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Brand | SILVERSTONE |
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Model | NT06-LITE |
Type | Heatsinks only |
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Heatsink Material | Copper base with bonded aluminum lower fins Copper heat pipes with soldered copper upper fins |
Heatsink Dimensions | 125.4 x 78.0 x 148.0mm |
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Weight | 570g |
Features | Heat Pipe Type: 8mm thick powder heat pipe Cooling System: Advanced two way cooling design Fan not included for maximum flexibility Massive surface area for heat dissipation Superior powder heat pipe design For use with Pentium XE 965 / Core 2 Extreme X6800 / Athlon 64 FX-62* |
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Package Contents | CPU Cooler Clips Thermal Grease User Manual |
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Date First Available | May 11, 2007 |
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Pros: I'm putting this in a Silverstone SG03 case. This is a perfect fit for the SG03, allows a bottom-intake ATX power supply to pull air over the NT06 and exhaust it out the back.
Cons: The stock backplate does not work well with some LG775 motherboards (my test system is an Asus P5E-VM HDMI) - the line of capacitors and VRM transformers on two sides of the processor means you are going to have protruding pins digging into the insulation on the backing plate. After measuring everything up, I decided I wasn't too happy with the length of the protruding pins relative to the thickness of the insulation on the backing plate. I used a dremel tool to smooth down the pins I was worried about so that they were little more than bumps on the surface of the board. Don't attempt to merely snip off the protruding pins with a pair of cutters - that will only make them sharper, and few pairs of cutters can cut the pin close enough to the board. Silverstone, Please Fix This!
Overall Review: Poorly designed screw anchors for the air shroud - the black surround is held in by four TINY sheet-metal screws that are seated into adjacent fins. My NT06 came out of the box with two of those screws very loose, one had actually fallen out. I decided to remove the screws and replace them with larger scews, this took some work to drill out the holes in the surround to fit the screws. Not an easy heatsink to install, I'd say.