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Gelid Tranquillo Reviews

OverclockersClub

07/2010

Gelid Solutions Tranquillo Review

The heat sink is an important part of what we as enthusiasts/overclockers do with our computers. On one end of the spectrum you have the group wants to run the processor at stock speeds and gain the benefits of a larger more capable cooling solution, with the ultimate goal of dropping the CPU temperature lower than what the stock Intel or AMD solutions are capable of, all for a modest price. On the other end of the spectrum are the group that go straight for liquid nitrogen and phase change solutions, where costs can be measured almost in cubic dollars. Somewhere in the middle you have high-end air cooling and liquid cooled solutions, where pricing is not always indicative of cooling capacity. But then again, the same can be said of a budget cooling solution. The Gelid Tranquillo is a tower-style heat sink that follows the current design trend. With a name like 'Tranquillo' one would assume this heat sink fan combo from Gelid will be a low noise cooling solution. The only way to find out is to put it through its paces. Let's take a look and see if the Tranquillo lives up to the name while still providing enhanced cooling of the CPU. The packaging of the Tranquillo is a multi-tone box with information all the way around to engage the consumer with each view.

TechRadar

07/2010

Gelid Tranquillo review

The Tranquillo is a big tower cooler with four 6mm heat pipes (without Direct Touch, though) and a fin stack which, for once, didn't feature blood-letting edges. It fits the usual suspects of AMD and Intel chips. You get a lot of hardware for your money here. Unlike Titan's Fenrir and Xigmatek's Thor's Hammer we're not in the world of heavy-metal casings. This is a workmanlike cooler without frills.There's a fair bit of hyperbole on the box about intelligent fans, high airflow and optimised fan blades (what are the rest using then?). The cooler's design is certainly very plain, but shows signs of some thought – there's a cheek piece on one side to deflect air away from your graphics card, for example.The fixings are of above average quality – heavy backplates and screws with nice big slots and knurled edges. You can even get at the main screw heads from directly above all round, which is more than most designs can manage. All this made fitting quick and easy, something to bear in mind if you are in the habit of removing your cooler now and again.Performance under full load lags a little behind the rivals, it ran at a whisker over 58 degrees at full load. At idle it managed 45 degrees. Rivals such as Titan's Fenrir can knock a few degrees off both these figures.

TechRadar

04/2010

Gelid Tranquillo review

Gelid is a company that's come out of left field to make a bit of a name for itself in the bargain air-cooling market. This latest, the Tranquillo, fits perfectly into that setup, almost making a mockery of the equally large, twin-turbined Thermaltake Frio. They're both big coolers, they've both got a long compatibility list and they're both remarkably quiet in low CPU-usage scenarios. The big difference though is in the price. The Gelid cooler is around half the price of the Frio. The Frio though does come with that extra fan which improves the airflow both around the CPU heatsink and through the case as a whole, but the Tranquillo is just as capable a cooler at stock levels. It's when the CPU wattage is ramped up in overclocking that the Frio is able to make itself known, but the Tranquillo is no slouch. It's not quite as cool, but it does a very capable job. At stock speeds the idling Core i7 860 was only 3C hotter than the with the Frio, and that's still only 22C. That difference scales up exactly to the fully loaded Core i7 with the Frio hitting 49C and the Tranquillo hitting 52C.