The fan is connected to the heatsink using four black screws which are screwed into the aluminum fan attachment which is "stamped," into the copper base of the heatsink to hold it in place. The fan features Thermaltake's new "Hydro Wave Bearing," which decreases bearing wear as well as noise and also lengthens the fan's lifetime. As well as having a new type of bearing the fan also has slits around the entire outside frame which enables multi-directional air intake which maximizes airflow but at the same time keeps noise at a minimum hence the name Silent Boost.

There are a total of 41 copper fins on the heatsink itself. These fins are soldered to the base, however, I would personally liked to have seen the directly attached to the base for better performance. The difference in performance between soldered fins and attached fins is minimal so we're still in the green.

The base of the heatsink is fairly impressive. Despite the slight roughness it's still fairly polished. Though it's nowhere near as smooth as I would liked to have seen. I feel that it's still smooth enough to make good contact with the core of the processor. In the pictures below you will see that the reflection of the letters on the HDD are distorted as well as dull looking.

Test System:

• Chaintech 7NJS ZENITH Motherboard

• AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Processor

• Geil PC3500 Dual Channel Golden Dragon RAM

• Western Digital Raptor SATA HDD

• Chieftec Matrix Case

• Windows XP Pro. Corporate w/ SP1

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