Latest Thermaltake cheap copy, the RX Series
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Latest Thermaltake cheap copy, the RX Series
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Blatant ripoff of the Arctic cooling Frameless fans....with no heatpipes so I'm sure performance will suffer.
Blatant ripoff of the Arctic cooling Frameless fans....with no heatpipes so I'm sure performance will suffer.
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The only ripoff I see here is the fan design, and that's probably because Tt actually buys them from Arctic Cooling as in the past it used Panaflo L1A in certain heatsinks. Well, two years ago it was panaflo, now it's AC fans. The heatsink itself is a standard heatsink that Tt has been reusing for years. Yes, some of the products Tt has been putting out are blatant rip-offs, but this is not one of them. You people should get off your high horse and look at the actual product before jumping on the Tt bashing bandwagon.
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Coolermaster version of the same fan
I'm curious to see what your opinion of this Coolermaster with the frameless fan is http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?L ... E1+Susurro
Agreed. I think it's bad that you are judged based on your past. I try not to judge people based on their past either.JazzJackRabbit wrote:The only ripoff I see here is the fan design, and that's probably because Tt actually buys them from Arctic Cooling as in the past it used Panaflo L1A in certain heatsinks. Well, two years ago it was panaflo, now it's AC fans. The heatsink itself is a standard heatsink that Tt has been reusing for years. Yes, some of the products Tt has been putting out are blatant rip-offs, but this is not one of them. You people should get off your high horse and look at the actual product before jumping on the Tt bashing bandwagon.
Even if TT made the best heatsink ever known to man and would combine it with the perfect fan, only a few would ever come to know of it in these forums, because TT-bashers would just diss it off as a blatant ripoff and toss it aside without giving it a chance to prove itself and in the process discredit the brave soul who claims in these forums that TT has made a decent product.
The 18db claim at 2200rpm is probably bogus, but undervolted this fan might perform well, but I guess we will never know, do we...
Btw. I have never owned any thermal any TT products.
Klaatu, I used to like Coolermaster a few years ago when I was an overclocker, however their "Silent" HS/fans are far from silent.
I doubt very much this product will be any better.
It has several design problems from the point of view of low noise.
1. Its copper fins are far far too close together for low airflow.
2. It has a partial shroud (just below the fan) which is good for pushing the air further over the fins, but really bad for low airflow/low pressure environments.
3. Coolermaster fans are just not quiet, its as simple as that, and replacing the fan with a quiter fan wont make an efficient product due to points 1 and 2.
4. The fan grill to protect fingers (and wires if your messy) will cause turbulance and therefore make the fan less efficient, and as such it will have to spin even faster to compensate (MikeC has measured somewhere in the region of 20% with slow spinning fans.
5. Not performance related, this beastie due to all copper construction weighs in at 760 Grams.
All in all, its ONLY real use would be in a cramped environment as its a low profile fan, but you wont find many people on SPCR who would ever want to use this product.
Also, the 18Db @1m @2200rpm is just rubish unless the use the same methods as SilenX (i.e. in a vacuum sealed box in the next room).
Andy
I doubt very much this product will be any better.
It has several design problems from the point of view of low noise.
1. Its copper fins are far far too close together for low airflow.
2. It has a partial shroud (just below the fan) which is good for pushing the air further over the fins, but really bad for low airflow/low pressure environments.
3. Coolermaster fans are just not quiet, its as simple as that, and replacing the fan with a quiter fan wont make an efficient product due to points 1 and 2.
4. The fan grill to protect fingers (and wires if your messy) will cause turbulance and therefore make the fan less efficient, and as such it will have to spin even faster to compensate (MikeC has measured somewhere in the region of 20% with slow spinning fans.
5. Not performance related, this beastie due to all copper construction weighs in at 760 Grams.
All in all, its ONLY real use would be in a cramped environment as its a low profile fan, but you wont find many people on SPCR who would ever want to use this product.
Also, the 18Db @1m @2200rpm is just rubish unless the use the same methods as SilenX (i.e. in a vacuum sealed box in the next room).
Andy
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Re: Coolermaster version of the same fan
well it's okay for an office/family PC, as the CPU is not loaded the 92mm fan drops below <1000rpm and becomes really silent. My thoughts: : http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=398Klaatu wrote:I'm curious to see what your opinion of this Coolermaster with the frameless fan is http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?L ... E1+Susurro
However at full load, and with overclocking, there are better solutions out there.