Phanteks Thermal Solutions PH-TC14PE Blue CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing at the fantex thermal Solutions PHT c14 PE so this
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supports Intel LGA 2011 AMD am3 plus and fm1 and oh is that interesting doesn't
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support LGA 1155 well we'll find out when we open it up but let's have a look
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at what they have to say for themselves in terms of specs okay so it's a heat sink and fan is compatible with lg1155
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even 36 6 and 755 cool okay materials
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copper aluminum for the fins thermal Shield patented okay this that dual fans
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included dual 140 mm fans included cool compatible with 140s or 120s uses an
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updraft floating balance bearing for the fans neat melstrom Vortex booster design
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for the nine blades on the fan that's cool as well heat SN Dimensions you know
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what let's just open it up because usually with heat sinks the beastliness
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and oh that looks good the awesomeness of them is pretty
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apparent once you get them opened up and that looks that looks dead sexy finish
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is perfect no blemishes
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whatsoever got a nice brushed blue oh
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okay I'm sort of sold on this actually all right let's get this opened
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up um I don't know how the packaging works I don't want to uh put
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fingerprints on it or anything okay yeah that'll
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do okay we'll we'll get to this more after oh big fat heat pipes okay
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normally I don't really care about air cooling to be perfectly honest I'm more
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of a water cooling guy but uh some air
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coolers are worthy of being thought that they're cool and
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this appears to be one of them all right packaging is pretty straightforward
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contains all the stuff and the first thing you're going to want to do is get
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it out of the way so you can check out this beastly beastly air tooling heat
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sink so it's a dual Tower design which is similar to other very high
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performance heat sinks on the market such as the coage arrow uh thermal right
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Silver Arrow Noctua NHD 14 comes with a
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wide variety of different uh back plates and whatnot so you got all your
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different uh positions for the back plate there LGA 2011 compatibility is
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achieved using these guys right here so you won't even need the back plate on
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that one cuz it has kind of a built-in one there's your AMD stuff and here's
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all your accessories including clips for up to looks like up to three fans as
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well as the universal hold down that you'll need for all of the different
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mounting options um some thermal compound phmdc thermal
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compound and oh look a splitter they include a splitter so you can run two
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fans natively off of a single header so you'll only be able to monitor the RPM
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of one of them but it's not a big
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deal uh oh four pin pwm to three pin
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adapter just in case you need one seved in white well heat shrinked in right in
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white all right here we go so they also
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included a third fan just in case we did want to run it with three fans
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so uh fans accessories include um soft
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rubber mounts as well as a MOX to three
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pin adapter White sleeved cable love that white sleeves very nice uh bracket
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oh cool they include one of those brackets so you can mount it above your graphics card that's neat little extras
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like that really go a long way as well as two noise reduction D
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ABS all right the included fans are more of an oem Affair not a big deal
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though holy crap this thing is so cool
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looking do want okay so let's take a
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look at the heat sink itself so you've got your branded covers on the top those
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do nothing for performance but they look really neat they're a bit of a darker
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blue than the aluminum fins themselves you can see these are a bit of a lighter blue these are a bit of a darker blue
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but it's not that noticeable if you're looking at it like kind of from an angle
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like that or anything like that these are anodized aluminum fins up here these
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are copper heat pipes that are nickel plated and look how thick these heat
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pipes are five heat pipes go through the base and that's all there's room for
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you've probably seen coolers that have more heat pipes than that but these are
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thick heat pipes these what are these these must be 8 mm heat pipes at the
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very least let me see if they have anything to say about that yep 8 mm Heat
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pipes and actually give me a sec guys so
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there's a few more things to cover one of them is their okay two things
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patented Pats so this is a physical antioxidant thermal Shield which
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apparently increases the cooling performance and reliability while
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deflecting other thermal radiation from other heat sources so in in theory
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anything hot that's nearby should be less likely to radiate heat that warms
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up these uh these uh aluminum heat sinks
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and it should also improve the performance of of the aluminum heat
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sinks as well to have this coating on them okay so there's that there's also
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patented cpsc which is cold plasma spray
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spraying coating technology so that is
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the method of fusing the heat pipes to the base that they're using that
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apparently improves the thermal conduction from the base to the heat
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pipes which in turn will allow the CPU to be cooled more effectively uh a
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couple more things just fan mounting options so what I would generally
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recommend if you're using the two fans that are included would be blowing
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through the fins here you can see that these uh actually not you can see but
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these fans are relatively low RPM fans I'll just double check what they spec
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for so they're only at uh uh 1,200 to
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1300 RPM and what that means is that in
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order to achieve optimal cooling with them with this particular heat sink
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fantex has designed the fins to be fairly widely spaced so yes more surface
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area is in general better when it comes to Cooling appc appliations however if
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you don't want to use extremely high RPM extremely high pressure fans then you
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want to give some space as well in order to make optimal use of the you know
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space in between it so that the air can actually like fit through there so this
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is what it'll look like when it's installed basically like a beast uh hold
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on let me let me get this a little bit better positioned it'll work better if
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you're using the actual like mounting hardware for them obviously so this
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is come on Linus you can do it so this is what it'll look like when
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it's installed and then if you install the third one it'll be like that much
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more again and it'll be pretty big I
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mean to give you guys some uh some idea of the scale of this thing ouch here it
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is next to a thermal right Silver Arrow
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which is sort of pending a CPU upgrade
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that I'll just move so that's how big it is thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and first look at fantex oh no hold on ah right something else to
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mention it is available in a variety of colors and comes with a 5year warranty
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so colors available are red orange blue silver and black so thank you for
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