 Welcome to my unboxing of the FanTax Thermal Solutions PHTC-14PE. So this supports Intel LGA 2011, AMD AM3 Plus and FM1. And oh, is that interesting? It doesn't support LGA 1155? Well, we'll find out when we open it up. But let's have a look at what they have to say for themselves in terms of specs. Okay, so it's a heatsink and fan. It is compatible with LGA 1155, even 3666 and 755. Cool. Okay, materials. Copper, aluminum for the fins. Thermal shield, patented, okay, this, that. Dual fans included. Dual 140mm fans included. Cool. Compatible with 140s or 120s. Uses an updraft floating balance bearing for the fans. Neat. Maelstrom Vortex Booster design for the nine blades on the fan. That's cool as well. Heatsink dimensions. You know what? Let's just open it up. Heatsinks, the beastliness and oh, that looks good. The awesomeness of them is pretty apparent once you get them opened up. And that looks, that looks dead sexy. Finishes perfect. No blemishes whatsoever. Got a nice brushed blue, oh, okay. I'm sort of sold on this actually. Alright, let's get this opened up. I don't know how the packaging works. I don't want to get fingerprints on it or anything. Okay, yep, that'll do. Okay, we'll get to this more after. Big fat heat pipes. Okay. Normally I don't really care about air cooling to be perfectly honest. I'm more of a water cooling guy but some air coolers are worthy of being thought that they're cool and this appears to be one of them. Alright, packaging's pretty straightforward. Contains all the stuff and the first thing you're going to want to do is get it out of the way so you can check out this beastly, beastly air cooling heatsink. So it's a dual tower design which is similar to other very high performance heatsinks on the market such as the Kogage Aero, Thermal Rite Silver Aero, Noctua NH-D14. Comes with a wide variety of different back plates and what not so you got all your different options for the back plate there. LGA 2011 compatibility is achieved using these guys right here so you won't even need the back plate on that one because it has kind of a built in one. There's your AMD stuff and here's all your accessories including fan clips for up to looks like up to three fans as well as the universal hold down that you'll need for all of the different mounting options. Some thermal compound, PHMDC thermal compound and oh look a splitter. They include a splitter so you can run two fans natively off of a single header so you'll only be able to monitor the RPM of one of them but it's not a big deal. Oh, 4 pin PWM to 3 pin adapter just in case you need one. Sleeved in white. Well heat shrinked in white. Alright here we go. So they also included a third fan just in case we did want to run it with three fans. So fans accessories include soft rubber mounts as well as a Molex to 3 pin adapter, white sleeved cable, love that, white sleeves, very nice. Bracket, oh cool they include one of those brackets so you can mount it above your graphics card, that's neat. Little extras like that really go a long way. As well as two noise reduction doodads. Alright the included fans are more of an OEM affair. Not a big deal though. Holy crap this thing is so cool looking. Do want. Okay so let's take a look at the heat sink itself. So you've got your branded covers on the top. Those do nothing for performance but they look really neat. They're a bit of a darker 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 but it's not that noticeable if you're looking at it like kind of from an angle like that or anything like that. These are anodized aluminum fins up here, these are copper heat pipes that are nickel plated and look how thick these heat pipes are. Five heat pipes go through the base and that's all there's room for. You've probably seen coolers that have more heat pipes than that but these are thick heat pipes. These, what are these? These must be 8mm heat pipes at the very least. Let me see if they have anything to say about that. Yep, 8mm heat pipes and actually give me a sec guys. So there's a few more things to cover. One of them is their, okay two things, patented PATS. So this is a physical antioxidant thermal shield which apparently increases the cooling performance and reliability while deflecting other thermal radiation from other heat sources. So in theory anything hot that's nearby should be less likely to radiate heat that warms up these aluminum heat sinks and it should also improve the performance of the aluminum heat sinks as well to have this coating on them. Okay, so there's that. There's also patented CPSC which is cold plasma spray, spraying coating technology. So that is the method of fusing the heat pipes to the base that they're using that apparently improves the thermal conduction from the base to the heat pipes which in turn will allow the CPU to be cooled more effectively. A couple more things, just fan mounting options. So what I would generally recommend if you're using the two fans that are included would be blowing through the fins here. You can see that these, actually not you can see, but these fans are relatively low RPM fans. I'll just double check what they're spec'd for. So they're only at 1200 to 1300 RPM and what that means is that in order to achieve optimal cooling with them with this particular heat sink, Phanteks has designed the fins to be fairly widely spaced. So yes, more surface area is in general better when it comes to cooling applications. However, if you don't want to use extremely high RPM, extremely high pressure fans, then you want to give some space as well in order to make optimal use of the space in between it so that the air can actually like fit through there. So this is what it will look like when it's installed. Basically like a beast. Hold on, let me get this a little bit better positioned. It'll work better if you're using the actual mounting hardware for them obviously. So this is... Come on Linus, you can do it. So this is what it will look like when it's installed. And then if you install the third one, it'll be like that much more again and it'll be pretty big. I mean to give you guys some idea of the scale of this thing, ouch. Here it is next to a Thermalright Silver Arrow which is sort of pending a CPU upgrade that I'll just move. So that's how big it is. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Phanteks...oh no, hold on. Ah, right, something else to mention. It is available in a variety of colors and comes with a five year warranty. So colors available are red, orange, blue, silver, and black. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the PHTC 14PE. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.