Ultra ChillTEC Thermo Electric CPU Cooler

Introduction:

    Who here remembers the days of cooling your CPU with a peltier? OK, put your hands down - you look silly. The ones with your hands still raised, I'm sure you remember putting closed cell foam around the CPU to keep the condensation from shorting out the motherboard. Seriously, put you hands down. Well, the days of dangerous condensation and peltiers may have come to an end. The Ultra ChillTEC is a CPU cooler combined with a TEC. The combination of the two, in conjunction with the Management Unit, provides a safe way to effectively cool the CPU without any manual input from the end user. A built in fail-safe system keeps the CPU safe from a TEC malfunction. OK: its time to crank up the MHz and see how well this cooler functions, and for the last time... put your hands down!

About the Company:

Ultra Products is a global, technology-solutions provider with headquarters in Fletcher, Ohio. The company strives to offer a wide range of solutions, products and services all with a common thread: Innovation, value and quality.

It is Ultra's mission to be the best provider of technology-solutions in the global market. By offering superior, innovative products and ensuring a high level of customer service, Ultra guarantees its customers receive an exceptional value in everything they do.

Innovative and Quality Products:
Ultra Products is constantly monitoring industry developments to guarantee the product lines are up-to-date with the latest innovations; products are manufactured and engineered to exceed customer application requirements. Ultra currently offers: case fans and lights, CPU designer cases, DVD products, hard drive coolers, media drives, complete memory solutions, memory coolers and power supplies.

Extensive Service Offerings:
Ultra Products constantly searches for opportunities to grow and to improve its services to meet the customer's changing needs. Customer service does not end but begins with the sale and Ultra's relationship with the customer continues to build from there.
 

Specifications:

Packaging:

Retail front	Retail back	Side
Side	Open Box	Plastic case

    The ChillTEC box comes wrapped in plastic to discourage tampering when it's on a store shelf somewhere. The retail box is highly detailed, with graphics and information on what processors the cooler will support on the front of the box. The back side has the specifications of the product, while one side panel has the contents and the other panel a performance chart. The contents inside are well protected in both foam and a plastic shell.

A Closer Look:

Ultra	Side View	Aluminum Fins
92mm Fan	Under side	Heatpipes
TEC in the middle	Cooler Connections	Smooth

    When the items are removed from the box, there will be three separate pieces. The main piece will be the cooler with the TEC already attached. The other pieces are the 5.25" Management Unit and a small box labeled "Assembly Parts". Let's start off with the cooler. This thing is large and heavy, and care needs to be used when installing it. The ChillTEC is is designed like two separate coolers merged into one housing. If you look at the way it is put together, you will understand what I mean. First, I will have Ultra explain how the TEC is set up on the ChillTEC .

    "Ultra uses a TEC, sandwiched between two copper plates, each plate with four heat-pipes leading to a large, fan cooled radiator. Because TEC's are capable of cooling below room temperature, often condensation is a concern. But not with the Ultra Chill-TEC. The Chill-TEC's control unit does not apply power to the TEC unless the CPU reaches a certain temperature. Up to this point, the CPU is cooled by the heat-pipes on the "cold" side of the TEC. Once the CPU is hot, power is applied to the TEC and the CPU is chilled. The hot side of the TEC is cooled by the second set of heat-pipes. This perfect balance of thermo-electric cooling and heat-pipe cooling ensures the CPU is kept at the perfect operating temperature. Ideal for hardcore use, even opening up the potential for overclocking that standard air cooling alone can not provide."  I couldn't of said it any better then that.

LCD front

Rear connections

Top view

     Next is the Management Unit, which fits in a free 5.25" drive bay. This unit is the brains for the TEC: it senses when the CPU temperature starts to rise, and then applies the power to TEC to cool the CPU. This new design and use of TEC cooler is far more superior than old school types, where the TEC was always on, creating condensation, and burning out when not properly cooled, leading to a fried CPU. The front of the Management Unit has a LCD display and two buttons. The display will show the total run time of the cooler, the run time since the last reboot, an animation to show the load of the TEC, and, of course, the temperature of the TEC.

Blue	Shallow Blue	Green
Shallow Green	Purple	White

 The button on the left side of the display is used to change the background color of the LCD display. There are seven colors to choose from and they are, Dark Blue, Shallow Blue, Dark Green, Shallow Green, White, Purple, and Red which is used for the alarm. The right button is used to switch the temperature gauge between Celsius and Fahrenheit.