Gelid Silent Spirit LGA 1366 CPU Cooler Review

Test System

Today’s review was performed on both the Core i7 and Phenom II test systems. Ambient temperatures were maintained at 21 Celsius throughout all the testing. Testing was performed with neither a case nor additional case fans; only the heatsink fan and GPU fans were running. For the heatsink tests I used Arctic Silver Ceramique and I also compared the bundled GC-1 to Arctic Cooling Ceramique.

All tests were performed three times and the average temperature of the three runs was reported. Idle temperatures were measured after 15 minutes at idle and load temperatures were taken after 97% completion through wPrime 1024M. The latest Core Temp and AMD OverDrive were used to measure temperatures. The Phenom II probe read artificially low, and after extensive testing with my thermal probe touching various portions of the IHS, I corrected the temperature readings by increasing all values by 11 Celsius.

AMD Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	AMD Phenom II X4 940	Click Here
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H	Click Here
Memory	Corsair 2x1GB PC2-8888 CAS4	Click Here
Video Card	Asus ROG HD 4870 512MB	Click Here
Hard Drive	Seagate 7200.10 320GB	Click Here
Cooling	Gelid Silent Spirit	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000	Click Here
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate	Click Here

Here is an image of the Scythe Ninja that was used as a comparison on the Phenom II platform.