle. So you can install up to, like I said, three fans. So you can put one here, one here, and one super duper thick one that they include for you in the middle. It's got a four pin PWM connector. And then, oh, check that out. This is Oh, this is clever. So, you connect this to your motherboard header and then this goes to a secondary fan and you just run the existing fan wire to it. So, that's smart. That way, they don't have to include an extra little adapter. And this looks very clean. High quality sleing on the fan itself. And the fan feel like you can Okay, you can see from the shape of the blades, the way that they're swept. This is pressure optimized. And it actually feels quite solid as well. Not as sort of rugged as a Delta by any stretch of the imagination, but not flimsy by any means either. You've also got a switch here for quiet mode and performance mode. So, that's really cool as well. And I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the HEO1 from Silverstone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And before we go, we should mention the compatibility. It's compatible with pretty much everything. 775, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011, AM2, AM3, FM1, FM2, AM3 Plus, all that good stuff. Don't forget Oh, I already said that. Bye-bye."}