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Friday, September 14, 2007
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We?re writing to let you know that we've just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features, installation, and performance of Ultra's ChillTec Thermo-Electric CPU Cooler. The ChillTec is a bit more than an oversized aftermarket cooler. This unit marries two technologies into a single package, teaming a heat-pipe tower-type cooler with a peltier and an oversized fan to offer extreme cooling potential. To help facilitate use of its features, Ultra also integrates an external module that's programmed to control the cooler's functions and report on the current health of the CPU. Head on over to the site and check it out...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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I was always taught that water and electronics don't mix. However, with the onslaught of high end watercooling systems out there, is there a worthwhile alternative for those that fear the H20 Ultra's ChillTEC might just be the high performance cooler for you.
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A thermo-electric cooler (TEC), also known as a Peltier Cooler, is a solid-state active heat pump capable of transferring heat from one side of the device to the other. The Ultra ULT33186 ChillTec CPU cooler uses a TEC, sandwiched between two copper plates, each plate with four heat-pipes leading to a large fan cooled radiator. Ideal for hardcore cooling, Benchmark Reviews will discover the potential advantages over standard air cooling solutions, and weigh the ChillTec against a large collection of competitors.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
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Heatpipe cooling has been around long enough now where I don't need to explain how that works, and I gave a very basic explanation of how TEC's work earlier. So why are there two heatpipes cooling what should be the cold side of the TEC? You would think that in order for the TEC to be more efficient they would have placed all four heatpipes on the hot side. Here is why they chose this design - 50W. A 50W TEC is no match for a modern CPU and would easily be overpowered by the heat generated. In order to overcome the limitation of the TEC, they augment the cooling by moving two heatpipes down to the bottom. I'm sure this was done to minimize the system power requirements (which is listed as a 350W PSU minimum) but I doubt the TEC will help a whole hell of a lot when a system is under load. It will be all heatpipe, baby. I would like to see this setup with a 150W TEC or better and see how it performs, but then the PSU requirements would go way up which would minimize the number of consumers available who could purchase the ChillTec.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
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The Ultra Chill-TEC's control unit does not apply power to the TEC unless the CPU reaches a certain temperature. Up to this point, the CPU is cooled by the heat-pipes on the "cold" side of the TEC. Once the CPU is hot, power is applied to the TEC and the CPU is chilled. The hot side of the TEC is cooled by the second set of heat-pipes.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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The Ultra Products ChillTec Thermo Electric CPU Cooler is the first Peltier cooler I have ever used and I have to admit I am impressed by how well it works! Receiving an almost ten degrees Celsius drop in load temperatures can help to prolong the life of a processor, and can be a great asset while overclocking.
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Monday, February 5, 2007
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CPU cooling options are continually on the rise. Ranging from passive heatsinks, heatpipe coolers, water cooling, and Peltier cooling to name a few. We are going to take a look at the ChillTec Thermal Electric CPU Cooler from Ultra Products. The Ultra ChillTec is designed to balance the use of thermo-electric and heat-pipe cooling to optimize your CPU cooling.
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