Well thermal take has made pretty reasonable coolers and also some good overall cases for some time now with the expectation of the prize variants, they worked well with other computer components in their aesthetics design and also usability rather than having the amazing features being seen in the theatres of Cooler master and some other company that specializes in that type of field. But the new type of cooler form thermal take is a completely new one almost taking the shape of the tower cooler that we normally use in the Thermalright ultra 130 that I use for most of my systems.
The new cooler from Thermal take Technology comes in a large brightly decorated box that has a cut-out opening in the front revealing part of the cooler sitting in a clear plastic casing: Thermal take TMG IA1 measures 140 x 97.4 x 160 mm and weighs 648g. These are pretty common size and weight for a contemporary tower-cooler. The cooler heat sink sits on four copper heat pipes, each 6mm in diameter, that go through a copper base plate. The heat sink array consists of 51 aluminum plates: The heat sink plates are spaced out at 2mm from one another. Each plate is 0.35mm thin. The sides of the heat sink are not covered with anything, which should ensure better cooling of the heat sink array, according to the manufacturer. Note that the side heat pipes are almost on the edge of the heat sink. Frankly speaking, I was a little puzzled by this implementation, because it means that part of the heat pipes will not work at its full potential. In other words, there is nowhere to transfer the heat to on that side.
It happens pretty rarely that two new CPU cooling solutions both demonstrate superb results in the same test session. The less efficient cooler of the two new solutions tested today, Thermal take TMG IA1 lost only 5°C peak temperature to the super-cooler rival. While the best cooler, Scythe Kama Angle yielded only 3°C and 10MHz in maximum processor frequency (other reference). Keeping in mind that these two new coolers are relatively inexpensive, have very simple installation, boast minimal dependence of their efficiency on the fan rotation speed, and generate little noise at minimal fan rotation speed, things may get really complicated in a little while.
So, Thermal take TMG IA1 loses a few points for the uneven base surface and inconvenient fan rotation speed controller. As for Scythe Kama Angle, they used thermal glue instead of soldering technique, didn’t make any heat pipe grooves in the base plate, and didn’t provide enough fan retention wire clips. In my opinion, the latest cooler with soldered and non-flattened heat pipes lying in the special grooves of the base plate, with the triangle part of the cooler heat sink covered for better airflow organization and equipped with three regular fans, will be able to compete against some of the test bed in the more quad core heavy weights in quiet mode… It is up to Scythe to decide if they are going to roll out the next Kama Angle revision any time soon, but at this point, the choice is totally yours.
