A Closer look

The main body of the Silent Spirit is made of nickel plated aluminium. The four heat pipes are sintered whilst the base is made of copper .The nickel coating doesn’t just have an aesthetic appeal, but also helps with corrosion resistance. The four heat pipes run on the same side of the heatsink. They run throughout the base of the heatsink as well as the top block of aluminium fins.


The 92mm fan that comes with the Silent Spirit is extremely easy to detach and replace. Having a tool less design, the top bracket only needs to be unclipped and then the fan can be detached by taking out the four fan mounts. A new fan can then be attached and used.


The cooler has a 4 pin PWM fan connector. This ensures silent operation when temperatures of the CPU are low, yet high performance when the temperatures of the CPU rise. This fan control is all done automatically and the user does not have to worry about installing software or having to control the fan themselves.


There is one main block of nickel coated aluminium fins on the Silent Spirit. This block is positioned where you would expect it; right under the fan. The fan is connected to this array of fins via four plastic clips, which clip into a groove found on the sides of the main block. The heat pipes connect to this main block of fins straight from the base of the cooler.


The heat pipes have been sintered. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is basically a form of creating a solid through a lot of heat and pressure. These four heat pipes all run on the same side and connect from the base of the heatsink straight through to the block of aluminium fins. The pipes run all the way throughout both the base and aluminium fins, as shown in the images, and have been capped off at the other side (where they end).


The base of the Silent Spirit is made of pure copper. The heat pipes run throughout the whole base to absorb and transfer as much heat as possible. Gelid Solutions have pre applied a layer of their high performing GC-1 thermal compound on the base of the cooler, for maximum heat dissipation. The cooler has the standard Intel Socket 775 stock cooler clips attached to it. For AMD based installations, these clips need to be screwed off and the supplied AMD brackets must be screwed on in their place.