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Today for review I’ve got the Thermaltake DuOrb VGA cooler. The DuOrb is nice looking product, it’s copper and it has blue LEDs in it for a little color in your case. I’ve got a Diamond ATI 4870 1gig that has a stock cooler that works fairly well, but it can get rather loud under load so I had high hopes that the DuOrb could keep my card cool and quiet at the same time…
Small form factor PC's can often be a fun endeavour but they can also be an essential part of a network. Their leading applications include HTPCs and wordprocessors/internet browsers but the limitations only exist with software. Some Mini-ITX cases come with all the bells and whistles and start at a small fortune. But what if you're looking for a chassis without breaking the bank? Here to hold that position in the market is the Thermaltake Element Q Small Form Factor Chassis. Lets take a look at how Thermaltake advertises this case:
In the ElementS series there's two types of cases, the VK60001N2Z(the one we're reviewing), and the VK60001W2Z. The difference is simple, VK60001W2Z has a side panel 240mm fan made mainly for VGA cooling. If you are planning on getting a Crossfire or SLi solution with 2 high end cards, or just impressing your friend with a huge fan, my suggestion is to get VK60001W2Z.
Fanless 330, another great product from Thermaltake. It was build with
three heatsink module by using the heatpipes to transfer the heat from the GPU to the 106 aluminum thin fins for the heat dissipation. Not only that, it also provides a completely silent at 0dB operating environment...
I have always considered Thermaltake to be one of the premier manufacturers of cases and cooling products; even though I haven't always been a fan of all of their products. With the loud design of many products entering the market today, it seems that there has been a lack of balance between the design and the function, whereas the function doesn't say as much about the performance as the appearance does. Thermaltake thinks they can regain some of my confidence by enticing me, the enthusiast, with a CPU cooler that claims it can do the job and looks like it should be able to without the zany design elements some have chosen to opt for over functionality
CPU cooler is one of the major product lines of Thermaltake and FRIO was just launched recently in order to respond Intel latest six cores processors where thermal power and die size are increased. Thermaltake FRIO is a tower CPU cooler with 5 x Ø8 mm U-shaped copper heat pipes, dual fans supported and thermal dissipation factor support up to 220W excellent cooling capacity.
Over the past few years, we have seen a myriad of new coolers in our lab here at HardwareLogic and time and again, Thermaltake has proven themselves very capably of making a great product. Today we take a look at Thermaltake's latest offering, the Frio. Does this cooler continue Thermaltake's trend of creating great coolers, or will this just be a forgotten chapter in cooling history? Read on as we put the Frio through it's paces and see if it lives up to its name.
When Thermaltake released their Frio a short while ago, much of the enthusiast market were somewhat surprised by the class-leading performance on offer. The single tower CPU cooler managed to show excellent cooling potential that put it ahead of a large proportion of the single tower cooling market and even some of the dual tower market. Since then though, there has been a lot of change. More high performance CPU coolers have been released from the likes of Phanteks with their PH-TC14PE, Corsair and Antec with their all-in-one liquid cooling units and even Thermaltake with their own upgrade to the original Frio, the Frio OCK. Today's sample, the Thermaltake Frio Advanced, definitely has some tough competition.
As the name suggests, Thermaltake have kept some of the cooler's fundamentals the same. Changes come in the form of 5 6mm copper heatpipes in a H.D.T. design, a slightly revamped aesthetic design and a different pair of fans. The 130mm fans that Thermaltake choose to use are capable of up to 2000 RPM and use the very convenient 4-pin PWM connection. 2 high powered fans coupled with a dense aluminium fin array should make for excellent heat dissipation potential. The benefits of the H.D.T. design base's heat transfer rate should become evident when used in conjunction with the aforementioned heat dissipation features. Let's hope that our hot Core i7 2600K doesn't saturate the claimed 230W heat extraction limit of those 5 copper heatpipes.
Thermaltake have designed their Frio Advanced to support all modern Intel and AMD sockets including the brand new LGA 2011. Priced at a very appealing £50/€50, the Thermaltake Frio Advanced could be a huge success in the budget conscious enthusiast market. So, without further ado, let's put the Frio Advanced through our barrage of demanding tests and see if it can handle our extreme 4.7GHz overclock test which only the best few coolers are able to complete.
Today we are testing another CPU cooler from the Thermaltake Frio family: the Frio Advanced. It has a tower heatsink, five heatpipes and two 130 mm fans. Check it out!
Featuring very good performance levels thanks to its dual 130mm PWM fans, universal CPU compatibility and a smaller size than other similar performance units the latest Frio Advanced CPU Cooler by Thermaltake has but a single drawback, quite high noise levels especially at load.
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