New Thermaltake fans

[Katana]

I was just looking at Thermaltake's website and they now have their new fans up. The noise/performance ratio on all of them seems really good.

60mm-28dba/31cfm
80mm-30dba/37cfm
92mm-35dba/56cfm

You can see them at thermaltake.com, just click on products then DC Fan.

 

[russr]

28dbA with 31CFM??? I'm sorry but this isn't possible. It sounds too good to be true just like their Volcano II fan which they claimed was 36CFM and 31dba. It turned out to be 26CFM. I find it funny that they are grossly exaggerating their specs.

 

[GiZzO]

I swear thermaltake is such a crimal company, there specs have been so bogus.

60mm-28dba/31cfm (bogus)
80mm-30dba/37cfm (beleivable)
92mm-35dba/56cfm (beleivable)

There testing must be unstandardized or something, cause there specs are way off. No 60mm axial fan will produce 31cfm @ 28dB, given the spindal speed of 4550, that should give it around 24cfm at best. Now i think it would be unlawful to give false information, just to make a sale..its pretty much cheating the customer.

Another example:
VOLCANO II was spec'd 36cfm @ 31.5dB, alot of ppl got all crazy about em thinkin it was a better quiet solution to the Delta38, and is still advertised that way. Its specs really made it shine and somewhat you can say devilishlysold you something it was not. As from private testing its more like 24cfm, big difference indeed.

Chrome Orb, speced to handle a 1.3g T-Bird. Now you would be crazy as hell to put this on that chip, but they spec it to handle it! Were talkin the chip should be running on the edge of its max opperating temp 95c/203f. So an estimate in a fairly good air cooled case thats about 100f around the CPU, so making the temp of the CPU itself 92C almost 200f!

 

[russr]

I disagree that the 80mm and 92mm fan specs are believable. They are probably more believable, but still I wouldn't trust them esp. because of what they did with the Volcano II. How can they get away with this. Isn't this false advertising?

Thermaltake New fans:
60mm, 60CFM, 22dba
80mm, 100CFM, 26dba
92mm, 10000CFM, 33dba.

RIDICULOUS!!!!

 

[GiZzO]

<< I disagree that the 80mm and 92mm fan specs are believable. They are probably more believable >>



Im with you on that, i agree, i wouldn't buy these fans. But the thing is a person that doesn't know any better is gonna be like wow, and buy em cause of there great specs, there selling something its not. Thermaltake is a company to really look down on, remember back in the days the threatened mikewarrior for posting true specs of how poor there super orb is..that pretty low. Our little words mean nothing anyways foolish ppl will still buy there products while they swim in there riches.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

And they still sell the orbs at a good pace....

One thing I will say, they may have gotten it right with the Copper-orb if they keep manufacturing quality up...



Mike

 

[MrHelpful]

Mike, what's this Copper Orb you speak of?

Reminds me of those case fans you put in an empty PCI slot, advertised at 40CFM, but in reality it was only ~9CFM.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Its on their website, but the jist of it is a Copper-orb, but the center section now has fins and is made of copper.


Mike

 

[Inteless]

I don't know if there is an industry standard for measuring
cfm and dba, but if there is, Thermaltake ain't using it.
Sunon measures dba in a semi-anechoic chamber (whatever that is)
with background noise level of less than 15dba. The microphone
is placed one meter from the fan.

Amazing what you will learn by buiding a computer, especially
an AMD computer.

Inteless