News - Thermaltake previews silent Fanless 330 VGA cooler

[HEXUS]

Thermaltake has provided a video teaser of its Fanless 330 - a cooler said to bring an end to the noise plaguing PC gamers.

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[Rob_B]

Nice cooler, a 120mm intake fan on a window/side that a lot of people have would probably help get a bit of air circulating over it due to the size of this thing!

[Jmatt110]

Looks like the 'indentation' of the main block (where the logo is) could house a 120mm fan...

[sleepyhead]

Forget the VGA cooler, the CPU cooler looks nice...

I want one....

[Kerotan]

Think the CPU cooler would be noisy tbh with an 80mm fan. I'm all for great looking components, but not if I have to sacrifice performance or acoustics.

[funke_munke]

Looks like the 'indentation' of the main block (where the logo is) could house a 120mm fan...

Yeah it also has holes in the metal, they could be for the use of fan clips like previous TT coolers. If you could attach a 120mm fan to that, we could be looking at a winner! Time will tell I guess.

[Webby]

Not sure how effective putting a fan on would be... I say this because the majority of the heat (especially from an ATi chip without an IHS) is going to be transfered by the two middle heatpipes which move to the back of the card away from any airflow generated by a fan on the main body of the unit. I realise a fan would still improve performance but I don't think it would be as good an increase as say a HR03 with and without a fan, maybe they think that a rear case fan is enough airflow over the back fins to keep it all cool I guess only time (and a decent review) will tell.

Also if you have a board which used the first expansion slot for your graphics card then you may have trouble fitting this with a large CPU/northbridge cooler

[xexus]

Fanless and silent - great - one more step towards a truely silent PC - we're getting there.

[Jmatt110]

Not sure how effective putting a fan on would be... I say this because the majority of the heat (especially from an ATi chip without an IHS) is going to be transfered by the two middle heatpipes which move to the back of the card away from any airflow generated by a fan on the main body of the unit. I realise a fan would still improve performance but I don't think it would be as good an increase as say a HR03 with and without a fan, maybe they think that a rear case fan is enough airflow over the back fins to keep it all cool I guess only time (and a decent review) will tell.

Also if you have a board which used the first expansion slot for your graphics card then you may have trouble fitting this with a large CPU/northbridge cooler

Even though the main heatpipes are on the back of the card, a fan would still cool some of the GPU and the all important RAM and VRMs which can't been forgotten.