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Thermaltake Rhythm Home Theater External Liquid Cooling System

Friday, March 3rd, 2006 | Cooling, News | View Comments

Home theater computers have certain needs that normal PCs don’t really need, or at least don’t need as badly. Super low noise levels are required, although a quiet everyday computer is great the buzz of the office has become quite normal, but a noisy living room is not as great. They also need good looks if they are going to take a part of a system that is out there for everyone to see, unlike the computer tucked away in the corner or under a table.

The Thermaltake Rhythm makes a good counterpart to the Mozart home theater PC case. The cooling solution not only looks good, but performs it’s function well. In their review at bigbruin they managed to get a drop of 14 degrees with the cooling system situated inside the cabinet with the home theater computer.

It’s looks are well suited to a home theater and its two 120mm fans and large radiator inside do a good job of keeping things cool.

A capable and good looking thermal solution for your home theater computer.

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Cooling an Intel Prescott with a 226W Peltier

Friday, March 3rd, 2006 | Cooling, News | View Comments

Ben over at Benscustomcases has done a cool thing, by using a Peltier to try and cool his Intel Pentium Prescott. He has limited success at it, but has a lot of fun along the way.

Using peltiers to cool computers has pretty much died out but its cool to see someone just try it out again, perhaps for old times sake.

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Thermaltake Big Typhoon Fan

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 | Cooling, Reviews | View Comments

With the hype of computers spreading far and wide, one of the biggest essentialities is to keep the processor cool to make it work efficiently. Here is Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan that can keep the system cool even if it has worked for 24×7 time period. The fan keeps any type computer system cool for providing best, fastest and quickest result.

The Big Typhoon fan is the latest discovery of Thermaltake. It contains a low speed 120 mm fan placed over 120×50 mm high-count aluminum convection fins. The fan is truly advantageous, for it not only provides good airflow but also provides huge surface area for cooling the system. Other specific features of the fan include heat pipes, optional rheostat for manual fan control and near universal applications.

Following are the list of significant features of Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan:

• Applications – Intel LGA775, Intel P4 478 pin, AMD K7, AMD K8, AMD Sempron
• Weight – 825 gms
• Dimensions – 120mm square sloping to 67 x 50mm at its base
• Height – 135mm
• Fan Size – 120 x 25mm
• Fan Speed – 1300 RPM
• Construction – copper base with aluminum fins
• Static pressure – 1.87 mm/H2O
• Power consumption – 3.6 W
• Fan noise – 16 dBA
• Three pin connector
• Air Flow – 54.4 CFM

Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan has a unique construction. In between the aluminum fins and the copper base of the fan, there is a piece of plastic foam, which keeps the items solid and undamaged. There is also a large space between the heat sink base and the aluminum fins, which not only aid to cool better but also provide a huge amount of space to the unit.

Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan contains 6 heat pipes that transfer the heat quickly. The high-density aluminum fins inside the fan provide more surface area for excellent heat dissipation. The copper base solder provides the perfect base to ensure wonderful performance. The main quality of this fan is its silence – the fan performs excellently without making any noise at all.

Pros

• Absolutely silent cooler
• Minimum noise compared to other fans in any processor
• Complete compatibility
• Ultimate flexibility
• Very light-weight
• Easily portable
• Cheapest prices

Cons

• Limited warranty

Ultra 7-Channel Fan Controller

Friday, August 5th, 2005 | Cooling, Reviews | View Comments

With computers continuing to increase in speed the need for greater cooling including fans has increased too.

The upside is that your computer is faster, the downside is that it may have started to sound like you have an airplane rather than a computer, making your computer area sound more like an airport.

One misconception is that these fans are needed all the time, when they are not. Sometimes they do need it, but a lot of the time the computer can do without any fans, especially when it is just idiling, like say when you are just typing articles in a word processor. At times like these, all those extra fans are not needed.

The ULTRA fan controller helps to keep those noises down. The fan controller allows the fans to turn off or down according to how much heat their is in your computer. When the heat is down, the fans can turn off, but when things start getting hot, they can turn on and protect your equipment.

Apart from just keeping the noise from fans down, it can monitor the temperature for you, so it does all of this automatically.

It also

• let’s you select which fans to use
• how fast you want them to go
• warns you if the temperature gets too high
• tells you how fast each fan is going
• warns you if a fan stops working
• tells you CPU temperature
• tells you the system temperature
• even tells you hard drive temperature

The fan controller fits in a CD-ROM slot at the front of the computer and gives it a cool look with it’s blue LED display.

The perfect buy for those who want to overclock and keep the computer cool, as well as those who just want a little peace and quiet.