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The massive Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E is on the test bench today at ocaholic. If you are in the market for a new cooler, you should definitely check out this review.
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Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E
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Well, it's designed for SB-E, and supposedly it does work well on those CPUs at very high heatloads. I'd think it'd be a waste on Ivy because...the 8-pipe base is just too large to effectively transfer much additional heat from such a small die.
I haven't used the K2 or Phanteks units, but I feel that the original Silver Arrow is better than the NH-D14 (esp. because the fans are better). I haven't used the SB-E version either, but from the results I've seen elsewhere, it's at the top tier for cooling the SB-E (unlike the Archon SB-E, which seems to be too small to take advantage of the extra heatpipes - I have an original Archon and Silver Arrow, got rid of the NH-D14).
According to X-bit Labs: Silver Arrow SB-E is slightly better than that 5x8mm Phanteks unit when using the same fans or at the same noise level - on the SB-E platform. I'd say those 2 sinks are at the top. There was another site, foreign, that uses very high overclocked settings for testing...showing the silver arrow on top - can't remember what it was.
Oh well:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e_5.html#sect0 - SA SB-E - However they were able to achieve a higher overclock using the Phanteks unit! I like that max-overclock testing...that's exactly what I used to do. I bet the SB-E extreme + fan-controller would have worked though.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1264867/noctua-nh-d14-vs-thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e - discussion of top tier heatsinks - heh, no agreement eh...
I haven't used the K2 or Phanteks units, but I feel that the original Silver Arrow is better than the NH-D14 (esp. because the fans are better). I haven't used the SB-E version either, but from the results I've seen elsewhere, it's at the top tier for cooling the SB-E (unlike the Archon SB-E, which seems to be too small to take advantage of the extra heatpipes - I have an original Archon and Silver Arrow, got rid of the NH-D14).
According to X-bit Labs: Silver Arrow SB-E is slightly better than that 5x8mm Phanteks unit when using the same fans or at the same noise level - on the SB-E platform. I'd say those 2 sinks are at the top. There was another site, foreign, that uses very high overclocked settings for testing...showing the silver arrow on top - can't remember what it was.
Oh well:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e_5.html#sect0 - SA SB-E - However they were able to achieve a higher overclock using the Phanteks unit! I like that max-overclock testing...that's exactly what I used to do. I bet the SB-E extreme + fan-controller would have worked though.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1264867/noctua-nh-d14-vs-thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e - discussion of top tier heatsinks - heh, no agreement eh...
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i7 3820 @4.75GHz
Temperature is delta.
H100 . . . . . . . . . . 41c 2500rpm. . . . . . . . . 55dBA 2
SA SB-E . . . . . . . 42c 1000 & 1300rpm . . . 38dBA TY-150 & TY-141
SA SB-E Extreme. 34c 2500rpm. . . . . . . . . 56dBA 2x TY-143
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6xrsuPwDbo
jump in to 3:40 for results
Temperature is delta.
H100 . . . . . . . . . . 41c 2500rpm. . . . . . . . . 55dBA 2
SA SB-E . . . . . . . 42c 1000 & 1300rpm . . . 38dBA TY-150 & TY-141
SA SB-E Extreme. 34c 2500rpm. . . . . . . . . 56dBA 2x TY-143
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6xrsuPwDbo
jump in to 3:40 for results
Well, it's designed for SB-E, and supposedly it does work well on those CPUs at very high heatloads. I'd think it'd be a waste on Ivy because...the 8-pipe base is just too large to effectively transfer much additional heat from such a small die.
I haven't used the K2 or Phanteks units, but I feel that the original Silver Arrow is better than the NH-D14 (esp. because the fans are better). I haven't used the SB-E version either, but from the results I've seen elsewhere, it's at the top tier for cooling the SB-E (unlike the Archon SB-E, which seems to be too small to take advantage of the extra heatpipes - I have an original Archon and Silver Arrow, got rid of the NH-D14).
According to X-bit Labs: Silver Arrow SB-E is slightly better than that 5x8mm Phanteks unit when using the same fans or at the same noise level - on the SB-E platform. I'd say those 2 sinks are at the top. There was another site, foreign, that uses very high overclocked settings for testing...showing the silver arrow on top - can't remember what it was.
Oh well:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e_5.html#sect0 - SA SB-E - However they were able to achieve a higher overclock using the Phanteks unit! I like that max-overclock testing...that's exactly what I used to do. I bet the SB-E extreme + fan-controller would have worked though.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1264867/noctua-nh-d14-vs-thermalright-silver-arrow-sb-e - discussion of top tier heatsinks - heh, no agreement eh...
Yea Ivy's heat is anyways trapped under the IHS, so comparing temps on Ivy's wouldn't be that good.
I've also used a Silver Arrow and finishing-wise, I think that it's the best. Being a few C's better than the D14 wasn't much of a difference. Now I'm using Phanteks and it's a pretty awesome cooler given the fans installed are equally good (stock fans suck though with just 50CFM).
I don't have a good comparison on temps as I used the SA on a 2500K and now I'm using Phanteks on a 3570K (two different worlds I know). But since I changed Intel's TIM, I can easily hit 5Ghz and that just feels good. Cinebench CPU run of a 3570K @ 5Ghz is faster than a 2500K @ 5.3Ghz, this much is confirmed.
As far as Xbit labs are concerned, I really find their data unreliable. I rather look at Vortez as they have some really interesting figures (even with different fans installed).