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Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 3 Socket A CPU Cooler
 | Copper Silent 3 Socket A CPU Cooler [Discontinued]  (4 customer reviews) - Review | £8.69 (£10.21 inc. VAT) |
Low Weight
Weighing only 300g the Copper Silent is still within the AMD specifications and therefore one of the lightest low noise coolers available. This significantly lowers the risk of damage the CPU die.
High Cooling Performance
A 10mm high copper core transfers the heat from the CPU to the aluminium heatsink efficiently. The heatsink is 78 x 80 mm in size and has 30 fins which offer a large amount of surface area.
Extremely Quiet
The patented "reversed- hanging" fan is able to practically eliminate the typical buzzing sound of standard 80mm fans.
Fan Mounting
The Fan has been mounted onto four rubber supports to stop vibrations being transmitted to the heat sink.
Six Years Warranty
The ARCTIC Ceramic bearing offers an outstanding service life of 137,000 hours at 40°C.
Clip
An especially developed clip offers easy installation and a more accurate point of pressure. It is also very secure and will not fall off during transport.
Thermal Compound
The cooler is supplied with the ARCTIC MX-1 thermal compound. This compound hardens during the first 200h while the performance improves steadily. With heating up the paste/heatsink the process can be shortened. The performance, even while cold and after installation is good enough to cool a CPU reliably.
PLEASE NOTE - Arctic Cooling measure noise levels in Sone (loudness) instead of dB (sound intensity). The loudness depends upon your ears response curves and tells you how noticeable a certain noise is.
Features
- Very light, less than 300g
- AMD socket A cooler for Athlon XP
- Six year warranty
Specifications
| Compatibility | AMD socket A only, also known as socket 462 |
| Dimensions | 88 x 82 x 79 mm |
| Rated Fan Speed | 2200 RPM |
| Power Consumption | 0.13 Amp |
| Air Flow | 32 CFM / 55 m3/h |
| Weight | 298 g |
| Noise Level | 1.0 Sone |
| Therm. Resistance | 0.49 °C / Watt |
| Warranty | 72 months |
Customer Reviews
Copper Silent 3 (4)
Anonymous - Posted: 31 May 2009 18:08 (8/10)
Very easy to fit, make sure the motherboard is flat, and you've got plenty of room to work in. I needed to move my power supply out of the way. The bit you need the confidence for is pinging off the clips of your old cooler, which is probably factory fitted. Once that's out fitting the new cooler is a cinch with the easy to follow instructions. Pretty quiet cooler then the bearings had gone on my old one, that's why I replaced it.....PS: Service from Quietpc was excellent....
Simon Carter - Posted: 17 Sep 2009 14:42 (9/10)
I am converting an old PC into a FreeNas file server - wanted to make it quieter at the same time. Ordered this CPU cooler and it arrived next day. Fitting it was very easy but like other reviewer had to remove PSU to fit it in - took about 20 mins in all. Now running virtually silently and CPU running a couple of degrees cooler. Service from Quiet PC was great and efficient - would definitely use them again.
Anonymous - Posted: 17 Nov 2009 23:00 (10/10)
Received very promptly - great service. Very easy to fit and works perfectly. Noise has been reduced considerably. Great product.
M Shepherd - Posted: 2 Dec 2009 13:36 (7/10)
Much quieter than the previous heatsink, but one star off for very fiddly install, and two off for the fact that the fan vibrates like anything. and so the entire case resonates.
See also:
Quiet CPU Coolers
AMD Socket A/462 Quiet CPU Coolers
