Titan System coolers TTC-SC04 and TTC-005
VGA & Other Cooling by jmke @ 2004-04-25
Two plug and play system blowers from Titan aimed at removing hot air out of your case, do they work? Find out in this review.
Review
Intro & Summary
Today we have 2 system coolers from Titan in our test labs. These products offer a plug and play solution for removing heat from your case. As they are easy to install and operate they are ideal for the beginning hardware enthusiast, a quick way to improve cooling without having to take out the Dremel or upgrade your case.
When you have a run off the mill system then the chance is fairly small that there is a case fan present. As there are quite a lot of heat emitting devices lurking inside your PC case it’s never a bad idea to get that hot air away from them.
Both the TTC-SC04 and TTC-005 are coolers based on a thread-mill fan design, these produce a little less airflow at a little bit more noise than the conventional fan, but have the advantage of taking up less room.
TTC-005
You’ll need two free PCI slots to install this unit, plugging in the 4-pin pass through cable powers it up, no speed regulator is included and the fan is running at maximum speed all the time. The noise increase is quite noticeable and if you have a silent system then this might not be the ideal addition.
As it is placed at the bottom of your case, where there is little or no warm air you won’t see big (if any) changes in CPU temperature, case temperature will decrease 1-5°C depending on where you measure it.
Overall a noisy solution for reducing the case temperature, only consider it if you don’t care about the added noise.
TTC-SC04
You need a free 5.25” drive-bay and a free 3-pin connector on your motherboard to install this unit. The rheostat allows you to change fan speed between 1250-3000rpm, going from quite silent to loud. Changing the position of the unit between top/lower drive bays in a midi-case didn’t impact its performance, running at max speeds you can expect ~1°C temperature drop, nothing too impressing so far. The installation requires a bit more work than the TTC-005 but you’ll still have it up and running in less than 5 minutes.
A more effective solution if you look at the results, the ability to change the speed of the fan is a nice added bonus, if you have a cramped case and no case-cooling then it can decrease overall temperature, but nothing spectacular.
If you are a hardware enthusiast looking for the last bit of cooling performance then look elsewhere, these products are not aimed at this market. If you have want a plug and play method for reducing overall case temperature then these products are worth a look, the price is not particular high either, I’ve seen TTC-005 at ~$6 and the TTC-SC04 at ~$13.
On the next pages you will find a more in-depth look at both products including detailed results and description of the test systems used ->
When you have a run off the mill system then the chance is fairly small that there is a case fan present. As there are quite a lot of heat emitting devices lurking inside your PC case it’s never a bad idea to get that hot air away from them.
Both the TTC-SC04 and TTC-005 are coolers based on a thread-mill fan design, these produce a little less airflow at a little bit more noise than the conventional fan, but have the advantage of taking up less room.
TTC-005
You’ll need two free PCI slots to install this unit, plugging in the 4-pin pass through cable powers it up, no speed regulator is included and the fan is running at maximum speed all the time. The noise increase is quite noticeable and if you have a silent system then this might not be the ideal addition.
As it is placed at the bottom of your case, where there is little or no warm air you won’t see big (if any) changes in CPU temperature, case temperature will decrease 1-5°C depending on where you measure it.
Overall a noisy solution for reducing the case temperature, only consider it if you don’t care about the added noise.
TTC-SC04
You need a free 5.25” drive-bay and a free 3-pin connector on your motherboard to install this unit. The rheostat allows you to change fan speed between 1250-3000rpm, going from quite silent to loud. Changing the position of the unit between top/lower drive bays in a midi-case didn’t impact its performance, running at max speeds you can expect ~1°C temperature drop, nothing too impressing so far. The installation requires a bit more work than the TTC-005 but you’ll still have it up and running in less than 5 minutes.
A more effective solution if you look at the results, the ability to change the speed of the fan is a nice added bonus, if you have a cramped case and no case-cooling then it can decrease overall temperature, but nothing spectacular.
If you are a hardware enthusiast looking for the last bit of cooling performance then look elsewhere, these products are not aimed at this market. If you have want a plug and play method for reducing overall case temperature then these products are worth a look, the price is not particular high either, I’ve seen TTC-005 at ~$6 and the TTC-SC04 at ~$13.
On the next pages you will find a more in-depth look at both products including detailed results and description of the test systems used ->
TTC-005 - PCI Slot Blower
TTC-005
External appearance:
Length : 122mm
Width : 118mm
Height : 38.5mm
Fan detail
Dimensions : 111 x 91 x 38 mm
Rated Voltage : 12 V DC
Rated Current : 0.19 A
Power Consumption : 2.28 W
Rated Speed : 2800 RPM
Max Air Flow : 21.58 CFM
Max Static Pressure : 4.75 mm-H2O
Noise Level : < 32 dBA
Tolerance : ±10%
Bearing Type : Sleeve / One Ball / Z-AXIS /Two Ball
Life Time : 25,000 /35,000 / 40,000 / 50,000 Hours
Installation
First thing to do before you can install this unit is find the needed space
I had to change around a few cards and decided on removing my PCI Firewire card as placing it directly below the VGA card is a bad idea as it will prevent fresh air from reaching the vga-card’s cooler.
Placing it under the video card would result in air being pulled away from the vga-cooling, something which is not desirable.
Test setup and results
The test system configuration:
CoolerMaster ATC-201C-SX2
Intel P4 2.26Ghz@2.4Ghz using 1.5v vcore
ThermalTake Volcano 7+ running with fan @ low.
384Mb RDRAM
Abit TH7II-Raid
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
3x Maxtor 120GB HD’s
Plextor DVDRW
3Com 10/100 PCI Network card
SB Live! Soundcard
The TH7II has three temperature readouts:
P4 CPU
Motherboard sensor located near the CPU’s socket
Motherboard sensor located near the bottom of the last PCI slot
The CoolerMaster has 4x80mm casefan’s installed which were powered off during testing.
The SYS2 dropped quite a bit as the hot air is removed instantly by the Blower; the hot air located near the CPU remains untouched however.
On to the TTC-SC04
External appearance:
Fan detail
Installation
First thing to do before you can install this unit is find the needed space
I had to change around a few cards and decided on removing my PCI Firewire card as placing it directly below the VGA card is a bad idea as it will prevent fresh air from reaching the vga-card’s cooler.
Placing it under the video card would result in air being pulled away from the vga-cooling, something which is not desirable.
Test setup and results
The test system configuration:
The TH7II has three temperature readouts:
The CoolerMaster has 4x80mm casefan’s installed which were powered off during testing.
The SYS2 dropped quite a bit as the hot air is removed instantly by the Blower; the hot air located near the CPU remains untouched however.
On to the TTC-SC04
TTC-SC04 - 5.25 Bay Blower
TTC-SC04
Tested by Piotke
External appearance:
Length : 149.5mm
Width : 42.7mm
Height : 85.50mm
Fan detail:
Dimensions : 145.5 x 42.7 x 85.5 mm
Rated Voltage : 12 V DC
Rated Current : 0.07~0.13 A
Power Consumption : 0.84~1.56 W
Rated Speed : 1100~3000 RPM
Max Air Flow : 53.2~100 CFM
Max Static Pressure : 0 mm-H2O
Noise Level : < 28 dBA
Tolerance : ±10%
Bearing Type : Sleeve / One Ball / Z-AXIS /Two Ball
Life Time : 25,000 /35,000 / 40,000 / 50,000 Hours
Installation
Find a free 5.25” bay, connect one end of the included 3-pin cable to the unit
Remove the protective cover from the front to make it all shiny
Slide it inside and connect the other end of the 3-pin cable to your motherboard
If your case has a front door you might want to take caution as the unit sticks out quite a bit.
Test setup and results
The test system configuration:
Coolermaster centurion case
AMD A64 3000+@2.4Ghz using 1.55v vcore
ThermalRight SLK948U + CM 80mm running at 7v
512Mb DDRAM
Shuttle AN50R
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro + VGA Silencer @ Low
Seagate Cuda 7200.7 120GB HD
BenQ DVDRW
The case temperature is monitored with the onboard sensor which is about 3cm from the chipset’s heatsink on the AN50R. The CPU temp is obtained straight from the A64 onboard temp sensor.
Only when running the unit at its maximum do you notice a difference in temperature, at this setting we have the fan spinning quite fast and producing a lot of noise.
We would like to thank Ute from Titan for giving us the opportunity to test out these 2 system coolers.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to visit our forums (no reg. required)
Tested by Piotke
External appearance:
Fan detail:
Installation
Find a free 5.25” bay, connect one end of the included 3-pin cable to the unit
Remove the protective cover from the front to make it all shiny
Slide it inside and connect the other end of the 3-pin cable to your motherboard
If your case has a front door you might want to take caution as the unit sticks out quite a bit.
Test setup and results
The test system configuration:
The case temperature is monitored with the onboard sensor which is about 3cm from the chipset’s heatsink on the AN50R. The CPU temp is obtained straight from the A64 onboard temp sensor.
Only when running the unit at its maximum do you notice a difference in temperature, at this setting we have the fan spinning quite fast and producing a lot of noise.
We would like to thank Ute from Titan for giving us the opportunity to test out these 2 system coolers.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to visit our forums (no reg. required)