Thermalright USA News

3960X 5.1g with the Archon?

www.thermalright.com — 2011-11-21T05:42:00+00:00

Thermalright LGA 2011 Retention kit Release

www.thermalright.com — 2011-11-14T03:36:00+00:00

November 15^th is the day that Intel will be releasing their new X79 chipset and the new Sandy Bridge-E processor. Related testing and information of the Sandy Bridge-E have already begun to circuit enthusiast forums. The new socket LGA2011 CPU’s not only have increased in processing power, but also heat as well. Thermalright, one of the top computer cooler manufacture in the world and renowned brand among enthusiasts circles will no doubt be ready to tame Intel’s red hot new Socket 2011 processor with two upgrade kits for enthusiasts.

1. For Thermalright’s Silver Arrow/HR-02/Archon/Venomous and models with the VenomousX BTK pressure plate kit, we have our minimalist LGA 2011 Adapter Kit with 4 2011 Screw Pillars.

2. For Thermalright’s HR-02 Macho/True Spirit 140/True Spirit and all models using the new universal Intel/AMD bracket, we have the new LGA2011 Retention Kit. Comprised of a new 2011 Retention Bracket and 2011 Screw Pillar Type B.

Silver Arrow wins PC Pro Magazine’s Ultimate PC Award.

www.thermalright.com — 2011-09-05T03:50:00+00:00

Last month, Thermalright partner Scan computer entered UK PC Pro’s “Ultimate PC” group test, with it’s Scan 3XS Carbon. When most competitors chose liquid based cooling solution for their overclocked CPUs, Scan stood out from the crowed by picking the top air cooling solution on the market.

The Thermalright Silver Arrow has 4 X 8mm sintered nickel plated heat-pipes bringing optimal cooling performance while slowing down oxidation of the heat-pipes, maintaining thermal conductivity longer. The double fin design of the Silver Arrow, brings 147*103mm of heat dissipation surface to each side. Together with two award winning TY-140 fans, giving the best combination of noise level and airflow brings the best air cooling performance on the market.

“ there’s no doubt that the Silver Arrow works: the peak processor temperature of 79°C is in line with every overclocked and water-cooled processor…”

“ and the Carbon(with Thermalright Silver Arrow) is also one of this month’s quietest PC…”

Socket 1155 compatible info

www.thermalright.com — 2011-01-06T01:52:00+00:00

Dear users,

All our models that support the LGA1156 are naturally compatible with the Sandy Bridge, the LGA1155.
As the LGA1155 shares the same screw hole design, you can just purchase the LGA1156 BTK if you wish to upgrade your old Thermalright tower coolers to Sandy Bridge platform.

The Ultimate cooling and silence solution for your GTX 580

www.thermalright.com — 2010-11-11T07:01:00+00:00

GTX 580 is now officially in stores, and has been reviewed worldwide, although it uses so called “Vapor Chamber Technology”, we are told by our fans that the temperature of the GTX 580 is still quite high while running Furmark.

The driver that comes with the GTX 580, actually automatically lowers the operating GPU voltage and Mhz to protect the unit, of course, you/we could stop this from happening by shutting down the driver which affects the real temperature when running the Furmark program, from this you will realize that the GTX 580 is indeed cooler than the GTX 480, but only by a small bit, from 8~10 degrees, and for overclockers who want to add more voltage on their GPUs, this is going to be quite disappointing.

The Good news is, Thermalright’s latest GPU cooler, the Shaman, and the previous Spitfire fully supports the GTX 580, once you have installed the Shaman, you will find it operates with both lower temperature and noise, satisfaction guaranteed!

Please see below for the supported VGA cooler for the GTX 580, (with parts needed):

Shaman

Spitfire + GF100 BTK

HR-03 GT + GF100 BTK

Triple Overclocking world record achieved by Silver Arrow

www.thermalright.com — 2010-11-05T06:46:00+00:00

Amazing triple overclocking record by UnknownTeam.cl (Chile) achieved with our Silver Arrow,Congratulations!!!

Last week Velichko Hristov aka angelreaper from Bulgaria had broken the overclocking record on the i7 970 with our Silver Arrow, but today we have even more exciting news, all the way from Chile, Sebastian Mancilla, AKA Clockero from The UnknownTeam has broken multiple world records with our King , the Silver Arrow, and it has given them the world record for Core i7 875K on Air, with 4,762 MHz, tops!!!

The UnknownTeam again set their Core i5 655K on the platform and, as if this were not enough, they had a great second world record, to the tune of 5,481 MHz.

A Third World record was achieved when they got a stunning Super PI 1M result at the frequency of 5,223 Mhz in just 8.046 seconds, which is now the World’s record, unfortunately they still need to validate the record, but they have a video as proof, please see below.

Introduction of the overclocker:

Sebastian Mancilla, AKA Clockero, is a computer science student, a fan, and lover of hardware. From an early age, he became interested in the computing world and turned totally crazy when he discovered the art of overclocking. Since then, he never stopped until he achieved the best overclocking performance of each piece of his hardware using air cooling solutions. One of his goals is to use liquid nitrogen in the short term, even considering that it is very hard to get LN2 in this part of the world.

Introduction to the Unknown Team:

Founded in 2007, the Unknown Team is a popular and well respected overclocking team in Latin America, with members from Chile and Venezuela. They participate in the Worldwide Overclocking League HWBOT, where they currently rank #68 out of 1300+ teams from all over the world. As one of the leading overclocking teams in the region, they have a long track record of excellence both in competition and the administration of their practices.

By the way, Sebastian, the overclocker, explained to me in a few words, his overclocking method: "taking advantage of some unusually cold days in Santiago (it's almost summer here), I quickly put together the PC components and patiently configured voltages and settings, raising the BCLK 1 MHz by 1 MHz, until I achieved these amazing results, not risking any of the components".

World record achieved with Silver Arrow

www.thermalright.com — 2010-11-02T03:28:00+00:00

Congratulations!

Last week, Velichko Hristov aka. angelreaper from the Largest computer hardware website in Bulgaria ,HardwareBG.com, has broken the previous world record by overclocking an i7 970 processor on air to the clock of 5025mhz, with Silver Arrow, no sweat at all! this once again proves the strength of Thermalright’s coolers are more than capable of running extremely hot processors with quiet low rpm fans like our TY-140, are you tempted to see for yourself?

About Velichko Hristov (angelreaper)

Hardware enthusiast and world-class “athlete”, specialized in the air cooling overclock. Man of

authority in the area of air cooling and author of numerous articles and reviews on the topic. Currently

he writes for the largest Bulgarian hardware website www.hardwarebg.com. In his free time he read

books, listen to music, attends metal and jazz concerts, mostly trying not to blow his test machine.

Ordinary man but an extraordinary overclocker. This is Velichko Hristov a.k.a. angelreaper, just Master

of the wind :).

About HardwareBG.com

HardwareBG.com was found back in 1999 as a small enthusiast community and quickly grew to what

it is today - the most frequently visited Bulgarian website dedicated to the computer hardware and

overclocking.

In 2003 hardwareBG.com's team also started a small reseller company named after the site -

HardwareBG Ltd., and since 2008 they also operate their own online shop - iskamPC

Archon Product Release

www.thermalright.com — 2010-10-19T07:18:00+00:00

Archon Product Release

Heatsinks keep getting bigger and bigger in size, with many different designs and shapes. The needs of larger fans on the heatsinks have evolved, from the earlier 80mm fans to today’s modern 140mm fans.

As the sizes of fans and fin arrays on the heatsink increases over time, interference between the components on some motherboards also increases. Many of you ask about the compatibility between the CPU heatsinks and memory with heat-spreaders, Thermalright will now address the issue and provide you with as complete a solution as possible!

In the past, when an ordinary 140mm tower heatsink is paired with a 140mm fan, fin arrays were not able to cover the whole fan, airflow was thus wasted, to solve this problem, Archon provides an unique combination of 2 types of fin arrays, this fully extends the “air catch zone”, although Archon is thinner in thickness, performance improves with the increase in total surface area, when paired with TR’s exclusive TY-140 fan, it will keep your computer quiet and cool.

About the compatibility issues with the memory slots, 64bit system and ram disk users tends to fill their slots to the max, ordinary memory will have no problem at all (without heat spreaders and below the height of 43mm), whereas memory with heat spreaders can cause problems when installing bigger heatsinks, Archon is here to solve the problem, it will have no problem when memory slots are filled (6 slots or 4 slots).

Archon has the same pressure vault bracket system like its brother the Venomous X, and it also comes with the AMD bracket system, so Archon will be compatible with most platforms,

With its “Mirror Finished Base”, Archon provides friendly installation and quality craftsmanship.

We strongly recommend that you pair the with Archon with the bundled TY-140 Fan, in order to achieve the best cooling performance, but if need considering your system orientation, and need to make an adjustment on fan selection, Archon will be compatible with most 140/120mm fan in the market.

Shaman VGA Cooler!

www.thermalright.com — 2010-09-30T07:46:00+00:00

HR-02 Product Release

www.thermalright.com — 2010-07-23T07:11:00+00:00

Since the release of Intel’s Core i7 series CPU, we see the appearance of many huge coolers appearing in the market,

It’s all because TDP of Core i7 could reach around 130W, it gets even hotter if you attempt to overclock it by adding more voltage,

This is something that we are all afraid of, there are mainly two reasons that many enthusiasts choose to change their existing cooler,

first of all, to be able to overclock, second, for more quietness.

There are existence of many monstrous coolers in the market, but is there any cooler that could really handle the hot core i7

without any fan? We can tell you right now, with HR-02, it’s possible!, but if you wish to add more voltage, you may choose to adding fans,

or without fans depending on the Voltage you choose to use, with fan, HR-02 is good as the Venomous X, through different setup of the system fans

inside your case, it is even possible that it could exceed the Venomous X.

HR-02 has patented fins with punched holes, through the punched holes, it could increase the dissipating area of up to 25~30%,

Making it more thermal efficient under passive cooling or with a low rpm fan (600~800rpm), another noticeable change you will see on the HR-02,

Is that we have designed the fins to be very close to the system fan, so even without any fan, it could easily cool with the fans inside your case,

If you choose to add one fan , then it would have the push-pull effect just like the other coolers with 2 fans.

HR-02 provide you with the compatibility options of 12cm or 14cm fan, you may choose the best suited options depending on your system fan setup,

New pressure-Vault system kit is also included, and it can support Socket1366/1156/775 platform.

You might have doubt about the space you need for HR-02, we have tuned it in every angle and making adjustments for HR-02 to be compatible with many motherboards,

beside some unique AM3 motherboards, HR-02 is compatible with most boards in the market (85%), or you could check out our compatibility list,

to see if it would be ok.

Besides overclocking, want to run your system passively or with a ultra quiet fan? HR-02 is the best choice for you!

Thermalright on GTX 470 / 480?

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T10:12:00+00:00

Since the release of nVIDIA’s GF100 (Fermi), there were guesses from the public, all hoping nVidia could again be the top dog of graphic performance, as we get closer to its release date , we have received first hand news about the GF100 chip and its PCB design, high power consumption of Fermi chip will be unavoidable.

We have measured the required mounting specs , for it to have the best compatibility with our VGA cooler,as we will be releasing the latest (GTX-470/480) VGA BTK / VRM solution with fastest pace, but as on how much overclocking over the GF100 chip to the highest performance?, we leave it in the hands of extreme gamers.
About GF100 news:

Cebit: Nvidia GTX 480 op de gevoelige plaat gevangen – Tweaker.net

Weitere Bilder und Infos zur GTX 470/480 – ComputerBase.de

Please see the list below for the suitable new BTK/VRM for your VGA cooler.

Model	HR-03 GTX	HR-03 GT	Spitfire	*VRM Solution
GTX 480	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*VRM GTX 480
GTX 470	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*GF 100 VGA BTK	*VRM GTX 470
GTX 285			*GTX VGA BTK	*VRM GTX 285
GTX 260			*GTX VGA BTK	*VRM GTX 260

*Note: The parts that will be released soon are marked with * , spaces without any text means it does not need any extra part to be supported

MUX-120 for Socket 1156 CPU Cooler

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T09:39:00+00:00

The new socket 1156 was announced in the year of 2009,it inherits the latest stepping technology, the cpu chip was able to be produced at 45nm,
it effectively lowers the cpu temperature, and thus attracts more attention from Overclocking Enthusiasts and extreme gamers, Followed by the new Core i5 750 , 780, and i7 870 cpu launch, many sharp gamers will find our MUX-120 appearing on many review sites regarding overclocking of the cpu , reviewers were supplied with our MUX-120 sample from Intel,
the reason been that MUX-120 gives the best real-time overclocking performance for these reviewers, Now , it's time for you to have your very own "MUX-120" ! and take up the overclocking challenge with your latest 1156 platform.

The new MUX-120 comes with back plate and enhanced revision bracket, it holds

your cooler with more sturdiness and provides easy installation, every MUX-120 also comes with a Thermalright X-silent 120mm low-noise fan, extra fan clips, so you may choose to add another fan onto your MUX-120, extreme overclockers may also choose to install 120mm*38mm fan onto MUX-120, X-silent fans are designed with removable fins ,
so you may take it off and clean it, it runs with middle rpm and exerts little noise.

MUX-120 was designed to have similar shape of the Original Ultra-120 extreme, with less weight, but not less the performance, many users will find that when installing an after-market cooler on the 1156 Platform ( other brands), the CPU cooler will be in interference with the memory slots (when you have all 4 memory slots filled), but with MUX-120 you will not have this problem as we have designed it to have the width to 38mm, to ensure perfect installation even when all memory slots were used,
( please see the picture below)

1156 Motherboards has different PCB designs , but it is common that they have no North-Bridge, and most user choose to have their VGA card installed in the first PCIE slot (16X slot), but interference occurs when you choose to install an after-market cooler, as it will touch the VGA, we have designed our MUX-120 to have the length of 131mm, it solved this question and there is no need to worry about the incompatibility with other components in your case. (see picture above)

MUX-120 has 4 heatpipes,it inherits the uniqueness of Thermalright, all parts are nickel plated, to ensure best thermal conduction for the heatpipes and fins, and also prolongs the usage of cpu cooler.
Are you still looking for the best cooling solution for your 1156 CPU? Try our MUX-120
(We strongly suggest you to have the cpu cooler installed facing the I/O port)

Spitfire

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T09:34:00+00:00

The VGA evolution has been going quite rapidly during the year of 2009, 1~5 types of new GPUs has been brought to the market , but the high temperature and noise? that comes from these monster VGA cards are totally disastrous and unbearable for the Silent-gamers,(stock fan can go up to 6,000 rpm which is quite loud) therefore we have developed our brand new VGA card cooler ,the "Spitfire" to fulfill your Silent gaming need.

Spitfire is a VGA cooler that provides passive cooling with total of six heat-pipes, altogether with a supersized thermal dissipating area ( 160*120mm) and patented HR series punched holes, these special features will increase the airflow around the vga cooler under both passive or active cooling conditions, 120mm/140mm fan.

can also be used to provide even better cooling! ( TR X-Silent series fans).

Spitfires are made with total of 6 sets of stacked High-riser fins, each heat-pipes are soldered individually to its fins, under active cooling , it provides superb performance that can overtake the HR-03 series easily, and when used under passive cooling conditions ( with side-panel fans in the case) it can also have the same performance as it was under active cooling.

Many enthusiasts and gamers were concerned about the gigantic size of the Spitfire, that may distort the PCB, for this Thermalright has designed unique support pillars for the Spitfire, problem solved!

Do you need a powerful "Silent" VGA? , Spitfire is the right answer for your Silent need!

HARDWARE.INFO AWARDS 2009

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T09:33:00+00:00

Dear Thermalright supporters, please vote us for the Hardware.info product award of 2009 , our T-rad 2 and Thermalright Ultra-120 extreme has been nominated as best products .

Thermalright Rig contest!!

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T09:31:00+00:00

Thermalright Rig contest!!

"TRULY REMARKABLE RIG CONTEST"(From 30th of October ~ 14th of November) Dear Thermalright supporters and fans,greetings to all of you! Thermalright is giving away prizes for the top 3 special Thermalright rig from our fans and supporters, please enter the link below to see details of this competition:

Our VGA MCL updated

www.thermalright.com — 2010-04-22T09:30:00+00:00