Silverstone je oštro krenuo već u prvim serijama svojih hladnjaka
i tržištu ponudio vrlo kvalitetno izrađene modele. No početničke greške koje
se očito svakome dešavaju nisu nažalost niti njih zaobišle. U prvom redu zamjeramo
na lošem priručniku za uporabu (oba modela), barem što se A64 sistema tiče. Dalje je tu
vrlo loša završna obrada baze što opet zahvaća oba hladnjak, prilične količine buke koju proizvode (pogotovo NT03 model), te na
kraju vrlo loše riješeno pričvršćivanje NT03 modela za ploču. U svim
ostalim pogledima ovo su vrhunski proizvodi. Počevši od odličnog pakiranja.
odlične izvedbe, izvrsne završne obrade, preko upotrebe toplovodnih cijevi sa sinteriranim prahom i na kraju vrlo dobrih performansi. Naš izbor je definitivno
NT02 model koji je pokazao veću zrelost i bolje performanse. Nadamo se kako
ćemo uskoro imati prilike testirati i novije modele Silverstoneovih hladnjaka kod kojih bi navedeni nedostatci mogli biti ispravljeni. Cijena hladnjaka u vrijeme objave članka je oko 420 kn za NT02 te oko 375 kn za NT03.

 

Conclusion in english:

Silverstone had a great start even with the first series of it’s CPU coolers and it managed to offer high quality products to the market. But there is a catch – beginner errors which obviously
happen to all manufactures, haven’t missed them neither. In the first
place we resent them on badly written manuals for users of Athlon 64 CPUs. Further
on, base of both coolers should be better polished. On NT03 we also had a bad experience with installation because of some poor design decisions made by Silvestone’s engineers. Regarding the noise, we can’t put these coolers in silent category and this is especially true for model NT03. In all other aspects these are top quality products. Package is great, construction
meets high standards, finishing is great (apart from bases), through use of
top quality heatpipes and lastly great performance. Between these two coolers, our choice would definitivly
be NT02 which has shown greater maturity as a product and better overall performance.
We hope that in the future we’ll have an oportunity to test newer Silverstone’s models, on which, we believe, all problems we noted in this article are possibly solved.