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Asetek's Extreme CPU Cooler Tested

Posted by Zonk on from the brrrr dept.

VL writes "Do-It-Yourself Phase Change Cooling Systems are built and used by a few folks, but they can be complicated to build, mostly messy, and dangerous; certainly not something you should get into without knowing what you are doing. But as with anything like this, there is always a turn key solution brought to market you can buy. Enter asetek, and their VapoChill series of Phase Change Cooling systems. What we have on the review bench here specifically is the asetek VapoChill Lightspeed [AC], a case separate enclosure containing a Phase Change Cooling system for your PC's CPU."

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  1. Whoopty do by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some "tech" site, populated by 13 year old overclockers who know shit about how a computer works, and it shows (ie; they think they need to cool their CPU to sub-0 temps to make it work), reviews a product thats been around forever (and is nothing but a repurposed sushi bar cooler).

    "Nothing for you to see here" indeed.

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    1. Re:Whoopty do by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 2, Informative

      "Meanwhile, I'm not buying what the site says about stock heatsinks running in the 50-60C range."

      Hello?
      Prescott anyone?

      Athlon64's run fairly cool, Pentium 4E's are anything but...

  2. Nothing new here by Husgaard · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you believe that Phase Change Cooling systems is something new, please have a look at your refrigerator.

    This is the most widespread method of cooling.

    1. Re:Nothing new here by Arathrael · · Score: 4, Informative

      To be fair, it's not like the article claims otherwise:

      "Phase Change Cooling systems like the VapoChill are essentially not all that different from the fridge that's likely in your kitchen right now, however of course the end application is different."

      Goes into a fair amount of detail, not a bad read if you don't know much about it.

  3. So what, that's just a fridge by GrAfFiT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looked up on Wikipedia . If I read the article right, most refrigerators use this awesome phase change cooling technology. Lame publicity stunt..

  4. Coral link by DuSTman31 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Site seems a bit slow.. Coralised link.

  5. Re:turn key maybe.. by tomstdenis · · Score: 3, Informative
    I run a Gentoo Linux on 2.2Ghz AMD64 based system that doesn't crash and gets uptimes that spans the distance between kernels [shock: yes I actually update my kernel...]. Compared to my windows using friends with uptimes ranging in the HOURS department.... I'm leapyears ahead ;-)

    Getting an extra 100Mhz on your cpu isn't impressive. Getting an extra 10% speed boost on an already seemingly optimized/efficient algo is impressive.

    I mean I could reboot at a HT speed of 210 and say "voila 110 extra Mhz". It would raise the core temperature probably by 1C and get me little noticeable performance.

    Oh and btw with a $36 [CAD] "SilentBoost K8" my AMD64 is currently idling at 24.5C and my heatsink fan makes little noise [iirc it's rated at 20dB]. At full busy I get around 42-48C range where the max temp for the cpu is ~70C and I've never seen my cpu above 52C.

    So really you need to follow some simple steps
    • Buy a more efficient cpu (K8 or PM) that can perform the same or more work with less power (I don't care what the TDP of the K8 is, it makes way less heat than a comparable P4 and I know this for a fact since I've had a P4 at one point)
    • Grow up
    • Appreciate "hard work"


    Tom
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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  6. And theve only been trading for 3 years... by NoMercy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Come on, if were going to have slashvertisments can we at least have them for new products, not things which have been araound for so long theve been reviwed by virtually every overclockers forum and site.

  7. my phase change by LordMyren · · Score: 3, Informative

    i have a phase change water cooling system designed for photo baths. its got a huge insulted resivour and a heat exchanger.

    i had to axe the program after our house electricity bill kept climbing, sans the project even getting off the ground.

    phase change is one of the most expensive prospects out there. sure its badass cool, but you might as well spend the money on a faster chip and not have to pay again and again for your speed (in electricity bills).

    phase change has one and only one use as far as I can see (well, aside from those of us without metered electricity). i think phase change would rule in an office environment.

    as cpu's keep getting hotter, we're going to have to water cool. centralized phase change computer cooling begins to make sense.

    i dream of working in a office with no white noise. water cooling seems like a fine first step for doing so. of course, we'd have to use those silly projection keyboard things, quieter AC systems and do half a million other things to keep noise down, but most office i've been to, computer noise is one of the largest factors.

    Myren

  8. Peltier and high-end air cooling by mparaz · · Score: 2, Informative

    No one has mentioned Peltier cooling yet? It looks like that works on the same principles.

    For the rest of us with hot CPUs or want silence... there's the Thermalright SI-97 for Socket A (AMD) boards, and Thermalright XP-90 for sockets 478/775 (Intel) and 754/939 (AMD).