The Be Quiet! Silent Loop 2 AIO Cooler Assessment: Quiet and Unassuming

A well-known presence right here at AnandTech, Be Quiet! has settled in to distinct area of interest for itself within the PC peripherals market over time by merely dwelling as much as the corporate’s title. Tuning their system designs for minimal acoustics, the corporate efficiently expanded into all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers again in 2016. It is a product section the place, regardless that the design of closed-loop techniques is kind of restrictive, the corporate’s engineers have all the time been making an attempt to innovate and differ from the competitors. A first-rate instance of this method may very well be the Pure Loop series that hit the market back in 2020, which had a decoupled liquid pump.

Leaping ahead to the current, in the present day we’re having a look on the newest AIO cooler collection from Be Quiet!, the Silent Loop 2. That is a complicated cooler collection that’s designed to totally maximize the performance-to-noise ratio for demanding customers. The Silent Loop 2 collection consists of 4 coolers which might be, as is often the case, virtually similar except for the radiator measurement, which ranges from 120 mm to 360 mm.

For our evaluate we obtained the preferred model of the collection, the 280 mm Silent Loop 2 cooler.

Packaging & Bundle

Be Quiet! provides the Silent Loop 2 cooler in an aesthetically easy however very sturdy cardboard field. Contained in the field, we discover the cooler and its equipment nicely protected by a customized inner paper insert. A wealth of data relating to the cooler will be discovered on the perimeters and rear of the field.

Contained in the field, we discovered a small however well-written guide, the required socket mounting {hardware}, a small syringe with a bit thermal grease, and adapters for powering the followers. Be Quiet! additionally provides a bottle of coolant that can be utilized to replenish the cooler’s liquid if deemed mandatory.

The followers offered alongside the Silent Loop 2 cooler are Be Quiet!’s personal Silent Wings 3 premium followers. Naturally, two 140 mm followers are equipped with the 280 mm model that we’re reviewing in the present day. These followers have fluid-dynamic bearings and six-pole engines to reduce their noise output. Their most pace is 1600 RPM, an affordable determine to be used on a efficiency AIO cooler.

The Be Quiet! Silent Loop 2 280mm AIO Cooler

When it comes to fundamental design, the Silent Loop 2 280 mm AIO cooler is a typical AIO cooler, with a single cooling block/pump meeting and two hoses resulting in the radiator. Though the corporate claims that the Silent Loop 2 cooler incorporates a “highly effective pump”, the dimensions of the principle block is smaller than most.

The radiator is a typical twin go cross-flow design, with tiny fins soldered on skinny rectangular tubes and area for 2 140 mm followers. From a baseline standpoint, it’s the similar typical design that each AIO cooler is utilizing these days, as no different warmth exchanger design manages to outperform it in PC cooling purposes. The one atypical function is the filling port plug that can be utilized to replenish the system’s coolant. Archetypally, such techniques are thought of sealed and evaporation of the coolant to some extent that might have an effect on its efficiency ought to take a number of years to happen, however it isn’t an inconceivable factor to occur. Be Quiet!’s filling port supplies peace of thoughts to customers that maintain on to their bought gear for greater than a few years.

A detailed have a look at the radiator’s fins reveals that they don’t seem to be strong, however relatively they’re notched. We now have seen other manufacturers experimenting with the formation of the radiator’s fins earlier than in an effort to enhance the general efficiency of their merchandise, in order that didn’t shock us. Be Quiet’s method reduces the floor space of the fins in trade for higher airflow and decrease noise.

The cubic pump block is of straightforward design, not too small however not giant both. Many of the block’s physique is made out of plastic, with metal mounting brackets and a strong copper contact plate. A skinny cowl that seems like brushed aluminum decorates the highest facet of the block. Each connectors are L-shaped and provide vary of changes.

The contact plate is machined all the way down to an immaculate mirror end. It’s sq., with a floor space that may simply cowl each CPU shim plate this cooler helps proper out of the field. The corporate does provide an elective TR4/sTRX4 mounting package.

Be Quiet! applied refined ARGB lighting on the pump block of the Silent Loop 2 within the type of a lighting body surrounding the brushed metallic cowl. For customers whose motherboard doesn’t help ARGB management, Be Quiet features a stand-alone controller that can be utilized to carry out fundamental visible results. For such a small, refined implementation, the standard of the lighting is extraordinary, with no depth fluctuations or inconsistent spots throughout the body. There isn’t a ARGB lighting on the followers or radiator, which generally is a good or unhealthy factor, relying on how extravagant one likes their system to look.