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Thermaltake Shows Off New CTE Case Form-factor to Enable Higher Airflow

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Thermaltake in its CES 2023 booth, showed off a new line of PC cases that introduce its proprietary-design CTE (centralized thermal efficiency) "form-factor." Don't worry, you'll not need a new motherboard type to go with these cases. Thermaltake's idea here is to not just rotate the motherboard 90° clockwise (pointing all its I/O upward), but also position the motherboard tray itself toward the center of the case. This way, the front-, bottom-, and rear panels are dedicated entirely to fan-vents that can either be set up to maintain a high positive air-pressure, or hold onto radiators. On some of the larger models, there's plenty of room between the motherboard's top and the front-panel, so an additional column of fans (or an additional radiator) can be mounted along the vertical partition.

The CTE C750 Air is an example of a large case, with the CTE position of the motherboard freeing up four positions for radiators that are at least 360 mm and as big as 420 mm in size. This particaular case has two additional 120 mm mounts along the top panel, so a total of 14 fan mounting positions are opened up. The CTE C700 Air is a slightly lower-depth variant that lacks the side-mounted row, and instead gives you 3x 120 mm mounts along the front- and rear-panels; 2x 120 mm along the bottom panel, and a 120 mm along the top. The CTE C700 TG and CTE C500 TG are smaller cases still, but still have mounts along the front- and rear-panels.



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Good idea. Very suitable for high-power configurations with 300-watt Core i9 and 600-watt RTX card.
There should be a lot of heatsinks with heat pipes, not only more wind !
 
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There is still room for more fans on the side panel... "Colossal Turbulence Enclosure" is the future of our 2+kW PCs.
 
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It would be much cheaper for us, the ones designing RTX cooling systems to stop using worthless ideas.
The graphic card it should be able to toss away heat load, from the side of the case.
 

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It would be much cheaper for us, the ones designing RTX cooling systems to stop using worthless ideas.
The graphic card it should be able to toss away heat load, from the side of the case.

Who would have thought ? ...

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There has to be a separate compartment for the graphics card only, in order to pull in and push out the airflow through it, instead of dumping the whole load of hot air onto the neighbouring PC components !
 
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Who would have thought ? ...

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There has to be a separate compartment for the graphics card only, in order to pull in and push out the airflow through it, instead of dumping the whole load of hot air onto the neighbouring PC components !
There are quite a few video cards with vertically stacked fins on GPU so if chosen carefully its easy to get away with non Blower gpus.
 
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It would be much cheaper for us, the ones designing RTX cooling systems to stop using worthless ideas.
The graphic card it should be able to toss away heat load, from the side of the case.


The problem is blowers hit a power wall: Axial is the only way to keep a card cool while not deafening you
 
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The problem is blowers hit a power wall: Axial is the only way to keep a card cool while not deafening you

Its all about research.
Five years ago GAN semiconductors (the replacement of silicon MOSFET) was a dream, today we have GAN mobile phone chargers, and very soon we will see GAN computer PSU.

Regular people does not have necessary knowledge them to advance one older design and make it better, the engineers do that.
 
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