Evercool silver knight: Evercool Silver Knight — Self-Contained Water Coolers: Xigmatek AIO vs. Evercool Silver Knight

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Evercool Silver Knight

Evercool is a Top 5 Cooling Products manufacturer based in Taiwan. Manufacturing is at their facility in Guang Dong, China. The Evercool product line consists of air and water coolers for processors and video cards, fans, hard drive coolers, notebook chill pads, system cooling solutions, and peripheral cooling specialty items. The company was founded in 1992 in Taipei. Evercool opened the China manufacturing plant in 1997. Today Evercool employs 1200 at its Taipei R&D facility and its Guang Dong ISO9001 manufacturing plant.

The Silver Knight was first shown at CES this year and today it can be found for sale at many web etailers such as Newegg. The Silver Knight was originally introduced at a retail price of $59.95. A quick check of the web found it available $45 to $50 from several etailers. This is certainly competitive with the top-line air coolers.

Judging from the size of the silver, black, and red Silver Knight package, you would never guess this is a water cooling system. More correctly it is a hybrid water and air cooling system about the size of a heatsink tower.

Inside the box is a ready-to-mount Silver Knight system, along with the mounting accessories for mounting on an Intel socket 775 or an AMD socket 754/939/940. We also tried the clip on several AM2 boards. The clip is a triple lug design that fits fine on recent flat side AM2 mounting cages. However some AM2 mounts have curved sides and these might require some modification to the clip for proper mounting. Evercool also includes a small syringe of thermal compound. Installation instructions are on the box and prominently displayed at the Evercool website.

The Silver Knight cooler is rather strange looking. The knight’s «helmet» top looks more like an alien space ship than a helmet to us. While the cooling core is 8mm copper pipes and aluminum cooling fins, much of the shroud, fan, pump, and cover are plastic.

The standard size 92mm fan blows air through the cooler much like other heatpipe towers, and the 12-pole magnetic pump with a clear housing on the side circulates an antifreeze-like liquid through the 8mm copper pipes. Consider this a heatpipe tower with active circulation for the heatpipes. The clear plastic reservoir and motor on the side glow a soft blue during operation of the Silver Knight.

Mounting is simple and very secure with either 775 or AMD. However, you will have to remove the motherboard and mount the cooler to the motherboard before remounting the motherboard. The hex wrench included for tightening screws barely fits between the cooler top and the screws. It’s a tight fit, but not impossible. We ended up hand-tightening the spring screws first and using the hex for the final tightening. The installation is solid and cannot be moved around. That is very good since the cooler weighs in at 960g, which is over 2 pounds.

On AMD the Silver Knight is ready for attaching with an included AMD clip. On the 775 you must first screw on two plates to extend the footprint of the Evercool.

A bottom plate with long attached screws passes through the motherboard, the cooler is placed on the screws, and the cooler is held in place with spring-loaded screws. The completed install is very stable.

Specifications

Our test system is Intel socket 775, but the Silver Knight will also mount on any recent AMD socket as well. While the manufacturer only specifies AMD socket 754/939/940 compatibility, we had no problem installing the cooler on socket AM2 with recent mounts that feature flat sides and a single connecting lug on each side. The Evercool kit includes the clip for mounting to existing AMD sockets, and the back plate, adapter plates, and spring-loaded screws for an Intel socket 775 install.

The Evercool appears to be a very large cooler, but the water pump and fan overhang at a higher level than many heatpipe towers. This makes mounting much easier than you might expect. The Silver Knight cleared all components on our test EVGA 680i. The EVGA 680i is a difficult to fit board due to the copper-finned heatsink and fan cooling the Northbridge. Installation was also an easy task on the ASUS Striker and ASUS Commando, and on the two new P35 ASUS boards — the P5K Deluxe and P5K3 Deluxe.

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As someone who can’t stand a loud PC, I’m always on the lookout for new, high-performing yet silent cooling products. So far my favorite has got to be Zalman’s Reserator 1 Plus, but there are lots of choices out there. Like the Evercool Silver Knight reviewed at ThinkComputers.org.

«Liquid cooling is becoming more and more mainstream, but most liquid cooling solutions involve lots of parts and lots of time to assemble. Evercool may have the solution to this problem with an interesting looking product they call the Silver Knight. It is a CPU cooler heatpipe cooling solution with built in water cooling. The Silver Knight is something that might interest a lot of people, I’ve had it installed for a week now and I am VERY impressed with the results I am getting from it. I believe Evercool has got a winner here for those looking for the advantages of liquid cooling but not all the hassles. Let’s check it out.»

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Enemies in Dark Souls — Silver Knight

Silver Knight is an enemy in Dark Souls. The Silver Knights originally served Gwyn and assisted him in his war against dragons. They split into two groups when Gwyn left the city of the gods. Some of the Silver Knights remained at Anor Londo to serve their goddess, while another group followed Gwyn. Thus, during the time period of the main events of the game, the knights protect Anor Londo. They are equipped with three different types of weapons: a straight sword, a spear and a dragonslayer bow.

Attacks

Knight with sword and shieldEdit Direct thrust. It takes a lot of stamina, but it is easy to see in advance, and the knight recovers after it for a long time. Takeoff run. Long attack, ignores the shield. Otherwise, the same lunge, it is very easy to get away from the line of impact. Also, if you stand with your back at the moment of impact, something like a backstab will occur, like a player. Right swing. Wave from the shield towards the right hand. Takes a long time to recover after an attack, and there are no follow-up hits. Left swing. Swing from the right hand towards the shield. This can be followed by 1 or 2 hits (combo of three hits). If you are not sure that he finished the combo, then it is not recommended to attack him after this attack. Triple combo. Happens very quickly and takes a lot of health when hit, but does not take much stamina when blocking. After the last hit, you can backstab if you act quickly. It’s also easy enough to parry. Shield strike. Takes a lot of stamina, but doesn’t deal much damage. Even if this attack breaks your block, you will still have time to recover for the next attack. Knight with spear and shieldEdit Lunge with a swing. As with a sword, but it hits further. Triple combo. Three direct jabs in a row, it hits hard, but there is almost no tracking of the target. It’s easy to get off track and stab in the back. Roundhouse kick. Hits a horizontal arch with a spear. Easy to block and backstab. If you are in front of them during this attack, it may be followed by a direct thrust. They also seem to have an unblockable slam that doesn’t take much stamina, but pierces through the shield. A knight with a dragonslayer bow, sword and shield Edit A bowshot with a dragonslayer arrow. Spear-sized arrows will knock the player back even if they hit a shield. Unique ability — block strike with a bow. Attacks with a sword repeat the movements of a knight with a sword and shield (see above).

Tactics

Although their attacks are quite powerful, they are very consistent in their attacks and throw them out easily. When you can time it, you can easily parry with counterattacks. The first archer knights are a great danger. You can try to poison them with a bow from a distance. In this case, you need to stand behind the column, take the sight, and then carefully move to the edge. As soon as you stand so that you can hit the knight, freeze and fire three shots. If you stand properly, the arrows will pierce you, but there will be no damage or push. From this position, you can help him die with regular arrows. Also, you can run up close to everyone in turn, somersaulting under the arrows, so that the knight changes his bow to a sword and shield, and then run back to the «bridge». The knight will run after him and possibly fall off the ledge. A large shield also helps a lot on the bridge — you need to quickly reach one knight, hiding behind a shield, killing the second one will not be a problem.

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A good place to get souls is a fire where the Knight Soler sits. Starting from there, you can run through all the knights (15) in about 4 minutes and collect more than 15,000 souls, or run only on the first floor with a fire and kill three with spears, one with a sword and get 4 thousand souls in one minute. It’s also a great place to practice doing parry counters and backstabs on bigger enemies. They have 3 death animations: death from a backstab, normal death animation, death from a powerful blow, after which they fly back. This enemy is also present in the third part of the game. The bow knights limp slightly on their right foot as they slowly walk towards the player, carrying a sword and shield. Perhaps that is why they use onions.

Silver Knight is a common enemy in Dark Souls III.

Knights loyal to the kings of old. Even after the kings were gone, they continued to guard the ruined cathedral.

Description

These knights are dressed in a silver knight’s set. The following are used as weapons:

• sword and shield of the silver knight;
• spear and shield of the silver knight;
• sword (or spear), shield of the silver knight and longbow of the dragon slayer.

There is also a version of the silver knight with red eyes — these opponents have more health and are also much more dangerous in battle.

Location

• Irythyll of the Cold Valley:
  • Three knights meet in the room with the portrait of Guinevere (does not respawn).
  • Six more meet on the roof of the cathedral, on the way to the crypt in Anor Londo, after the assassination of Pontiff Sullivan (respawn).
• Anor Londo. Three knights (one reinforced) meet in front of the entrance to the central cathedral (respawn).

Tactics

Dangerous melee and ranged foe, posing a deadly threat even alone. The best tactic against them is to lure and then kill each knight, a fight with two or more is almost guaranteed to end in character death. It is also worth considering that they are quite vulnerable to backstab.

• It is better to lure the first knight you meet away from the middle of the room, otherwise the knight with a bow standing on the second floor will help him. The rest is easy to deal with.

• Knights with bows waiting for you in front of Anor Londo can be deceived with the appropriate spell and ring, after crossing the bridge they are quite easy to deal with, especially since the silence will allow you to hit the knights in the back with impunity.

• The two knights in Anor Londo can be separated by running up the stairs leading to the cathedral entrance and provoking the spearman to attack. It is recommended to deal with him as quickly as possible or lure him to the elevator — sooner or later the second knight will go down and can attack. The red-eyed knight who lives to the right of the entrance to the cathedral is especially dangerous: he deals increased damage and attacks much faster, so you should be careful when fighting him.

Attacks

• At long range, will fire at the character with the dragonslayer bow. When approached, it will take out a melee weapon and attack.
• A series of horizontal attacks
• A shield strike that greatly upsets the balance
• A vertical strike, charged with lightning, can turn into a three-hit combo that deals tremendous damage

• Charge attack, allows the knight to quickly close the distance to the target
  covers a significant radius around the knight
• Charged javelin strike, can be launched from a running start
• Double javelin strike, the first blow knocks the character off balance, the second one throws the character into the air

Notes

• The knight near the picture of Guinevere drops a heavenly blessing once.