my next unboxing from the silence physio series is going to be the extreme which
as you may guess based on the size of the box and the name is the highest end
product in the physio lineup it's also classified as a less than 18 decibel
cooler and it is geared to be a silent
CPU cooler so they've got logos on here for every processor under the sun
including anything on socket am2 am3 775
lga 1156 as well as lga 1366 in fact
they've even got a core i9 logo on there that's kind of funny considering that
Intel scrapped that branding a little while back i guess they designed this
back when it looked like Intel was going to make a core i9 brand the heatsink
requires a case with adequate space to fit properly check to ensure you have oh
this is important okay so if you're thinking of installing this one check
these numbers to make sure it will fit in your system here's the overall
specifications as well as the compatibility like i said pretty much
everything so core i9 is what they were going to call the core i7 extreme six
core but then they did not end up doing that all right oh i was i had the box
backwards look at that you can actually see into the box and you can see the
overall shape of this cooler it's got the quietest noise levels greatest
efficiency and superior performance designed for gamers and overclockers and
those seeking extreme performance or just those who are hit by this heat wave
that seems to be hitting the entire continent this summer so we've got five
effective eight millimeter heat pipes wow those are big and those all directly
interface with the CPU core so those are going right on the CPU heat spreader you
can expect cylindex heatsinks to offer maximum thermal efficiency at all times
they've got optimized fan blades so it means it is using a solid x fan which
you would expect and it has a universal mounting system which i had a look at in
much closer detail on the compact unboxing so i probably won't look at it
quite as closely on this one let's go ahead and get this open and see
what we have inside so the first thing we find inside is a box very exciting
box it's white and inside the box we will find likely
a bunch of mounting gear okay nothing else this is it okay
so it's pretty much exactly the same accessory package that we found with the
compact so yeah i probably really won't look all that closely at this but i will
have a quick look so we've got a fan speed controller okay very high quality
one i've actually used these before they're really good then we have a universal back plate
so it's for am2 am3 775 1156 1366 we
have the AMD mounting hardware and then we have the Intel mounting hardware
they've also included some extra fan mounting grommets involves some thermal
compound so the fan mounting grommets are so you can install an additional fan
in a push-pull configuration on this particular heat sink all right so uh
once again we see are greeted with a non-silvery fan
so this is a silence fan but not from their ixtreme a series
and they've actually oh i hope they've got two sets oh
maybe they do yes yes well there are two sets of fan
grommets in this one in the compact it was actually the fan was mounted for me
already so i'm gonna have to go ahead and uh figure out how to mount the fan
on camera here for you that should be quite an ordeal oh here's
a little um a double-sided velcro thing to mount your fan controller somewhere in your
case okay so what we do is first let's take the heat sink oh that's a heavy
sucker all right so we go ahead and slide that in there
okay there we go it's in there and then we go ahead and slide
this in the bottom i actually like the look of this
heatsink overall it looks uh looks very very sharp it's got nice shiny heat
pipes it's got a nice finish to the top of it
you can see that the the metal um
the aluminum fins actually have a bit of a bumpy texture to them and i'll show
you that a little bit more closely once i'm finished mounting the fan here as
far as fan mounting systems go this is actually pretty clever because it
doesn't involve any um clips which can be extremely unwieldy
and are difficult to you know this is something that you never consider either
it's like yeah what if i do want to mount a second fan and push pull but i
want to do it later so you have to actually like keep those clips somewhere
and not lose them whereas if it's just a couple little rubber grommets it's no
big deal so you just line up the rubber grommets
in there and in there i'm not paying attention to where the
camera is looking right now because i'm actually paying attention to where the
heatsink is positioned right now and then i'm going to go ahead and line
up the very last one
so okay so this isn't the easiest thing in the world but i think most of the
difficulty is the fact that i'm trying to operate a camera at the same
time i think if i had a cameraman today
that would make my life a lot easier maybe might not my life a lot easier but
certainly this video okay so you go ahead and pull these
through just give them a good tug and then i
guess if you want to you can uh run them through the second hole
oh hold on let me see if i can figure this out okay hold on maybe i just have
to pull harder remember when in doubt force it
yes there we go so then if you want to you can run it
through the second hole but that's not entirely necessary you just want to
heave on it ah until it comes through there we go
that was pretty easy and i'm sorry you'll have to bear with me because i am
ocd and i do need to put
those through or else my day will be ruined yes i said it ruined
three come on go through
thank you and the last one it's only i had a cat here to help me oh yeah this
is a lot easier if you just actually pull them through one at a time because
there's quite a bit of give in the one that's in the ones that you've already put on so you can actually pull this
away to uh to line up the last one even when three are already in so go ahead and
pull that through and bring it through the second hole
and there we go that didn't take so long
it might have taken longer if you're just sitting watching me do it okay so
we've got a little bit of a gap not as much of a gap as we saw on the compact
cooler but there's a slight gap on the side there's a bit more of a gap on the
top and the bottom so we're going to see a little bit of airflow leakage there in all likelihood
but it shouldn't impact performance too much most of the coolers on the market do
have a similar sort of configuration now this is one thing that i really like
about this cooler right off the bat and that's the fact that all of the heat
pipes line up with the part of the cooling tower that is going to see the
most airflow so you can see through here okay so you see where the blades of the
fan actually start around here that's where the dead zone is in the middle
where there's no airflow because that's where the hub of the fan is and then the
blades of the fan actually blow air through an area kind of this shape so
they position most of the heat pipe cooling where it's actually going to
take advantage of the blades of the fan now it's quite a dense heap
fin arrangement so that means that you would benefit for sure from putting an
additional fan on here but it's not
too too too dense i've seen worse in fact i think the compact one was even a
little bit more dense than this one though i could be mistaken now something
that i said i'd look at in more close detail later is the slightly
hear that slightly textured finish on each of
these aluminum fins and the reason for that is it gives them just a little bit
more surface area when the air is blowing through and you're gonna
sacrifice a little bit of noise performance although you probably
wouldn't even be able to measure it because these are such small dimples but
you'll get a little bit more air turbulence in there and you will get a little bit more surface area and
therefore a little bit more cooling performance out of a design like that
last thing i want to have a look at now i suspect this would perform really well
on an AMD CPU because they have those nice big heat spreaders same with an lga
1366 because it's the same thing nice big heat spreaders but we've got five
huge eight millimeter heat pipes you really can't ask for more than that i
mean some guys have more heat pipes on the cooler but
they're not using eight mils these things are enormous so you're going here
look at how thick that is so when you actually put a CPU on here you're going
to be completely covering the CPU in heat pipe and they've machined the
bottom of it very flat i'll do the obligatory finger shot thing although it
really doesn't mean a whole lot i really like the shape of the blades
and i can't or of the fins and i can't even really tell you why i just think it
looks kind of cool here's your universal hold down as well as a little bit of
additional heatsink cooling directly on the CPU you know it's funny it wasn't
that long ago you could cool a CPU with just one of those and a little tiny loud
fan on it then that turned into a chipset fan and now it's like a
supplementary cooler on a on a real heatsink
anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and uh first look at the
ephysio extreme CPU cooler from
silence