Design and Functionality

Thermaltake BigTyp 14Pro looks so strict and massive that you have no doubts about the seriousness of the manufacturer’s intentions:

New cooler measures 156 x 155 x 128mm and weighs 800g.

Neither size, nor weight is record-breaking according to today’s standards, so it is really pleasing that the company didn’t just primitively make it larger and heavier for the sake of improving efficiency.

So, the new cooler is built around 6 copper heatpipes 6mm in diameter that go through the copper base and pierce aluminum heatsink plates in two rows:

The whole thing is topped with a plastic casing holding a built-in 140x30mm fan:

This casing is attached to the heatsink with clips on both sides. If you remove it, you can take a real good look at the heatsink:

We see two heatsink arrays shifted away from one another, so that the whole thing could take less space. Each array consists of 69 aluminum plates, ~0.25mm thick. The gap between the plates is 1.5mm, so we assume that there should be a high-pressure fan in order to pump the air efficiently through such dense heatsink.

Each heatsink array measures 115 x 70 x 27.5mm. The calculated cooling surface of the heatsink is about 5080sq.cm. Just for your reference: Thermalright SI-128 SE has about ~6786sq.cm calculated heatsink cooling surface. In fact, it is pretty strange that Thermaltake engineers decided not to increase the heatsink cooling surface, especially since there is more than enough room at the bottom of it. Even Thermaltake Big Typhoon (120VX) has wider heatsink fins. Here I have to add that the heatpipes are soldered to the base plate.