Category: Cooler
Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: Silent Square Pro
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Price: $59.80

Keeping track of everything that’s going on in the hardware world can be a daunting task. We make extensive use of xml feeds and frequently visit the websites of all the hardware manufacturers we can think of, but still there are product releases that slip, silently, under our radar. Of course we hit the big launches; processors from Intel and AMD, video cards from ATI and NVIDIA; and even smaller things like motherboard launches, new mice and keyboards, and even mousepads. The trickiest part of finding the smaller releases is that they are often carried out by companies that are not particularly well known for making the kind of product being released.

And for some reason it always seems like the products that we miss are in fact gaming related in some way. Companies often create a family of components under a certain label in order to associate them with the gaming and/or enthusiast market. We have seen this time and time again from the Fatal1ty series of products from XFX, Abit, and Creative, as well as more straight-forward approaches like ASUS’ Republic of Gamers series and Foxconn’s upcoming Quantum Force line. We always knew ASUS made CPU coolers, but we never really considered them to be in the upper echelon of manufacturers in the field. From the specs listed for some of the coolers on their website, it is quite clear that ASUS means to change our premonitions. The ASUS Silent Square Pro stands at the top of the cooler totem pole at ASUS, figuratively and literally. This giant heat pipe tower has a lot of interesting features that distinguish it from its competition, but do they help ward off heat? Let’s take a closer look.