Introduction
Introduction
Who the hell are T.I.T.I? I had no idea either when the package arrived at my door, but given the superb performance of this cooler, I have a feeling they will soon be up there with the big boys! The Dr. Thermal is a large cooler not entirely dissimilar in style to the Thermosonic Thermoengine, but it is considerably larger, and also has a copper base. It differs from most coolers by having a large 70mm fan rather than the more conventional 60mm unit. Larger fans cool better than smaller ones at considerably lower RPM, resulting in much less noise.
For such a new company, the packaging is very professional looking.
As you can see it is one nice looking cooler!
Each fin has a textured design to increase surface area and thus heat dissipation, and the copper base on the cooler is very flat. No lapping necessary!
Test Setup
I opted for my usual HSF review system, an Athlon 1.4GHz, since it offers more than a challenge to most coolers. The full specs are:
- AMD Athlon 1.33GHz Processor @ 1.4GHz
- 256MB Cas 2 DDR RAM
- IBM Deskstar 60GXP 20 GB
- Asus A7A266 Mobo
- 19" Sony Multiscan GDM-400PS Monitor
- Win98
- Eclipse ATX Midi Black Case
The thermal compound used was Arctic Silver II. All temperatures were taken using a thermal probe. Idle temperature was measured by allowing Windows to boot up, and leaving the PC idle until the temperature stopped fluctuating. To measure the temperatures at full load, I used Genome @ home and allowed the CPU to run at full 100% load for 15 minutes. This was sufficient to bring the CPU to its maximum temperature under the cooler.
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