Asetek's Extreme CPU Cooler Tested

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."

Comments

Re:Whoopty do

[stratjakt]

Man those sites are the bane of computer science today.

If I hear one more 13 year old talk about how the fancy new copper heatspreaders on his DDR RAM gave him 5 more FPS in Doom 3, I swear I'm going to snap his greasy little neck.

Then again, big ups to the makers of all this "extreme PC gear". For instance, this vapochil deal, bought as a sushi bar cooler (which is what it is), would cost about 75 bucks. They turn around, mod it a little bit, jam it in a 20 dollar case and sell it for hundreds.

Or taking the heater core for a car, anodizing (or just spraypainting) it black, and selling it for 100+ plus as an "Xtreme PC radiator".

Or taking a 50 dollar aquarium pump and selling it for 100+ as an "Xtreme PC cooling pump".

Or, the piece of resistance, 50 cents worth of milled copper being sold as an "Xtreme PC waterblock".

Fools and their money..

Re:Heh.

[Nasarius]

They seem to have used only one trial, as well. Anyone who didn't sleep through their junior high science class should know how to design a better experiment, and that a ~0.5% difference is typically experimental error, not a significant difference.