Phanteks PH-TC14PE

Zitat: Natürlich variieren diese Werte abhängig vom Gehäuse, benutzter CPU sowie Belüftung, jedoch zeigen sie das der Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Kühler sich einen Platz in den oberen Kühlercharts durchaus verdient hat.

Zitat: Natürlich variieren diese Werte abhängig vom Gehäuse, benutzter CPU sowie Belüftung, jedoch zeigen sie das der Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Kühler sich einen Platz in den oberen Kühlercharts durchaus verdient hat.

Zitat: Despite its massive size, time-consuming installation and eyebrow-raising price tag, we couldn´t help but like the Phanteks PH-TC14PE. It looks as good as it cools, which is fantastically well, and it´s supremely quiet too, especially on its lowest fan speed setting. In our Socket AM3+ and LGA1155 test systems it proved to be particularly potent, matching or bettering our favourite all-in-one liquid coolers at similar noise levels. Click to enlarge The looks and performance come at a cost - cheaper coolers such as the Arctic Freezer i30 are available at half the price - if you can live with the higher noise levels that is. Where the PH-TC14PE comes in is for those who must have a quiet PC, and will pay a premium for it, but not quite as much as a Corsair H100 or full custom water-cooling system. Size is an issue too, but assuming you´ve checked this prior to reaching for your wallet, there´s little else we have against it. In fact, we also give Phanteks a big pat on the back for offering a sporty-looking cooler in several different colours. It´s not something any other high-end cooler manufacturer offers at the moment and it gives you the chance to synchronise you´re PC´s colour bling without having to opt for your usual gun metal grey cooler. It gets some definite brownie points from bit-tech . Intel LGA1155 Score Intel LGA2011 Score AMD Socket AM3+ Score

Zitat: With the introduction of the PH-TC14PE, Phanteks has positioned itself in a place that is hard to move upwards from. Why do we say this? Well, when your first product to market is one of the best in a particular category it is difficult to top its success. Visually speaking, the cooler is definitely not an eye-sore. To be frank it is one of the nice looking coolers that I have come upon. The lines are clean, everything is pretty much uniform and we love the fact you don’t see the ends of the heat pipes sticking out the top of the cooler. And if that isn’t enough the cooler comes in several different colors allows us to better coordinate our systems. Even the wires of the fans are sleeved for a more attractive look. Yes, looks are one thing and performance is another. But in the case of this particular it has it both. By default the cooler comes with two fans and will support three total. With just the two the cooler is top notch in performance adding a third just throws it over the top. Is it enough to dethrone the king which is the Noctua D14. We were not able to find that out as we do not have the socket 2011 mounting for the Noctua. But we will update you with the results. For the most part the assembly of the cooler was not bad, especially on the Intel 2011 socket. It took us a matter of just a couple of minutes to get the cooler mounted to the motherboard. The fun or lack there so was getting the wires through the little rubber fittings that attaches to the fan. Once this is done it is smooth sailing. The found the cooler selling for $90-$100 at retailers that we were familiar with. This makes the Phanteks offering the most expensive air cooler we have ever tested.  

Zitat: In my position as a reviewer and one that gets to get his hands on just about everything case and cooler related, I am really torn with this review. On one hand, I sort of expect new companies to bring forward something completely new, not something modeled almost exactly to something we all know already. On the flip side of that coin, I do see a lot more engineering involved in the PH-TC14PE than the D-14 it resembles. Even though everything about this cooler including its packaging and its hardware screams Noctua, Phanteks does fill a void in the market, and with a cooler that took everything I could throw at it offering some of the best results with direct CPU testing. On top of the P.A.T.S. and the C.P.S.C. Phanteks steps in and offers four solutions to those with the comment of Noctua coolers having an unappealing color scheme. With the PH-TC14PE, not only do you get a kick ass huge cooler, you have the option to select a color to match the theme of almost any case build.