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The Thermaltake Frio Extreme is the first of the Frio coolers to ditch the plastic surround. I feel it is a good move.
The cooler ships with a protective cover on the base.
The engineering quality is exceptionally high, every fin on the dual tower heatsink is perfectly straight.
The Frio Extreme Cooler is based around two individual racks of aluminium fins which are connected via six heatpipes, 6mm in diameter. Other coolers may use four or five heatpipes, but sometimes these can be 8mm in diameter.
The six heatpipes run along the full length of each heatsink and emerge at the top. The above image shows the physical mass of the heatsink, when seated next to the £20 Arctic Cooling Freezer 13.
Thermaltake are using a nickel plated copper core base which is manufactured to a perfect shine. Thermaltake have really enhanced their engineering quality with this cooler, it is a significant improvement on the previous coolers in this range.
wow thats expensive. its good, but the prices are crazy for these coolers.
I still like the D14, but this is a good job. im glad they ditrched the plastic bit around it, made the fans easy to attach but it was sure to stop the airflow a little.
Very impressed with that, but i think the liquid coolers make more sense as you have a ton of room inside the case and no problems with memory fitting etc.
The all important question was never answered.
Can they technically get them any bigger in the future? 🙂
Great review.I’m still thinking which Air Cooler should I use when I buy the i7 3930k or the i73820
Very interesting read, thanks.
Nice to see Thermaltake finally challenging the highest performing air coolers on the market. What speed were the fans when running the cooling test? No doubt the Frio Extreme has shown good performance but the PH-TC14PE performs closely with much lower RPM fans which I bet are much quieter too.
As you said in the review though, the fan installation method seems awkward. They closely resemble the method used on Thermalright’s Silver Arrow, another heatsink which was a PITA to install fans onto.
Well done to Thermaltake though. Extra competition is usually good for the consumer :D!