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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."
... that's COOL!
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.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
This is the most widespread method of cooling.
Looked up on Wikipedia . If I read the article right, most refrigerators use this awesome phase change cooling technology. Lame publicity stunt..
newbie(stupid - newbie can use it if he bothers to read and understands what the thing is and how it works) friendly? probably not.
definetely cool shit though. but a bit out of budget for most of us(you need the best rig you can get for it to make sense to get a vapo for oc'ing it to the maximum, because vapo's aint cheap with non-top-of-the-line components the money is better spent buying a faster cpu, more memory and such).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
They could certainly use some stronger cooling on their servers...
My favourite part of this oh-so-professional review is when they try to deduce the "fact" that "CPUs work at higher efficency when running at lower temperatures" by comparing the time some video-encoding takes @stock speed, and the vapochilled setup acchieving a result better a whole TWO SECONDS than the default one (with the complete encoding-job taking about 400secs or so).
Now that surely justifies a maybe 700US$ investment, and is by no means an effect called "measuring tolerance".
Great job. -_-
I prefer the nitrogen/oxygen mixture myself. I plan to move on to using a dihydrogen monoxide based system in the future, though.
Back when modding was almost the best thing to do since eat sliced bread these things were out. I once heard that you can actully dunk your whole pc into a coolant that is not conductive and then make that cooling liquid sub zero. I also had a freeon based system with forced air going once. I mean really these units are expensive. Anyone know of any low cost high grade cooling?
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1) Go and look at your fridge.
2) If you want your chip REALLY cold
a) Host in deep-space
b) Rotate winters in the Artic/Antartic
3) If you want your chip REALLY REALLY cold
a) Get your wife to stand next to the box, then tell her you've forgotten her birthday.
4) And for the ultimate in cold, you just need to create the conditions where Bill Gates admits publically that he prefers Linux.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
What are you going to do? Start your own website in your treehouse and get all your little friends to come? I'd like to see that!
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Site seems a bit slow.. Coralised link.
For 1500 dollars I can buy a better CPU,mobo and graphic card to get my computer as fast or faster than overclocking my current one.
I swear I keep thinking they're called Asstek
Why not put your PC in a transparent case and fill it with two colour oil? Then you can boast about 20th century technology - way better than the 19th century technology these guys are flogging.
Oh well, what the hell...
Doesn't it bother anyone that these types of extreme measures are necessary in the first place?
Isn't it about time Intel, AMD et al developed CPUs that don't get hot enough to cook an egg on?
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
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.
They should have measured the sound somehow. 5 years ago PC noise wasn't a major concern, but now days you'll never read a review of a CPU cooler that doesn't give you a pretty good description of how loud the system is.
my grade on the review: F
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
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
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).