Silverstone Heligon HE01 Tower Heatpipe Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to an impromptu unboxing that is at perhaps our most ghetto unboxing
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location yet. This is a mobile cart in
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front of a green wall. This is the Helagon series twin tower heat sink, the
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H01 from Silverstone. It offers
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according to them superior silence and performance. Six soldered heat pipes,
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copper base and aluminum fins ensuring the best thermal conduction. Designed
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for standard chassis at 164 mm tall, so it's not super tall. Some tower heat
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sinks can be so tall that your chassis
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side window won't close once you install them. I've seen this before. So their
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whole thing here is, well, you know, we want a high performance tower, but we
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want it to actually fit in your case. So yeah. Okay. So it's not that tall. It's
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not that short either, so you're not going to be fitting this in like your
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standard ITX enclosure or anything like that. So, here is a manual showing you
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how to use the Oh, I've seen this mounting mechanism before. It's very
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good. Very solid, very easy to use. It's just straight pins through the board,
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spacers, then you bolt down the things and bolt down the other thing to the
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other thing. I'll actually show you once we have it opened up here. Anyway, so in
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terms of accessories, we have do not eat. We have
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clips for fans. It looks like we can install Oh, look at that. Up to three
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fans using the included clips. Although, you stop benefiting around the two fan
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mark that much. But if you wanted to run super low RPM, good static pressure fans
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and do three of them, then you'd get very good air flow through the fins
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without a lot of noise. Here's the mounting hardware itself. Here is Okay,
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so here's the solid back plate. And by solid, I really do mean solid back
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plate. This thing is like, look how thick it is. We should do like an iPhone
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thickness comparison. So, it's at least as solid as an iPhone probably in all
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likelihood. Well, it's made of steel and the iPhone's made of glass. So, it's
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probably more solid than an iPhone, but generally not going anywhere. Then
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you've got these bolts that go through
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these spacers that go on there. Then these thumb screws that go down on top
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of these pieces here. And finally, this
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solid metal piece that goes on top of the whole thing. It's not going anywhere. And it's quite easy to install
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compared to some of the other mechanisms I've seen on these high-end tower heat
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sinks. So, this is interesting. It's got
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Oh, fascinating. So, rather than have two
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identical towers like most tower heat pipe coolers, this has a thick side and
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a thin side. This is neat because it allows Silverstone to maintain
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compatibility with motherboards that have the RAM slots very near to the CPU
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socket. Uh here, so just Okay, normally you wouldn't install this on an ITX
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board, but I'm just going to grab this for illustrative purposes. Here we go.
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So check this out. When you have RAM slots on one side, if you were to
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install it this way, you can see you'd cover your nearest RAM slot. Okay? So
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that's a problem if you have highrofile memory. Whereas what Silverstone's done
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is they've gone with one small one. So you can use your RAM slots. You see that
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clearance there? But you still get the benefit of more aluminum fins on the
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other side for cooling. So they're going for that sort of balanced approach. It's
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asymmetrical looking, but if you're in it for performance and not necessarily
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sort of like the symmetry of your motherboard, then this is this is a great solution. Heat pipe wise, you can
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see they're all connected to the base here, soldered. Okay. Uh, don't worry
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too much about the shininess of the base. It's I mean, we're going to do the
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obligatory sort of finger shot so you can see the reflectiveness, but flatness
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is more important than actual reflectiveness. The overall finish of
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the cooler is very matte, so it doesn't have sort of like a shiny glossy look to
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it. Just simple silverstone branding on the top of each one of the towers and
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then simple an all silver look. So even though you know even the base is copper,
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they've plated that so that it doesn't look and actually these are copper as
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well. So they're nickel plated so that it has that very consistent appearance.
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So we're going to go ahead and uh put that right there. So the reason they
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include clips for up to Oh, look at that. They include a high pressure look
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at this fan. Outstanding. So a high
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pressure 140 mm fan is included. And
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that goes right in the middle. So you can install up to, like I said, three
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fans. So you can put one here, one here, and one super duper thick one that they
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include for you in the middle. It's got a four pin PWM connector. And then, oh,
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check that out. This is Oh, this is clever. So, you connect this to your
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motherboard header and then this goes to a secondary fan and you just run the
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existing fan wire to it. So, that's smart. That way, they don't have to include an extra little adapter. And
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this looks very clean. High quality sleing on the fan itself. And the fan
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feel like you can Okay, you can see from the shape of the blades, the way that
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they're swept. This is pressure optimized. And it actually feels quite
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solid as well. Not as sort of rugged as a Delta by any stretch of the
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imagination, but not flimsy by any means either. You've also got a switch here
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for quiet mode and performance mode. So, that's really cool as well. And I think
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that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
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look at the HEO1 from Silverstone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips
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for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And before we go, we
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should mention the compatibility. It's compatible with pretty much everything. 775, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011, AM2, AM3,
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FM1, FM2, AM3 Plus, all that good stuff.
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Don't forget Oh, I already said that. Bye-bye.