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Coolink Silentator Heatsink Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2007-07-19 17:34:31.0


As more and more companies adopt the ‘heatpipe tower’ design for their heatsinks, it has become increasingly hard to differentiate between products. However, small tweaks to the basic design can alter a heatsink’s characteristics, by either improving cooling performance or diminishing noise. Bjorn3D has just posted a review of the Coolink Silentator, an impressively silent new CPU cooler.

Here’s what they had to say:

“To say we're extremely impressed with the Coolink Silentator would be a vast understatement. The Silentator is not the best air cooler currently available on the market, we personally know of two or three that would beat it but only by 2° or so. I personally would gladly sacrifice those 2° any day for the quiet operation this cooler brings to the table. It is around 5 db/A quieter than any of the other so called "quiet cooling solutions.”


The fact that this heatsink performed nearly identically to the Enzotech Ultra-X, arguably the best CPU cooler on the market, while remaining extremely quiet, is very impressive. At $54.99 it is not cheap, but it’s worth it for a product that strikes a perfect balance between performance and noise.

Click here to read the full review.

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