Monday, October 10th 2016
Thermaltake Intros its Sandia-inspired Engine 27 1U Low-Profile CPU Cooler
Remember the Sandia CPU cooler concept from 2011 which never really saw the light of the day? Thermaltake drew a few design cues, and launched the Engine 27, a low-profile CPU cooler with the heatsink-impeller design. As with Sandia, the Engine 27's design involves a metal heatsink base that makes contact with the CPU, which conveys heat to a motorized fan-shaped moving heatsink suspended along an axle and conductive lubricant. The rotation of this moving heatsink dissipates heat. To give Thermaltake credit where due, the company took the concept a notch above and gave the base-plate a static aluminium channel heatsink of its own, so the exhaust from the heatsink-impeller takes in some additional heat on its way out.
The Thermaltake Engine 27 derives its name from its 27 mm height (meets 1U spec), and probably the fact that it looks like the core of a jet engine. The company is still claiming pretty benign noise output figures of 13-25 dBA, depending on its speed range of 1500-2500 RPM (pretty neat for a 60 mm fan). Measuring 27 mm x 91.5 mm x 91.5 mm (HxWxD), the cooler weighs about 310 g, and supports LGA115x sockets (LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1151/LGA1150). The fan supports 4-pin PWM power input. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The Thermaltake Engine 27 derives its name from its 27 mm height (meets 1U spec), and probably the fact that it looks like the core of a jet engine. The company is still claiming pretty benign noise output figures of 13-25 dBA, depending on its speed range of 1500-2500 RPM (pretty neat for a 60 mm fan). Measuring 27 mm x 91.5 mm x 91.5 mm (HxWxD), the cooler weighs about 310 g, and supports LGA115x sockets (LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1151/LGA1150). The fan supports 4-pin PWM power input. The company didn't reveal pricing.
36 Comments on Thermaltake Intros its Sandia-inspired Engine 27 1U Low-Profile CPU Cooler
They also have some high performance designs too!
coolchiptechnologies.com/
This way, the cooling was mentioned a long time ago. This is fail to function satisfactorily .possible for the NUC would be good
Check their Facebook page they have few more announcements in coming days:
www.facebook.com/CoolchipTechnologies/
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/thermaltake-kinetic-cpu-cooler-msrp-50.226326/
"According to Thermaltake, the Engine 27 is ideal for 1U servers, HTPCs, all-in-ones and other systems with little space in height. The suggested retail price is $ 50."
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a better comparision would be the one below
but a turbine style fan makes more sense than a downfacing fan when you have essentially no space above the cooler for intake.
No idea what CPU that is though...
I'm still very skeptic for that metal fan though: dust will affect greatly for it's performance, heat transfer through air gap between fan and base and high spinning metal blades inside PC sounds a bit unnecessary violent.
1) servers in datacenters with massive amounts of external cooling ( read as very expensive AC systems).
2) very low power systems for remote monitoring/dedicated tasks. ( which is what this appears to target).
currently the majority of 1U cooling systems are just a heatsink and 40mm case fans.