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Akasa Silver Mountain Heatsink Review
Akasa Silver Mountain Heatsink Review
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Abstract: Take one solid copper heatsink and plate it entirely with silver and you have the Akasa Silver Mountain.

 Manufacturer  Category  Published  Author 
Akasa   Cooling / Heatsinks   Sep 29, 2001   Max Page  

Home > Reviews > Page: Thermal Test Results, Acoustic Sample
If you stick a 25mm thick Delta fan on any heatsink it is going to make noise, and the Akasa Silvermountain is no exception.The 6800RPM Delta fan generates a lot of extra noise in the computer system. For those of you who are used to this level of noise this will be nothing new naturally. Delta fans have become the default standard for performance cooling for the most part - that is beginning to change as the larger, 37mm models start to arrive though.

Be sure to click on the little pair of headphones and listen to this heatsink for yourself. The sound clip is about 10 seconds long and lets you hear both startup and power down of the entire heatsink and fan combination.

FrostyTech Acoustic Sampling Chamber (~10 sec)
Spectral view.
Listen to this Heatsink now.
Standard Waveform view.
(Listen to an MP3 recording of this heatsink by clicking on the headphones)

Synthetic Temperature Test Results: *Ranked according to 100W small interface die test results.

FrostyTech Synthetic Temperature Test Platform Results
Mfg. Model Ambient Temp. 27mm large copper block 15mm small copper block 27mm large copper block 15mm small copper block Thermal pad No. Fans Fan Noise Clip force
50W 50W 100W 100W
1 Thermal Integration TI-V77L 26.5 39.1 44.4 57.5 63.6 grey 1 med med
2 Vantec CCK-6027D 27.4 45.4 49.6 64.9 73.4 none 1 med med
3 OCZ Dominator 26.5 37.7 50.9 52.4 74.2 none 1 loud med
4 Akasa Silver Mountain 26.6 46.2 51.5 65.0 76.1 none 1 loud med
5 Vantec CCK-6035D-Retail 26.5 44.2 52.8 63.2 77.9 none 1 loud med
6 Thermaltake Volcano 6cu+ 26.5 40.3 55.3 58.6 84.4 carbon 1 loud med
7 Spire 5T060B1H3R 26.7 42.7 57.5 64.6 85.1 none 1 low med
8 Fortis A92 26.7 45.6 65.8 67.8 97.8 none 1 loud stiff
50W 50W 100W 100W

The solid copper construction plays its part well as most of the top performing heatsinks in this set of reference cooler is compliant. In this case the Akasa Silvermountain comes in at the fourth position with some very good cooling numbers.

The Fortis cooler rounds out the list in OEM class position and the Thermaltake and Spire sit in the good solid performance category. On a side note, our heatsink tests are now done and both 50W and 100W loads and we have also moved from thermistors to thermocouples which have a wider temperature range.

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Table of Contents:

 1:  Akasa Silver Mountain Heatsink Review
 2:  Looking at the heatsink from all angles
 3:  Test Apparatus - Acoustic, Thermal
 4: — Thermal Test Results, Acoustic Sample
 5:  Conclusions on the Silver Mountain

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