About Airflows

As I said above, performance of the Titan Amanda TEC largely depends on its positioning inside the system case and on the placement of system fans, if any. Yet it is on the Intel platform that the air stream from the Titan Amanda TEC should be more efficiently (than on the AMD platform) taken by the system fan and exhausted thanks to the upwards shifted position of the CPU socket. But the new cooler can’t win the test. Why?

Take a look at the graphs of temperature as monitored by the CPU sensor (red) and the two PWM sensors on the mainboard (orange and pink) when the CPU was being cooled by the Titan Amanda TEC.

And here’s the reading of the PWM sensor (I took the reading of the sensor with the highest temperature):

On an open testbed or in a system case, the Titan Amanda TEC doesn’t help reduce the temperature of the mainboard elements around the CPU socket. The temperature is lower on the open testbed, yet the natural convection is still insufficient for efficient cooling of the near-socket space. This can’t but affect the CPU temperature, too. I think it is a considerable disadvantage of the new cooler from Titan.

As for the noise factor, the Amanda’s fans aren’t loud, yet are not quiet, either. Their noise is comparable to the 120mm fan of the Thermaltake Big Typhoon working at 1600-1650rpm.