ASUS Silent Square Pro

Zitat

At stock speed the ASUS Silent Square Pro is a good performer, maintaining the CPU temp at 29C idle and 42C under load. This compares favorably with coolers targeted at silence like the Zalman 9500 and 9700. Despite the name, at full speed the fan is not silent, with idle and load noise clearly louder than the system noise floor. However, a slight reduction in speed moves noise below the system floor. Running "silent" at minimum speed the cooling is 33C idle and 48C load, which is still okay cooling in this worst case scenario. It is easy to find a happy and reasonably silent fan speed in the middle with the included digital readout fan controller. As a quiet cooler at stock speeds the ASUS Silent Square Pro is a big improvement over the stock Intel cooler. It cools better and it is certainly a lot prettier in your case than the Intel Retail HSF.

But ASUS advertises the Silent Square Pro as the ideal cooler for Core 2 Duo overclocking and gaming. Compared to other top coolers the Silent Square Pro is not a particularly good cooler for C2D overclocking. OC tops out at 3.81 GHz, where the Tuniq Tower 120, Scythe Infinity push-pull, OCZ Vindicator/SilenX, Scythe Ninja Plus B/SilenX, and Thermalright Ultra 120 all overclock to a stable 3.90GHz. The Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, our top air cooler so far, goes even further to 3.94 GHz. The less-than-top overclocking of the Silent Square Pro is compounded by the smaller and non-standard 90mm embedded fan. If a better replacement could be found the Silent Square Pro might be a better overclocker.

[...]As a quiet and effective stock-speed cooler the ASUS will please you. With a reworked socket 775 mount and a higher output fan the Silent Square Pro might even compete with the best. However, as it is now configured the Silent Square Pro is a beautiful diva who promises you everything, but then leaves you stranded all alone with nothing but the check from an expensive dinner.

» Beitrag diskutieren (0 Kommentare)