SilentiumPC Fera 5 – The king is dead, long live the king!

Conclusion and summary

Fera 3 from SilentiumPC is certainly one of the most popular coolers. Recently, however, a new version called Fera 5 was launched, which brings a number of new features. The cooler has been redesigned from the ground up, including the fan, and the assembly system has also undergone major changes. In addition, the whole thing has a 6-year warranty. Let’s see, how Fera 5 performs in the tests and whether it is a worthy successor to the previous version.

Conclusion and summary

SilentiumPC Fera 5 is simply just like hitting the bullseye. At first, I didn’t want to believe that such a small cooler could give such good results. So I rather repeated all the stress tests. And then again to be extra sure. However, all control tests performed with minimal deviation from the original test.

For a very reasonable price, you get a compact cooler that boldly competes with far larger and more expensive competitors. The Fera 5 is also a good cooler acoustics-wise. Especially at low and medium speeds it can be very quiet. By adding a second fan, the temperatures are reduced only slightly, but at the cost of an increase in noise at higher speeds. The second fan therefore has little benefit. But if you buy the Dual Fan variant, you will get another solid fan for a small surcharge, which you can use elsewhere in your setup.

Virtually all the shortcomings I complained about with the Fera 3 model have been eliminated, especially with regard to the mounting system and the clips for mounting the fan. The icing on the cake is a 6-year warranty. I’m not entirely sure SilentiumPC was able to pull such a great piece, but I’m already looking forward to the new versions of coolers Fortis and Grandis, which should also appear this year.

In conclusion, we can only state that the Fera 5 is a very well-done cooler, which excels in terms of price and performance. It fully deserves our editorial award “Smart Buy!”.

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