Thermaltake Silent Boost
Heatsink From All Angles |
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The Fan: The 80mm fan draws as little as 0.14A, and
rotates at 2450RPM to provide the necessary airflow to keep the Silent
Boost running smoothly, and quietly. The fan connects to a standard 3-pin
motherboard fan header. A wire fan grill would have been a nice addition
to this heatsink, but Thermaltake do not provide one. |
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Heatsink Top: The Silent Boost
will accept either an 80mm or 70mm fan as we can see
by the two sets of screw holes in the aluminum fan shroud. The
support holds the fan about 4mm above the tips of copper fins. The fins are attached
to the copper base at the bottom with 1mm folds of metal, and soldered
in place. |
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Side A: There are a total of 41 copper fins on the Thermaltake
Silent Boost that are about 0.2mm thick, and spaced 1.4mm apart. The copper base
measures 6mm thick, but doesn't cover the entire surface of the base - it measures just
51x60mm. |
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Side B:
The aluminum
fan shroud simply holds the
fan in
place and helps to direct some of the
airflow from the 80mm fan back down along the sides of the
Silent Boost's copper
fins. The heatsink, which weighs about 400grams, is held in place
by a three-prong clip mechanism which requires a screwdriver to engage. This type of mechanism is
usual more stable at holding large or heavy heatsinks firmly in place on the small processor
core. |
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Heatsink Base:
The base of the Silent Boost heatsink is sanded down to a
slightly domed surface, but the curve is so slight that it shouldn't have too much of an effect on thermal transmission.
All the same, a few minutes of lapping wouldn't hurt. The surface roughness is typical of
such sanding operations. The base is undercut 2mm for socket cam
arm clearance. |