Thermaltake Touch Screen HTPC Chassis
"Thermaltake has introduced the new digital Home Theater PC Chassis, the DH (Digital Home) series."
Published: 27th September 2007 | Source: Thermaltake |
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Thermaltake Touch Screen HTPC Chassis – DH101/DH 102
Thermaltake has introduced the new digital Home Theater PC Chassis, the DH (Digital Home) series. Designed with the latest multimedia module and high quality piano mirror coating front panel, the new Digital Home series shines with elegance and charm!
There are total of four models to choose from the new Digital Home Series; DH101 was designed with the latest LCD Display that not only supports multiple languages, but also allows different display selections with its blue glowing background. DH 102 on the other hand, comes with the aluminum piano mirror coating and the hottest 7 inch Touch Screen front LCD display bringing all the media function controls easy and fast at user’s fingertips.
The 7” LCD display of DH102 does not only support Touch screen functions, but with the latest software and double screen displaying technology, users can easily control media functions such as music, movie, and photos, plus information like daily news, weather, PC status and E-mail all can be easily shown on the LCD display with internet connection. This revolutionary LCD display has build-in Media Lab, plus the 10 hot key buttons and the easy volume control knob at the front panel, DH Series is bringing the Home Theater experience to a brand new era.
DH101 and DH102 not only comes with high quality external design, but the internal structure and thermal modules further overturned the common impression of limited spacing and ineffective thermal solutions towards home theater PC chassis. The 12cm front fan and the double 6cm rear fan included in the unit saves the chassis from heating concerns. Up to three 3.5” and one 5.25” drive bays is also available for upgrading. The single insert/exit button on the front panel makes disc changing easy for users. DH Series HTPCs are the high quality chassis with delicate body structure and thoughful internal space designs.
The high performance thermal management and multifunction supports of DH 101 / DH 102 Home Theater PC Chassis will definitely be the best choice to build your own digital living environment, with high-tech fashion and aesthetic elegance.
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Most Recent Comments
no rly it should be a blow effect
Also known as 'pull'.
Pulling cold air in from outside the case is better than using warm air in the case
Pull (suck) provides more even airflow which generally results in better performance over the same fan on the same radiator in push...
Will also compare shrouded, unshrouded, suck (pull), and blow (push) air-flows.
Was just messing with the equipment a bit last night, putting a Yate-Loon on a PA120.1 radiator with a shroud, in suck or blow arrangement. I was able to position the anemometer on the other side of the radiator to get an idea of the evenness of the air-flow through the radiator. Used the tachometer to measure the fan speeds, and the noise meter the fan noise levels. I haven't calibrated the fan noise levels yet to any base reference point, so I won't report the absolute values I got, just the relative values.
Free-air: +0dBA noise, 1480rpm speed
Shroud Suck: -2.7dBA noise (i.e. quieter), 1350rpm speed
Shroud Blow: -3.0dBA noise (i.e. quieter), 1460rpm speed
I found the noise level differences, and the fan speed differences to be quite intriguing. If the fan is spinning faster, it's pushing more air-flow in the blow-mode.
However, using the anemometer on the other side found that with the shroud, in blow mode, the air coming out the edges of the radiator had about an 80% higher velocity than the air coming out the dead-center. In suck mode, the overall air-velocity appeared lower (will need to measure properly later on full-testbed), but it was more even, with only about a 25% variation between the edges (higher) and the dead-center (lower).
So yeah - this throws a cloud over the general suck/blow debate. The fan appears to like to blow much better than to suck, but the air-flow is less even, even though it's of a higher velocity. The fan is also quieter in blow-mode.
It would appear (without further testing) that putting a fan into blow-mode on a radiator with a really deep shroud (60cm) to straighten out the air-flow would be the best way to go, but that's not terribly practical.
*snip*
It seems to be a scenario of while blow creates more air-flow, the unevenness of the flow through the core hurts performance. Performance does not scale linearly with air-flow, and so it's always better to have even air-flow over the entire core area, rather than some areas receiving twice the air-velocity of other areas.
Source: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=150261&highlight=fan-pull
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