Design

There is nothing dramatically new about the design of Ultra Chill-TEC cooler. It sits on copper nickel-plated base with the built-in Peltier element. There are heatpipes coming out of the Peltier element and going through aluminum fin array:

Just like Titan Amanda TEC, the cooler’s heatsink consists of two independent parts (each sitting on a separate pair of heatpipes) and is covered with metal casing:

The only difference is that Ultra Chill-TEC, unlike Amanda TEC, is equipped with only one 92-mm fan, not 32mm but the standard 25mm wide. The use of only one fan for air intake and no option of installing another fan onto the cooling solution is the major drawback of the newcomer. It is so significant that all of its great advantages cannot really make up for it, which we will show later in this article. Despite high fan rotation speed that varies automatically between 2,000rpm and 2,800rpm, it is still not efficient enough to ensure sufficient heatsink cooling. But again, we are going to dwell on it later in the thermal performance section of this review.

Note that the casing is so short that there is nothing you could fasten the second fan to:

Of course, you can use your imagination and try finding some ways to install an additional fan for air outtake (for example by building a cover casing of your own), but this will hardly be an acceptable solution for most users.

We were a little discouraged by the fact that both side panels and the top panel of the casing that serve mostly decorative purposes were pretty heavy and add even more to the total weight of this massive cooling solution (Ultra Chill-TEC weighs 985g):

I think they could have designed a thin aluminum casing and this way reduced the cooler weight a little bit. I wonder why they didn’t do it this way?

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the base is perfectly even and the finish quality is extremely high: