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Testing:
Ambient temperature was held constant at 25°C. Temperatures were taken using Mother Board Monitor, ITE SmartGaurdian and NVIDIA’s built in temperature monitors. The case temperature was taken using the temperature probes from the Matrix Orbital MX6, as reviewed here.
The system:
• DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR
• AMD Athlon 3000+
• 2 x 512 G Skill LE
• 2 x 6600GT video cards
• 1 x Western Digital Raptor HD
• 2 x 200GB Seagate’s in RAID 1
My original goal behind reviewing the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer was to cool the inside of my case. As you can see from the pictures, the cooler blows the hot air from the video card out the back of the case. Unfortunately, as explained above, only one of the coolers was installed in this system. The overall findings with just one cooler were a delightful surprise. The graph below shows the initial findings. As you can see by just having one cooler on the lower card the temperature on both cards dropped dramatically. This is due to the heat being drawn out the back of the case instead of circulating between the two cards.
Now that we have the card temperatures out of the way, let's see how the rest of the system fared. Starting with case temperatures, the graph below shows a nice drop.
Here is a small drop in CPU temperatures shown after installing the NV Silencer. Also shown are the other major areas of the motherboard; including the Chipset and PWMIC.
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