TESTED Titan Amanda TEC
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Just came across this, has 2 pipes cooling one half and 2 cooling the other.
A 92mm to 120mm fan ducting mod would have this running 120mm fans, risky though as this would make it very heavy and could damage board
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Just came across this, has 2 pipes cooling one half and 2 cooling the other.
A 92mm to 120mm fan ducting mod would have this running 120mm fans, risky though as this would make it very heavy and could damage board
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very much doubt a 9700 due to being so new and being unlikely someone would have got that in the last couple weeks and already be getting the titan.
frankly, the 9500 isn't a great cooler, its not bad, but at full pelt its not really that quiet, its an inefficient design and runs hotter thana tuniq by a fair margin. but you gotta realise theres fairly small differences between most big sinks installed correctly. if a sink isn't making great contact which can happen for a lot of reasons you get one temp, then install a new sink and get lucky and almost perfect contact and your temps can show bigger differences than there really are.
seen two reviews done right, one typhoon against the titan and one tuniq + bunch of others + 9700 zally + monsoon with the monsoon looking identical to the titan so i'm assuming being as how it has a 50w tec and looks identical(cept the shroud) its just the name they are selling it under in the states or something. tuniq = winner.
simple physics, thet tec isn't being used as a tec is designed to be used so is fairly ineffective and way way underpowered. its almost as good as a tuniq, because its as big as a tuniq. though it has an extra fan and shrouding which IMHO only serve to make up for the extra 50-60W's the tec dumps into the sink. tuniq could be better, its silly wave edge just takes away surface area, fan in middle leaves a fairly large deadspot of cooling on both sides and no shrouding. tuniq + shroud - wave edge + two fans either end = best heatsink design possible unless you go even bigger.
titan is a waste at its cost, no better, no worse than the tuniq but £20-25 more.
frankly, the 9500 isn't a great cooler, its not bad, but at full pelt its not really that quiet, its an inefficient design and runs hotter thana tuniq by a fair margin. but you gotta realise theres fairly small differences between most big sinks installed correctly. if a sink isn't making great contact which can happen for a lot of reasons you get one temp, then install a new sink and get lucky and almost perfect contact and your temps can show bigger differences than there really are.
seen two reviews done right, one typhoon against the titan and one tuniq + bunch of others + 9700 zally + monsoon with the monsoon looking identical to the titan so i'm assuming being as how it has a 50w tec and looks identical(cept the shroud) its just the name they are selling it under in the states or something. tuniq = winner.
simple physics, thet tec isn't being used as a tec is designed to be used so is fairly ineffective and way way underpowered. its almost as good as a tuniq, because its as big as a tuniq. though it has an extra fan and shrouding which IMHO only serve to make up for the extra 50-60W's the tec dumps into the sink. tuniq could be better, its silly wave edge just takes away surface area, fan in middle leaves a fairly large deadspot of cooling on both sides and no shrouding. tuniq + shroud - wave edge + two fans either end = best heatsink design possible unless you go even bigger.
titan is a waste at its cost, no better, no worse than the tuniq but £20-25 more.
drunkenmaster said:
Fair enough, but this is just an opinion.
deadkomodo said:
...this on the other hand, is a fact.
On deadkomodo's system the Titan Amanda is at 3.7ghz currently. I havent seen many, if any, totally stable E6600s at 3.7ghz using a Tuniq.
Can you give some links comparing the Tuniq and Monsoon please.
Thanks.
I assumed it was a widely known fact that you would only buy a TITAN Amanda TEC if you were receiving very high temperatures.
If you have a cool running C2D and do not want to clock it that high then lucky you and have fun with the TT
My C2D needs lots of volts and runs hot. I have stated the voltages were at least 1.6v to get to 3.7ghz (lots of heat but TITAN copes very well only ran ORTHOS for a couple of hours so far) and 1.58v @3.45ghz to run ORTHOS stable for days.
I never said you should change from a TT120 If you are happy with your temps then why would anyone change their cooler 
All I have done is post my results from my rig comparing two of my own coolers.
I loved the Zalman, looked kewl and was silent when doing a 800mhz OC on my C2D but not a 1300mhz OC that is a completely different story.
To run ORTHOS stable at very high clocks and to get 12000 3dmarks in 06 / 20000 3dmarks in 05 (without damaging my CPU) I needed a better cooler.
Agreed can someone put at least 1.6v through their [email protected] run it on ORTHOS for a couple of hours and print screen your temps ect.
To me this is no competition just curiosity, so of course try to do a similar set up to my self i.e. side case on ect.
(BTW I recall someone posting that their room is 20degrees. We must be sharing similar temps so thats good. I run my pc in my small bedroom which has the boiler in, above the main room in our house with the fireplace in and I share my wall with the house next to me. I guess what I am trying to say is my room is always toasty)
Also I remember someone mentioning about heat sinks not being on properly Well the Zalman was re attached three times, first time in a rush to put it together (new rig), then I removed it to check the stepping, then the third time I put AS5 on. All times the temps were pretty much the same and I am pretty confident I know how to fit a heatsink snuggly.
Sorry buddy I can't say, I added the cooler in on my mates new build and so only paid a fraction of the postage costs
If you have a cool running C2D and do not want to clock it that high then lucky you and have fun with the TT
Concorde Rules said:
My C2D needs lots of volts and runs hot. I have stated the voltages were at least 1.6v to get to 3.7ghz (lots of heat but TITAN copes very well only ran ORTHOS for a couple of hours so far) and 1.58v @3.45ghz to run ORTHOS stable for days.
I never said you should change from a TT120
If you are happy with your temps then why would anyone change their cooler All I have done is post my results from my rig comparing two of my own coolers. I loved the Zalman, looked kewl and was silent when doing a 800mhz OC on my C2D but not a 1300mhz OC that is a completely different story.
To run ORTHOS stable at very high clocks and to get 12000 3dmarks in 06 / 20000 3dmarks in 05 (without damaging my CPU) I needed a better cooler.
sunama said:
Agreed can someone put at least 1.6v through their [email protected] run it on ORTHOS for a couple of hours and print screen your temps ect.
To me this is no competition just curiosity, so of course try to do a similar set up to my self i.e. side case on ect.
(BTW I recall someone posting that their room is 20degrees. We must be sharing similar temps so thats good. I run my pc in my small bedroom which has the boiler in, above the main room in our house with the fireplace in and I share my wall with the house next to me. I guess what I am trying to say is my room is always toasty)
Also I remember someone mentioning about heat sinks not being on properly
Well the Zalman was re attached three times, first time in a rush to put it together (new rig), then I removed it to check the stepping, then the third time I put AS5 on. All times the temps were pretty much the same and I am pretty confident I know how to fit a heatsink snuggly. Ice Tea said:
Sorry buddy I can't say, I added the cooler in on my mates new build and so only paid a fraction of the postage costs
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1.6v through as 65nm cpu is asking for trouble isnt it ? even with tec-air/water cooling ?
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CarlD said:i got lower temps on my conroe with the amanda > water (i prob had the loop set up wrong though)
1.65v - E6600 4ghz
WOW
that is amazing! Is that stable? Do you think I am limited my mobo's FSB or my chip?
How come you run your multi at 8x?
Combat squirrel said:1.6v through as 65nm cpu is asking for trouble isnt it ? even with tec-air/water cooling ?
Yeah I guess but i put 1.9v through my san-diego for over a year and its still running fine @2.8ghz on air
So taking in account 64nm 1.6v sounds about right I guess in a year quads will be cheap and I would have gave my cpu to my bro to run a far more laid back life on 3ghz. CarlD said:
ahh fair enough, still 4ghz is nice. does it game okay? Still why do not do 400x9? Why do you max out your FSB? Is it to OC the ram?
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CarlD said:
LOL my motherboard does not like much over 400FSB so 450 is way out of my mobo's capabilities.
I was thinking about selling my board going for something like the Asus P5N-E SLi (async ram/higher FSB/SLI option) and swopping my GTX and a bit of cash for my mates gts's as he is having probs with em.
I do not know what is limiting my OC any further, heat is no longer an issue and ram is unstoppable
so it must be my mobo or my cpu Knowing my luck if I got a SLI board I would then be wanting to go XFIRE
Come to think of it I may just leave things as they are as my rig seems in perfect harmony 