Engine 17 1U Low-Profile CPU Cooler from Thermaltake

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/25/2018 08:52 AM | source: | 7 comment(s)

Thermaltake is working on a Engine 17 1U Low-Profile CPU Cooler. It features a 17mm height with a compact size 60mm PWM fan, for small form factor applications. The metallic structure (metallic blades and fins) with copper base guarantees extremely quiet, yet powerful operation.

Designed with 17mm height, the Engine 17 is the ideal CPU cooling solution for slim and small form factor applications, such as 1U server, HTPC, AIO/PIO PC, POS terminal and Booksize/Mini PC.

Unlike traditional CPU coolers, the Engine 17 features a metallic structure and copper base that provides more fortified and efficient thermal paths for CPU. The metallic fan is designed to directly pull heat from CPU. Especially, the metallic fan base is engineered with small radial gaps that allow heat to be transferred rapidly to the rotating metallic fan. When the metallic fan blades generate cooling airflow, heat will also be transferred to the flowing air by both rotating fan and stationary fan base at the same time.

Metallic fan with unique 40 blades design is engineered to generate higher airflow passing through the heatsink without sacrificing ultra-silent operation. The metallic blade rotation will create a centrifugal force on ambient air. In the meanwhile, the centrifugal forces will expel hot air so that heat can easily be taken away from the fan blades. Most importantly, this cooling technique can reduce the blade’s noise and vibration because hot air expelled will create a vacuum, and then fresh cooling air will be drawn in the heatsink.

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Humanoid_1
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#5560132 Posted on: 06/25/2018 11:02 AM

Kinda neat, some decent engineering went into that. Make sure your PC has it's dust filters in place or that think will clog up faster than most I suspect.

Unilythe
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#5560135 Posted on: 06/25/2018 11:14 AM

The already existing Thermaltake Engine 27 was reasonable for its size, but of course its cooling performance wasn't the best. It's good for a very small form factor with a pretty damn low TDP. CPU's with a TDP of 65W would already push the Thermaltake Engine 27 to a lot of noise. A bit lower TDP though (Pentium and below), and it is a great cooler. It looks interesting as well.

But an Engine 17, I really don't see how that would perform good enough. It's even thinner. Maybe if the price is low enough it'd work well for Celeron chips.

Evildead666
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