Thermaltake are a WC brand now?

[Surfie]

I recognise that this may well draw the ire of some here, but it has come to my attention that Thermaltake, perhaps best known for their blatant copying of other companies case ideas, has now entered the watercooling space.

I note that they have fans, res', pumps, fittings, tubes, even blocks.

Are these Thermaltakes own designs? Or re branded ek (or other) gear? I'm trying to figure out just how trustworthy the parts might be, so i can decide whether to complain about them to my chosen etailer or not...

Anyone got any experience with this?

 

[tolagarf]

It's been know for quite a while, but there hasn't been much coverage of their water cooling stock. I heard their radiators are made of aluminium (they might have gone copper since then, but I cannot say) and their pastel fluid is absolute crap. I wouldn't use it even if I got it for free.

 

[Surfie]

I wasn't planning on buying anything... I learned my lesson with one of my old cases.

I'm just worried that the etailer in question might stop running alphacool, ek and xspc in favor of Thermaltake, since they don't have too many options from the better known brands any more.

Given that, and the lack of any good watercooling competition, i might have to switch to air...

 

[Bartacus]

Air should never be an option. I've heard very good things about TT's RGB fans (VERY high quality fans from what I'm told). Fittings are also fine (if a bit bulky). Can't speak for anything else though. TT does do some stuff well, in spite of their awful reputation for thievery.

 

[Warchild]

Air should never be an option. I've heard very good things about TT's RGB fans (VERY high quality fans from what I'm told). Fittings are also fine (if a bit bulky). Can't speak for anything else though. TT does do some stuff well, in spite of their awful reputation for thievery.

hehe yep very high quality for once. but annoying they claim its their design when they are a blatent copy (yet again.. duh) of the Jonsbo eclipse fans.

 

[evilcorp]

I helped a friend build a thermalfake water cooling kit a year or so ago and it was actually pretty good. It had a d5 pump and the fittings and tubing were OK. The 360 rad wasn't great and neither were the fans but the kit was OK. The block actually looked alright. I took a picture of it next to an ek supremacy block somewhere. My friend got the kit at a good price so chose it over ekwb. We didn't use the coolant, instead we used the pastel from mayhem. I usually don't have anything good to say about thermalfake but that was pretty good

 

[Wraith]

hehe yep very high quality for once. but annoying they claim its their design when they are a blatent copy (yet again.. duh) of the Jonsbo eclipse fans.

Same OEM as the Omega Nova & Halo fans too.

The Omega Novas are also known as Aigo C3 fans, again same OEM. I'm trying to get my hands on some of these for testing.

 

[Surfie]

Air should never be an option. I've heard very good things about TT's RGB fans (VERY high quality fans from what I'm told). Fittings are also fine (if a bit bulky). Can't speak for anything else though. TT does do some stuff well, in spite of their awful reputation for thievery.

Well, it isn't, really. It's just going to suck to have to go to alphacool/xspc/ekwb independently, and be subject to the sometimes onerous shipping costs.

Sounds like they might be ok then. Based on that i won't complain, Unless they ONLY carry TT branded water cooling stuff.

Thanks for the info everyone.