Enermax TwisterOdiO 16 Notebook Cooler Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2014-01-08

Enermax, one of the pioneers in power supplies, has gone through some changes over the years. Alike Corsair the lineup has extremely diversified, starting with the addition of enclosures. Later on to be followed HDD enclosures, peripherals, moving on to processor air/water cooling and even notebook coolers have been added to the lineup. The TwisterOdiO 16 is a notebook cooler, nevertheless don't just consider the TwisterOdiO 16 as a basic cooling device, it has another build-in-extra up the sleeves. The included Dreambass technology and build-in speakers should be able to lift your notebook sound experience to a new level. Time to put the TwisterOdiO 16 for a spin and see what it can bring us in cooling as in the sound department.

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Cooling Performance and Sound Test

A similar remark to start off with as with the Cooler Master SF-17 notebook cooler:

Take note that the below results are close to being the best case scenario outcome. The MSI GT70 has large vents on the backside, thus the created airflow of the SF-17 notebook cooler has maximum effect.

Looking at the IDLE results we can conclude that the TwisterOdiO is in the same ballpark as the CM SF-17. Not much extra cooling to be expected when testing at idle speeds. Plain logic as the CPU and the mobile GPU clock down when being idle. Only at the maximum fan setting we spot up to a 1°C decrease in CPU/GPU operating temperatures.

 

 

Now let us see what happens under the 3DMark Vantage load...

 

 

Even though the TwisterOdiO 16 is only rated compatible with up to 16inch sized notebooks it still manages to handle the temperatures of our 17inch MSI gaming laptop. Besting, when running at full blast, the high quality heatpipe cooling solution with an average of 2°C for both the processor and the mobile GTX 670 graphics card. At the low fan speed things hardly change versus the stock cooling. Imagine what could be achieved if Enermax would equip the TwisterOdiO V2 with a beefier 140mm fan.

 

Noise wise, there's hardly anything to mention then that the entire unit is pretty silent, even with the Fan spinning at 1400rpm. For the purists, it's audible if you listen closely, but will never ever become disturbing. Also no grinding noises at low rpm were observed as with the CM SF-17 Notebook cooler.

 

Audio wise is where the TwisterOdiO really comes into action. Without any dBA tests we just let the below video footage tell the tale. The Asus notebook was tested with the integrated speakers set on maximum, thus once we hook up the TwisterOdiO, things get very loud ! Maybe even too much for our Canon camera too handle lol...

 

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