Design and Features

The Titan Amanda TEC is a tower-design cooler with four heat pipes and two fans for taking air in and exhausting it.

The first pair of heat pipes takes heat off the bottom plate of the copper base which is nickel-plated to prevent corrosion (quoting the manufacturer). Next goes a 60W Peltier element that pumps heat up from its bottom to top, above which another nickel-plated copper plate is located.

Two more heat pipes take heat away from the top plate. The plates are fastened together with four spring-loaded screws. You can see traces of thermal grease along their edges. Judging by the color and consistence, it is Titan TTG-G30010 thermal grease which you’ll find included with your Amanda.

Each pair of pipes transfers heat over to its own half of the heatsink. You can see it consists of two halves if you take a look at the bottom of the cooler:

Note that the air stream from the cooler’s fans is directed in such a way that the heatsink’s half that is connected to the bottom part of the base – which is in contact with the CPU – is cooled first. The other heatsink dissipates heat from the two pipes that go from the plate which has contact with the top of the Peltier element. So, the fans first cool the cooler half of the heatsink and then the hotter one, which seems quite logical to me.

The whole arrangement is covered with a metal casing that is fastened with screws along the cooler’s perimeter.

Without the casing, the Amanda TEC looks small and somewhat alike to the Scythe Ninja:

This photo shows clearly how the cooler’s heatsink is divided into two parts.