Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Heatsink Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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today on my video blog we will be continuing our theme of floral backdrops
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for unboxings which is uh quite tasteless but effective
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nonetheless so today i'm going to be unboxing the prolimatech mega halems for
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no particular reason other than i've heard good things about it i wanted to
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have a look at it and i was walking around in the warehouse and i saw it so
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i grabbed it so that's that's the that's the whole reason for it so why don't we
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see what it says on the box so this is compatible with 775 and 11 or 1366
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pardon me and that's pretty much all it says oh it weighs 790 grams holy cow so
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that's well over a pound attached to your CPU socket
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now hopefully it has a pretty impressive retention mechanism and i'm kind of
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assuming it does but we'll find out soon enough okay so first thing you're going
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to find when you open up the box is your user manual which shows you everything
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it's supposed to come with and it labels everything so it comes with a heat sink
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a couple back plates an aluminum strip adapter double end stud width not screw
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nut aluminum mounting plate screw loaded okay you can probably read that it comes
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with some thermal compound as well and here are your installation instructions
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so let's see step one is install the back plate and put the screws in and
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then step two is apply thermal paste that's pretty straightforward well we'll
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try and figure it out as we take this thing out here so why don't we see what's included first
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and if i could get this out then i'd be able to have a
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pretty good look at it um okay well i think you're supposed to
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take the heatsink out first i'm just gonna grab that and then we'll yeah here
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we go so you lift this up to get at the accessories
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and here they are so let's see
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inside here we will find more plastic bags oh there we go so first there's a
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prolimatech thermal compound it looks an awful lot like arctic cooling mx2 which
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it probably is rebranded and then we've got a couple of thumb screws okay with
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springs then we have four thumb nuts with no springs
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then we have two back plates this is a 775 back plate and this is a 1366 back
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plate and then we have
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what are these these must be the aluminum mounting
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strip adapters awesome not sure exactly
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how we use those and then these are the double ended
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uh thumb wow i guess they'd be screws so why
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don't we take out the heatsink itself and have a look i'm actually not going
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to attempt to figure out the mounting mechanism on camera because i'm probably
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just going to end up embarrassing myself if i try and do that but i just wanted
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to have a look at the construction of this unit okay so as we pull it out we can see
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it's a very very shiny heat sink and there's actually a
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foam spacer in between two distinctly different halves of the unit here so you
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can see that it's quite a dense fin arrangement so you're going to
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need a fan with that generates decent static pressure in order to best take
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advantage of this particular heatsink then on the bottom here you can see
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these are the are those the adapters for these i can't
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even tell no no nope not going to try let's have a look at the bottom of the
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heatsink so i'm just going to do the obligatory
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finger shot where i hold my finger here and you have a look at the reflectiveness it is clearly not flat
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although it is quite polished but what it does appear to have is a bow to it so
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you're going to want to mount a heat sink like this nice and tight in order
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to take advantage of the incredible mounting pressure you can get with a
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bowed base that means it comes out like this okay so then this is six heat pipes
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in total all of which make contact quite close to the base of the heatsink and
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thank you for checking out my video blog on the unboxing of the prolimatech mega
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halems