SilverStone Tundra Series TD03 All-in-One Liquid Cooler Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

We take a detailed look at the Tundra series TD03 CPU liquid cooler, packing a punch with its dual fans and 120mm radiator…

Introduction

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SilverStone Technology is a well known company in the enthusiast space, offering high quality solutions from cases to case-mounted fan controllers and displays. SilverStone has also gone through several generations of CPU all-in-on liquid cooling solutions with the Tundra series being the culmination of these past designs. The Tundra Series TD03 liquid cooler is designed to cool CPUs of any make, including the latest processor offerings from both Intel and AMD. The cooler is comprised of a thick 120mm radiator attached to a uni-body aluminum CPU cooler with integrated copper base plate and pump. To best measure the TD03's performance, we set it against several other high-performance liquid and air-based coolers. The TD03 cooler comes with a retail MSRP of $99.99, putting it at the higher end of the all-in-one cooler price range.

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The Tundra Series TD03 liquid cooler was designed in a smaller footprint to keep your CPU cool while not taking up too much space in your system case. SilverStone's design of the TD03 is inspired, combining a 45mm thick 120mm aluminum radiator with a nickel-plate aluminum unibody CPU block with integrated copper base plate. Aside from it's big brother (the TD02), the TD03 cooler is one of the few all-in-one liquid coolers that has an all metal construction for the CPU block. Most manufacturers opt for a PVC or Acrylic body construction with and integrated copper base plate. Further, SilverStone soldered the copper base plate to the aluminum unibody so that the plate's bottom presents an unblemished, solid piece to the CPU for mounting. The base plate is machined flat and polished to a mirror-like finish, ensuring optimal mating and heat transfer between the CPU surface and the copper base plate.

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Silverstone includes mounting hardware for using the TD03 CPU block with all current Intel and AMD processor offerings. Additionally, they package in eight total fan screws for fans mounted to the radiator in a push-pull configuration, as well as a 4-pin power splitter cable so that both of the unit's fans can be powered from a single 4-pin connector.

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SilverStone includes several design innovations with the Tundra Series of all-in-one coolers that differentiate them from their competition. The CPU block is an an aluminum-based unibody construction with integrated aluminum hold downs for strength and an unblemished copper base. The radiator is constructed of individually soldered aluminum fins, giving the fin pattern a rectangular look instead of the triangular look to the competitors radiators constructed with a single piece of metal bent in a wave-type pattern to fit in between the liquid channels.

Technical Specifications (taken from the SilverStone website)