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Review Arctic-Cooling Silencer NV5 English |
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martes, 20 de marzo de 2007 |
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Página 6 de 10
Generally, a regular review would end here -as we've verified and measured the product's behavior in hard working conditions and got, as a result, an outstanding performance. But, in spite of this, we still have some questions about the possible capacities of the heat sink.
So far, we haven't mentioned that the temperature shown in the graphics was obtained from Nvidia's drivers. Many times, this measurement has been said to be inaccurate. For us this is difficult to prove in a precise way. Nevertheless, we were determined to get the temperatures' distribution in the different components of the video card -or at least, a rough estimate.
To begin with, let's have a close look at the different parts of the NV Silencer 5:
- A large heat sink with a three-and-a-half-millimiter-thick copper base, which transmits the heat of the GPU and memories to the dissipating area.
- A fan.
- A plastic case to canalize the air and direct it from the fan to the heat sink fins and then to the outside.
Below are some photographs to explain this more clearly:
The NV Silencer 5 dissasembled
The heat sink
The fan
The plastic case
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