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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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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  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.

  3. Heh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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. -_-

  4. Heh heh... by Rod+Beauvex · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer the nitrogen/oxygen mixture myself. I plan to move on to using a dihydrogen monoxide based system in the future, though.