“Thermalright are renowned for their quality performance heatsinks throughout the enthusiast and overclocking community. Their latest offering for the aging but popular Socket A market, is the SI-97. In Thermalright terms, this is a different kind of heatsink. By abandoning the bolt-through retention mechanism in such a large heatsink, they have limited the use of this heatsink, creating a different market all together: the audiophobic enthusiast market. Today we’ll see just how well it performs, in a range of different situations.”Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Thermalright SI-97 Heatsink @ techniz.co.uk
- Thermalright SI-97 Heatsink Review @ ap0calypse.com
- Thermalright XP-90 AMD64 CPU Cooler Review @ 3DX
- Thermalright XP-120 @ Viper Lair
- Thermaltake CL-P0025 Silent Tower HSF @ silentpcreview
- Titan SIBERIA Cooler @ techniz.co.uk
- Evercool Ice Man Heat Pipe CPU Cooler @ techniz.co.uk
- Scythe Kamakaze 2 HSF Review @ ap0calypse.com
- Scythe SCKK1000 Kama Cooler Heatsink @ Frostytech.com
- Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu Ultra Silent CPU Cooler @ A True Review
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Air cooling is still going through innovations. Thermalright’s SI-97 is about half the weight of most newer heatsinks, so it doesn’t need to be screwed into the 4 mounting holes, it can use a retention clip, and one that sounds easy to work with, partially because of the unique design of the SI-97.