(Silent Tower, click to enlarge)

Installation:
Installation of the Silent Tower is not a clip and go process like most HSF's. The Silent Tower, due to it's weight, must be bolted through HSF mounting holes in your motherboard. Before removing your motherboard be sure to follow proper grounding procedures to prevent static electicity damage to any of your components. Once the motherboard is removed and on a static free surface to work on, you must either unclip or unscrew your previous CPU cooler and remove it. Installation then involves placing a foam insulator and a steel mounting bracket on the back of your motherboard and threading screws through to the front. Apply thermal compound to the top of your CPU and the copper heat sink. You must then set the Silent Tower on your CPU and select the proper mounting bracket for your system. After the bracket is slid over the copper base you simply tighten the screws to the proper tension. One tip is to tighten each of the 4 screws a little bit at a time to keep equal pressure on the chip and prevent damage.

 
(Mounting bracket on rear of motherboard, and mounting screws. Click to enlarge)

Features:
The first feature I noticed when I first looked at the silent tower was the heatpipes. The actual cooling fins are elevated more than two centimeters off the copper base by 3 heatpipes. My first impressions on the Silent Tower were, how good can this thing actually perform with 3 heatpipes bringing all the heat up? Was I ever wrong as you'll see in the testing!
The Silent Tower, hence it's name, is very quiet at cooling. The 92mm fan runs at a nearly inaudible 21dBA and gets outstanding airflow at 52.24CFM. There are optional fan mounts at the opposite side of the cooling fins to mount a second fan if you wish.

(Installed Silent Tower, click to enlarge)

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