Review on ❄️ The Ultimate Cooling Power: Thermalright SILVER ARROW 130 Silver Unleashed! by Hesham Peltier

I use this thing to cool an AMD R9 3900XT, a 12-core monster chip that can draw up to 150W of power even in normal mode. the settings. This is not an easy task for a mainstream CPU cooler, but I made it harder by putting it in a small 145mm pitch ITX case. There aren't many heatsinks out there that can get the job done. The Silver Arrow 130 does just that. The Silver Arrow, as the name suggests, is 130mm tall. It fits my Thermatake Core V1. It fits in the trendy Ncase M1. According to the Thermright website, it is rated for 230W of heat dissipation. It uses six 6mm heat pipes to dissipate heat from the CPU's copper block, which is electroplated and polished to a mirror finish. Everything is covered and polished. He's brilliant. It's also sharp and even comes with gloves to work with, but having worked with it I don't think you need to worry about drawing blood. Points are rounded. Gloves are a nice touch. Installation is simple: backplate on the back, four nylon standoffs on the front, topped with a square screw-on bracket. You then have the heatsink itself and the top plate that holds the heatsink in place with two more screws. Then fix fan. If you built Noctua it's very similar. The only problem is that to remove the heatsink you have to remove the fan first. A bit annoying but given the location of the two towers there aren't many alternatives. If you've ever fiddled with the plastic backing of an all-in-one water cooler, this will be a no-brainer. The fan that came with the heatsink is bright red and orange and is about 130mm in diameter and rated at 1300-1500 RPM. It was a bit too wide for my setup. It hit the M.2 drive next to the processor area. A bit of a shame as otherwise the cooler does a great job of not getting in the way. It doesn't cover your RAM slots. It has pretty good compatibility compared to competing products like horizontal coolers like the NH-C14. A small issue with the M.2 was solved with a fan I already had laying around and a couple of included clips to mount standard 120mm fans. Another nice touch. In terms of performance, this offers a very powerful processor at or below 70C for the most common tasks (e.g. gaming). Running benchmarks overclocks the 3900XT to 91-92c. Some encoding tasks can increase it to around 80c. *EDIT* I tried another fan, this time a high speed 2200+RPM model. Temperature has dropped 5-10 degrees and now doesn't exceed 85 degrees under any load and it's now typically boosted 100MHz higher than before. I recommend *HELL* an aftermarket fan for this thing. TL;DR: An excellent heatsink that rivals much larger or bulkier models in its ability to cool powerful processors. However, get the best fan with it. Corsair ML120, Noctua, whatever.