The Thermaltake Silent 1156 is a new product made for the the LGA 1156 systems. Thermaltake promotes it as a silent performer that would not cost you a fortune to have it.

We decided to test this product in an LGA 1366 platform since we had already tested many other LGA 1156/1366 - compatible cpu coolers at the same platform, obviously for comparison reasons.

The cooler's will most probably not impress most of the users, although the full copper base and the fairly big main body should be efficient enough.

In our tests, the Thermaltake Silent 1156 lowered the temperatures of the Core i7-920 up to 11 degrees Celsius compared with Intel's stock cooler, especially under overclocking. But when the CPU was running at stock voltages the gain was just 5 degrees C.

The emitted noise is not that high but at full speed, it was higher than the Intel stock cooler. On the bright side, the product is available at just ~$30, making it affordable for almost everyone.

Overall, the Thermaltake Silent 1156 is an affordable product, with great build quality and can decently lower the temperature of your processor, especially when installed at an LGA 1156 socket. The cooler positioned itself somewhere in the middle of our benchmark result charts in terms of performance / noise. With the competition to be really hard for the new LGA 1156 socket, we have to do with another solution suggested as a next buy.

Retail package
Design
Motherboard compatibility
Installation time
Copper Base quality

Pros:

+ Works Intel LGA 1156/1366
+ Low retail price
+ Very easy installation
+ Will lower the temperatures of your processor compared with the Intel stock cooler
+ Low noise levels when fan is operating at low speed

Cons:

- No support for AM2 socket
- Performance is not that impressive for the LGA 1366 socket