With the Silver Arrow ITX, Thermalright has an impressive cooler for miniITX motherboards in its portfolio. Equipped with six heatpipes and one 150 millimeter fan, this heatsink means some serious business. Apart from that Thermalright decided to provide this cooler with a black nickel plating, which makes it look very nice.
Today we're having a close look at Thermalright's massive Silver
Arrow ITX. This is basically a scaled down version of the Silver Arrow SB-E,
which can also be mounted on the vast majority of MiniITX motherboards available
these days. Thermalright equipped this massive block with a total of six heatpipes and they all measure six millimeter in diameter. This
should definitely be enough to offer some very good cooling performance at a
reasonable noise level.
The Silver Arrow ITX from Thermalright is a classical twin-tower cooler. This type of cooler comes with the advantage that
manufacturers can build blocks that offer a large surface area. The disadvantage
compared to down-draft coolers
is there is no direct airstream towards the motherboard and therefore onboard
components get a little hotter. Thermalright
manufacturs their Silver Arrow SB-E from aluminium and copper. You can find a
nickel-plated copper base plate through which all the six heatpipes got
routed. The heatpipes received the same treatment like the base plate which
means they've also been nickel-plated. In the case of the fins we count 51
aluminum sheets, which have been soldered to the heatpipes.
We couldn't find any manufacturing mistakes on our sample, which means build
quality is on an excellent level. The heatpipes do have different bending radius, which
helps increasing the efficiency of an attached fan. Regarding the design of the
fins Thermalright chose a sawtooth design at the edges of each fin. We also like
the detail that Thermalright is equipping the heatpipes with stylish caps and
apart from that the black nickel plating makes the thing look ridiculously
beautiful.
Specifications |
|
Model |
Thermalright Silver Arrow ITX |
|
Type |
Twin-Tower cooler |
|
Provided Fan(s) |
1x 152 x 140 x 26.5mm PWM |
|
Base Material |
Kupfer |
|
Fins Material |
Aluminum |
|
Socket Support |
Intel LGA 2011-3/2011/1366/1156/1155/1150/775
AMD FM2+/FM2/FM1/AM3+/AM3/AM2+/AM2 |
|
Thermal compound |
Thermalright (Tube) Chill Factor III |
|
Product Page |
Silver Arrow ITX |
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