Thermaltake crap

[SDOG34]

this may be a repost, but i figured i should remind everyone about this. thermaltake is claiming that their 60mm fan blows 31cfm at 28dba. this has to be total crap. if it was 80mm then i could possibly see these numbers, but i am thinking that thermaltake is just bsing as usual. can anyone confirm or deny these specs?

Linksky-poo

this is a repost, but at least someone wont be tricked into buying this crap

 

[DoOLiE11]

i'd be interested in a review of taht too

i need t a buy a new 60mm fan to rpeplace the stock one on my taisol cgk7600092

 

[GiZzO]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=37&threadid=418160&highlight_key=y&keyword1=thermaltake



<< Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:11 AM
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!
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[bomb99]

Yep thermaltake is a POS
got the super orb, man handle up to 1.5ghz MY @ss
that on my 1.33ghz tbird is to hot already
my taisol is much better

 

[00aStrOgUy00]

i still remember those newbies all over the orbs...cause when i was one, i thought they were cool

 

[nicowju]

Yup I was a newbie with an Orb on my 700@1081 once. Blah it looked so cool

 

[GundamF91]

Orbs suck.but if you use a V2 with good ventilation (5x80mm case fans) then you'll have no problem whatsoever.

 

[optimistic]

How about the chipset coolers? Do they help any?