The cooling product uses the active heat pump TEC technology

Apr 18, 2014 09:38 GMT  ·  By

Normally, liquid coolers are much better than air-based ones, but there are exceptions to everything, and Cyberpower got its hands on one of them, which happens to be called V3 Voltair High Performance Thermoelectric CPU Cooler.

Voltair High Performance Thermoelectric CPU Cooler is the name of the product, while V3 is the name of the company that invented it.

The cooler will now be used in Cyberpower desktop PCs. Cyberpower gets a better cooling prowess and extra allure for its PCs, and V3 gains more customers.

After all, before this deal, V3 did not sell the product in North America. It's a relatively new company, based in Lomita, California.

Cyberpower chose the Voltair High Performance Thermoelectric CPU Cooler because it is better than liquid cooling products of similar price.

Sadly, the actual price isn't specified in the press release, so you'll have to check for the nearest vendor of Cyberpower PCs and go through whatever customization page they have. Whenever the CPU cooler makes the list, its tag will finally be revealed.

Anyway, the Voltais employs active heat pump TEC technology, which uses two 120mm fans in a push-pull configuration.

A TEC plate behaves as an active heat pump. You can see it right above the base plate, through which the copper heatpipes travel (8 mm thick).

Energy is used to "produce temperatures that are sub-ambient" by running current through a thermocouple. The process creates a heat difference between the top and bottom surface.

The temperature difference allows heat to be removed faster from the CPU surface. This is what allows it to outdo liquid coolers of similar cost.

All the while, the product is compact enough that it lets you use even the biggest high-end memory modules in the market.

Speaking of product support, the V3 Voltair is compatible with both Intel CPUs (Core i3, i5, i7, Pentium, Celeron, Xeon central processing units) and AMD CPUs/APUs (FX, A-Series, Athlon central/accelerated processing units).

All in all, the V3 Voltair High Performance Thermoelectric CPU Cooler measures 170 mm x 120mm x 172mm / 6.69 x 4.72 x 6.77 inches and weighs 1.45 kilos / 3.2 pounds. The 120 mm fans have a speed of 800 to 1,800 RPM, an air flow of 116.43 CMH (68.57 CFM), a fan air pressure of 1.958mm H2O, and a MTBF 40,000 hours.

"We are very happy to have Cyberpower Inc. as the exclusive distributor of our products in North America. Cyberpower Inc. offers the logistics capacity and market reach to help make our products available to a much wider audience than we would be able to on our own," said Chuck Morris, product manager at V3 Components.

"Cyberpower Inc. has successful partnerships among both e-tailers and the retail channel that it will use to offer V3 Components products to customers."