Thermaltake Engine 27

[nicklmg]

Buy Thermaltake Engine 27 on Amazon: http://geni.us/yFpl

 

The Sandia cooler - it's FINALLY a real product. But does it work?

 

 

[Guest]

Time to update your sig since Vessel is gone?

[MorganO]

seems an interesting concept

[Daniel644]

so it's CRAP just like I knew it would be.

[lagittaja]

Good video.

But there's a "big" flaw in the comparison. That being the "huge" Intel stock cooler you used.

This is what you get nowadays

 

Not this

[minibois]

"A terrible product. No one should buy it"?

[potoooooooo]

That was pretty disappointing.

 

Only good if being the world's smallest cooler is appealing to you. Too bad it wasn't a bit bigger and a bit quieter, then it would have a much better shot, especially for 50 dollars

[AHaskin14]

I expected much more from the design. The primary flaw likely lies in the contact between the circular grooves that the fan hub rests on. You're either getting too much friction to make the fan power efficient due to the two making complete contact, or you're loosing heat transfer efficiency by allowing air in the gaps.

[MoonlightSylv]

I'm trying to cool my CPU but this one cooler keeps kicking my ass.

[Nowak]

I'm trying to cool this 91W CPU, but this heatsink keeps kicking my ass!

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm happy to see that despite the 95W TDP rating the AR-06 has, it kept a 91W TDP CPU pretty cool.

 

Now just box it up in a sub 15L case and give it a mild overclock.

[idmb]

2 hours ago, lagittaja said:

But there's a "big" flaw in the comparison. That being the "huge" Intel stock cooler you used.

Yeah, that was weird. 

[Princess Luna]

Good video and I do think the thermaltake looks neat, one thing I dont understand is why use an old version of intel stock cooler, it reminded me my old core 2 duo stock cooler, that thing is as large as my intel ts15a but with worse cooling performance.

[Granular]

Cute! Engine 27 a cute!

[Granular]

By the way the specifications list in the SSD giveaway gleam.io form says that the interface speed on it is '10GB/s'. You might want to fix that.

[nicklmg]

3 minutes ago, Granular said:

By the way the specifications list in the SSD giveaway Gleam form says that the interface speed on it is '10GB/s'. You might want to fix that.

Oh dang, thanks for pointing that out. Fixing.

[Bleedingyamato]

53 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Good video and I do think the thermaltake looks neat, one thing I dont understand is why use an old version of intel stock cooler, it reminded me my old core 2 duo stock cooler, that thing is as large as my intel ts15a but with worse cooling performance.

I agree it looks cool.  Too bad the performance (including noise) isn't impressive.

 

If they could improve on it that would be awesome.  

 

I wonder if making it just a little bigger might help?

 

Even if this thing was a bit taller it would still be very short compared to similar compact size CPU coolers but perhaps the increased size might help allow it to cool better and be quieter.  

[Princess Luna]

21 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I agree it looks cool.  Too bad the performance (including noise) isn't impressive.

 

If they could improve on it that would be awesome.  

 

I wonder if making it just a little bigger might help?

 

Even if this thing was a bit taller it would still be very short compared to similar compact size CPU coolers but perhaps the increased size might help allow it to cool better and be quieter.  

The old stock to the new one don't really have much of a difference, Intel managed to make them cheaper and more compact with pretty much the same performance, the only issue I have with stock coolers is with it not being shipped with the copper bottom any longer THAT made a difference, but then again it was made on purpose to sell their higher end cooling solutions like the TS15A I use (which is a great cooling in my opinion full load = 65Cº).

I really have the feeling they somewhat wanted to make Thermaltake look even better on its main selling point which is compactness by going with an outdated stock cooler on purpose, since if you are not going to OC and needs a low profile cooler the current Intel Stock actually should be enough making the whole deal of buying the thermaltake pointless as it doesn't offer good cooling for OC and is about the same size the current stock cooler.

 

So it was like a marketing scheme which nobody from staff will address to likely, I'm fine with it though they make money out of promoting these products and at least despite the issue with the stock cooler the benchmarks with the other aftermarket ones was legit.

[LinusTech]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

The old stock to the new one don't really have much of a difference, Intel managed to make them cheaper and more compact with pretty much the same performance, the only issue I have with stock coolers is with it not being shipped with the copper bottom any longer THAT made a difference, but then again it was made on purpose to sell their higher end cooling solutions like the TS15A I use (which is a great cooling in my opinion full load = 65Cº).

I really have the feeling they somewhat wanted to make Thermaltake look even better on its main selling point which is compactness by going with an outdated stock cooler on purpose, since if you are not going to OC and needs a low profile cooler the current Intel Stock actually should be enough making the whole deal of buying the thermaltake pointless as it doesn't offer good cooling for OC and is about the same size the current stock cooler.

 

So it was like a marketing scheme which nobody from staff will address to likely, I'm fine with it though they make money out of promoting these products and at least despite the issue with the stock cooler the benchmarks with the other aftermarket ones was legit.

Sheesh. Lose the tinfoil hat man.. The 6700K doens't come with a stock cooler at all, so we grabbed a stock cooler out of a bin of them that we have. It ended up not being the "right one" of which there isn't one since it doesn't include one anyway.

 

Regards,

 

Linus

[Ezzy-525]

1 minute ago, LinusTech said:

Sheesh. Lose the tinfoil hat man.. The 6700K doens't come with a stock cooler at all, so we grabbed a stock cooler out of a bin of them that we have. It ended up not being the "right one" of which there isn't one since it doesn't include one anyway.

 

Regards,

 

Linus

Damn you Linus!!! Get everything absolutely correct, ALL of the time! *shakes fist in air like old man*

[79wjd]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

The old stock to the new one don't really have much of a difference, Intel managed to make them cheaper and more compact with pretty much the same performance

Did you account for the fact that CPUs are consuming less power than they used to? 

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Did you account for the fact that CPUs are consuming less power than they used to? 

However, the highest TDP LGA1155 has had is 95W. The i7-6700K is 91W.

[79wjd]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

However, the highest TDP LGA1155 has had is 95W. The i7-6700K is 91W.

I would still like to see a comparison on the same CPU. 

[gonvres]

I'm surprised to hear people constantly call Noctua fans ugly. I really like their colour scheme.

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, gonvres said:

I'm surprised to hear people constantly call Noctua fans ugly. I really like their colour scheme.

Blind me thinks you are