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Thermaltake Silent Boost Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

When looking for performance-cooling options one of the things that many PC enthusiasts often overlook is how much noise a particular product produces. The reasons being that to get better cooling you often need to accept a little noise but excessive noise can make a rather ordinary PC un-usable in the domestic environment.

As with most systems in the Ninja Lane Labs, system testing is performed in an open-air environment to allow easy access to all of the necessary components. This configuration also allows us the ability to take temperature readings and check for noise levels. From a noise standpoint once the Silent Boost was installed and running the video card fan became the loudest part of the complete system. You wouldn't think that a dinky old fan on the Gainward Ultra 760XP would be that noisy but it just reinforces how quiet the Silent Boost really is.

Cooling performance was pretty much exactly what you would expect from a heatsink of this caliber and even though overclocking is possible I wouldn't recommend it.

Now the list of Good things and Bad things.

Lightweight copper heatsink
Stable 3 prong mounting clip
Respectable and Quiet cooling
Unique and effective fan design

Average cooling performance
Immovable mounting clip difficult to install

I would like to thank Thermaltake for helping to make this review possible.

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