Comments on: Thermalright Cyclone – Has Their Own TRUE Met Its Match?

By: Raserei

Raserei — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:23 +0000

Few reasons that a downdraft would make sense. First, if a case has an air-intake on the side, as is mentioned above, it would add additional airflow…which makes me happy seeing as current tower-heatsinks can’t take advantage of that. Second, it allows the coolest air possible to cool the CPU, then the slightly warmer air cools the capacitors and MOSFETs, etc. Third, I believe that fans can push air through fins more easily than pull it. Something to do with static pressure.

Honestly I only have two problems with this cooler: The integrated fan cannot be changed out for something like a Noctua or a Scythe fan, and it doesn’t use HDT.

By: 007

007 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:15:22 +0000

Its a centrifugal fan. Sucks air from the top and bottom and blows it out the sides. You can see the fan in one of the pics and it is the length of the fins. I would think this would be very effective.

By: DingeZ

DingeZ — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:14:24 +0000

@Eagle Eye
That wouldn’t make sense since 95% of the side panels take in cold air, if this fan would exaust air out of the top it would be very bad for your airflow.

By: Soultribunal

Soultribunal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:02:25 +0000

I personally think they have the Central Blower Creating a Downdraft Vortex that brings the Air through the fins , as opposed to pushing it out.
It will be interesting to see in Operation.

By: KeepSix

KeepSix — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:56:13 +0000

^^ The pipes transfer the vast majority of the heat to the fins to be dispersed, so the pipes themselves don’t need massive air flow- although it certainly wouldn’t hurt, unless it would disrupt the airflow to the fins. Yeah, that must be the case. Sorry for thinking out loud.

By: Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:43:47 +0000

Interesting design from Thermalright. Assuming air is pulled from the bottom and exhausted out through the top, I’m not sure exactly how it intends pass over all those heatpipes. True enough one can only imagine what it is capable of.

Regards,