Cooling is one of the major concerns for an enthusiast. We like to overclock our processors to ultimate speeds but for those of us who can't afford water-cooling kits, it's hard to reach the unbelievable speeds. For affordable thermal solutions, we turn to air-based heatsinks. We want something that works just as well as some of the affordable water-cooling kit.

We have been following Thermalright and their heatsinks for a while now. Thermalright recently released a new heatsink: SLK-948U. This heatsink continues the same design and architecture that we have seen on other coolers from Thermalright. Many heatsinks that we have tested from Thermalright have been great. They performed extremely well and our affordable so the designing and the architecture of the heatsink seemed to have worked out for Thermalright. The SLK-948U is designed for AMD Athlon64, Athlon64 FX, and the Intel Pentium 4 processors. How well does this heatsink perform? Read on and find out…

Accessories:

There are excess of accessories included with the SLK-948U heatsink. They are 5 x stainless steel standoffs, 3 x metal spacers for K8 processors, 9 x small round top screws as standoffs for K8 processors, 5 x metal washers for P4 processors, 5 x spring-loaded screws, 2 x large-spring loaded screws, 5 x C rings, 2 x fan clips for 70mm, 80mm, and 90/92mm fans, 2 x K8 adapter plates, 1 x plastic protective sheet, 1 x neo backplate, 1 x thermal grease, and 1 x installation guide.

As you can see, pretty much everything is included in the package for both the K8 and the Intel P4 processors. For the first time, Thermalright has included an installation guide with their heatsink. The guide is very detailed and explains every step in an easy to read format. They have certainly done a good job on it.

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