WEBVTT 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:16.320 Welcome to an impromptu unboxing that is at perhaps our most ghetto unboxing 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:18.000 location yet. This is a mobile cart in 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:23.760 front of a green wall. This is the Helagon series twin tower heat sink, the 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:25.600 H01 from Silverstone. It offers 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.359 according to them superior silence and performance. Six soldered heat pipes, 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:34.480 copper base and aluminum fins ensuring the best thermal conduction. Designed 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:39.760 for standard chassis at 164 mm tall, so it's not super tall. Some tower heat 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:42.399 sinks can be so tall that your chassis 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:46.320 side window won't close once you install them. I've seen this before. So their 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.320 whole thing here is, well, you know, we want a high performance tower, but we 00:00:48.559 --> 00:00:53.280 want it to actually fit in your case. So yeah. Okay. So it's not that tall. It's 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.360 not that short either, so you're not going to be fitting this in like your 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:02.320 standard ITX enclosure or anything like that. So, here is a manual showing you 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:07.439 how to use the Oh, I've seen this mounting mechanism before. It's very 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:11.840 good. Very solid, very easy to use. It's just straight pins through the board, 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:14.799 spacers, then you bolt down the things and bolt down the other thing to the 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.040 other thing. I'll actually show you once we have it opened up here. Anyway, so in 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:23.920 terms of accessories, we have do not eat. We have 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:28.880 clips for fans. It looks like we can install Oh, look at that. Up to three 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:33.920 fans using the included clips. Although, you stop benefiting around the two fan 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:38.240 mark that much. But if you wanted to run super low RPM, good static pressure fans 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:41.680 and do three of them, then you'd get very good air flow through the fins 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:46.159 without a lot of noise. Here's the mounting hardware itself. Here is Okay, 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:50.240 so here's the solid back plate. And by solid, I really do mean solid back 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:54.799 plate. This thing is like, look how thick it is. We should do like an iPhone 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:58.960 thickness comparison. So, it's at least as solid as an iPhone probably in all 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.560 likelihood. Well, it's made of steel and the iPhone's made of glass. So, it's 00:02:00.399 --> 00:02:07.600 probably more solid than an iPhone, but generally not going anywhere. Then 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:10.080 you've got these bolts that go through 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:15.599 these spacers that go on there. Then these thumb screws that go down on top 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:17.200 of these pieces here. And finally, this 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.239 solid metal piece that goes on top of the whole thing. It's not going anywhere. And it's quite easy to install 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:28.520 compared to some of the other mechanisms I've seen on these high-end tower heat 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.680 sinks. So, this is interesting. It's got 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:37.440 Oh, fascinating. So, rather than have two 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:42.720 identical towers like most tower heat pipe coolers, this has a thick side and 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.720 a thin side. This is neat because it allows Silverstone to maintain 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:52.879 compatibility with motherboards that have the RAM slots very near to the CPU 00:02:49.959 --> 00:02:55.680 socket. Uh here, so just Okay, normally you wouldn't install this on an ITX 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:01.280 board, but I'm just going to grab this for illustrative purposes. Here we go. 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:05.040 So check this out. When you have RAM slots on one side, if you were to 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:09.280 install it this way, you can see you'd cover your nearest RAM slot. Okay? So 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:14.879 that's a problem if you have highrofile memory. Whereas what Silverstone's done 00:03:12.239 --> 00:03:19.680 is they've gone with one small one. So you can use your RAM slots. You see that 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:24.319 clearance there? But you still get the benefit of more aluminum fins on the 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:29.120 other side for cooling. So they're going for that sort of balanced approach. It's 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:32.480 asymmetrical looking, but if you're in it for performance and not necessarily 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:37.879 sort of like the symmetry of your motherboard, then this is this is a great solution. Heat pipe wise, you can 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:43.040 see they're all connected to the base here, soldered. Okay. Uh, don't worry 00:03:41.519 --> 00:03:46.640 too much about the shininess of the base. It's I mean, we're going to do the 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:50.239 obligatory sort of finger shot so you can see the reflectiveness, but flatness 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:54.879 is more important than actual reflectiveness. The overall finish of 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:59.920 the cooler is very matte, so it doesn't have sort of like a shiny glossy look to 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:04.959 it. Just simple silverstone branding on the top of each one of the towers and 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.480 then simple an all silver look. So even though you know even the base is copper, 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.000 they've plated that so that it doesn't look and actually these are copper as 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:15.680 well. So they're nickel plated so that it has that very consistent appearance. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.000 So we're going to go ahead and uh put that right there. So the reason they 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:25.600 include clips for up to Oh, look at that. They include a high pressure look 00:04:22.320 --> 00:04:28.880 at this fan. Outstanding. So a high 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:30.720 pressure 140 mm fan is included. And 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:35.520 that goes right in the middle. So you can install up to, like I said, three 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:39.600 fans. So you can put one here, one here, and one super duper thick one that they 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:44.720 include for you in the middle. It's got a four pin PWM connector. And then, oh, 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:49.600 check that out. This is Oh, this is clever. So, you connect this to your 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:52.800 motherboard header and then this goes to a secondary fan and you just run the 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:57.199 existing fan wire to it. So, that's smart. That way, they don't have to include an extra little adapter. And 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:01.680 this looks very clean. High quality sleing on the fan itself. And the fan 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:04.479 feel like you can Okay, you can see from the shape of the blades, the way that 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:09.759 they're swept. This is pressure optimized. And it actually feels quite 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:14.000 solid as well. Not as sort of rugged as a Delta by any stretch of the 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:18.080 imagination, but not flimsy by any means either. You've also got a switch here 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:21.600 for quiet mode and performance mode. So, that's really cool as well. And I think 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:26.240 that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:29.360 look at the HEO1 from Silverstone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:32.479 for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And before we go, we 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:41.520 should mention the compatibility. It's compatible with pretty much everything. 775, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011, AM2, AM3, 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.039 FM1, FM2, AM3 Plus, all that good stuff. 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:46.000 Don't forget Oh, I already said that. Bye-bye.