 My next unboxing from the silent x a physio series is going to be the extreme Which as you may guess based on the size of the box and the name is the highest end product in the a physio lineup It's also classified as a less than 18 decibel cooler and it is geared to be a silent CPU cooler So they've got logos on here for every processor under the Sun including anything on socket am to am 3 7 7 5 LGA 1156 as well as LGA 13 66 in fact they've even got a core i9 logo on there That's kind of funny considering that Intel lost crap that branding a little while back I guess they designed this back when it looked like Intel was gonna make core i9 brand the heatsink requires a case with adequate Space to fit properly check to ensure you have oh, this is important Okay, so if you're thinking of installing this one check these numbers to make sure it will fit in your system Here's the overall specifications as well as the compatibility like I said pretty much everything so core i9 is what they were gonna Call the core i7 extreme 6 core, but then they did not end up doing that all right Oh, I was huh I had the box backwards look at that You can actually see into the box and you can see the overall shape of this cooler It's got the quietest noise levels greatest efficiency and superior performance designed for gamers and overclockers and those seeking extreme Performance or just those who are hit by this heat wave that seems to be hitting the entire continent this summer So we've got five effective eight millimeter heat pipes Wow those are big and those all directly interface with the CPU core So those are going right on the CPU heat spreader You can expect silent X heatsinks to offer maximum thermal efficiency at all times they've got optimized fan blades So it means it is using a silent X fan Which you would expect and it has a universal mounting system Which I had a look at in much closer detail on the compact unboxing So I probably won't look at it quite as closely on this one Let's go ahead and get this open and see what we have Inside so the first thing we find inside is a box very exciting box it's white and inside the box we will find likely a bunch of mounting gear Okay, nothing else. This is it okay, so it's pretty much exactly the same accessory package that we found with the compact So yeah, I probably really won't look all that closely at this But I will have a quick look so we've got a fan speed controller. Okay, very high quality one I've actually used these before they're really good then we have a universal backplate So it's for AM 2 AM 3 775 1156 1366 We have the AMD mounting hardware, and then we have the Intel mounting hardware They've also included some extra fan mounting grommets as well as some thermal compounds So the fan mounting grommets are so you can install an additional fan in a push-pull configuration on this particular heatsink All right, so once again. We see our greeted with a non silvery fan So this is a silo next fan, but not from their iXtreme A series, and they've actually oh, I hope they've got two sets Yes, yes, well there are two sets of fan grommets in this one in the compact It was actually the fan was mounted for me already, so I'm gonna have to go ahead and Figure out how to mount the fan on camera here for you That should be quite an ordeal. Oh, here's a little Double-sized velcro thing to mount your fan controller somewhere in your case, okay? So what we do is first let's take the heatsink. Oh, that's a heavy sucker all right, so we go ahead and slide that in there Okay, there we go. It's in there, and then we go ahead and slide this in the bottom I Actually like the look of this heatsink overall it looks looks very very sharp. It's got nice shiny heat pipes It's got a nice finish to the top of it. You can see that the the metal The aluminum fins actually have a bit of a bumply texture to them And I'll show you that a little bit more closely once I'm finished mounting the fan here as far as fan mounting grommets As far as fan mounting systems go this is actually pretty clever because it doesn't involve any Clips which can be extremely unwieldy and are difficult to you know this is something that you never consider either is like yeah What if I do want to mount a second fan and push-pull? But I want to do it later So you have to actually like keep those clips somewhere and not lose them whereas if it's just a couple little rubber grommets It's no big deal So you just line up the rubber grommets? And there and in there I'm not paying attention to where the camera is looking right now because I'm actually Paying attention to where the heat sink is positioned right now, and then I'm gonna go ahead and line up the very last one Okay, so this isn't the easiest thing in the world, but I think most of the difficulty is the fact that I'm Trying to operate a camera at the same time I think if I had a cameraman today that would make my life a lot easier Maybe not my life a lot easier, but certainly this video Okay, so you go ahead and pull these through Just give them a good tug, and then I guess if you want to you can Run them through the second hole. Oh hold on. Let me see if I can figure this out. Okay. Hold on Maybe I just have to pull harder remember when in doubt force it Yes, there we go, so then if you want to you can run it through the second hole, but that's not entirely necessary You just want to heave on it Until it comes through there we go that was pretty easy and I'm sorry you'll have to bear with me because I am OCD And I do need to put those through or else my day will be ruined Yes, I said it ruined Three Come on go through Thank you, and the last one if only I had a cat here to help me Oh, yeah This is a lot easier if you just actually pull them through one at a time because there's quite a bit of give and the one That's in the ones that you've already put on so you can actually pull this away To the line up the last one even when three are already in so go ahead and pull that through and Bring it through the second hole And there we go that didn't take so long It might have taken longer if you're just sitting watching me do it Okay, so we've got a little bit of a gap not as much of a gap as we saw on the compact cooler But there's a slight gap on the side. There's a bit more of a gap on the top and the bottom So we're gonna see a little bit of air flow leakage there in all likelihood, but it shouldn't impact the air flow Too much most of the coolers on the market do have a similar sort of configuration now This is one thing that I really like about this cooler right off the bat And that's the fact that all of the heat pipes line up with the part of the cooling tower That is going to see the most airflow so you can see through here Okay, so you see where the blades of the fan actually start around here That's where the dead zone is in the middle where there's no airflow because I'm going to be using the fan So you can see the blades of the fan actually start around here That's where the dead zone is in the middle where there's no airflow because that's where the hub of the fan is And then the blades of the fan actually blow air through an area kind of this shape So they position most of the heat pipe cooling where it's actually going to take advantage of the blades of the fan Now it's quite a dense heat I have fin arrangement so that means that you would benefit for sure from putting an additional fan on here But it's too dense. I've seen worse. In fact I think the compact one was even a little bit more dense than this one though I could be mistaken Now something that I said I'd look at in more close detail later is the slightly Hear that? Slightly textured finish on each of these aluminum fins And the reason for that is it gives them just a little bit more surface area when the air is blowing through And you're going to sacrifice a little bit of noise performance Although you probably wouldn't even be able to measure it because these are such small dimples But you'll get a little bit more air turbulence in there and you will get a little bit more surface area And therefore a little bit more cooling performance out of a design like that Last thing I want to have a look at Now I suspect this would perform really well on an AMD CPU because they have those nice big heat spreaders Same with an LGA 1366 because it's the same thing, nice big heat spreaders But we've got five huge 8mm heat pipes You really can't ask for more than that I mean some guys have more heat pipes on the cooler but they're not using 8mm These things are enormous So you're going, here, look at how thick that is So when you actually put a CPU on here you're going to be completely covering the CPU in heat pipe And they've machined the bottom of it very flat, I'll do the obligatory finger shot thing Although it really doesn't mean a whole lot I really like the shape of the blades, or of the fins, and I can't even really tell you why I just think it looks kind of cool Here's your universal hold down as well as a little bit of additional heatsink cooling directly on the CPU You know it's funny, it wasn't that long ago you could cool a CPU with just one of those And a little tiny loud fan on it Then that turned into a chipset fan and now it's like a supplementary cooler on a real heatsink Anyway, thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the EFIZIO XTREME CPU Cooler from Silenex