Published: Thursday 11th September, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: Thermaltake (All Thermaltake content)
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email to a friendVirtually-silent graphics cards are proving to be increasingly popular and Thermaltake says it has a new fanless cooler that'll take "your gaming experience to a whole new exciting level".
The monstrous cooler, dubbed the Fanless 330, offers three separate heat-dissipating modules, four copper heatpipes, and more fins than we're willing to count.
Unfortunately, Thermaltake only goes as far as to tell us that the cooler is "specially designed to solve the noise problem that all extreme PC gamers have been suffering" - there's no actual mention of how efficient it is, so we've no idea what the Fanless 330 can cool. We reckon it'd be able to keep cool a Radeon HD 4850, but anything beyond that might be wishful thinking.
There are a few items of consideration, though. The Fanless 330 isn't exactly small and SLI or CrossFire users may run into problems. Similarly, the copper heatpipes run over the top of your graphics card ruling out usage in low-profile HTPC chassis. Nonetheless, here's Thermaltake's video preview:
If you've watched the above clip, you're probably curious about that space-age CPU cooler, right? Well that just so happens to be the upcoming SpinQ, and thanks to Thermaltake's YouTube addiction, there's a preview video of that too:
The all-aluminium SpinQ features an 80mm fan that'll run at speeds of 1,000rpm to 1,600rpm, and there's a blue LED to add an extra touch of flair. Sadly, There's no mention of availability or pricing for either cooler just yet.
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Looks like the 'indentation' of the main block (where the logo is) could house a 120mm fan...
Yeah it also has holes in the metal, they could be for the use of fan clips like previous TT coolers. If you could attach a 120mm fan to that, we could be looking at a winner! Time will tell I guess.Quote
Also if you have a board which used the first expansion slot for your graphics card then you may have trouble fitting this with a large CPU/northbridge coolerQuote
Not sure how effective putting a fan on would be... I say this because the majority of the heat (especially from an ATi chip without an IHS) is going to be transfered by the two middle heatpipes which move to the back of the card away from any airflow generated by a fan on the main body of the unit. I realise a fan would still improve performance but I don't think it would be as good an increase as say a HR03 with and without a fan, maybe they think that a rear case fan is enough airflow over the back fins to keep it all cool I guess only time (and a decent review) will tell.
Also if you have a board which used the first expansion slot for your graphics card then you may have trouble fitting this with a large CPU/northbridge cooler
Even though the main heatpipes are on the back of the card, a fan would still cool some of the GPU and the all important RAM and VRMs which can't been forgotten.Quote
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