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Titan’s TTC-D5TB cooler review

1st Impression’s:

This is one of the new coolers from Titan, it came neatly packed in a box. It’s an all aluminium cooler, with a pretty normal look, but it’s big, one of the biggest all aluminium coolers i’ve ever seen, still I think it shall fit any socket A/370 motherboard ou there, it as monted a titan 80mm fan, it has 23 fins, but there was a 1st version of this cooler wich had only 17 fins, so be carefull wen you go buy it, the base on this cooler is pretty flat and has a good finish, but still you can see some machinery marks, but nothing that will afect much the performance of the cooler. The clip is a good one, requireing some strenght and a screw driver to fix it to the socket, but then it fixes the cooler pretty well ! This isn’t a heavy cooler, so the clip only clipping into one of the three prongs of the socket isn’t a big problem. This cooler comes with a little seringe of Titan silver grease, wich is always better than some silicone like some other brands chose.

Now let’s go over to the Technical Specs.

Technical Specs:

Heat Sink Material: Aluminium

Heat Sink Fins: 17 (older model) or 23 (newer model)

Heat Sink Thermal Resistance: there isn’t an accurate way to know, since it depends on the fan being used with the heat sink, if it has more air flow: the thermal resistance will drop, if it has less air flow: the thermal resistance will rise. And as the cooler’s might be bought with diferent fan’s than the one’s we use here I won’t be using the thermal resistence as a mean for comparing or getting any conclusion about the quality of a cooler and it’s performance compared to others !

Fan Brand: Titan

Fan Dimensions: 80*80*25mm

Fan Voltage: 12v

Fan Air Flow: aproximatly 38CFM

Fan Noise: It’s relatively quiet !

The Test

The test will be done with the following components:

Motherboard: Soltek SL75 DRV2 (with integrated cpu heat reading)

CPU: AMD Duron 650MHz overclocked to 866MHz running with extra vcore, all this so that it will produce more heat !

Thermal Paste: Silver based.

The rest: A mid tower with no extra fans, just one on the psu getting the air out, fully closed, with 2 hard drives, 1agp video card, 2pci cards, 2 cd-rom drives, plenty of cables (no round cables), this system is to try and get the most close as possible to a normal every day user system and not a fully overclockers aluminium case, filled with fans, round cables, holes and etc... So that your test results can be compared to the most users possible ! And not just by overclockers. Because here the real thing being tested is the heatsink and not the rest of the cooling stuff you might have on your case and that might be afecting your overall cooling performance ! Alias this is one of the rulles I use when testing the material, to make the system in wich I test the heatsink the most similar possible to the most users, that don’t have anything else in their computer boxes to improve the cooling of their cpu and overall system besides the fan on the psu and the cpu cooler, some other rulles are: we use the same tipe of fans for all the coolers reviewd here ! And that’s because some other sites make coolers roundups in wich cooler is tested with a fan with diferent air flow, and then they post a page with the different coolers all compared by their thermal resistence, wich of course will be different if they had used all the fans with the same air flow, as I here intend to test the quality of the heatsink for itself and not to fool the reader, I will be using fans with the same air flow ! All heatsinks, being 60mm or 80mm fan cooled will have fans in their test rated to output 38CFM ! So that the results can be compared among themselfs without fooling anyone, with this idea I have managed to compare only the quality of the heatsink for themselfs without any type of secondary artifact, since I will be using the same computer and fan system every time I review a cooler ! As I don’t use the thermal resistance of a cooler for getting my results, I will base them on two temperatures, and used them when I compare coolers, and Idle temperature, taken after the pc starts to work, but doesn’t really does nothing, and a full load temperature, obtained after running an hour and a half of the following softwares all at the same time: Prime95, SETI@Home, MusicMatch Jukebox playing a never ending playlist of mp3 and oppening several web pages, and gaming ! Do you think this is enough ?! hehehe ;)

Well now after having boored you to death, with all this testing stuff let’s see the results and conclusion’s ! :) (Bet you’re thinking: "finaly thank God !" lol)

Results and Conclusion:

Well after having tested this cooler this are the results, here are the temps:

Idle: 40ºC

Full Load: 44ºC

This is a good cooler, especialy if we consider that this is an all aluminium cooler, and that you can buy this cooler for less than 15€ ! Pretty cheap hey !? ;) I recomend this cooler to all the people that don’t want to waste much money in buying a cooler, but still want nice performance, another good thing about this cooler is that it comes accompanied by titan silver grease, a seringe with 1,5g and not with some silicone coumpound, and this helps alot to the thermal transfer from the cpu core to the heatsink.