Conclusion
Hello chaps, today we have another Thermaltake cooler on the testing bench. This time it’s their Beetle cooler. The design on it may scare away a few people but I think that most of them like the look. Anyway, it must be the craziest look I have ever seen on a cooler so far in my life. (20yr) :p
The Installation:
Since the installation procedure is exactly the same as on the Thermaltake Sonic Tower, I’m going to be a bit lazy and link you over to their “how to” for installation. Click on me! I got some pictures though how the Beetle cooler looks like when it’s installed. 
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The installation was relatively simple and hopefully my case stays on the ground when I fire it up. 
Anyhow I had no problems with clearence around the socket, except with the thing below…
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Maybe you thought when you saw the pictures above that, how the heck is he going to install a video card when the Beetle cooler is in the way. The answer is simple, I have to do it all over again. *DOH* It shouldn’t be a problem though if you have a real SLI mobo. I have only a Ultra-D motherboard with a nF4 Ultra chip. The bad thing with this is that the Thermaltake Beetle cooler will now suck in the hot air that is supposed to be transfered out of your case by your exhaust fans and the fan or fans inside the power supply. The only good thing when it looks like this is that the video card gets some extra cooling.
Test Rig:
DFi Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ “Winchester” at 2340MHz (9×260) 1.45v
2x512Mb OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Platinum Rev 2
PowerColor X800XL 256MB GDDR
OCZ PowerStream 520W
Seagate 7200.7 120GB 8MB cache SATA
Lite-ON CD-RW 40x12x48
Arctic Silver Lumier�
We are going to use the S&M v1.7 program once again for the load temperatures, idle temperatures are taken when idling in Windows. I allowed time for it to stabilize for a couple of minutes. We are going to compare the results to earlier results with the Evercool HPC-925. The DFI motherboard still shows screwed up idle temperatures, but since there’s a little difference I will publish them. The room temperature was 24C during the tests.
Fans at 5V:
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The soundlevel on both coolers at this stage is quite the same, the results are different though. The Beetle gets beaten by the HPC-925 with 4C at idle and almost 5C at full load.
Fans at 12V:
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Well, the difference between the soundlevels here isn’t really the same. I think that the Beetle cooler is way to loud at this stage, it sounds like a storm is inside your case. The results however are good. It’s ~1C difference between the coolers at idle and the Beetle beat the HPC-925 at full load with ~0.4C.
Conclusion:
Some like the design and some don’t. I myself think it looks like a turbin engine with two small wings on, or maybe I’m wrong. I think that Thermaltake should work on it and get it more quiet. The soundlevel is acceptable between Min and the middle on the fan controller, after that the storm arrives. Since most people these days care about a cooler that both performs very well and is quiet, this is going absolutely into the wrong direction. Anyhow, since the features are good, and the design is a bit amazing I’ll give it a four out of five.
Pros:
+ Supports all the available sockets today
+ Included fan controllers
+ Cool design
+ Performs well
+ UV reactive
Cons:
- Loud
- Not everyone likes the look
- Big, which causes clearence problems
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