Today we inaugurate a series of articles about the famous SilverStone brand, starting with an analysis of its proprietary cooling solutions. Furthermore, we will present a series of cabinets each having different features, hence oriented to different user groups; we’ll also present during the analysis several interesting products, always of the same brand.
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Cooling and Revolution as priorities
The SilverStone R&D department constantly seeks forinnovations under the cooling and dissipation aspects. As we’ve seen in previous pages, and as we’ll prove directly by presenting some our inner lab tests , the structure of a lot of these SilverStone models will permit a very advanced thermal management, especially regarding the video cards heat dissipation. In this video, as we ’ve previously shown, we will also report one of the most interesting aspects of this trademark, the positive pressure concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe-2ZqmSGug&feature=player_embedded
We also report a potential issue with this kind of cases, with the motherboard retention plate rotated by 90 degrees clockwise, an argument that our Xtremehardware staff have begun to analyze during the review of the SilverStone Raven 3, in another associated review:
Q1: I have a custom cooler, how do I know which way the heat pipes should be situated to obtain the best performance in the RV02-E?
A: There are two main types of heat-pipes used in popular aftermarket coolers, they are groove and powder. Groove heat pipes are very susceptible to gravity while powder heat pipes are less so. To achieve best performance in either heat pipe technology, they need to be placed horizontally or have the heat source side located below the other end of the heat pipe. We recommend choosing and installing components with heat pipes carefully by taking into consideration of the following examples:
Motherboard orientation in a normal ATX case:
Motherboard orientation in a Raven series case:
As the illustrations above show, most enthusiast motherboards with heatpipes will work fine in the RV02-E and other SilverStone Fortress and Raven cabinet series, the heat source is located below other parts of the heat pipe. Many CPU coolers can be rotated when installing on motherboards, the illustration here shows a SilverStone NT06-E
CPU cooler:
Regarding the aftermarket VGA coolers, here we report a horizontal type, precisely a cooler that won’t fit particularly well in our RV02-E, because of the positioning of the heat source, higher than the end itself of the interested heatpipe.
Source : http://www.silverstonetek.com/raven/products/r-qa.php?model=RV02-E&area=en
