First reviews of Thermal Take's Silent Boost appear online

mahkum2 · Post by **mahkum2** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 3:55 am

Reviews are starting to appear online for the Silent Boost. Surprisingly, price for this thing seems very reasonable. Auspcmarket's quoted price of $47.00 aus dollars when converted to Uk pounds comes to only £19.00. Try www.xe.com/ucc/ for conversion to other currencies.

http://www.legitreviews.com/Reviews/ttsb_1.shtml

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... oe%3DUTF-8

http://www.dirkvader.de/frame.php?site= ... boost.html

http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php ... CFANSBOOST

Also take a look at this very interesting mod...

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en ... oe%3DUTF-8

Post by **Rusty075** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:41 am

Interesting.

Although no one has yet noticed in these reviews that Thermal Take's "new" fan technology is an off the shelf panaflo FBL series, that's been available for 5 years.

Sledge · Post by **Sledge** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 6:46 am

I looked up the stats at Digikey and the FBL's have lower CFM and higher dBA than the FBA's. I thought the open cage was supposed to boost CFM and reduce dBA.

I do like the double ducting mod idea. Too bad those ducts wont fit on my SLK800. If you click his review and look at his temps, the DDM Silent Boost at 12V would be on par with an SLK800 using a Vantec Tornado (approx 84 CFM at 55 dBA).

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 7:12 am

the heatsink looks allot like an sk-7 if you ask me.

Post by **Rusty075** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:09 am

The stats are a little misleading. Apparently at higher backpressures the FBL's are quieter, while pushing more air. They're also supposedly quieter when undervolted I think. If you back to Digikey's catalog page look at the litle tiny graphs on the left, they compare the FBA's to the FBL's and you'll see the conditions where the FBL is quieter.

Although I'd be willing to bet that thermaltake picked those fans more becuase they looked new and exotic than anything else.

Sledge · Post by **Sledge** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:23 am

Digikey's Panaflo page

http://dkc3.digikey.com/pdf/T032/1032-1033.pdf

For the 92mm fan, the sweet spot (comparing the FBL to the FBA) is around 24.7 CFM with over a 4dBA difference.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:11 pm

Hello:

A hint to making those GIGUNDO s-u-p-e-r-d-u-p-e-r l-o-n-g URL's *MUCH* shorter:
TinyURL

The two longest ones become:

http://tinyurl.com/jlsu

and:

http://tinyurl.com/jlt1

And here's the ducting mod post translated to Englishish: http://tinyurl.com/jltn 4-5C drop is pretty nice -- and it might even work in the "suck" mode. Another likely tweak looks to be some lapping -- there are some linear "machine" marks on that otherwise lovely copper bottom...

Any US sellers yet?

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:10 am

Sledge wrote:I looked up the stats at Digikey and the FBL's have lower CFM and higher dBA than the FBA's. I thought the open cage was supposed to boost CFM and reduce dBA.

I agree with those stats.

I bought and tried out a couple of the 80mm FBLs about a year and a half ago. I compared them directly against regular L1As as front case fans. At 12V they were noticeably noisier than 12V L1As but "seemed" (by using the rather subjective "hand in front of the fan" testing method) to flow more air than the L1As. By the time I undervolted them so they were as quiet as the L1As they were flowing noticeably less air than the L1As. I put them away into my spare fan box and they've been there ever since.

First reviews of Thermal Take's Silent Boost appear online

First reviews of Thermal Take's Silent Boost appear online

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