SilentiumPC Fortis 5: Fera’s bigger and quieter brother on steroids

CPU coolers, Extra tests | | Pavel Sekerka

Results – 39 dBA

The SilentiumPC Fera 5 concept recently showed us how even a small cooler can be really efficient if the heatsink and fan optimization is done well. Today it’s the turn of the SilentiumPC Fortis 5, which is another iteration of SilentiumPC’s popular cooler, but now optimized in collaboration with Synergy Cooling. What’s more, today’s article is a straight triple test as we’ll be testing all three variants of the Fortis 5 cooler against each other.

Results – 39 dBA


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