Mini phase-change cooling? Enter VapoChill Micro

[Wolvebain]

Asetek'z fernominal VapoChill range just got compact and takes less than 30 seconds to install!!!

No... its not an urban legend... but it sounds like it could be that stuff that could make Asetek a legend...

According to Asetek:
By extracting heat from the CPU, a closed sealed fluid will evaporate and reach top of the pipes - this gaseous form will then be cooled by an efficient fan and radiator and turn into a solid fluid form again where as it will hit the bottom of the CPU cooler once more. The recirculation of the coolant is based on gravity. In other words, no mechanical parts and basically unlimited reliability. This circular process will go on and on and keep the CPU temperature cool at all times – even at a low noise level.


The VapoChill Micro comes in three flavors:

1. HIGH END CPU COOLER [PWM based fan regulation], for
> ANY PC user tired of whining noisy CPU coolers
> ANY stability-seeking PC user
> ANY PC user seeing CPU overheating
> Any PC user experiencing slow CPUs!

2. EXTREME PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER [PWM support & manual fan control], for
> Hardware enthusiasts
> Overclockers

3. ULTRA LOW NOISE CPU COOLER [PWM support & manual fan control], for
> Gamers
> Professionals
> Multimedia users

Why do these coolers offer exceptional customer value??
1. PERFORMANCE. By standards of weight, size, price and a 150W cooling capacity the VapoChill Micro™ series is clearly the most powerful cooler technology on the market. No more no less. The VapoChill Micro™ (cobber chamber) is placed directly on the CPU unlike existing heat pipe technologies. This mean better and more efficient absorption and transportation of heat from the CPU.

2. MASSIVE NOISE REDUCTION. The combination of the extreme cooling capacity of 150W a selection of top-quality fans and fan regulation offers the lowest possible noise levels.

3. LOW WEIGHT. The VapoChill Micro™ coolers weigh only a revolutionary 350 grams and do not break your motherboard or fry your CPU because of weight pressure.

4. UPGRADEABLE. All socket clips can be universally applied across all coolers - if you want to change CPU platform. Also, allowing you to experiment with performance and airflow, you can fit ANY 92mm fan on the VapoChill Micro™ coolers.

5. AUTOMATIC and/or MANUAL FAN
CONTROL. High-End & Extreme Performance fans are prepared for PWM (Pulse With Modulation) motherboards allowing the motherboard to adjust fan speed to actual CPU load.

6. MOTHERBOARD COOLING! 99% of the high-end heatpipe coolers on the market ONLY have horizontal airflow. This means they DO NOT cool the critical components on the Motherboard. The VapoChill Micro™ coolers are specifically designed to separate both vertical & horizontal airflows. In short: no overheating mother-boards.

7. EXCEPTIONALLY EASY INSTALLATION.

8. AGGRESSIVE PRICING. Those alternatives close to the performance and low noise levels of the VapoChill Micro™ are up to 100% higher priced!!


Source:

Personally, I would like to see the comparison of this against the ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED [ http://www.pcbuyersguide.co.za/showthread.php?t=1122 ]
Both have huge potential, are similar in pricing, and remove the need for selling your arm and leg for the additional money needed for watercooling... and come from well known, and proven houses...

I`ll be honest and say that I am not a fan of watercooling... if my system needed that much cooling, and if I did.. I would throw in a kidney for sale, as well as the arm and leg, and get Phase-Change cooling...

I see cooling systems like these two being the solution to most of our heating problems...
- they provide exeptional cooling, light-weight - so that going to LANz is not a mission of strapping the rig to a baby chair in the backseat;
- easy to install and maintain - easy upgrading is no longer a `pipe-dream`;
- costs are low - practicle and allows for money to be concentrated on those really great and expensive graphix cardz, motherboardz, and CPUz...

Besides... Air cooling is not for sissies... :wink:

Source:
Asetek - http://www.asetek.com/default.asp?sh...on=1&menuID=-1
Synapsys - http://www.synapsys.co.za/products/a...cro-whatis.htm

[Wolvebain]

Now I am really stumped!
I was supposed to get the ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED from buddha... but the Asetek Micro also loox damned good...

And there are no reviews yet for either one, which makes the choice even harder...

[locknload]

Dammm, Need to consider something like that for my rig!

[Floruro]

Nice one Wolve. I dont think Asetek would risk their name on anything bad, so i will check some reviews and buy one if its good.

[SkullHozer]

It’s HUGE! Anyhow, I guess it’s effective cooling that really matters…

[Artagra]

Does look very cool - I've got clients who have pre-ordered both this and the 9500, so I should get some hands on experience with both when they launch

Artag

[Zerocoil]

WOW!!!!!
Colling just gets better day by day!

[Wolvebain]

Does look very cool - I've got clients who have pre-ordered both this and the 9500, so I should get some hands on experience with both when they launch

Artag

That would be awesome!!!

just looking at the two... makes me think that if they take the gas/liquid from the VapoChill Micro.. and put it in the Zalman CNPS9500 LED... you would have the perfect HeatSinkFan... bar-none... ey?

[Floruro]

The launch date is end of june + local delivery early july. I phoned the place but it was busy etc.
I am getting one straight if i dont see any bad reviews before its out.

[Wolvebain]

Well.. I guess I am gonna just get both!!! :wink:
I think the Zalman CNPS9500 LED may have an advantage... I mean.. just look at that thing... lol...

but seriously, the Zalman should be a better solution for me due to the air-current flow in my case...

I`ll get this one later one as well, as it would be perfect when I beef-up my server [if I can find a socket 478 P4 HT CPU] or for extra-silence on a HTPC...

What I would dig, is this concept for a VGA & N-bridge cooler... space is alwayz a concern and that directly effectz cooling and noise-levelz... something like this would be awesome!