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Packaging and First Impressions |
The Nexus PHT-3600 arrived at my door in a fairly large generic white box.
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This obviously wasn’t the nice looking retail box that most of you
would receive. Upon opening it though, I was pleasantly surprised by a well
packed, sharp looking unit.
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The contents included the heatsink and fan (already assembled), a couple
of information sheets, and a voltage reduction cable for the fan. The
voltage cable is designed to lower the fan voltage from 12V down to 10V
(which should correlate into about a 10% drop in fan RPM) for even greater
noise reduction. Nexus only recommends this for systems running under
3GHz.
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The first thing you notice is the cool bright orange fan shroud that contrasts
well with the aluminum base and the black fan.
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Upon inspection, the unit looks very well made, and it is very light weight.
The bottom of my unit already had the thermal paste applied to it, but the
paste had become a little messed up during shipment.
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I removed the thermal paste to inspect the finish on the base. The bottom
of the heatsink was decently lapped. For those of you who may not know,
lapping is the process of sanding the bottom of the heatsink with increasingly
finer grits of sandpaper until the base of the heatsink is absolutely flat.
Then a metal polish is used to bring out a mirror like reflective surface.
As a general rule: the better the reflection/ the flatter the surface/ the
better the heat transfer. As you can see in the pic, the Tooney (and yes,
that’s a 2$ Canadian coin) reflection isn’t bad, but it could
be improved with a little additional polishing.
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