Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler Review

Packaging and Accessories

Interestingly, the package which the Tranquillo comes in is a dead ringer for the Silent Spirit cooler’s box. This is not in the least bit puzzling or actually even surprising as Gelid seems to have settled on this white with colour accents for many of their product lines.


Being attractive and informative is only half the reason for having packaging containers and to our way of thinking it is actually the lesser of the two reasons. The other reason is simple: to protect the precious cargo from life’s bump’s and bruises. It is here that the Gelid is only slightly above average. While the cardboard Gelid has chosen to go with for this box is not the thinnest material we've seen, it is far from the thickest nor sturdiest either. Nonetheless, there is very little chance of the cooler being damaged since most retailers ship products out within a secondary box.


The accessories which accompanied our unit are a little bit different than what will be included with yours. As you can see, ours was shipped with a second fan (a recently released Wing PL to be precise) but the list of accessories which was inside the Tranquillo’s box should be the same.

Basically, you get a small syringe of Gelid 3 thermal compound, mounting brackets for the single fan, an installation pamphlet and mounting brackets for AMD and Intel systems. The AMD setup relies on your standard AMD backplate and plastic retention ring, but on the Intel side of things Gelid has included not one, not two but THREE backplates. This means one bracket is included for each of the three main Intel CPU sockets (775,1156,1366). All in all, we think it’s a nice balance of frugality and quality but we really wished Gelid had shown a bit more “love” to AMD fans out there as this will probably mean you will not be able to mount the Tranquillo in the typical East/West orientation.