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Closer Look
Starting at the front of the box and we can see a pattern emerging if you remember the packaging of the H5 Ultimate. The front and side are taken up with a large image of the M9i inside with only a small box for the logo and model number with brief description. In the top right, you see a small Cryorig nameplate. On the side of the box, you will find the main benefits of the cooler.
Just like last time, the rear of the box is taken up completely with the M9i’s specifications and the only thing on the final face is a very large ‘M9’. Something which surprised me with the spec is that this cooler is only compatible with an 115x series chipset which limits its market somewhat.
With the packaging out of the way, it’s on to the cooler itself. The M9i comes complete with the 90mm PWM fan fitted and ready to go. The fan also features a braided cable of reasonable quality
With the fan removed you can see the fan’s info label confirming that it runs at a maximum of 2200 RPM. The heatsink has two while strips (of silicon or rubber) that reduce vibration from that speedy fan and should help with noise somewhat. What’s noticeable from the image is that every second fin is set further into the stack than the rest.
The rear image doesn’t really give away any secrets apart from there being no indent to the fins on the exhaust side.
The white strip is more noticeable in this image, but apart from that, there’s nothing really special about the side image. You can clearly see that the stack is only attached to the base fitting by two screws just as was the case for the H5 Ultimate. Hopefully, fitting will be equally speedy.
The base view shows a single block of metal for the contact plate and you can clearly see that Cryorig has managed to fit three full U-shaped heat pipes into this compact unit.
As you would expect, the accessories are mainly the fittings for the intel boards supported but it’s nice to notice that Cryorig has also included extra fan clips and those rubber/silicon strips to reduce vibration as well as the installation manual.
The thermal compound included with the M9i is Cryorig’s CP15 High-Density CRYO-Paste but as usual, we will be using Noctua NT-H1. We have nothing against Cryorig’s paste, but we want continuity in our tests and here we are specifically testing the cooler itself and not the paste; stay tuned later this year though for the 2016 update of our Thermal Paste Review to see how those are progressing.
Now, on to the testing…
