EDIT:
27/9/05 - A fabrication issue has delayed release.
New release date is expected to be Oct 4th at the
latest.
Thermochill's
history has been a success story since its inception.
Thermochill was born in Winter 2002, releasing it's
first radiators in February of 2003,when two UK companies
joined forces to remedy a situation of severe stock
shortages of PC Watercooling focused radiators in
the UK market. Thermochill was thereby created to
build radiators in the UK, for the UK Market, and
thus the HE series of radiators was conceived and
released.
The HE
Series was legendary in it’s day… reviews
heralded it as the King of Watercooling, and it brought
with it the birth of the Triple-120mm radiator, a
standard now adopted as a commonly available size
by nearly all radiator manufacturers. ThermoChill's
star was shining due to our product performance guarantees
and high build quality which drove the high demand
and popularity of quality manufactured PC water-cooling
radiators that all serious enthusiasts insisted on.
Over time though competitive forces meant that Thermochill
could not rest on its laurels and in keeping with
Thermochill's quest to provide quality and high performance
radiators it was finally time to consider updating
the successful HE radiator line-up.
In March
2005, ThermoChill’s Technical Manager (Marci)
struck up a working relationship with well-known Aussie
Block Producer Little-River (aka Cathar) in what was
thought to be a one time venture, the outcome of which
was the PA160.1 radiator… a radical step in
a different direction, designing a radiator optimised
for maximum performance from a single silent fan.
Now many out there have asked “Why isn’t
there a PA160.2?”. The answer was always the
same, it wasn’t necessary and no case on the
market would accommodate it, making it an unviable
solution for mass retail. The success of the PA160.1's
design approach, and the demand for increased single-radiator
performance led to the logical conclusion that the
HE series of radiators could perhaps benefit from
being updated using the same design principles as
found in the PA160.1, to produce a new series of compact
and higher-performance radiators.
Continuing
the relationship between ThermoChill and LittleRiver,
Marci and Cathar set to work to realise the discoveries
of the PA160’s performance in a new 120mm series
of radiators.
In August
2005 this collaborative effort bore fruit. After 5
months of research, many revisions of prototypes experimenting
with various theories, and a pile of engineering time,
we’re proud to announce the 3rd Radiator Series
from ThermoChill: introducing the PA120 Series of
PC-Watercooling radiators.
The PA120
radiator series features a dual-row dual-pass 120mm
form factor, available in single, double and triple
sizes, optimised for the fans of today and putting
into practice everything learned about watercooling
efficiency and performance over the past 3 years.
The PA Series boasts from 10-40% better performance
over the HE Series. 10% for the high / noisy airflow
end of the fan market, and up to 40% for the low airflow
/ silence end of the market.
What does
this mean to you as an end-user? You can retain the
same performance for even less noise, or better performance
for the same noise over your current radiator. If
at the end of the day performance is all that matters
to you and noise is of no concern, the new PA Series
still offers significant improvements over the HE
series. Alternately if silence is the goal, you can
now have that too, but with more cooling performance
than ever before!
This
new product line will be available for retail purchase
in the week commencing 26th September. We expect the
series to be available from ThermoChill International
Resellers by mid-October. We at ThermoChill recognise
that we may not offer the cheapest radiator solutions,
but ThermoChill's mission as always is to provide
the highest performance and highest quality radiators
on the market. Correspondingly we believe that the
new PA120 Series is the best performing 120mm format
series of radiators currently available, thus enabling
Thermochill to retain the crown – “King
of Cool”.
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