Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler + Links to Reviews

[Huggy_Bear64]

Originally Posted by Intensity

I cant believe i have not seen more people with this cooler. Everyone still seems to pulling there dicks over a NH-D14, the fans look crap but work well.

Atleast with the silver arrow they have blue fans and go with a blue setup, not with a brown setup with the brown fans.

The silver arrow is beaten by the D14 at higher loads.

[Zenskas]

That could be attributed to the fact the SA uses fans which spin slower all round...
Put fans that spin at the same RPM on both coolers and you will find at load the SA does just fine
Although at the same time Velo from this forum has his i7 930 running at 4.4GHz on a SA with even slower fans that the stock ones...go figure!

[Intensity]

Originally Posted by Huggy_Bear64

The silver arrow is beaten by the D14 at higher loads.

Got any links to back that up or..................

The silver arrow beats it in just about any review i found.
The difference between them is not much but it also look 100x better in terms of fan colours etc.

And that counts when u have a case with a window in it.

[velo]

Originally Posted by Zenskas

That could be attributed to the fact the SA uses fans which spin slower all round...
Put fans that spin at the same RPM on both coolers and you will find at load the SA does just fine
Although at the same time Velo from this forum has his i7 930 running at 4.4GHz on a SA with even slower fans that the stock ones...go figure!

[Darager]

i just installed my silver arrow after the novelty of my bong water cooler wore off. was running my i7 930 @ 4 ghz with an ek supreme and 1200 l/m fish pump with a max load temp of about 65. put in my sa tonight, with ambient temp of about 21 and 3 3000rpm ultra kaze i get a full load temp at 4ghz of about 63 and idle of 35. awesome cooler and a lot easier to use and maintain than water cooling.

[Zenskas]

Originally Posted by Darager

i just installed my silver arrow after the novelty of my bong water cooler wore off. was running my i7 930 @ 4 ghz with an ek supreme and 1200 l/m fish pump with a max load temp of about 65. put in my sa tonight, with ambient temp of about 21 and 3 3000rpm ultra kaze i get a full load temp at 4ghz of about 63 and idle of 35. awesome cooler and a lot easier to use and maintain than water cooling.

Wow nice work, it's pretty cool the SA takes three fans in total but it would be loud with three 3000rpm's! Some people don't care about noise tho so go for all the cooling performance you can!

[aa1320]

Silverarrow vs Noctua NH-C14
4 heat-pipes vs 6 heat pipes

[Zenskas]

Originally Posted by aa1320

Silverarrow vs Noctua NH-C14
4 heat-pipes vs 6 heat pipes

8mm heatpipes vs 6mm heatpipes

[Intensity]

Originally Posted by aa1320

Silverarrow vs Noctua NH-C14
4 heat-pipes vs 6 heat pipes

And for cheaper and practically the same performance if not better i can buy a silver arrow.
Majority of the reviews say that the silver arrow win.

NH-D14 = $108
Silver Arrow = $89

[aa1320]

Originally Posted by Zenskas

8mm heatpipes vs 6mm heatpipes

8mm heatpipes maybe 10-15% better than 6mm heatpipes

[Zenskas]

Originally Posted by aa1320

8mm heatpipes maybe 10-15% better than 6mm heatpipes

8mm vs 6mm is about a 25% increase in the width of the heatpipe.
But the Noctua has 33% more heatpipes...pretty hard to judge a cooler just by its heatpipes though

One things for sure, the SA is great value for money and wack some higher performing (ie louder) fans on it and it will be the best thing before watercooling.

[ArTy]

Originally Posted by Intensity

Got any links to back that up or..................

The silver arrow beats it in just about any review i found.
The difference between them is not much but it also look 100x better in terms of fan colours etc.

And that counts when u have a case with a window in it.

Overclock3D review
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XTN0Qll2o
Article: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/c...octua_nh-d14/2

Basically with an i7-950:
At 4G 1.25v, the SA wins by 1C
At 4.2G 1.35v, the SA wins again by 1C
At 4.4G 1.45v, the SA gets to 100C and crashes Prime95, the D14 is stable at 88C.

[Zenskas]

Originally Posted by ArTy

Overclock3D review
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XTN0Qll2o
Article: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/c...octua_nh-d14/2

Basically with an i7-950:
At 4G 1.25v, the SA wins by 1C
At 4.2G 1.35v, the SA wins again by 1C
At 4.4G 1.45v, the SA gets to 100C and crashes Prime95, the D14 is stable at 88C.

And did they have a sound graph in that review at all?
You do know the SA has far slower spinning and quieter running fans over the D14, hence why it fails at higher loads. If you are really pushing your first gen i7 above 4GHz then you probably need some better fans that spin quicker but most people will only be going to 4GHz so for the majority of people the SA will be cooler running, quieter and cheaper

[ArTy]

Originally Posted by Zenskas

And did they have a sound graph in that review at all?
You do know the SA has far slower spinning and quieter running fans over the D14, hence why it fails at higher loads. If you are really pushing your first gen i7 above 4GHz then you probably need some better fans that spin quicker but most people will only be going to 4GHz so for the majority of people the SA will be cooler running, quieter and cheaper

I agree, most reviews will tell you the SA is quieter and the fact it is $30 cheaper and lighter is a huge plus aswell.

But it still demonstrates that the D14 is more suited for those who will push past 4GHz into 4.5Ghz and beyond. And the Noctua does this better, unless you change the fans on the SA which is a further cost.

Both are amazing coolers, just depends on what you are after.

[Zenskas]

Originally Posted by ArTy

I agree, most reviews will tell you the SA is quieter and the fact it is $30 cheaper and lighter is a huge plus aswell.

But it still demonstrates that the D14 is more suited for those who will push past 4GHz into 4.5Ghz and beyond. And the Noctua does this better, unless you change the fans on the SA which is a further cost.

Both are amazing coolers, just depends on what you are after.

Yes but once you factor in the cost of the faster fans the SA still comes in at about the same price and will perform even better if you get high speed fans.
The actual D14 heatsink isn't really any better suited IMO. The fans are, but again you can change these to what you desire at a minimal difference in cost and have it outperform a stock D14. The overclock 3d review doesn't really say anything about this, they just say the D14 is champ because it wins at 4.4GHz+ which is not actually correct.