Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the AXP 100 from Thermalite. Now, you
might think of Thermalite as like beastly coolers that are faking huge and
per perform like awesome and stuff like
the Silverero Extreme, which we actually took a look at in a review not that long
ago where it actually was pretty darn
close to an H100i in terms of the performance that we were able to squeeze
out of this bad boy with 220 mm fans installed on it. So, you know,
immaculate uh production, manufacturing. That's the
word I was looking for. Uh just, you know, gorgeous designs, very shiny, very
cool looking, but not everyone necessarily has enough room for a cooler
like that. So, that's where the AXP 100 comes in. This is a lowprofile cooler,
but built the way that Thermalite builds coolers. So, the mounting hardware alone
weighs about 6 lb. And obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit, but
Thermalite does such a good job of mounting hardware. Look at this stuff. I
mean, it's built like it's actually
designed for the motherboard to be like in a combat zone and the CPU cooler will
not come off no matter what. And I'm going to need a knife to open this up.
And there are a billion little pieces. But the good news is Thermal Write also
does a pretty good job of documenting where all the little pieces go so that
you shouldn't have too much trouble. I mean, here's what I want you to see more
than anything else. Like, look at this hold down plate. Like, look at this
thing. It's like, look at this. This is
like solid metal. Look how thick it is.
We'll do an HTC 8X size comparison
because everyone knows how big these are. There you go. Hilarious, right? No
one knows. Uh, but don't worry about it. It's basically as thick as the as the
glass pieces on either side of an iPhone 4. I just know that from memory. I can't
hold one up for you because I don't have it anymore. So, there's the back plate. Again, same thing. Super thick piece of
metal. I'm not going to dwell on this for too long. Let's move along to the
cooler itself. So, they include what looks like about a 90 mm fan, probably
100 millimeter based on the name of the product, and in a military style themed
color sort of finish. So, that's kind of interesting. So, this will look great in
your Vengeance C70 or uh you know, other
kind of, you know, military themed sort of build in like if you're doing a
themed build, then that could be a good thing. Otherwise, you could get a different 100 millimeter fan. It's
totally up to you. And there it is, the AXP 100. We're almost going to need like
a phone size comparison for this. So, for the sake of just being a troll,
here's an HTC 8X size comparison again.
So, there's the thickness. So, this is an extremely lowprofile cooler that once
you go ahead and install that 100 mm fan
on, actually isn't much taller than a stock cooler. So, check this out. Here's
an LG 1155 stock cooler. So, it's about
that tall. Here is the AXP 100, which I
can tell you just based on looking at it how much metal is in there. I mean, look
at this thing. Will just destroy this stock cooler in terms of performance.
It's a not a very dense fin arrangement. So, you can see here that they're quite
loose, which is necessary when you have a slim lowprofile fan like this. This is
a half uh I think this is probably what, like 15 ms thick. So, it's not as thick
as a standard 25 mm fan. So, you're not able to generate as much pressure as
easily. So, you need to make sure that it's able to push air through the cooler
itself, but it still packs six heat pipes. Check that out. Six heat pipes
running off the base and a very tight bend up to this cooler which is
terminated with oh check that out. Nice little finishing touch. Little Thermal
Wright logos on the end of each one of the heat pipe caps. It's absolutely
beautiful. I mean it feels incredibly solid which I've come to expect again
from Thermalite coolers. And no way.
What are these? Are these heat pipe? They couldn't be. No, those can't be
heat pipes. They're too small. But uh whatever. So, there's two little clips
here that sort of make it more more rigid. So, I want to compare this to
something like the uh Fantex lowprofile
cooler. So, in terms of the actual profile of it, they're pretty similar.
So, I think we can all say out of a stock cooler, a competing solution, and
the AXP 100 which one makes the most
sense for your sort of small form factor
installation. Now, I did a build in a Lean Lee PCQ8,
I believe is the case, and I ended up using an older SilX cooler of all
things. I can tell you guys right now that I would definitely, if I could get
the case open and actually access the CPU socket, because that's how tight it
is, replace it with this in a second. Because what's great about a design like
this is it's much broader, which is fine because as long as it's tall enough to
get past the the RAM slots or if it doesn't go into the no zone on the CPU
design manufacturer uh on the CPU design guidelines, then it's big enough that as
long as you have a power supply over top of it, you could probably actually
passively cool your CPU. Although, don't quote me on that. You might at least
need like a like a cardboard shroud. You can build one yourself. Um, that was
something that I tried to do with the one that I have, but the CPU cooler is not good enough. So, there you go. I I'm
gonna do the obligatory finger shot on the bottom here. Thermal rate does such
a good job of the uh the manufacturing on their I mean, look at this thing.
Remember guys, again, the obligatory finger shot does not necessarily
indicate how flat the surface is or how well the cooler will perform, but it's
just the kind of care and attention that goes into the products. In fact, if I
angled this just right, you could probably catch Diesel in his camera over
there. No, he's giving me He's giving me the headshake. That either means it's
not working or don't do it. Um, I think
that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first
look at the AXP 100 from Thermalite. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech
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gonna try and figure out why the heck they sent this fan because this doesn't
seem to have anything to do with the AXP 100. But there you go. It's the TY41 fan
from Thermalite. It has been unboxed as well. It has a sleeved cable and it is a
140 mm fan that has a 120 mm clearance
on this side by the look of things and 140 mm on this side and uses 120 mm
mounting holes and big broad blades for
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