Thermalright SI-100 Review

Thermalright’s SI-100 is a 120mm class low profile CPU cooler, similar to the C14S. The SI-100 is 100mm in height vs. NH-C14S at 115mm.

SPECIFICATIONS

MODELSI-100
DIMENSIONSL: 120 x W: 108 x H: 99.8mm (including 25mm thick fan)
MATERIALS6x 6mm copper heat-pipes, copper base (nickel coated), aluminium cooling fins
COMPATIBILITYIntel: 115X/1200/1700
AMD: AM4/AM5
FANS1x TL-E12B (2000 max.rmp)
RAM CLEARANCE50mm

TEST SYSTEM

Testing is carried out on BC1 Mini v2 (Open Testbench), using the following hardware in 20°C ambient room temperature.

CASEBC1 Mini v2 (Open Testbench)
MOTHERBOARDRog Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (paid link)
CPUR5 7600X / R7 7700X (paid links)
CPU COOLERThermalright SI-100 (paid link)
PSU Extreme 850R (paid link)
RAM32GB Gskill DDR5, 6000MHz, CL30 (paid link)

NOISE

At 70% fan speed, the SI-100’s included 120x25mm fan outputs around 35dBA noise at distance 50cm. It’s not as objectively quiet as an Noctua’s NF-A12x25 for instance, but still fairly quiet.

THERMAL BENCHMARKS

We use Cinebench R23 multicore (stability test), for CPU thermal testing. This provides worse case scenario for a given CPU.

CONCLUSIONS

Thermalright’s SI-100 is excellent performer, even outpacing the larger, heavier Noctua NH-C14S. It offers reasonable motherboard and RAM compatibility and is aggressively priced relatively to thermal performance.