Monday, October 13th 2008
Thermaltake Releases V14 Pro CPU Cooler
Thermaltake, famed of their variety in air cooler selection, has released another one of their best performing CPU coolers today, V14Pro. Claiming to have reached the highest cooling performance ever, the new V14Pro comes with the giant size 140mm fan, 6 copper heatpipes, and 98 extended copper fins. The spec along had shown its design focus on the satisfaction of extreme overclockers and gamers. V14Pro will support mainstream and certainly, most of the high performance processors (Intel LGA775 and AMD Socket AM2/AM2+).
V14Pro, the new ideal air cooler for gaming enthusiasts, is the extended designed of dual-VTM architecture from the award winning V1 cooler. The structural design of V14Pro had shown the obvious intention on breaking the cooling record: Pure copper construction for best effective heat conductivity and dissipation; 6 long heatpipes penetrating the beautiful fin packs for instant cooling effect; and the impossible to ignore 140mm fan in between the fin packs giving a final strong push to accelerate cooling process and maximum cooling performance.Another unique design touch on V14Pro was its side flow design of all V1 series; this utilizes the surrounding cool system air to pass through the cooler for more effective cooling. And the special architecture designed for multi-directional air intake also attributes to the superb cooling performance that V14Pro delivers. VR FanTM control function for user freedom in fan speed selection is available as most Tt coolers are.
Apart from the fine cooling performance that can be easily expected from the study on the structure and material of V14Pro, the new cooler also exhibits a unique and subtle futuristic look that certainly catches the attention of us PC enthusiasts and overclockers. Find out more about Thermaltake's new extreme CPU cooler: V14Pro here.
V14Pro, the new ideal air cooler for gaming enthusiasts, is the extended designed of dual-VTM architecture from the award winning V1 cooler. The structural design of V14Pro had shown the obvious intention on breaking the cooling record: Pure copper construction for best effective heat conductivity and dissipation; 6 long heatpipes penetrating the beautiful fin packs for instant cooling effect; and the impossible to ignore 140mm fan in between the fin packs giving a final strong push to accelerate cooling process and maximum cooling performance.Another unique design touch on V14Pro was its side flow design of all V1 series; this utilizes the surrounding cool system air to pass through the cooler for more effective cooling. And the special architecture designed for multi-directional air intake also attributes to the superb cooling performance that V14Pro delivers. VR FanTM control function for user freedom in fan speed selection is available as most Tt coolers are.
Apart from the fine cooling performance that can be easily expected from the study on the structure and material of V14Pro, the new cooler also exhibits a unique and subtle futuristic look that certainly catches the attention of us PC enthusiasts and overclockers. Find out more about Thermaltake's new extreme CPU cooler: V14Pro here.
28 Comments on Thermaltake Releases V14 Pro CPU Cooler
V14Pro is 840g, 140x30mm fan @ 1000~1600 RPM and 6x 6mm pipes.
Not bad, but like wolf2009 said the top half of it might hit the PSU.
Just noticed it's push-pin, that stopped my interest in it :)
also the material of the fan is pretty flimsy and can break easily
this is just stupid if it was DHT i bet it would be way more cooler and better:ohwell:
OH teh noes!! The temp rose to 50C whilst playing Crysis :eek:
The way mine's oriented, there's about 2 or 3 cm of space between it and the cpu, and about 0.3 cm between it and my gpu...
Although I do have to point out that I cut myself EVERY time I move this cooler:banghead:
The real issue I see here is that the V14 will start at ~$50 and if you're lucky Thermaltake will have a rebate bringing it to $30. 120mm Xigmateks start at $35 and can be found for $15 or less after rebates. It got one for my wife's PC and I've been tempted to swap ever since. :p
I had to remove my side case fan as it wouldnt fit properly.
That being said, temps on it are awesome!www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/10/10/thermaltake-v14-pro/3
That is incorrect. Thermaltake specify correct installation is not vertical but rather, horizontal.
I was just stating, according to the manual, it says to install it horizontally (probably because Thermaltake knew it wouldnt fit, so even though its not the "right" way, it technically is because they said so :p).
Hence, "correct orientation" for this cooler is horizontal, even though it may do better vertically.
edit: LOL just looking at the TT website and their "application view" image is mounted vertically :p.
In the manual I got, the image to follow for "installation" has it horizontally with the fan pushing air upwards (ie, towards the PSU)
www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/10/10/thermaltake-v14-pro/4
Looking at this picture it's not wonder mounting it like this is bad for performance. Rear fans doesn't help one bit in cooling as the fins are blocking the hot air. What's worse it sucks the air out of the cooler, airflow must be real funky. Plus the added fact of making the PSU noisy with all the hot air pushed there, or flipping it 180degrees and pushing the hot air to GPU (and fighting the with PSU for the same intake air) :)