Thermalright Silver Arrow SB E Extreme Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,614 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the thermal R ha Silver Arrow SB so
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that's Sandy Bridge e so that means it supports LGA 2011
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extreme so I have actually already taken
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a look at two very similar coolers in the past the coage arrow which is sort
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of like a less finished version of the Silver Arrow and the Silver Arrow
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now I get to check out the Silver Arrow extreme it definitely comes with a more
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extreme sticker the last thermal right sticker I got was much less extreme than
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that totally different colors it looks like it comes with some different fans
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and it comes with two of them which is very exciting as well so they've added
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support for LGA 2011 which is new ooh different colored fans too those look
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extreme that is for certain so we' got a red frame and orange blades on this 140
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mm fan however check this out because uses a rounded frame you can easily
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Mount these to 120 mm mounting holes in
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your case or whatever else you're using as long as you have enough space around
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it to accommodate the 140 mm size of the
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blades so here let's go ahead and pull this bad boy out as well there's another
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one matching okay the extremeness is
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piling up here next we have the cooler
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itself oh it is more extreme look at that it has a sign significantly more
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extreme shape compared to the original thermal
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right Silver Arrow this thing is oh this thing is gorgeous thermal R coolers
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really are the cream of the cream when it comes to Performance and Aesthetics
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so here let's go hold on there we go so
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all the accessories are in here they also have phenomenal mounting mechanisms
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and I hope I'm not about to be sort of shown up here as I pull out like plastic
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mounting pieces nope not at all check
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this out once I get my handy knife and
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actually open it so oh I had it open in my pocket that could have been bad I
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could have lost like significant parts of my
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anatomy with that going on it's not a good thing it's a bad thing yeah slick
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agrees that's bad okay so I talked about solid
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mounting hardware check this out we are totally going to do this we are going to
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pull out the iPhone size comparison for this
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this is a solid piece of Steel it is going nowhere not anywhere will it go
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awesome love to see it same thing with the back plate the back plate is going
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nowhere it weighs like 3 lb look at this thing similar thickness to the uh to the
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hold down plate actually it looks like it might even be a little thick no they're about the same again not going
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anywhere Universal compatibility so there's your 775 1155 1156 and 1366 or
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2011 or something something whatever they're all in here oh maybe 775 is no
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longer no it's supported okay well I'll assume they're all in there somewhere
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maybe 1 2 3 4 actually okay awesome
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they've also got
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um uh anti- conductive oh non-conductive
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pads and spacers and all the little pieces you need here's all the hard
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Mount mounting screws so it does use a hard Mount system which is again awesome
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and not going anywhere and let's get this iPhone off the table let's get
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these keys off the table and let's be done with the actually
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let's be done with the mounting hardware for now we're going to go along to the
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instructions so check this out I love the way thermal R does their instructions so these actually sorry
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these weren't uh these weren't isolating pads these are isolating pads for the fans anti vibration pads so you can
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mount them on there using these clips and not have to worry about any
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vibrations being transferred to your cooler the spacer ring here is the only
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piece and as well as these isolating pieces are the ones that keep all the
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metal pieces off your motherboard and safe so they've got different instructions for different sockets and
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how to do everything that you need to do and all the hardware is included of
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course just make sure this is you know what this is like you know Linus Linus
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Common Sense tips but a lot of people have problems with this guys when you
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install it on your LGA 1155 system don't throw away like the
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AMD mounting hardware or the 2011 mounting hardware or whatever else the
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case may be because who knows you may upgrade your system at some point and it
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may be handy to still have that all right next we have six fan Clips why
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would they do that when they only include two fans well because you can
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get an additional fan and go one two
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three for like a double layered sandwich
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effect not that you'd actually eat a heat sink because that would be stupid
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you would die you would literally die if you ate this it would shred your insides
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but I'm sure you weren't planning to do that last couple of included accessories
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and look at the sleeving quality on these that's outstanding is it focusing
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okay that's great love it love what
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thermal right's done there okay so what they've got going here is two four pin p
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oh these are four pin pwm fans again excellent sleeving on the fans as well
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check that out love it so two four pin pwm connectors so you can plug that into
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a single CPU connector on your motherboard or you can plug them into a
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Molex they are both wired up and if you didn't want one of these connectors you
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could just go ahead and no wait hold on
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on no you'll need both sorry power is provided by this and then pwm is
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provided by this so you're going to want to run that sort of like behind your motherboard or something all as sort of
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one nice look at that it's like individually sleeved cable effect people
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love that stuff these days finally guys
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the heat sink itself so the difference between the co gaug arrow and the Silver
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Arrow was the finish on it so it had a
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much shinier much more reflective much more blinged out looking finish uh they
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both had the same number of heat pipes they both had the same general design
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although the Silver Arrow had a much nicer overall finish to things like the
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tops of the heat pipes you know how heat pipes always have one finished end one
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rounded end and then one pinched end because they come in standard lengths
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and that's not always suitable for you know whatever various coolers so they
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pinch them shut in order to keep the gases and the liquids inside them so
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thermal R has implemented these caps on here so that it'll look uniform on both
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sides and gorgeous no matter what you do now you can see what they've done is
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actually the heat pipes in the center here closer to where the D of the CPU is
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actually located actually have more fins
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on them so it goes up higher and then as you move out away from the die of the
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CPU there are fewer and fewer and fewer fins actually attached to that
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particular part of the bottom of the cooler now I'm expecting the finish on
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here to be Immaculate because it's thermal right I can already tell from
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the way lights reflecting off it it's got a bit of a bow and what a bow does
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is it puts more pressure on the very center which AIDS thermal compound
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spreading and it also helps to make stronger pressure between or to have
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stronger pressure between the CPU heat sink itself and the heat spreader on the
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CPU in in exchange sort of the die so there's the tighter that contact point
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is and the less space there is in between all those components the better
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your cooling will be because the better the heat transmission will be now of
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course we can't you know get away from the obligatory finger shot there so that
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is how shiny and reflective it is although it should be noted guys reflectiveness does does not necessarily
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indicate flatness which is much more important when it comes to CPU cooling
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total number of heat pipes on this bad boy is eight there are eight heat pipes
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running in a u shape down through the bottom here up through the other side it
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looks absolutely stunning in its shininess I'm going to go ahead and off
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camera we're going to install the fans so you can see what it'll actually look
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like once you put those on well if we were going for the extreme look I think
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we have achieved that with the red and orange and the silver and the shininess
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and just yeah this thing's looks
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freaking awesome thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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