SilverStone XED120S-WS Offers Mega Cooling For 4U Intel/AMD Workstations & Servers
👁 SilverStone XED120 WS with Socket SP5 mount
My testing of the SilverStone XED120 WS was again with the Supermicro H13SSL-N 4U AMD EPYC Turin 1P server build. The CPU remains the 96-core AMD EPYC 9655... I would have loved to push the XED120 WS harder with a 450~500 Watt processor, but unfortunately this Supermicro motherboard only allows up to a 400 Watt CPU and my other Turin-compatible EPYC servers are all 2U.
👁 SilverStone XED120 WS installed
In following the same setup as with the prior SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5, the XED120S WS installation was smooth and easy even with this heatsink supporting multiple Intel / AMD CPU sockets. Very easy installation for Socket SP5.
While the XED120 WS didn't interfere with the DDR5 memory modules directly, the size of the heatsink did slightly impair the Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory Cooling and thus had to position those now at more of an angle rather than directly perpendicular to the DDR5-6000 memory modules. I didn't notice any negative impact to the DDR5 memory cooling with the airflow still being sufficient to avoid DDR5 memory throttling due to excessive temperatures otherwise.
When comparing the XED120S-WS to the prior SilverStone SP5 coolers, the results were impressive right from the start. This new SilverStone air cooler managed to match the performance of the XE360-SP5 AIO liquid cooler while grinding through the Blender rendering software.
Or while compiling the large LLVM codebase the performance was continuing to be on-par with the SilverStone liquid cooling and a solid 6~9 degrees cooler than the XE04-SP5 air cooler.
SilverStone had mentioned the XED120S WS could run ~13 degrees cooler than the XE04-SP5... Sure enough, with the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer there was a 13 degree difference on average! And the XED12S WS slightly outperforming the XE360-SP5.