Thoughts on Silver Arrow?

Eerazer said:
the clips were a freaking nightmare to get on after the sink was installed, i really recommend that you place those on the sink before you lay it down to install.
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Yup, same with most HSFs that use clips, if they come off as well its a real pain to get them back on without a small mirror to guide you in.
 
burrell said:
Very nice, what are the noise levels like?
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extremely quiet, even though i now have 8 fans in my pc. i can certainly attribute that to the fans i have inside, the arctic cooling f12

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have 4 of those, and 2 fractal silent ones in the front, and the 2 thermalright fans.

plus the r3 has sound dampening material in it :)
 
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oh and the side went on like the SA wasn't even there. just slided on, no problems. very happy with it. temps are excellent too, just overclocked it back to 3.84 and ran prime for 5 minutes, temps didnt get higher than 43c on coretemp and on my asus fanxpert it said 50c.

very nice indeed.

i purchased this splitter also Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable [AK-CB002]

so i have the 2 cpu fans and 1 top fan running off that. they are all at the same speed, regulated by the cpu temp on asus fanxpert
 
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Sold out of the special price Silver Arrows, with all the talk of buying splitter cables this one seems very similar to the Silver Arrow and comes with its own splitter cable

just how many fans can you run off one fan header
This splitter cable https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-031-AK seems to have a molex connector as well, I don't know the technicalities but wouldnt something short out if you are connecting to the molex power supply and the m/b fan header which is another power supply at the same time or is it wired so the molex boosts the fan header somehow
 
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phil-k said:
Sold out of the special price Silver Arrows, with all the talk of buying splitter cables this one seems very similar to the Silver Arrow and comes with its own splitter cable

just how many fans can you run off one fan header
This splitter cable https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-031-AK seems to have a molex connector as well, I don't know the technicalities but wouldnt something short out if you are connecting to the molex power supply and the m/b fan header which is another power supply at the same time or is it wired so the molex boosts the fan header somehow
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What that cable does is power the fans from the PSU through the molex connection. The header cable is there for fan speed control based on CPU usage.
 
Well my SA arrived in the post today but I've left it at work:rolleyes:. Wasn't gonna put it in my case till the weekend anyway.
 
Eerazer said:
oh and the side went on like the SA wasn't even there. just slided on, no problems. very happy with it. temps are excellent too, just overclocked it back to 3.84 and ran prime for 5 minutes, temps didnt get higher than 43c on coretemp and on my asus fanxpert it said 50c.

very nice indeed.

i purchased this splitter also Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable [AK-CB002]

so i have the 2 cpu fans and 1 top fan running off that. they are all at the same speed, regulated by the cpu temp on asus fanxpert
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To be honst with all I hear about how good the SA is I'd have expected beter temps than these, assuming you're talking about the 1100T in your sig. If it's an Intel chip then that's a different matter!
 
LC155 said:
What that cable does is power the fans from the PSU through the molex connection. The header cable is there for fan speed control based on CPU usage.
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But the CPU fan header gives out a current to power the fan as well as controlling it doesnt it, thats what I has querying about combining the power from the PSU and CPU fan header together
 
phil-k said:
But the CPU fan header gives out a current to power the fan as well as controlling it doesnt it, thats what I has querying about combining the power from the PSU and CPU fan header together
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It is the same power, think of it as coming from the same source along two different wires. The CPU header on some motherboards is relatively weak, hence the molex acts as an insurance that it does not get overloaded.
 
Well just tried to fit my SA only to find that it wouldn't fit due to the height of my RAM. Will the way I have the fans set up work ok? If I've got them correct, both fans should be set to pull or at least thats the plan.





One fan is slighty higher than the other on the images but I've since corrected that.
 
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