Xilence AM3 PWM – JVRadeon

The cooler makes a lot more noise than the stock cooler, not cooling enough and the supplied thermal paste is very bad. However, he is very easy to install.

Pros

• Easy to install
• Feels sturdy

Cons

• There is really no reason to get this cooler to purchase
• Aqueous thermal grease, its performance is very poor
• With good thermal grease cools down, he still worse than the stock cooler with dried pasta
• Despite the bigger fan and a lower speed, much more noise than the stock cooler
• Fan looks large and plump in proportion to the heatsink
• Design heatsink

Final conclusion

Score: 1Per criterion

Compatibility

Score: 2

The Xilence AM3 PWM CPU cooler combines the best koeleffecten with a low noise level. The solid aluminum heat sink along with the PWM controlled 92mm fan ensure that the heat is effectively and in silence is removed.

This above is directly translated from the Xilence website, sounds promising.

I had here at home a pc with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ with a TDP of 89 watts. It seemed to me making fun of this cooler to write a review, because there is not much to find on the internet. He also has a maximum cooling power of 89 watts.

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Information on the Xilence website:

Also here is again the silent fan stressed. You can also see all of the sockets are where this cooler can be placed. FM2 and FM2+ are not, but since the mounting brackets of those sockets otherwise, the cooler it will be placed. Furthermore, the fan diameter of 92mm that from 800 to 2800 revolutions per minute, can run because he’s PWM controlled.

CFM is the amount of air per minute moved. 1 CFM is equivalent to 0,47 litres of air.

The rest speaks I think for itself.

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Let’s start with the box:

The box looks pretty neat. Beautiful in the red theme where Xilence are most of the products of provides. There are also the specifications. The information about the compatible sockets are now a bit out of date. Not a problem in itself.

In the box:

The only thing in the box is the cooler itself and a sachet of Thermal Compound. The fan is already mounted on the heatsink. There is no manual or any setup step. So from the side you can see the cooler there still pretty fun.

Some more photos for a better impression:

At first glance, I find the fan there are little plump and look big in proportion with the heat sink. The bottom of the heatsink is nice and smooth. The cooling fins are thicker than the stock cooler and there are less. It is generally more favourable to be more thin than thick cooling fins, as with the stock cooler in the case (see photo below). In addition, there is quite a bit of black plastic around it so the heat is also rather stuck between the heatsink fins.

The black sleeve to the 4 pin connecter looks like fun. Further, it is standard AMD installer present.

AM3 PWM vs Stock

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Because the same system that the stock coolers are present, it is only a matter of the beugeltjes on the mounting brackets are in place for him then with the lever clamping.

Stock cooler:

After these are removed, the old thermal paste was removed, I used the supplied Thermal Compound posted:

To the thermal paste from the bag you need to get him first openknippen with scissors. This is not really optimal, because there is pasta on the scissors. During the application fell the same that it is really thin and even a bit watery. This was a little off and it seems on the photo that there maybe too much on it, however, this is not the case.

Xilence AM3 PWM posted:

Still looks in reasonable condition! Now is the feast, because we are going through to the cooling performance.

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To the cooling performance to be measured, I have Prime95 run, so the CPU is 100% loaded. Both the stock cooler as the Xilence are also tested with Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. The results are the highest measured core temperatures after 25 has been turned.

Keep in mind the following factors:

• The room temperature was in each of the following cases the same.
• Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste has little to no inkomtijd need to use his full potential to perform.
• The thermal paste on the stock cooler in the beginning was dehydrated. You could put your finger over it and felt it just smooth. Also, you could be the pieces of thermal paste from the heatsink and the CPU address. No idea what thermal paste it was, but I suspect the person who by default is already on the stock cooler was at the time.
• There were no case fans present.
• There is assumed to be of the highest Core temperature.
• The speed of the fans are at maximum.

The results:

This really is to whine. With the supplied ‘Thermal Compound’ is the temperature is so high, that it is above the maximum recommended core temperature of 70 lwa Celsius. This was also the reason for the with the NT-H1 to try:

This gave happy a better result, but still not really a good temperature.

The dried paste of the stock cooler didn’t really have much effect on the cooling, given it makes no difference with fresh NT-H1. Nevertheless, it was still better than the Xilence with the NT-H1 paste.

Makes the Xilence AM3 PWM to its cooling power of 89w?
No, not as the product is delivered. You can buy a good thermal paste, then the answer is yes. However, you are already in a higher price range where much better coolers to get for the money. You can better opt for a fun koelertje from Arctic or Gelid Solutions Siberian, better cooling and cheaper. And I am not even talking about the sound.

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According to the website of Xilence would be the cooler, a low noise level. Now I have no equipment to measure, but can assure you that the sound is far above the stock cooler comes out. The latch is still 1.5 to 2 times as hard, and this while the fan a larger diameter and a lower speed:

On a low speed, it is still reasonable to do, but because the cooling is also not really great is this will also be faster rise than with the stock cooler. Also in this area is the cooler so no interesting choice.

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Unless you’re looking for a cooler which is noisy and poor cooling, the Xilence AM3 PWM not recommended. The supplied thermal paste is water based and performs very bad, be careful not to spill on the motherboard.

The price is very high for what you get back in return. To lwa berhaupt a sufficient cooling you need to get in addition to the cooler have separate thermal paste to buy.

Despite all this he is, however, easy to install.

To come back on the first few sentences of this review: There knocks no wood from.

Used in combination with:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Boxed
• Asus M2N68-CM