New Thermochill TA Series

Henry8601

Henry8601

Henry8601

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I have heard various things about the new thermochill TA series, and I have seen the new sku's listed on the thermochill website, but the only ones listed are the 120.1, 120.2, 120.3 and the 120.4. So what about a new 140.3? Will there be a new one, or are thermochill just sticking with 120 radiators?

Stock of 140.3 radiators seems to be running out, so what's happening?
 
interesting, good spot there

will be keeping an eye out.

seems that they are keeping the ball rolling since TFC are bringing out new models
 
Who knows but are they that much better for the money? I've seen the older model get slashed in price and for the cost of the new 120.3 you can buy an old 120.4.
 
After seeing the prices of the new model I have realised that you can alomost by two 120.3 current models for the price of the new 120.4. They best be bloody good!
 
True about the price increase - looking on that other thread somebody said release was 25/8/10, but we are now nearly a month down the line - was the date just wrong, or have there been any problems.

But yes, finding out about a new 140.3 would be very intersting.
 
None of the new radiators will significantly (more than a few % at the same optimum fan speed) outperform the current radiators, unless they find a way to break the laws of physics.
 
Henry8601 said:
True about the price increase - looking on that other thread somebody said release was 25/8/10, but we are now nearly a month down the line - was the date just wrong, or have there been any problems.

But yes, finding out about a new 140.3 would be very intersting.
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The dates were from the same site the prices were from that had them for pre-order, thats now moved to 1/10/10. There are no new sku for any TA 140 rads ...yet
 
Squakingcow said:
None of the new radiators will significantly (more than a few % at the same optimum fan speed) outperform the current radiators, unless they find a way to break the laws of physics.
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This is thermochill we are talking about im sure they are working on it :D

I noticed there was a major lack of details on there website regarding the new rads. :(
 
The new TFC Admiral rads have a new design and don't use conventional fins like all the other rads. I hope it actually works and is not just hype.
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dfour said:
This is thermochill we are talking about im sure they are working on it :D

I noticed there was a major lack of details on there website regarding the new rads. :(
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All the rad manufacturers would love to have some kind of 'breakthrough' in design for a radiator, but as far as I can see there are only really a few of ways to improve upon current radiators:
-Make the fins even thinner so they create less air resistance and then increase the density of them.
-Create a form of built in shroud to reduce the dead spots from the fans.
-Make the radiator fins/tubes out of a more thermally conductive material.

Increasing the thickness wouldn't work (as Feser found out with their monsta) as increasing the thickness has much the same effect as increasing the fin density, it increases the air saturation (air out/water out) but also decreases air flow therefore requiring higher speed fans.

Also with regards to the feser rads, I'm willing to bet it won't perform any significant amount better than the current 'style' of rads, although I guess we'll have to find out on that one.
 
I agree with Squakingcow. I reckon there might be a 10%+ improvement but with the price drops on stocks of PA at the moment and with the silly new prices, so long as you have the space you can buy a bigger and hence better performing PA for less money than the new TA ones.

So unless you really must have the best and money is no object, they are best left alone IMO.

You can spend that extra costs making other improvements to your waterloop which would give you bigger gains eg shrouds etc.
 
A combined shroud would not surprise me, the sr1 series have them already. One side of the rad has the fins set back 15mm.
 
A combined shroud would be interesting - testing has shown that they do make a big difference, so I suppose it is a very effective was of increasing the performance.
 
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