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Titan Amanda TEC (Thermal Electronic Chip) Cooler Review

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 09/14/2006 | 02:45 PM ]

Today we are going to introduce to you a thermo-electrical cooler from Titan. This highly efficient cooling solution generating very little noise and accompanied with a pack of great thermal paste performed nicely even with overclocked CPUs. Read more about it in our detailed article!

Table of contents:

• Package and Accessories
  
• Design and Features
  
• Assembly and Installation
  
• Specification
  
• Testbed and Methods
  
• Titan Nano Grease (TTG-G30010) Thermal Grease and Its Efficiency
  
• Thermal Performance
  
• AMD Athlon 64 Platform
  
• Intel Pentium 4 Platform
  
• About Airflows
  
• Conclusion
  

There’s nothing new about the idea of utilizing Peltier elements in PC cooling systems. A few years ago Thermaltake introduced its SubZero4G, but that cooler had unsatisfactory performance and also cost as much as $160. This review is going to show you how the industry has progressed since then. The Titan Amanda TEC cooler with a Peltier element is offered today for half that price!

I won’t dwell upon the principle behind the Peltier element since you can find a lot of relevant info around the Web. So, let’s get right to the coolers to be tested.

Titan’s Amanda TEC coolers aren’t universal: there are two versions for Intel (LGA755) and AMD (Socket 754/939/940 and Socket AM2) platforms that have different model names, TTC-NP04TZ and TTC-NP02TZ, respectively.

Apart from the fastening elements, these systems are identical and have identical specifications, so I will be discussing the LGA775 version in this section, but will also tell you about the Socket 939 fastening.