Conclusion

As it can be seen in the benchmarks, the most of variation in temperature was around 3-4 °C. The fact of testing this cooling pad with an Intel Core 2 Duo notebook makes it harder to emphasize the pad’s cooling ability. This happens due to the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, witch is designed to provide energy-efficient performance, making the processor itself manage its energy usage, and, consequently, heat generation.

However, this notebook cooler can help in a CPU/GPU high load scenario, avoiding high temperature peaks. As shown in the CPU benchmark results, we had a 12ºC reduce during cpu-time-consuming tasks, which is impressive reduction for a notebook cooling system!

According to Titan, the TTC-G4T cooling pad is going to be available in the US early June 2007, with a suggested price of U$50. Titan tried to create the TTC-G4T with exclusive features, like the “extending mechanism” for example, so it can be adjusted to fit different sizes of notebooks from 12” to 17”. This pad also comes with four fans, what gives you more airflow underneath the notebook. Unfortunately we didn’t see any USB additional ports available in this pad, really limiting it to the cooling function. Another detail that would be nice to see, is a speed control.
Titan TTC-G4T
Pros:

  • Quiet
  • Not heavy
  • 4 fans
  • Extending mechanism, being adjustable to fit different notebook sizes (12”-17”)

Cons:

  • No additional ports as USB, etc…
  • Single-speed

Thanks
Special thanks to the folks at Titan Computer for the review opportunity and providing the evaluation unit.

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