The latest ATI & NV Silencers from Arctic Cooling build off of the VGA Silencer's Direct Heat Exhaust System (which took a page from ABIT OTES). New to the Silencers are a copper base, thin aluminum fins, and customized builds to fit different video cards. Installation is quick and easy by means of rubber washers and screw nuts, and Arctic Cooling provides silicone paste that works just fine for VGA cooling.
With superior cooling and quieter cooling over reference designs, and backed by 6 years warranty, the Arctic Cooling Silencers are still not 100% perfect. They cost on average $30, take up an entire PCI slot, and are very heavy. The added weight really only affects you mentally (depending on how paranoid you are, or rather, how expensive that X800 is) rather than the video card or motherboard physically. But the cost and the loss of a PCI slot are negatives which you will need to consider. Negatives aside, the ATI & NV Silencers are a welcomed addition to aftermarket video card coolers.
Dev Hardware would like to thank you for joining us here today for the review of Arctic Cooling's ATI & NV Silencers. Special thanks to Scythe-USA for providing the samples. Be sure to check them out if you're interested in a Silencer - they have the lowest prices on these Silencers around. Click on the "Discuss" link at the bottom of the page if you have any questions. Otherwise head back to the front page for more hardware news and reviews or checkout the hardware forums for more information.
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