Thermaltake’s Cooling Products Hands-on: Analog Dashboard, Stackable SwaFan EX Series, ToughAir Dual-Stack Cooler

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Thermaltake unleashed a wealth of new PC cooling products across a whole range of form-factors and applications. The star attraction, though, is a cool new accessory the company calls the Pacific TF3 Liquid Cooling System Dashboard. This accessory is intended to be installed in place of the rear 120 mm case-fan, and plumbed to your DIY liquid-cooling setup. It puts out real-time analog readouts of the ambient temperature inside the case, the coolant temperature, and coolant pressure, through three analog gauges.

The company updated the stackable SwaFan line of radiator fans. These fans can be “joined at the hip” in clusters of up to three, so you can ventilate a 360 mm radiator without cables sticking out of each individual fan. With the SwaFan EX, the inter-fan “bridge” handles PWM power, as well as addressable RGB. Thermaltake made improvements to inter-fan coupling by leveraging magnetic joints (similar to a MagSafe connector); adding detachability to the impeller (making it easy to clean); and introducing two sets of ARGB LEDs (the first one inside the impeller hub, and the second one along the bore of the frame), with a total of 20 diodes per fan. The SwaFan EX comes in 120 mm and 140 mm sizes.

The ToughLiquid Ultra 420 RGB is Thermaltake’s new flagship AIO CLC product. Optimized for the latest high-end processor types, the cooler features a pump-block with a high-color OLED display that can be made to display anything; and a massive 420 mm x 140 mm radiator with a trio of ToughFan 14 RGB high static-pressure fans that turn at speeds of up to 2,000 RPM.

The Pacific Core P6 DP-D5 Plus DIY liquid distribution plate is massive, with room for up to 350 ml of coolant, and the ability to be mounted along the front-panel of a case that has a tempered glass front-panel. The plate is studded with as many as 18 ARGB LEDs. The highlight of this product is a 3.9-inch dot-matrix display that can be made to display anything, including coolant temperature.

Lastly, there’s the ToughAir 710, a high-end air CPU cooler featuring a dual aluminium fin-stack design that relies on two 140 mm high static pressure fans, and support for the latest CPU socket types. Thermaltake claims that the cooler can handle thermal loads of up to 250 W TDP.