The Thermaltake Silent 1156 comes in medium sized retail box. Several logos on front side of the package indicate the product's main features and abilities. The Silent 1156 retails for ~$30 making it affordable for most users.

As we previously mentioned, this product supports the LGA 1156 socket. Users can also install this product at a LGA 1366 socket without any problems but according to Thermaltake, the performance wouldn't be as good as with an LGA 1156 system, since the LGA 1366 has a higher thermal design power (130W Vs. 95W).

Opening the box unveils a carefully packaged product, with the cooler carefully placed into a carton box. There aren't many goodies inside, apart from the printed manual, mounting screws and a mounting mechanism.

The 90mm fan blows cool air to through the aluminum fins and the heat coming through the full copper heatpipes is transferred away, as you can see in the scheme below:

The base is made out of copper and the two 8mm heatpipes goes up to the aluminum fins. This is a common design which works well in most cases:

The 90mm fan has a circled design and extends beyond the cooler's sides, but not in a way that could be a problem when installing it.

The cooler can be easily installed without requiring you to remove the motherboard from the PC case first. Thermaltake uses Intel's stock mounting clips. For installation, simply select the appropriate mounting clip and secure the cooler using included screws. The whole structure looks and feels quite secure:

The next step is the apply some force and secure the cooler on the main board:

As we can see the cooler is compact enough to fit inside even small PC cases: