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.