Silenx IXC-92HA2 Heatpipe Direct Touch CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,365 words · ~6 min read
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so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the silen X extreme a pro
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series heat pipe CPU Cooler so this is the I c92 H2 so I'm going to hold that a
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little bit closer to the camera or better yet I could use this particular
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little trick of mine where I have a little remote that will zoom in on it
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aha no cameraman today but I don't need one so it is less than 18 DB according
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to silent X it supports all Intel sockets including 775 and AMD socket o
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wow 754 and am2 so that means you've got
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support for 775 am2 am3 and you can see
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that there's another little sticker on here that says Intel Core i7 compatible
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if it would focus there it goes so Intel Core i7 compatible that means that it is
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compatible with LGA 1366 as well this is
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a 92mm version designed for smaller cases so why don't we uh have a look at
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yeah let's have a look at the side of the box as well so I'm going to do this zooming thing again sorry everyone
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all right so first of all this is a heat pipe direct touch heat sink and uh at
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the time this was uh a big deal but it
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uses 8 mm versus 6 mm on they saying
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most competing products heat pipes that means that it can transfer more heat
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faster next of all it uses the latest generation of silen x i extreme a pro
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fans and lastly 38 tightly spaced
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aluminum fins offer nearly a class leading 5,000 cm squ of surface area
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let's go around to the back where it just has a little bit more about the basic specs as well as some come on
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Focus you can do it no you can't do it okay as well as the compatibility info
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which is horrendously outdated okay so why don't we open this thing up and find
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out just what is inside so I'm going to
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go ahead and point that kind of there and then oh man this is brutal not
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having someone operating the camera what are you going to do okay let's get the
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Box open so the first thing we find inside you can see they have packed
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in uh an LGA 1366 bracket all right
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there it is and then the next thing you'll find is they have got a little uh
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instruction sheet here so that covers the Intel installation procedure all
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right so they show you you put the top bracket down you put four screws through
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and it uses a back plate I love mounting systems that have a back plate it's just
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so much more secure than trying to use push pins um next we have LGA 775
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then we have our four mounting screws and then we have what else do we got in
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here um all right we have ooh this one's
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in color too so this is the installation guide for 754 939 940 and am2 so this
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will also apply to am3 so that's in color and everything check that out very
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nice very nice indeed okay what's next I can figure out
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how to pull that back up here is a piece of double-sided tape I don't know what
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it's for yet maybe we'll figure it out maybe we
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won't okay let's keep digging further in
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see what else we can find here oh oh wow
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okay so H here is the back plate
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for gee well which mounting system is
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this for cuz it doesn't look like it's compatible with both 775 and
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1366 so oh okay I was mistaken the 775
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version uses the plastic push pins whereas the 1366 version uses a bolt
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through so this back plate is for the 1366 version okay I get it now oh and we
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figured out what the uh what the double-sided tape is for it's for this
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fan speed controller so the cable for the fan speed controller is also in here
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everything's just kind of loose in the Box it's not the best package I've ever
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seen a product but I mean it's not like any of this is fragile and going to be
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damaged so you just plug this in on the one side here you just kind of line it
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up so that it goes in like that and then at the one end this goes into your
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motherboard header or into a Molex to three pin adapter and then this plugs
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into your fan and then you can use this little dial here to adjust the fan speed
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very cool okay next we have
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um H okay we've got a little uh baggie
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of thermal compound as well as four push pins I'm going to go ahead and assume
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that those are for AMX am2 am2 plus am3 next they include
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not only two uh fan wire Clips but four
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so that means that besides the 92 mm fan included you can also mount an
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additional 92mm fan to the unit without buying any accessories besides what's
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included in the Box okay so before we get to the actual
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heat pipe cooler itself why don't we have a look at the
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fan there it is a 92 mm fan the blades
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spin like this it's all shiny and even
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the fan itself is is pretty silver and shiny it has uh one of those transparent
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plastic uh three pin connectors it's quite long you shouldn't have too much
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trouble with that like all of the latest generation silent x i extreme a fans it
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uses a small Hub in the center and their claim is that that gives you more usable
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airflow Space versus fans with a larger Hub I kind of buy
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that okay next we have the actual heat
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pipe cooler itself so why don't we start cuz I usually do this at the end why
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don't we start with the obligatory finger do so you can see that it is not
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all that shiny but if there to be believed it is quite flat I can actually
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feel the Machining marks though quite and clearly with my fingernail uh
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whether or not that's going to be a problem when you're actually cooling a processor with it yeah it remains to be
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seen but you can see actually I'm going to like get up to show the camera this
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maybe I'll Shine the Light directly at it see if we can get it to focus a
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little better oh that is not
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helping there we go okay so you can see
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that they've actually lapped the heat pipe surface itself so that's
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what they mean by heat pipe direct touch okay and then so these are three nice
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thick heat pipes these are still thick even by today's standards despite the
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fact that this is a relatively old product and then you can see that the uh
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fins are quite close together not really they're not jammed in that close so they
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should perform quite well with a low air flow fan low noise fan which you would
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make sense because silent X Prides themselves and their low noise low
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airflow fans I mean I don't mean low air flow I mean they're low air flow
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compared to a high noise fan the top is very shiny so you can probably actually
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see my camera there you go yeah you can totally see my camera in the top of it
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so I really like that and it has like a silent X logo on it I think that pretty
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much covers if I can find my remote
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everything I wanted to say about this particular cooler and so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing