SilverStone used to make a really fucking good passive heatsink, the HE02, and it's effective for cooling even modern AM4 processors with enough case airflow.
This is a useless fact because:
- It's DiscontinuedTM
- The AM4 mounting kit upgrade is Also DiscontinuedTM (As of very recently, if you can believe it!)
- It's difficult to get your hands on SilverStone products even when they're not DiscontinuedTM
- DiscontinuedTM SilverStone products are generally unobtainium on the second hand market because they're niche and expensive and a sane person would just get a bunch of Corsair parts and go home, so no one actually has them
... So the useful fact to take away from this is that if you're building a computer you should absolutely not give a shit about what brand of parts you're getting (outside of avoiding Gigabyte power supplies lmao) or else you'll be chasing a Beige Whale until the end of time. Just get what's available now and move on. Consistent æsthetics is just a fun bonus.
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